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[Shorthand – he has told Sir Robert Chambers he expect a salary: and reports say this to be 5000 or
6000 Sicca Rupees a month: I think it a vast degradation of him to accept
of such a office in the service of the Governor General and Council or of the Company and on the
appointment and to be held at the will and pleasure of the Governor General and Council: and
I think if this is not a direct breech of the Act 13 G. 3rd which prohibits his taking
presents or any other emolument than the salary; which appear according to the strict construction put on
Penal Act of Parliament this never; yet this much too near a offence against it to
become his station to venture on:
the only excuse I know for his accepting a employment is
inconsistent with the duty of his office and so degrading is that he has six children to provide for and is
never able to save much out his salary of 8000 pounds a year; but this I think a
very mean and poor excuse: I think the salaries of all us judges are too small
and that if the power of appeal in all causes were given to the court, and all our salaries
were increased by act of Parliament it would be a very proper answer; but I don’t think
he ought to have taken this power as a servant of the Company:]

Thomas Boileau of the City of Dublin, was admitted an Attorney and Proctor in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. He does not fully come within the Rules we have established for admitting Attornies, for he has not been admitted an Attorney in England or Ireland, nor has served a Clerkship of three years here, but is
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