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a unanimous expression of the feelings of the foreign increantile Community,

that it was desirable to or

do

away

with

the distinction in this Colony between the two branches of the legal profession. I anner a printed Copy of the tremment. conveying such Opinion - only one name of a firm of importance is wanting to it, that of Men's Jardine Matheson &C.; and the Senior

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partner of that firm, himself member of the Legislative Council, the seconder of the motion that

was

an Ordinance be prepared in conformity with the wishes of the subscribers.

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So unanimous a concurrenes

of Ppinion on any subject has hardly

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ever

before been witnered in this Community and it bein a inatter

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solely of local interest, I felt us Recitation in submitting to the Legislative Council

a micasme

General and

prepared by the Attorney

effecting the desired

object. The Solicitors or three

then, (for

hn:

their want

of

of unanimutty

given rise to some unpleasant concepondence), appeared before the Council in opposition to the

but did not

to the measure,

appear to imyself or to that

body to have made out

any case

case why

their private interests chould be preferred to the general benefit of the

Community.

Frequent complaints have been

made