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here knows must be the practical

result in minor c be without a

cases,

remedy. I therefore

conceive it to be

my duty to address you

upon

the

subject,

Excellency be

in order that His Exce

the Lieutenant Governor may

induced to refer the whole matter to the Right. Honorable the Secretary: of State, and I shall feel much

obliged if there be transmitted to

present

comm.

His Lordship my tion together with a copy of my letter

to

you

of November 5th 1870 and of your reply thereto bearing date the

16th of the

other

Aaml.

papers

inafter

mvore

month.

also the

to which Ishall here

especially

allude.

Shortly after my arrival in

the Colony Inas informed that the Attorney General, who had presided: in the Court during a portion of my

absence, and had, consequently doubt, had his attention frequently drawn to the defect in that respect local Ordinance, had framed

a

in

alir

Bill the object of which was to

extend the jurisdiction of the Court

to all cases.

where the

m

did not exceed one

sum

in disperte

thousand dollars

and to confer upon the

I anl

Court in accordance with the

precedent contained in the Act of the Imperial Parliament (28729. Vict. c. 99) a limited jurisdiction in