CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 222

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I fired that thes minute Ireferred to relates only to the contingency of the office being fellect by an acting appointment.

The Registrav elect is therefore entitled to the full amount of the fees. It is nevertheless the

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fact, when Mr thason, the Registrar elect, was absent - leave for eighteen ononths, and when Mr Masson

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10,000 no~

the deputy allogistrar hold the acting appointment that the fees did amount to the same

mum of $f$ 1.000 portion of which was we paid into the Treasury .

It is furthermore undoubtedly true that upon the resumption of his office . Mr Abræander caused Mr

Arasson to pay over to him, a mounty of those fees, and it is equally true that upon Mr Alexander apply

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a short time afterwards to the Logislative . Council for an increase of salary, he carefully avoided all smention of the castence of those fee . leading the Council to suppose that his pay all he had to rely upon I am enabled to state this positively incomuch as I was present when

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the subject was brought foward.

Since the date of my last respects to Your Grace, I have been informed on what I conceive to be good authority that a few days subaquent to the deprerture off the mails, a despatch was sent from the Colonial Soetary's office to those of the auditor and Treasurer, on the subject of the fses of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Jam of couro » ignorant of the nature of the despatch, but ny in formation is positive to the effect that it was ante dated, 4 so made ls appear is if waitton previously to my respects to Gour Grace,

I need hardly stake that Mr. Alexander, the Registrar elect, is now the acting Colonial Seadary

Your Grace will naturally conclude that I have a personal enotive in this hacking on the subject of these fees, Such conclusion would Le by

no means erroneous:

- yet still I take leave to assure Your Grace that the motive is a natural

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