CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 434

Sheriff and Coroner, a fact which your Memorialist most respectfully submits, tends much to prove that the duties Individual to perfour.

of both offices

were exxcessive for

ove

and the the aggregate amount of Salary now pair Mess-

and

at

which;

you

your Manorialist.

Jumer May. does not exceed that

Memorialist held those Offices, still,

attention to the underment.

would respectfully direct your circumstances, which mable his Successors to accept office

at a

to doi

Cesser Amount of Salary, than he could be expected

Mr Cooper Tuner is a Solicitor some time established in the Colony, possessing large professionals practice, and a Staff of Clucks and Assistants for its Conduct, needing little or no augmentation for the discharge of the additional duties brought him as Crown Solicitor. more especially where such duties are now lighteneds and Semplifin

much by having some of the most onerous portion of them such as the device of writs and all description of process- Fransferred to Mr May with his numerous staff of Assistants,

another fact which would tend much to lighten considually

the duties of Mr. Jumer as Crown Solicitor, was the terns of close and confiduitial intimacy which sulisested between him and Her Majesty's Attorney Generals. Mrsanity,

the former being enabled to give (as he invariably did give) much private professional practice to Mr Anstey, a cucums :

:tance which, it is submitted would nationally

his being treated with for

Solicitor. Than

than your

Mortistay

more consideration ad

Memoria list.

ever receive

of Her Majesty's Attorney Generals.

lead to

Crown

at the hands.

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your

informed already the Appointment of Superintendent of Poliis, to Memorialist as Deputy Sheriff and Coroner, held peculiar advantaged/ when appointed to succeed your Colony, and consequently possesseded of additional

in the Mr.May (an early resident Official

which was attached, as

a beleives a

with

Memorialist was

submitted that Mr. May possesses advantages in mi Assistants aheady at his controuelit, it is respectfully

accommodation ando expence to himself; with such free

ample Office accommodation and assistants free of all a salary of £700. P. Ann. besides being provideds

undertaking.

save. So far

Bailiffs, and unprovided with any Office accommodation,

Salary of but £300 p. Ann: unaided by Cluck's

Eby upon a onnous duties of three important Departments in the Colony Memorialect, who, in fact, was required to discharge the did not exist, but were refused, in the case of Your the Offices of Depecty Sheriff and Coroner, which, not only,

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of Cerecumstanced to which,

at the least, the entire of his

be obtained by the appropriation (as heretofore shown) of,

as such Assistance and accommodation could

& your

ayour particular attention

own Official Jalary, a state

фото

Memorialist camestly divists

munt until the result of an application to the Home Government.

have bear his most camest desire to have retained his appoint-

Your Memorialist begs to state that it woulds

for

ar

au

increase

lessening of Salary-

of Official duties - could have ascertaineds, but that, independent the granting of a public Office and Assistants.

amelioration of position by other