Dec r 1806

Evidence │ │To L d Grenville

Facienda

II Inspectors Functions

1. Inspector General's Functions -

1. To receive as well from the Metropolitan as from the several Provincial Courts of those several Registration Books; above spoken of: and to propose, and annually to publish a digest or Abstract of the whole.

2. To watch over /see to/ and endeavour to preserve the conformity of the (practice and) decisions of each Court with relation to the tenor of the substantive branch of the law: and to this purpose to make note of and report whatsoever may present itself to his view in the character /as amounting to/ of a departure /discrepance/.

3. To see to the conformity of the practice of each Court to the spirit and tenor of the adjective branch of the law - the law of procedure: and at the same time to the uniformity of such practice as between Court and Court, in those /even in such/ particulars in which, under the [...?] expressly given or implicitly allowed /given/ a mutual discrepancy might take place without any departure from /disconformity to/ the tenor of the law: due regard being at the same time had to the diversity that may be rendered requisite by local circumstances.

4. To note and report any thing that upon the face of the Registers or even upon representation an extra duly authenticated, may appear to have been in the conduct or discourse of any of the Judges of the several Courts or their respective subordinates.