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painfully disappointed ; I discovered that I had been totally

puvate practice (under

mistaken and misled as to

amount of duties

my case entirely out! cucumstances & Matter of

any cucur the expenses of living, and that

uncertain speculation) was

in

requered at the question; And that the Native and

trands

Jon

of

Various Capacities of Coron

Solicitor Coroner, and Sheriff in charge of the

Dail

were

Absolutely impossible for any unassisted person to discharge,

capacities

ever

these

at a time that I find myself utterly unable to meet their

which I am connected will often reopene my Secried I do not possess . The heads of Departments with and advantages for working that

for their due discharge

amongst three or four Exepartments, each with facilities

and I may observe that the duties now

prorously to my entering upon them divided:

required of me in

کو

puvate Praches, even

Requirements, nor could it be possible for

me to undertake

om.

the management of their becseness, presed upon of any one would cibust to ne

as Jam

upon careful consideration, I feel certain the unassisted discharge of Public cluties; and I evill

here observe that

out of the Number of Inquist's which I have held

attubutable to the present disturbed Stake of the Colony ;

that this press of business is not by any means

Sence

my

Anival.

one

perhaps.

or at most hoo cases.

while from the best information I have been able to

can be concured to be attributable to the present crises,

now

Than

247

impannelling and Sense of Summe

less frequent,

ordinay tuned, The Obtain Peracy cases are

upon

12

32

once

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months)

-Upson Jurors ( Criminal sessions being held Trafting and

engrossing upon parchment of Information service of same with Summon's upon presonus, (the Copies:

being puessanty made in the Chinese, if the Prisoners are Chinese ) : The preparation and Sewic

and Service of Subpoenas expon

the Witnesses in different parts of the Colony : The seeing that such Witnesses, and all neussary proofs forthcoming when required, are disties which

- are miest press repon me whatever the circumstances of

The

are

my neussary

Colony : I find my Salary wholly inadequate to the expensiveness of the place and Support putting out of the question the maintaining

Government Official .

- me to state that after

of a respectable position as a It will surely be sufficient for. paying the Ront of a small and inconvenient Room

of about Eight feet Square for transaction of public: business solely, and after defraying the Salary of

a

a

word of

Young lad, merely a Copying Click, and Searby able to speak for understand a English, I have only a balance of £181 per Annum to meet all other expended for myself here, and a

here, and a large family

At home, and I am at the present moment, furthermore, to pay a Bailiff ( difficult wen to be proumed, except

me in

Subpanning

nowac

when steadily employed) for assisting 74 Witnessed for the present sessions. It is Month since Jentued

on the Civil duties of Sheriff, and the feed in that time have not averaged Dollar Pr week. So that I can intitain little hope

Jevo.