Officers of the Colony I trust Your Lordship will consider my claims to recognition
I am fully aware of the importance of the post of Registrar General and of the fitness of the position for a seat in either Council, but even in this respect I waved
Challenge Comparison in favour of my own office of Police Magistrate.
I am not aware of amy Department which is Cancerned with higher duties than that of Police magistrate. It accupies a senior place no the Civil Lest of Ordnance No 13 of 1860, to rearly all other separtments including that of Registrar General. The holder of the office is
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brought into direct relation. with the whole administratio
System of the Colony. He is the medium through which the laws of the Colony are brought to the knowledge of the muss of the Yeople and upow
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his judicians treatment The cases that are brought before him to dependent in a large measure the contentment of the population with British rule.
The Police Magistrate is is also exceptionally placed for observing where the law bears section of haroly upon any
the people and he is constantly in a position for detecting abuses that waved attherwise.
remain undis covered.
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