Crown Lease and against the express views as to the proper line and as laid down by such Zease of the Honorable I. . 16. Price the Surveyor General of this Colony and who surveyed the Rot as such Surveyor General on behalf of the brown previously to such lease being granted and also against the views of other eminent Surveyors in this Colony: _ Fentered an appeal against such. decision which came on
1 for hearing before the full Court viz! the bhief chistice and the said Mr. E. I. Ackroyd the Land Officer who was at the time of the hearing of such appeal sitting Bench as acting Quisne Sudge
the result of this appeal was to confirm the previous sludgment . _
•
on the
of thereupon filed a Petition for leave to appeal to other Majesty in Council - I am seriously injured and aggrieved by this decision and the object I now have in writing
writing to you is to point
out the wrong
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done in allowing the Land Officer from whose Department Crown Leases issue and who is supposed when granting
such brown leases to su
grant them in every way correct, after- -wards to sit on the Bench and try a question arising on such Lease and
fact pronounce by his eludgment that the Lease as issued from his Department
in
wrong.-
in one
Such a state of affairs should not exist ne of Her Majesty's Colonies. - and of maintain that questions relating to. Land in this Colony should be tried by independent cludges and not by. Judge interested as Land Officer in the Department whence Leases are issued.__
or
a
MW Ackroyd
was a
appointed in the first instance Registrar of the Court and
more
repecently Land Officer two offices totally distinct. _ Early in this year he was appointed acting Ilime chudge.-
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