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when they were judges both of law and
fact, two, or sometimes three, were necessary.
The Native Jurymen from knowing the
different degrees of weight which may
safely be given to the testimony of their
Countrymen, decide upon questions of
fact, with so much more promptitude
than Europeans could do, that since the
introduction of trial by Jury, no trial lasts
above a day, and no Session above a
week or ten days at farthest, whereas
before the introduction of trial by Jury,
a single trial used sometimes to last
six weeks or two months, and a single
Session not unfrequently for three months.
All the Natives who attend the Courts as
Jurymen, obtain so much information during
their attendance relative to the modes of
proceeding and the rules of evidence, that,
since the establishment of jury trial,
Government have been enabled to find
amongst the half cast and Native Jurymen,
some of the most efficient and respectable
Native Magistrates in the Country, who,
under the control of the Supreme Court,
at little or no expense to Government,
administer justice in inferior offences
to the native inhabitants. The introduction
of the trial by Native Juries, at the
same time that it has increased the efficiency

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir alexander johnston	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j whatman [motif] 1825 balston & co]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	3599
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