10 Jan y 1808

Notes to Judicial Grievance and Remedy Table Table VIII

Notes

7. On the part of the superintending judicatory and the legislature, ignorance respecting the state of the judicial department, viz of the several judicatures comprized under it, respecting the particulars /detail/ of the transactions carried on it, and thereby of the degree of their conformity or disconformity to the ends of justice.

In this cost though of itself productive of no perceptible[?] evils, lies the root of all those other evils. The description of the evil, gives, in this instance, a description of the remedy: a system of accountantship (gallies[?] comptabilité[?]) by which those transactions classed under heads bearing relation to the several ends of justice, shall be regularly brought to view, as in the case of pecuniary accounts.