025 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(025.jpg) Recto Cap 3 4 Many futile attempts have been made to make cheap Law for the colony - The people have taken upon themselves to regulate the fees of the practitioners of the courts without mentioning their own salaries - The Court of Requests has been established to take cognisance of all cases under the value of 10 pounds at an espense to the public of nearly 3600 pounds - Whilst the whole judicial establishment costs the public nearly 15,000 pounds - If this is the way to render law cheap to the colony we have it in perfection, it is more than probably that all the practitioners in the country net but little more than two thirds of this sum - Yet there is cheap Law, and men who have been brought up to a liberal profession, and received an education fitting them to hold high stations in life, [srey] [barter] the experience they have attained by a long course of study with any other [huxters] that vend their cheese [parmgs] and candle ends, or if these commodities should not [sant] their taste, there are plenty of auction marts where they wll find a more profitable scope for their eloquences - Why not begin with the beginning - If one profession is to be made a sacrifice to the economy of the times let all be equal, cut down fees and cut down salaries, also cut down sinecures and gratuities which are already beginning to rear their heads in this new land, Lest the merchant be contented to take his 25 per cent profit instead of 100 Let the medical man take one half the fees usual at home instead of double the amount. In short let all things be equal in the [leak] of reduction; but who is there to tax the merchants, the surgeons, the butchers and bakers SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustraliaDatenot specified

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