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intention to alter the
of any previous status of the posts, otherwise than in the case of the Registrarship of the Supreme Court by a reduction of the salary attached to that office.
3.
There are however
two points on which I desire instructions from Your Lordship. The first, whether the fees in
fees in the Colonial Court of Admiralty should be paid into the Colonial Treasury, and equivalent refunds be made to the officers entitled
to
to receive them. In
the simpler the officers
Course
my opinion.
of allowing
officers in question to receive their shares of the fees direct is preferable, not only as being more convenient, but as avoiding
d
entry
in the
accounts, and a fictitious increase of the apparent revenue
and expenditure of the Colony.
The other point
4:
on
which I solicit direction is
whether
on
the
occurrence
of a
vacancy in any of the offices
in