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frequently in Court during Chinese Trials and when Chinese documents were put in Evidence (frequently with your aid) can inform His Excellency better than I can do as to the state and mode of the Interpretation in the Supreme Court.
On returning document C26. No 3250 ( ) I indorsed thereon my views as to the necessity of enforcing on all young officials as a condition of full salary knowledge of written and Colloquial Chinese and on the 6th of November by 1874 to the Colonial Secretary I wrote more fully thereon and I expressed the difficulty felt in supplying the place of Mr. Rozaris during his absence on leave in England.
I take this opportunity to add that I have ever been dissatisfied and since I became Chief Justice in 1866. I have always repressed my dissatisfaction at the constitution of the staff of the Supreme Court. During the life of the late Mr. Alexander the Registrar with his great and varied talent the work was well done but always underdone as it still is.
In Mr. Alexander's becoming hopelessly ill and after Mr's death when the chief office was vacant and all desirable alterations could be made,
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