CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4] — Page 256

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8.

The

and powers. outies of the new

principal onize will

be the trial of all the Civil enses hitherts heard before either the magistrates in Petty Sessions, or the chief Iustice in Summary Iurisdiction.

The number

F

such

Cases

famount at present to about

45 each week, and unless they should increase very largely it is

thought the new Judge's time will not be enfficiently occupied. Provision is therefore made in section 33 to enable the chief Justice to remit to the Assistant Surge

D

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for trial, from time to time, euch cases from the Supreme

Court as

he

may

see

و

fit. The

1.5. Attorney General's Report which

I enclose sufficiently explains all the remaining provisions of this Adinance.

7.

As it would not be convenient that there three Ordinances, which abolish the existing arrangements, should come into operation until we are in a position to

the proposed

as

new

Carry

out

system, and this cannot be effected

until after the arrival here

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