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only objection to this which has occurred to me is 

 that at present an Englishman has an appeal to the 

 Sudder Supreme Court, in every case in which a native 

 would have an appeal to the Sudder ; natives have an 

 appeal to the Sudder in cases originally tried before 

 the Zillah Judge. All causes in which Europeans 

 are concerned in the Mofussil are now tried before the 

 Zillah Judge. The Englishman, therefore, has a 

 direct appeal to the Supreme Court. If the Govern- 

 ment should give to the Sudder Amins jurisdiction 

 over cases in which Englishmen are parties, our 

 countrymen will be deprived of the right of appeal 

 which they now possess ; and possibly some discontent 

 might by this change be excited among them. But I 

 do not conceive this discontent would be deep or 

 extensive, particularly if the Government would, in 

 the exercise of its undoubted power, appoint a few 

 intelligent Englishmen to the place of Sudder Amins 

 in those districts which contain a considerable number 

 of European inhabitants. 



" The regulation which gave to the indigo planters 

 who had made advances to a ryot a lien on the indigo 

 crop, seems to me highly objectionable in principle- 

 But I do not conceive that, by rescinding it, the Gover- 

 nor-General in Council would give any sensible relief 

 to that class of the population whose interests appear 

 to be peculiarly the object of his solicitude. The 



