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statement formally on record:-

When I came to the Colony I found the

Supreme Court in a state of most lamentable inertness and far

below its proper standard of efficiency as the Supreme Court

of so important a Colony: laissez faire and laissez aller seemed

to be the chief features of the administration of justice. I

set myself to put matters on a better footing, and in many

things where the Judges were alone concerned I have been able to

effect considerable reform. In one master in which the existing

state of things was deplorable, the absence of any system of

Reporting, I was successful in obtaining the assistance of the

Government; but in every other question, great or small, I have

met with steady and continuous refusal of assistance. The

Registry was specially inefficient; one of the main causes being

the perpetual shifting of officers and the complete ignoring of

the Chief Justice in connexion with the changes made in the

office; it was rapidly becoming a mere adjunct of the Colonial

Secretary's Department. Mr. Seth was the chief though not the

only person to complain, and his complaints extended over the

whole time he was in the office before I took action, and formed

the subject of many conversations with him, the general purport

of which, together with the exact expressions used by him,

have already given in previous letters. My amazement at the

course