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Registrars of the Supreme Courts of the Crown Colonies. It
is a question on which Judges are, I submit, solely competent, from their familiarity with the details of the work
of the Courts, to tender advice to the Secretary of State;
and I venture, with great respect, to suggest that, if the
reasons advanced in this letter are not of themselves
satisfactory, the Secretary of State should be pleased to
submit the question to the Judges of the other
Crown Colonies for their advice as to whether the views I
have expressed are in accordance with their own.
3.
I make this suggestion because my action
and the opinion I hold on the subject are based on the
experience of 15 years in both sides of the Judicial
Department. It was not until Mr. Seth's unexpected resignation,
which I reported to Your Excellency, that I had any idea
that my views were even open to question. It is true that,
so far as the Government of this Colony was concerned, the
action taken did not seem to me to be always consistent
with the practice of other Colonies, as I knew it from
practical experience in Mauritius; but so far as Mr. Seth
was concerned, he had always acquiesced in the control
which I had exercised over him without question.
4.
I gather from the general tenor of Your
Excellency's