CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3] — Page 275

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loft to the Registrar. But as I informed Your Excellency in my letter of 14th April, 1908, I exercised my power of control by directing that my Clerk should not sit in Courts as Deputy Registrar. And quite recently I discovered the Deputy Registrar in Court reading a novel. I intimated, which is a mild form of putting an order, that that officer would not be required to attend in Court again.

Generally it can hardly be contended that if I found one Deputy Registrar more capable of performing the Court work than another, I should not have the right to say he was to do it.

All these instances relate to the routine work of the office, which is inseparably connected with the administration of justice: it lies altogether outside the distribution of business in the Supreme Court under S. 22 and S. 32 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1873: which refers to Court work, not official or routine work of the Department. Even in so simple a matter as the routine work of the office control is essential, as the following example will show. When the Consul-General of Canton, in some recent correspondence, referred to a letter to the Registry written by his predecessor on the subject under discussion, I sent for the file of letters, and could not find...

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273 loft to the Registrar. But as I informed Your Excellency in my letter of 14th April, 1908, I exercised my power of control by directing that my Clerk should not sit in Courts as Deputy Registrar. And quite recently I discovered the Deputy Registrar in Court reading a novel. I intimated, which is a mild form of putting an order, that that officer would not be required to attend in Court again. Generally it can hardly be contended that if I found one Deputy Registrar more capable of performing the Court work than another, I should not have the right to say he was to do it. All these instances relate to the routine work of the office, which is inseparably connected with the administration of justice: it lies altogether outside the distribution of business in the Supreme Court under S. 22 and S. 32 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1873: which refers to Court work, not official or routine work of the Department. Even in so simple a matter as the routine work of the office control is essential, as the following example will show. When the Consul-General of Canton, in some recent correspondence, referred to a letter to the Registry written by his predecessor on the subject under discussion, I sent for the file of letters, and could not find...
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loft to the Registrar. But as I informed Your Excellency in

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JACK BONN orla

my lester of 14th. April, 1908, I exercised rgy power of

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control by directing that my Clark should not set in

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Courts as Deputy Registrar. And quite recently I discovered

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the Deputy Registrar in Court reading a novel

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than another, I should not have the right to say he was to

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All these instances relate to the routine

work of the office, which is inseparably connected with

the administration of justice: it lies altogether outside

the distribution of business in the Supreme Court under

S. 22 and S. 32 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1873: which refers

to Court work, not official or routine work of the De-

-partment. Even in so simple a matter as the routine work

of the office control is essential, as the following

example will show. When the Consul-General of Canton, in

some recent correspondence, referred to a letter to the

riv XO XTOU SHE

verby well Iontros oJ SI-

vffarrior æl xh

[

.endol pl somshmiðis ei ustreliyor ytinged

Registry written by his predecessor on the subject under

discussion, I sent for the file of latvers, and could not

rind

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