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Depentants, appointed Mr. 2. H. Caldwell

to act as

Arbitrator - to present his report

to the court, which thereupon accepts

c) 2

ov

rejects the wiicli

any part of unde export. In three cases both parties to the suit have invariably been blinese, and usually the matter in dispute question of accounts, trept

has been

a

in the Chinese Language and requiring an accurate knowledge of Clinics bookkeeping :

mode

of trading - and the Clunese Charader.

The sums m

are

dispute

sucti

occasions

generally of small amount, and the remuneration to the Arbitrator, consequently, is but small. M. Caldwell

a sworn

who has been for many years so terpreter of the Court, is, so far.

as

I know, the only

man who is both

able and willing to undertake the duties to be performed by an Arbitrator, and where both parties have applied to the Court, in its Summary sitting, to appoint Mr Caldwell to examine

and report upon their intricate

accounts, I have

i

felt that.

acceding

to such request I have acted

in.

furtherance of the ends of justice.

It is

mustake to

suy

that

I have myself adopted the practice referred in the Supreme bout,"

except when as

before cxplained, the

Summary Jurisdiction joined part

the practice of that Court. I have

Eer

referred anything to bene