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to in paragraph 11 of the despatch.
- under reply seeming
How
to be one which
required some amendment. I have
caused reports upon
the
subject
to be
(Sir Geo Phillipps)
furnished by the Chief Justice and the
Attorney-General which, together with a
Enclosure 3. (Mr. O' Maliny)
Memorandum from Mr Ackroyd, the &
Registrar of the Supreme Court, I have
now the honour to transmit. From
these reports it appears that the cases
which most require
redress
are
those
of passengers, dying at sea, who are
possessed only of small personal effects. These cases are at present
managed
&
Enclosure (Mr-deKroyd)
managed by the Official Administrator, and although in practice the strict requirements of the law, as to taking out letters of Administration, have not
been carried out where the estate would
not pay
the necessary fees,
there has
been much loss of time and
money,
while the estate has frequently suffered
injury from not being placed under proper custody immediately, on the
ship coming into port.
It is
now
proposed that when the estate
of
a
deceased
passenger is of less value
than one hundred dollars ($100) the
Harbour