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circumstances obtaining here, there is no present intention of

proposing any alteration in the Legal Practitioners Ordinance

1871 which regulates all matters concerning the two professions.

Mr. J. H. Kemp who has been appointed

4.

Crown Solicitor is a Barrister not a Solicitor; it was, there-

-fore, necessary to pass an Ordinance over-riding the pro-

-visions of section 21 which would have prevented him from

being enrolled as a Solicitor and therefore from practising as

such in Government behalf.

5.

The first draft bill drawn by the

Attorney-General for this purpose authorized the Governor to

appoint as Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crom Solicitor any

persons qualified under the Ordinance cited to be enrolled as

a Barrister or Solicitor and then directed that the Court

should enrol to practise as Solicitor and Proctor any person so

appointed. A proviso was added limiting the rights of the Crown

Solicitor and his Assistant so enrolled to practising in cases

in which Government was concerned. The Colonial Secretary took

exception to the limitation of the power of the Governor to the

appointment of such persons only who might already be Barristers

or Solicitors and the draft was amended to give power to

appoint any person as Assistant Crown Solicitor and any

'qualified' person as Crown Solicitor.

6.