"i" posts. Both by Fielding
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Mr Clarke and Mr Wise
were appointed in 1897
i after the Act which
made the alteration
had for
some
time
been in operation; that
Act was a sufficient intimation, and if they omitted to make themselves acquainted with its provisions, it can
hardly be expected
that the funds of the
colony should relieve
them from any
inconvenience to which
they may
have subjected
themselves. I regret to find myself obliged
and
that I have no alternative but to direct that these
gentlemen should refund any fees which they
have received for the
Admiralty proceedings,
for their
preciving, these fees
Modes in which these fees
are disallowed (for the
law has made no provision)
are detailed in my predecessor's despatch of the 20th September 1890, as to the
application of which I had
given other and full directions.
J. So long as Mr Hageland
continues to discharge the duties,
he is entitled to the
compensation for loss of the benefits of his former
office of Marshal of the Vice Admiralty
Court, and
I
am disposed
to think that the best
method of meeting
his case
would be to
grant him a
personal
Allowance calculated
upon the
average
of the