HC Deb 17 June 1864 vol 175 cc1949-50
SIR ANDREW AGNEW

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, If he will take into his favourable consideration the wish of many respectable British Merchants and Traders in British Burmah, to have a High Court of Judicature established at Moulmein?

SIR CHARLES WOOD

replied, that he was not prepared to incur any considerable expense for the establishment of a Court of that magnitude. The Government had endeavoured to improve the administration of justice there by appointing a barrister; but, upon the whole, they found that the people were not so well satisfied with his administration of justice as they were with the administration of the lieutenant of the Bengal Artillery who did it before.

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