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last tram at 11.15. As it is the reports are still somewhat in-
-perfect.
Such a state of things is I submit very
inconvenient to all parties concerned and most unsatisfactory.
The causes which have brought it about are fourfold:-
1.
The Judges have no Frivate Secretaries.
2.
There is no shorthand writer attached to the
Court.
3.
4.
There are no official Reports of the decisions
of the Court, nor any regular means by which a record of the judgment is kept.
The office is ill-supplied with type-writing
machines.
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le England all Judges have frivate Secreta-
-ries, or as they are commonly called Judges' clerks. In many Colonies there are similar officers attached to each of the Judges. I can speak with certainty of Mauritius where there are four Judges each of whom has his special clerk. There is much writing to be done in connection with a Judee's work, and he cannot get through with it satisfactorily without this assistance, I therefore beg Your Excellency to consider this letter as a formal application for the appointment of a Secretary to each of the Judges. If Your Excellency should agree in principle I will submit a detailed scheme dealing with their duties. It may be that the remedy for the 2nd. and Srd. points above-mentioned, also be found in these appointments, and if Your Excellency should wish to have the detailed schere I have suggested I will so draft it as to deal also with these points. I need hardly say that it is of the first importance that these two most serious defects in the administration of justice,should be re-
-medied.
may
It is also very important that there
should
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