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basis, showing how each Officer may obtain the leave granted
to him by Colonial Regulations, viz.:- 9 months full pay and
10 months half-pay leave in each cycle of six years. Pro-
-vision for sick leave or for vacancies temporarily unfilled
is not made, and must be provided for by doubling the duties
of the Officers affected.
I have very carefully considered
these Tables and the accompanying Memorandum which has been
revised to give effect to various amendments which I had
suggested, and I have now the honour to submit it for your
consideration.
3.
Cadets
The first point of importance is the
proposal to divide into two classes legal and non-legal.
Independently of this scheme I have had it in consideration
to recommend to you some proper provision for the supply of
Officers trained to occupy legal posts a matter which in
the past has been entirely neglected with very unsatisfactory
results, and which your decision to appoint a Crown Solicitor
and Assistant Crown Solicitor has now made it more imperative
than ever to deal with. Cadet Officers have in theory a
preferential claim to legal equally with other appointments,
but the following posts are held by Non-Cadet Officers, viz.:-
Chief Justice (Sir F. T. Piggott), Attorney-Ceneral (Mr. V.
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