No. 36

I have had the honor to receive your circular despatch
No. 2 of the 30th of June directing me to take care that
when any Chief Justice or other Judge holding a direct
Commission from the Admiralty may relinquish his Colonial
Judicial Appointment, he should also surrender his Commission
as Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court. The same rule is to apply to
Officers holding appointments from the Admiralty as Registrars
and Marshals of that Court.

2. Your orders shall of course be obeyed, but your despatch
reminds me that my predecessor, Sir James Douglas, holds the
only Commission issued for a Vice Admiral of this Colony. I
have received none.