CO129-151 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [7-8] — Page 265

an

Court

new Bill it is intended to impore upon me (1.), at Common Law, at least double the work which it is at prisent my duty to perform, and (2.) to confer upon my

altogether new Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction in Equity. When the latter Jurisdiction was conferred upon the County Court Judges in England by 28 and 29 Victoria Chapter 99, it was provided by Section to that the Salarice of the Judges shoved to for

entitled a Jurisdiction

the

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that work

performance of be increased by £300 a year. - So far therefore

as the Squitable Jurisdiction is concerned, there is

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a direct precedent for the amount of increase namely £300 a year..

But I take the liberty of submitting that that amount should not be the total increase

of my Salary if the Common Law Jurisdiction of the Court be extended to cases where the amount sought to be recovered should not exceed $1,000, since the

sum

within

the present Iurisdiction Loe, not This however I leave

exceed $500.

in the lands of the Excentive with the bservation but I think

it cannot be said that, where the Jurisdiction of a Court is doubled, £200 per

aumum