MICHAELMAS TERM, 1871.
GENERAL EXAMINATION of STUDENTS of the INNS of COURT, held at LINCOLN'S INN HALL, on the 30th and 31st OCTOBER and the 1st NOVEMBER, 1871.
The COUNCIL of Legal EDUCATION have awarded to
HIRAM SHAW WILKINSON, Esq.,
Student of the Middle Temple.
JAMES OWENS WYLIE, Esq.,
Student of the Middle Temple.
A Studentship of Fifty Guineas per Annum, to continue for a period of Three Years.
An Exhibition of Twenty-five Guineas per Annum, to continue for a period of Three Years.
EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD, Esq.,
Student of the Middle Temple.
General Branch,
Registered No. B/684.
Letter from the Governor of Mauritius.
Mauritius,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
3rd July 1866.
I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, applying to be appointed Master of the Supreme Court, and in reply to state that His Excellency is well aware both from the usual channels of Public Opinion and from the confidential Reports of the late Mr. Temple, of the indefatigable and able manner in which you have fulfilled your duties as Chief Clerk in the Master's Office since your promotion to that appointment rather more than two years ago.
His Excellency hopes that a fitting opportunity will occur for testifying the approval of your conduct by the Government, but he feels it his duty on the present occasion to appoint Mr Esuouf who has for some time past acted gratuitously as Substitute Master, to the Vacancy caused by Mr Temple's unexpected demise.
The enclosure to your letter is herewith returned,
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most Obedient Servant
EDWARD NEWTON
EDWARD J. ACKROYD ESQ :
Chief Clerk, Master's Office
Port Louis,
Colonial Secretary.
ROBERT FORSTER McSWINNEY, Esq.,
Certificate of Honour of the First Class.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS SMITH,
Student of Gray's Inn.
CHARLES C. M. BAKER, Esq.,
Student of the Inner Temple,
And twenty-five others.
Certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a Public Examination.
By Order of the Council,
COUNCIL CHAMBER, LINCOLN'S INN,
9th November 1871.
(Signed) EDWARD RYAN,
CHAIRMAN, pro tem.
Testimonial from the Master of the Supreme Court of Mauritius,
MASTER'S CHAMBERS SUPREME COURT.
Port Louis 11th March 1870.
MR EDWARD ACKROYD has served under me for the last four years as Chief Clerk in this Office and it is a pleasing task to be able to testify to the very satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the many and important duties of that Office and to recognize the zealous endeavours constantly made by him to give the fullest satisfaction to the Public generally and more particularly to the members of the legal profession.
It is unnecessary to enter into details but one fact I wish to mention, and it is this, I learn from the Records of my Office (for this was before my own appointment) that when Mr Edward Ackroyd was appointed to the post he now occupies, there was a very heavy accumulation of arrears as there was a large number of properties worth upwards of One million two hundred thousand dollars, the distribution of the sale prices of which among the
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