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this

sent out from home to take charge of important port of the Court work, re-organize

made

by

reckless asurtions

it, and carry it out. This is a

Nor Francis, without any ground whatever to support it - Your Excellency knows it to be incorrect; and a statement so

baseless as this must naturally make your Excellency doubt, whether the other statemento of me. Francis, all of which are made withe equal confidence, are not equally destitute· of foundation - Mr Ackroyd was never selected or sent out from home for any

such purpose. I yes was sent here in the useral way of promotions

не

from Mauritius direct, and, so far

as the

organization of the Court is concerned, it

was due to the Report of the Commission which enquire into the best in

sat in 1878. 1879

to

means of preventing

a

repetition of the

Huffame scandal ; to the correspondence. that ensued between the fudger, the Auditor General, the Governor, and the Secretary of State, long before the arrival of trackroyd, and eventually

to the Report. of the present Chief Justice, which Report and

and recommendations

re corum cudations

recommendations were substantially approved

by the Secretary of State, and directed to be carried into effect

and

Jays

-

I Francis refers to his oure experience

that he h

a j

heard and read trucks, and

thought deeply, about the constitution of thre

Court, and the organization of its oppie

Srepre

re pul

and departimento - If 20, he cannot be igsurant of the appointment and Report of the Commission, before referred to, although he may be ignorant

of Forne of

what has since take wo place,

ace, because he has not takers the trouble to enquire – If he took so much interest in the latter, ho one would have refused time information, nor would have been unwilling to have taken into Consideration any suggestions he might have offered, as the result of his deep thought- But he apparently chooses to assume that .... things

are tea

tractly in the same position that they were in the time of the late Mr. Alexander, and that a change in the office of Registrar would facilitate fraud. On the contrary, we think that a change

in the office, so far

from facilitating fraud, would be likely to detect it, if fraud were possible under the

present