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decisions of the Police Magistrates being heard by any
Court other than the Supreme Court. On the Gold Coast the
decisions in criminal cases of Provincial and District
Commissioners were liable to revision by the Chief Justice
who received a monthly return of all such cases and called
for notes of evidence in those which seemed to him to af-
-ford room for doubt as to the justice of a sentence.Such
a procedure would however hardly be applicable to the
decisions in this Colony of Police Magistrates who are
generally men of legal training and in the case of the
permanent holders of the appointments of long experience in
the law and in the Colony.
8.
In the absence of any general
demand for the creation of the new Court that has been
proposed I am disposed on the whole to leave matters as
they are.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
M. Nathan.
Governor,
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