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Chief Justice Hulme, 2nd, copies of

a

correspondence between the

Colonial Secretary

and Chief Justice

Hulme relative to Mr. Protter's

re-appointment as Judge's Clerk and the right of the former to nominate

to that office.

With

regard

to the claim of

Mr. Trotter it is evident, from the

correspondence which

you

have

transmitted, that he voluntarily

declined to act as

Judge's

Clerk

during the cuspension of Mr.

Hulme. He can

therefore have

no reasonable claim for ealary

for this period.

the

On the question raised in second part of this correspondence, vizy, whether the appointment of Judge's Clerk should rest with

or with the Chief

the Governor

Instice, I have to instruct,

that, adverting

you

to the peculiar

relations which subsist between

a

to the

Judge and his clerk, the nomination should belong Chief Justice, but, in conveying

to him this conclusion, I have

further to direct you

you to acquaint the Chief Justice that I must

request

each such nomination

for