As Your Lordship will already be aware from my letter of the 8th instant, received on the 8th August, 1848, No.255, on Monday,
10. The Court of Petty Sessions, to which I have already referred, will go very far to obviate the inconvenience complained of as regards the forms, as by the provisions of the ordinance by which it is created, that Tribunal will sit one day of every week with power of adjournment from day to day for the summary disposal of all petty crimes and small debts where the amount in dispute does not exceed $50. The Legislative Council also has at this moment under its consideration the propriety of extending the summary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from $100 to $500. If this plan be adopted, and there is no doubt it will be, the simple and comprehensible forms now in use in the Supreme Court where the sum sought to be recovered does not exceed $100 will be extended to cases where the amount in dispute is not above $500;
Attorneys will be absolutely necessary, and the cases that come before it will be heard without the intervention of a jury, as is the case in the Supreme Court of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay in all their civil jurisdictions, whatever the amount in dispute may be. The Chief Justice has, moreover, expressed his readiness to hold two additional sittings during the year, and a Rule of Court to this effect will be prepared by him during the next term, and submitted for approval of the Legislative Council. These two additional sittings will increase the number from four to six during the year, which under all circumstances will be sufficient.
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10. The fourt of Petty Sersions, to which I have already referred will go very fa- to obviate the inconvenience complained_ of as regards the formus, as by the provisions of the ordinance by which it is created, that Tribunal will sit on of every week with power of adjournment from day to day for the Summary disposal of all petty crimes and small debts where the amount in dispute does not exceed $50. The Legislative founcil also has
at this moment under its consideration
the propriety of extending the summary_ Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from 100- to 500. Dollars of this plan be adopted_ & which there is no doubt the simple and comprehensible forms
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the nost term, and submitted for approval of the Legislative founcil. - two additional Settings with increase the number from four to six during the year which under all circumstances with
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