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is no more than I expected as the duty of framing these rests with him; but he is silent about the tally clerks - a fee which also he ought to frame -
distinctly to the question of an improper system of enforcing costly distraint for rent, which requires an Ordinance – The C. J. assumes an ordinance will be prepared in due time on the matter.
Until - The Governor shows he has come to a decision long ago, to have enabled the re-organised staff to include this important duty which has now
"injustice & hardship upon those classes who have least
"have to suffer it." i.e. the poorer Chinese, who now are at the mercy of their landlords. This means of doing real service to the Chinese Community would be worthy of the consideration of a Governor who professes to study their interests - but Sir John Pope Hennessy does not allude to the subject in a consequential manner.
The saturnine Inspector General of Police in Jamaica carried into the Secretariat (minus the fine cocked hat) no indication of the manner of officers who were responsible for their past sins; and, what is still more dismal, the "existing staff of one Bailiff is sufficient." The motion by Mr. Marsh was taken notice of for reply by Sir Michael Hicks Beach par. 2 accepted the recommendation the Commissioners upon this point.
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The Accommodation in the Court Buildings - housing adjoining Building now bringing in an amount is an
The Council has recommended its absorption in the Registry and the Governor adds the interpreters
Staff "as requiring accommodation" without furnishing any details of fitting & making head for estimate of cost in utilising it, or of loss in rent, nor does he ask permission to do this, or say that he has done it on his own authority - which no doubt he has not done; judging from the usual way of doing things in the Colony
with Audit - he or she having, for avoiding the Auditor General to make a personal audit of the Accounts but he does not tell how the audit has been made during the past year - Suppose it has been waiting for Lord Kimberley's sanction as a mode of making it.
I should doubt the necessity of employing the Auditor General personally every month, but this is a question of administrative detail that the Government have troubled the House with it - a technicality it will be left to him to deal with according to discretion.
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