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efficiency and dispatch of the Court and
has relieved both Prisoners and Witnesses
from the hardships which they incurred from
the protracted delay of the criminal Sessions,
has, independent of the savings it enabled
the Ceylon Government to make, immediately
on its introduction, since afforded that
Government an opportunity of carrying into
effect in the Judicial Department of the
Island, a plan for a permanent saving of ten
thousand pounds a year, as appears by
my Report quoted in page 8 of the printed
Collection of papers herewith sent. No man
whose character for honesty or veracity
is impeached can be enrolled on the list
of Jurymen. The circumstance of a man's
name being upon the Jury-Roll is a
proof of his being a man of unexceptionable
character, and is that to which he appeals
in case his character be attacked in a
Court of Justice, or in case he solicits
his Government for promotion in their
service; as the Rolls of Jurymen are
revised by the Supreme Court at every
Session, they operate as a most powerful
engine towards making the people of
the country more attentive than they used
to be in their adherence to truth; the
right of sitting upon Juries has given
the Natives of Ceylon a value for character

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	164	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir alexander johnston	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j whatman [motif] 1825 balston & co]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3600
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