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this Colony have hitherto been regarded as permanent Government Officers, appointed by the Governor, and retaining " their offices independently of : the Judges, or whether each Judge,
on his appointment, has -been in the habit of selecting
his
own Clerk. I have also
to acknowledge Sir Robert_ Herbert's Despatch No.107 of the 22nd of June last, transmitting for my information, with reference to Your Lordship's Despatch
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the correspondence which has passed between the Colonial Office and Sir George Phillippo relative to his nephew's -passage to Hongkong.
In reply, I have the honour to state that, by Lord Grey's Despatch 1:64 of
the 16th October, 1848, it was
desided that the nomination.
of his clerk was to be the privilege of the Judge, and,
since then, each clerk has
gone
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