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Accounts in Probates and letters of administration as recommended by the Committee of 1879
Government has never deemed it advisable to carry out this recommendation
and in the Registry we have continued to do what was our duty and more than what any law or regulation required of us I repeat therefore that this charge has no foundation whatever
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18 The next charge is contained in these words:-
“No. 62 of the 21st March showing an excess of £200 paid after enquiry as extra duty on estates under sworn”.
It is not stated when this took place, it is too vague to enable me to offer any observations upon it
It may often happen that probates are re-sworn and extra duty paid, property or shares may have increased in value, or assets recovered which once were considered valueless or further property discovered
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19. I now pass to the third instance of “grave and unchecked irregularities” viz:-
(3.) “Solicitors in this colony at this period of its existence still allowed to practice without annual certificate whereby in that respect this colony probably stood singular.”
20. Mr. Kyshe must indeed have been hard pressed for instances of grave irregularity when he penned this charge.
The Acting Chief Justice well says it requires no comment. I will merely observe that the admission and enrolment of Barristers, Attornies and Solicitors are regulated by two ordinances viz: No. of 1871 and another the date and number of which I forget.
Those who drafted and passed these ordinances knew
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