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For this reason it is obvious that .the summary jurisdiction to be 

 attributed to Subordinate Judges should only extend to a very limited 

 amount. 



83. But I am inclined to think that the principle of summary 

 jurisdiction without appeal might be conferred experimentally on all 

 civil Judges in the Deccan with great benefit, and the limit to be fixed 

 would of course vary with the rank of the Judge. If the District 

 Judge could devote one day in the week to the disposal of small 

 causes up to, say, R/s. 500, as was the practice formerly of the 

 Supreme Court at Bombay, he would, in my opinion, confer infinite 

 benefit on the community ; he would afford an example to the courts 

 below him of the manner in which such jurisdiction should be 

 exercised ; and he would personally derive the benefit which experience 

 in this country proves to result from a Judge of Appeal being 

 occasionally employed in trying original causes. 



34. How far these suggestions can be made applicable to the 

 portions of India to which the investigation of the Deccan Riots 

 Commission have extended, I leave it for the Supreme Government, 

 in communication with Your Excellency in Council, to decide ; but I 

 am desirous that no time should be lost, and that a comprehensive 

 measure should be at once proceeded with, founded on the principles 

 which I have indicated, and on those which Lord Salisbury had 

 previously sanctioned, 



