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of Great do. {4 houses 1783 Westeral
The ciopscte rat work has bee Mixed Court Ri Report for
ea marked that the present, seems ble time to take stock of the nation, That congestion does exist ie patent to anyone whose duties take him to the Court, In criminal exes there are two courte sitting daily in the morning. In addition to there are special hearings which vary io number from one to five courts daily. Cases t for ini hearing wre frequently not heard Tir three weeks after the first preliminary hearing aot then they way drag on for a couple of months or even longer, In cases it is frequently rom the date of filing before a case can be heard and very often the interval is longer. Thus on January 31 th were no less than 330 cases on th had not had a Grst hearing, Cases sometimes Inst for two years after the first hearing. For that, however, the litigants themselves are partly tle doubt that the in the the efforts of the Court tet, at any rate before the actual bearing, are directed towards that end, The circumstances which attribute to Return of Communicable Disease, lad Reported during the % & els woof ending Suniay 33s February 28,1015, 2 £= a this congestion may be put under four heads 1 he Mixed Court is a court of First Instance, There is no preliminary hearing in the ordinary course of event nor is there any higher court to which the most important cases are referred. The time of the Court is thus taken up with the hearing of the most trivial and the most important cases at the same time, which mokes it impossible for the Small-pox. 3 7 Cholera, Ofthe former ove wh also a meyistrate of the French Mixed Court is not Typhoid Fever 0 lo on three mornings a week. Diphtheria, 1 Again, two of the assessors are also engaged in Chinese civil cares and three, including one of the latter, have also to Boarlet Fever. ° 4 take civil cases Tuberculosis 0 rr} of their respective nationality four magistrates, however, divide the Plague o ry criminal and civil cats between them. It is obvious, therefore, that unless cases Dysentery 0 0 are disposed of at the regular daily sessions of the Court it la exceedingly "fomaldame 8 difficult to arrange special hearings of inal end civil cases so that the Asrava Sraxuer, cornbin us of magistrates and Health jaseeswors do mot sies
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