Mr Ryley considers it advisable to limit this power and until there is a Council in the Colony and that the Governor, in making those appointments, ought to have the co-operation and concurrence of one if not of the two Judges of the Courts the power possessed by the Governor in this particular may be abused in three ways. 1st by appointing improper persons, 2ndly by the non-appointment of those who ought to be nominated; and 3rdly by the improper removal of those who have been appointed. A list was shown to Mr Ryley, containing the names of 19 persons to which many names might have been added, all were he said, proper persons to be appointed magistrates; and an increase in their number was much wanted in the country district as well as in Sydney, does your Lordship think that if there had been any constraint over the absolute power of the Gov in this respect that Mr Lord and Mr Thompson would have been nominated magistrates and Mr Marsden Campbell to resign that situation, do you think that two persons who had been convicts would even have been placed on the bench and a most active and persevering and meritorious magistrate, the head Chaplain of the Settlement and who had filled that situation for twenty four years would have been driven by ill treatment from it.

As to the appointment of Messrs Lord and Thompson Mr Ryley says there was [indecipherable] person capable of reflecting upon the [indecipherable] did not regret that the Gov. had taken so [indecipherable] and unexpected a step and I think this [indecipherable] has equally prevailed on the minds [indecipherable] discriminating proportion of those who had