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Official Trustee".

5.

6.

In reference to the last preceding paragraph

I understand that formerly the Registrar of Companies was not the Registrar of the Supreme Court and that until the offices of Registrar of Companies and Official Trustee were amalgamated with that of the Registrar of the Supreme Court there was a separate salary attached to each of the offices of Resistrar of Companies and Registrer of the Supreme Court and the Official Trustee was paid by fees.

It appears therefore that the duties of the

Registrar of the Supreme Court are either by virtue of his office or by statutory application vanifold and the ques- -tion at issue to which His Excellency refers in paragraph

4 of his Despatch of 5th. June, 1908, viz.:- whether the

Registrar is "an independent Head of Department" is in ry

opinion capable of only one answer and that is in so far as

the duties which I have emmerated in paragraphs 2 and 3 of

this report are concerned he is subject to the directions

and control of the Chief Justice, or the Court as the case

may be, and thus cannot claim in such category to he

strictly the "Independent Head of the Department" but in

so far as he is intrusted with the duties enumerated in

paragraph 4 they are in my ophion alien to and distinet

from the office which he holds in the service of the

judiciary and in relation to which he may claim to be the

"Head of the Department".

In any event I have to respectfully dis-

-agree with the view adopted by the Chief Justice in his

statement accompanying his letter to the Governor of lat.

June, 1908, which reads as follows:-

"above all I pointed out that there were no

"duties unconnected with the Supreme Court

"which the Officers of the Registry or the

"Registrar himself had to perform. The

duties