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to in paragraph 11 of the despatch.

- under reply seeming

How

to be one which

required some amendment. I have

caused reports upon

the

subject

to be

(Sir Geo Phillipps)

furnished by the Chief Justice and the

Attorney-General which, together with a

Enclosure 3. (Mr. O' Maliny)

Memorandum from Mr Ackroyd, the &

Registrar of the Supreme Court, I have

now the honour to transmit. From

these reports it appears that the cases

which most require

redress

are

those

of passengers, dying at sea, who are

possessed only of small personal effects. These cases are at present

managed

&

Enclosure (Mr-deKroyd)

managed by the Official Administrator, and although in practice the strict requirements of the law, as to taking out letters of Administration, have not

been carried out where the estate would

not pay

the necessary fees,

there has

been much loss of time and

money,

while the estate has frequently suffered

injury from not being placed under proper custody immediately, on the

ship coming into port.

It is

now

proposed that when the estate

of

a

deceased

passenger is of less value

than one hundred dollars ($100) the

Harbour