HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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The following gentlemen, who had been licensed by the 

 Court of Directors pursuant to the Charter of 1798, were also 

 admitted : — Alexander Anstruther and Charles Maitland 

 Bushby, Barristers of Lincoln's Inn, who had arrived at 

 Madras in September 1798, and Walter Grant and Robert 

 Orme, Attornies-at-Law, who arrived in February 1799. 



All these gentlemen were practising as Advocates, Attor- 

 nies, Solicitors, Proctors and Notaries Public in 1799, and 

 continued to do so till the opening of the Supreme Court in 

 the year 1801. Eight of them were at first excluded from 

 the offices of Notary Public and Proctor notwithstanding the 

 remonstrances of Sir Thomas Strange, who was in favour of 

 admitting the whole of the profession to a participation in 

 these offices; but in the first term of 1799, when a new set of 

 Aldermen had been appointed, the practitioners in question 

 were, upon a petition for that purpose, admitted and sworn 

 in. 



The following were the officers of the Court : — 



Master in Chancery. — Emanuel Samuel, late one of the 



Advocates of the Court, on a salary of 150 pagodas a 



month. 79 



Accountant- General. — Cecil Smith, Senior Merchant and 



late Accountant- General of the Mayor's Court. 

 Clerk of the Crown and Register of the Court of Admiralty. 



— Stephen Dinely Totton, Barrister of Lincoln's Inn, 



on a'salary of 150 pagodas a month. 

 Prothonotary and Register. — Gilbert Ricketts, late one of 



the Advocates of the Court. 

 Deputy Prothonotary and Register.— John Abbott, late 



Deputy Register of the Mayor's Court. 



79 The single instance in which a new office was created, and for which a 

 salary entirely new was required.— Letter from Sir Thomas Strange to the 

 Governor and Council, dated 7th January 1799. 



