lent was
the Registra is Office. The precedent
established and is now
apparently
ol Russell
about to be followed. If 117 Recevell
is appointed Aoling Alloney Teneral,
W. Ackroyd will lie
again.
the
on-
Bench in tees than three wonthes, to
return to his office within livelve reconthes after. Ifetto Ackroyd beomies Acting
}
Allomey
General
on the Beuch
or goes
| again ettr Wize returns to the Registry
to be again clisplaced in a
year. Within twelve uconthe from February last there will uccessarily be
arc
the changes
in the Registry, three transfers of large properties from one accountable officer to another, three sets of fees
coste to come needless.
needlessly, out of the estates being administered in und by the Court. is this just or fair to the Suitor ?
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in the same letter I submitted awa
further objection to the Registress
appointment av Acting Puiene,
it was an iul
Judge
that
interference with the unwritten low of the constitution and with the immemorial custom that requires
Judgeships to be fitted from the practicing & far.
Isubmit that the objection,
on this
score, are even stronger a to the appoiubunt
of at thorney General or Acting Attenay General being given to any other then
actical practitioners, incubors
if any of them.
of
are
of the ban,
competent and willing
to
to accept the appointment and I have now the honour formally to apply. Your Excellency for the appointment of
Acting Attorney General of this Colony in the evout of my friend W. O'Malley.
obtaining