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be made economically I made frequent
communications to the government.
I expressed
my views fully
as I was desired to
every Officer of the Supreme Court. I went at
length into a statement of the duties
of each officer in a
Letter to the
Colonial Secretary and in
Enclosure A - &.
In that communication I exhausted all means in which Mr. Justice Snowden
concurred.
No action was taken but on the
26th of March 1877 in consequence
of a letter I wrote on the 12th of February
1877.
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was asked to submit for consideration a rearrangement of the
duties, responsibilities and salaries of the Supreme Court.
On this request I again
submitted my views in a letter in 1877
my draft of which is without date.
As these communications were
strictly private I did not as usual cause copies of my letters to be made and kept by my Clerk. My drafts are not so complete as I could wish
The tendency of any recommendation, were to reduce the status of the Registrar
and his salary and to create a
fund thereout and on the margin
difference between Court fees and salaries to be fixed. The Coroner and Sheriff are officers of the
Supreme