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that the affiftance of Council may be 

 ufeful ; but where the Members of a 

 Court of Judicature, as in the prefent 

 cafe, are but little verfed in the ftudy 

 of Law, inftead of acquiring ufeful in- 

 formation, they would be in danger of 

 being milled by the fubtilties of plead- 

 ings, and the arts of litigation. Befides, 

 this would naturally enhance the ex- 

 pence of judicial determinations ; to 

 prevent which, the Government is here 

 particularly follicitous, to their honour 

 I fpeak it, as in fome countries the ne- 

 ceflary expences in this particular have 

 been fo enormoufly augmented, not onlv 

 by multiplicity of fees, but by ftamps, 

 and other duties, on the feveral inftru- 

 ments required, that the means of ob- 

 taining a judicial decifion are beyond 

 the reach, not only of the poor, but even 

 of people in moderate circumftances, 

 who, in effedt, fuffer an abfolute depri- 

 vation of juftice ; whereas in this Co- 

 lony, 



