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that his attention had been called to the somewhat analogous
positions occupied by the Clerks or Private Secretaries to Judges
io Mauritius and in the three Eastern Colonies. In Mauritius end
Ceylon they were on the Permanent Establishment entitled to
pension, passage and leave on half-pay while in Hongkong and
Singapore they were appointed by the Judges and were excluded
from these privileges. The Secretary of State favoured the latter
system but asked for the views of the Judges in Hongkong and of
the Governor on the matter. The opinion of the Chief Justice
Mr.(afterwards Sir)James Russell and the Puisne Judge Mr. (now
Sir) Fielding Clarke and of the Acting Puisne Judge Mr. Wise was
that Judges' Clerks should be placed on the permanent service of
the Colony, the advantage to the public in having a man who knows
the work of the Court being greater than the advantage derived
from the Judge from employing a gentleman of his own selection.
To a suggestion of the Governor that they should be made Clerks
of the Registrar, Mr. Justice Clarke pointed out that they could
only usefully be employed in connection with that office to do
the work they already did when attending on the Judges of
making minutes of Judgments and Orders and pointed out that to
legalize the practice in this respect the Code of Civil Procedure
should be altered to allow this duty to be performed by a Clerk
of the Court as well as by the Registrar and that the Chief
Justice's and Puisne Judge's Clerks should be gazetted as Gierus
of the Court. These recommendations were transmitted and support-
-ed by Sir William Des Voeux on 10th. July, 1889, and approved
by Lord Knutsford in a Despatch dated 19th. February, 1890.
effect was duly given to them, the Judges' Clerks being gazetted
Clerks of the Court on the 12th. April, 1890, and these Clerks
being given the same powers as the Registrar of making minutes
of Judgments or Orders whether final or interlocutory by an
Ordinance