CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 290

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Sitting Magistrate

and

a.j

occasional Chairman of the Court of Petty Sessions. During that period

no

less than sevenly seven thousand

two hundred and fiftyy (27%, 250)

personé

have

stood

Sitting Magistrate,

ad

before the

Defendants,

Ave

thirds

of

which number.

must have

been

before myself,

ad

arraigned

I filled the

Filling Magistrate's Chair during

four days

out of the working

sise,

over

the

entire period

supported by the fact, that the

whole of this mass of adjudication,

from first to

last,

шаб

governed

by the

writ of Certiorari, and that

in

no

one

instance

has

my

decision been

Secondly.

reversed

upon appeal.

the grounds

distinction between the

Assistant Magistrati

Upon

that.

the

Chief

and

Office

is

und

merely departmental Schilar. Their Commisions

- are identical, and they

comenable

are

equally

to

one

and

the

same.

embraced, and thus, must have

eether

done

an

en orrnous

to

this

of wrong

or

have

duties.

my

amount

community,

competently discharged.

That. I

may fairly lay.

ilam

to

the

latter

result is

supported

Court of Appeal. _

The Chief Magistrate is, ix.

officio,

the Chairman of the Court of Pelly

Junior Magistral,

Sessions, but the

even

in that office, has

res diction

juris

a concurrent

with

with him,

the

mere

difference of

a

casting

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