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of Ireland, of great and dispro- 

 portionate emolument, which have 

 hitherto been considered as at 

 the disposal of the crown. 



Your committee cannot, how- 

 ever, avoid submitting to the 

 House, whether it would not be 

 perfectly consistent, both injustice 

 and sound policy, to provide for 

 the regulation of all such offices 

 after the expiration of the legally 

 vested interests, upon tlie princi- 

 ple on which it is proposed to 

 regulate other offices partaking of 

 the nature of sinecures. 



The duties attached to many of 

 the principal offices in the courts 

 of law in Ireland appear indeed to 

 be so various and important, and 

 to be necessarily performed by so 

 many persons, that it would be 

 extremely difficult, without the 

 most mature consideration, and 

 probably without inquiries insti- 

 tuted on the spot, to suggest any 

 arrangement for the future con- 

 duct of the business of these 

 offices, when the existing interests 

 in them shall have terminated. 



Your committee understand, 

 however, that there is at present 

 a commission in Ireland, appointed 

 in consequence of an address of 

 the House, to inquire into the 

 state of the courts of law in that 

 part of the United Kingdom. It 

 would be very desirable that tlie 

 members of this commission should 

 be required by the Executive Go- 

 vernment, to examine, witli as 

 little delay as possible, into the 

 circumstances under which the 

 several offices in the courts of law, 

 which have hitherto been consi- 

 dered in the disposal of the Crown, 

 stand, with respect to the per- 

 formance of the duties attached to 

 them ; and that they should also 



be required to suggest such a plan 

 for the future regulation of these 

 offices, as shall provide for the 

 respective duties being discharged 

 in person, at such salaries as shall 

 be deemed a just and reasonable 

 compensation to the individuals 

 discharging them. 



An act of the legislature will 

 be necessary to give effect to any 

 plan which may be suggested by 

 the commissioners ; it will there- 

 fore be competent to Parliament 

 to adopt generally the suggestions 

 made hy the commissioners, or to 

 depart from them according to 

 their discretion. 



In the supposable event of a va- 

 cancy occurring in any of these 

 offices before the commissioners 

 make their report, it is of course 

 understood, that a temporary ar- 

 rangement will be made for the 

 performance of all the necessary 

 duties, which shall not in any way 

 interfere with the immediate re- 

 gulation of the offices, on the prin- 

 ciples above recommended. 



MODE OF REW.\RD1XG HIGH AND 

 EFFICIENT POLITICAL SERVICES. 



Your committee would have 

 found themselves under consider- 

 able difficulty in submitting to 

 the House any specific plan for 

 enablingtbe Crown to leward high 

 and efficient political services, if 

 they had not taken for their gui- 

 ('anci the principles and regula- 

 tions established by the bill so 

 often referred to, as tlie basis of 

 the suggestions which they have 

 to offer under this head. 



After an attentive consideration 

 of the mode proposed in that bill 

 for enabling the Crown to recom- 

 pense the faithful and meritorious 

 discharge of high and efficient 



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