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to preserve _ I have placed the new Indye in the Civil List next after the Colonial Secretary pwho being second in the

Commission administers the Government in the absence

the bovernor) and the two

Offices Salaries.

are

assigned equal

5 Rrdinance A6 of 1862

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provides for the abolition existing Offices of Chief and assistant Magistrates and for the appointment intend, tws Police Magistrates, with equal jurisdiction, whose duties

of

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to be confined to the

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hearing and trial of Ordinary Police cases - the Civil jurictition heretofore exercised by magistrates being transferred to the new court of Summary Iurisdiction. The accompanying

Report of the Attorney General

upon.

this Ordinanca renders

any further comment by

the provisions of it

upon

innecessary.

6.

me

Ordinance 17 of 1862 establishes a Court of Summary: Jurisdiction - appoints

a

Judge

thereof and defines his duties