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this
sent out from home to take charge of important port of the Court work, re-organize
made
by
reckless asurtions
it, and carry it out. This is a
Nor Francis, without any ground whatever to support it - Your Excellency knows it to be incorrect; and a statement so
baseless as this must naturally make your Excellency doubt, whether the other statemento of me. Francis, all of which are made withe equal confidence, are not equally destitute· of foundation - Mr Ackroyd was never selected or sent out from home for any
such purpose. I yes was sent here in the useral way of promotions
не
from Mauritius direct, and, so far
as the
organization of the Court is concerned, it
was due to the Report of the Commission which enquire into the best in
sat in 1878. 1879
to
means of preventing
a
repetition of the
Huffame scandal ; to the correspondence. that ensued between the fudger, the Auditor General, the Governor, and the Secretary of State, long before the arrival of trackroyd, and eventually
to the Report. of the present Chief Justice, which Report and
and recommendations
re corum cudations
recommendations were substantially approved
by the Secretary of State, and directed to be carried into effect
and
Jays
-
I Francis refers to his oure experience
that he h
a j
heard and read trucks, and
thought deeply, about the constitution of thre
Court, and the organization of its oppie
Srepre
re pul
and departimento - If 20, he cannot be igsurant of the appointment and Report of the Commission, before referred to, although he may be ignorant
of Forne of
what has since take wo place,
ace, because he has not takers the trouble to enquire – If he took so much interest in the latter, ho one would have refused time information, nor would have been unwilling to have taken into Consideration any suggestions he might have offered, as the result of his deep thought- But he apparently chooses to assume that .... things
are tea
tractly in the same position that they were in the time of the late Mr. Alexander, and that a change in the office of Registrar would facilitate fraud. On the contrary, we think that a change
in the office, so far
from facilitating fraud, would be likely to detect it, if fraud were possible under the
present