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Government House,

Hongkong, 11th. June, 1908.

My Lord,

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B. 13 JUL 28

At the request of the Chief

Justice, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy

of a correspondence which has taken place with regard to

the status of the Registrar of the Supreme Court as a Head

of a Department and his relation to the Judges of the

Supreme Court and to the Colonial Secretary respectively.

I am the more willing to meet the wish of Sir F. Piggott in

this matter, because it is not improbable that this point

has been raised before now in other Colonies and that Your

Lordship will be in a position to refer to precedents of

which I am not cognizant.

2.

The correspondence was initiated

by Sir F. Piggott on the 29th. of last February in connect-

-ion with the transfer of Mr. J. H. Kemp from his post as

Court

Deputy Registrar and Appraiser of the Supreme to act as

Police Magistrate, this transfer having been made necessary

by the absence of Mr. Justice Wise on leave and the con-

-sequent GHT HONOURABLE

HE EARL OF CREWS.

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