CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 72

The pleasure of Her hajesty's Government that the Rules of Court should be

to the approval of the

subject to the

Legislature

was

early combated

the

ground of

by Mr Hulme, on his alleged "dignity", and I had

in

hoped that he would acquieses in the instructions

conveyed your Lordship's bepated t. 12 of August 15th- which observed with reference to the above allegation that as "to

compromise,

by

any

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other Colonial dependencies of

the

Crown"

hairly

Your Lordships will infer from the conchising Paragraph of Mr Hulme's enclosed Letter that he is prepared to submit to the disallowance by Her Majesty This past Rubes, or the _ approval by the local Legis= lature this future

ones.

• As head of the Supreme

Court, he observer, I of course

this mode

of

am

promising, of the rights or dignity the Supreme Court, it seems

Jay

that the

sufficient to course which has been

now

established in regard to these matters in Hongkong has abreasy been established in all the

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responsible for it's proper working. This responsibility. willingly bear is

long

as

entrusted with the entire

I

management of the Court; but if I

am

am

allowed to act

only the part of a Paitne fisse, and this Court should hereafter