pover,
I have already, with Lordship's sanction, called two
your
of
the
minor
princiral Merchants to the Legislative "Council.. I have appointed fifteen of the principal inhabitants to be furtices of the Peace with the same powers as the paid Magistrates, and have constituted a court of Betty Sessions for the speedy adjudication of although not inconsiderable offences, with power to adjudicate wherein the amount in dispute docs not execed $50, o say £10; and lastly junderstanding it to be the wish of the
unpaid Magistrates that the management of
or
in Civil Cases
in
the Police
f
the
Colony should be entrusted to them, I have recently offered to transfer this duty to them also.
3.
In November 1849, I convened
as
meeting of the unpaid fustices, and proposed that they should, if" saw fit, undertake the entire
the Police Department,
they
management
the
expense of which they
were
to pay
out of the Rates levied under the Rovisions of Ordinance 12 of 184.5.. The levy at that time amounted to £ 2800 annually, while the expenses of the Police aggregated £ 5.774-4.8 per- Annum, the expenditure execeding the receipts by £9740 408. This sum I then thought and still think the Justices should collect by means of
Carriages, to, but they
a
Day
Mi
being of a different opinion destined to undertake the charge.
4.
with
On further consideration, and a view of doing all in my power to satisfy the desires of the British
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