CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5] — Page 278

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I cannot see my way justice to the Public Service to place either Mr Green or Mr.

on the bench of the

Kingsmill Supreme Court. They

are both young

and Mr Green's services as Attorney

General could

scarcely be dispensed with, and

the Documents which have been sent home in connection with

the case will enable you

to form an estimate

of Kingsmill's aptitudes for so high and responsible an office

The Secretary of State has already disapproved of putting the Chief Justiceship in Commission

275

and although I find that by the Charter of the Colony I have the power to appoint Judges, "Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, there would be

difficulty in finding fit persons to perform these

very responsible duties, without at least impairing

the efficiency of other

Departments

There remains therefore for

consideration the appointment of Mr. Davies the Chief Magistrate. though in the discharge of his present duties I know of no ground of complaint, I grieve to be compelled to say that the proceedings in the

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I cannot see my way justice to the Public Service to place either Mr Green or Mr.on the bench of theKingsmill Supreme Court. Theyare both youngand Mr Green's services as AttorneyGeneral couldscarcely be dispensed with, andthe Documents which have been sent home in connection withthe case will enable youto form an estimateof Kingsmill's aptitudes for so high and responsible an officeThe Secretary of State has already disapproved of putting the Chief Justiceship in Commission275and although I find that by the Charter of the Colony I have the power to appoint Judges, "Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, there would bedifficulty in finding fit persons to perform thesevery responsible duties, without at least impairingthe efficiency of otherDepartmentsThere remains therefore forconsideration the appointment of Mr. Davies the Chief Magistrate. though in the discharge of his present duties I know of no ground of complaint, I grieve to be compelled to say that the proceedings in theI made the following corrections:1. Corrected "citter" to "either"2. Removed "مان" as it seems to be an OCR error3. Corrected "Attorney General could" by removing unnecessary line breaks4. Corrected "Austy" to "case" (assuming it's a typo)5. Corrected "W: si" to nothing (assuming it's an OCR error)6. Corrected "Pie" to "The"7. Corrected "performs" to "perform"8. Corrected "impaining" to "impairing"9. Corrected "buties" to "duties"10. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTML tags. 11. Kept "Page 275" as it is, assuming it's a page numbering line.
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I cannot see my way justice to the Public Service to place citter Mr Green or Mr.

on the bench of the

Kingsmill Supreme Court. They

young

مان

are both

and Mr Green's services

Attorney

General could

scarcely be dispensed with, and

the Documents which have been sent home in connection with

the Austy

care will enable you

to form an estimate

of

W:

si

Kingsmills aptitudes of or so high and responsible an office

Pie Secretary of State has already disapproved of putting the chief Justiceship in Commission

275

and although I find that by the Charter of the Colony I have the power to appoint Indges, "Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, there would be

difficulty in finding fit persons to performs these

very responsible duties, without at least impaining

the

other Departments

efficiency of other

There remains therefore for

no

consideration the appointment of Mr. Davies the Chief Magistrate. though in the discharge of his present buties I Know of ground of complaint, I grieved to be compelled to say that the proceedings in the

am

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