21st June 1856.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor,
The Honorable The Lieutenant Governor,
The Honorable The Chief Justice,
The Honorable The Colonial Secretary,
The Honorable The Attorney General,
The Honorable J. F. Edger, Esquire.
The Council met today pursuant to adjournment.
The Minutes of the last Council were read and approved.
The Ordinance for the admission of Attorneys, &c., in the Supreme Court was brought forward for the second reading, and discussed. The Chief Justice and Mr. Edger declared their dissent from the proposed Enactment, and, in the course of discussion of its provisions, voted against Section VII of the Ordinance, qualifying Aliens and Chinese to practice as Attorneys in the Supreme Court, as also against the provision in Section I authorizing the admission of certain salaried officers to the exercise of such practice. But the Majority of the Council approving of the Ordinance and the Clauses in question, it was read a second time, amended, and passed. It was entitled " An Ordinance for the admission of Candidates to the Rolls of Practitioners "in the Supreme Court, and for the taxation of Costs", being No. 13 of 1856, which was ordered to be published in the Government Gazette.
The Council then adjourned sine die.
(Singed) John Bowring,
Governor.
Read and approved
This 21st day of July 1856,
(Signed) L. d'Almada e Castro,
Clerk of Councils.
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