CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 77

section 16/3) as Empowering the Court to direct that the fees should not be carried with the Colonial

Treasury, but should be paid direct to the ex-officials-

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which whether correct or not and

Mr Wingfield

was to submit that

it was not correct,

Comparatively

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admitted

that either

way

the same amount

unimportant

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would come to the ex officials is

were

they of the Act.

in office at the passing

But that the present

Chief Justice claimed as matter of law that as

long

the

Vice Admiralty rules comained

in force he and the present Registrar

notwithstanding they

were

appointed

after

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after the commencement of the Act

of

were

included in the words

section 16 (3) "the amount of each

"such fee shall as

nearly

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"practicable be paid to the same

"officer

or person who but for the

" passing of this Act would have -been entitled to receive the same

" in respect of the like business.

That no other Chref Justice

had taken up this

ground, and that, subject to our opinion, Your Lordship believed it to be earund That the fees in Vice Admirally taken by the Judge and the Registon

were

of the Vice Admiralty Court, position, filled by the present Chief Justice

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