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that a Requisition request because I find which I sent to the Acting Colonial Treasurer in my capacity of Registrar of Companies has been returned to me by the Chief Justice with a letter dated August 16th 1880, in which his Honor states that at the request of His Excellency he returns the requisition.
I had never heard of a Requisition and Callo despatch from the Secretary of State of which my attention was drawn before.
As the Registrar of Companies is a post totally unconnected with the Supreme Court, it is manifest that unless His Excellency the Governor decide that the prohibition respecting communication connected with Supreme Court work is to extend to other Official Communications, the interference of the Chief Justice in this matter was uncalled for.
And in that case I must ask, as in the other case, that the matter be referred for decision to the Colonial Office.
Referring to the Ordinance, I find that 7 of 1865 (with which I was unacquainted when I undertook the duty of Registrar of Companies, in addition to my other duties) that the Office of Registrar of Companies is an appointment vested in the Governor and not in the Secretary of State, and that His Excellency may award such remuneration as he may direct.
It is clear that some remuneration must be awarded on the principle that all labor performed carries with it a right to reward.
I find further on reference to documents, which I could not have previously known, that the remuneration...