examination in law in the
Colony, shall have a
preferential claim to the post of Police Magistrate.
3.
"The remarks regarding Mr. Jameson apply equally to the case
of Mr. Jones who has applied for a prolonged extension of his leave for the purpose of being called to the Bar.
4.
As regards the mistakes in Mr. Jameson's leave
papers, an
error of one month
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in the record of his half-pay leave is due to the fact that, by an oversight, the decision conveyed in paragraph 3 of Lord Knutsford's despatch No. 158 of the 2nd August, 1890,
I was not at the time noted in the Register of Leave kept in the Colonial Secretary's Office, but with respect to the second month, I would invite
your attention to the terms of Lord Knutsford's despatch No. 206 of the 26th September,
1890