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over which the Judges have control, and those over which they have none. It is one which long experience does not enable me to give. There is one letter in the correspondence, that from Your Excellency to me dated 9th April to which I think it advisable to allude. The last paragraph would seem to suggest that Mr. Seth knows the extent to which he is responsible to the Chief Justice but that I do not. It seemed to me at the time extraordinary that Your Excellency should prefer the opinion of Mr. Seth to that of a Chief Justice who has had 15 years experience of the working of Judicial Departments. But I cannot extract from it what is Your Excellency's view on the question.

In paragraph 1, Your Excellency intimates that Mr. Seth would have readily given me the information concerning the work of Mr. Lee-Jones, if I had applied to him in the first instance. As I pointed out in reply that is precisely the course I took. But as Your Excellency is of opinion that I am entitled to information respecting the work of the Deputy Registrars, I find it all the more difficult to realise what information I am not entitled to.

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