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an alatxvrato Ordor in council
vith olaatio powora of
lunv tho ocfart that admlnlators the law
on that Ordor should
Ijo tho travocty of a court of Juotioo and tho
plaything of a
politioal orricor who lmu no logal training whatovor, In his
scanty loieuro namonto* Kvory atop of tho roforns, tho
settlement of rovonuo, tho rogulaMsation of tho customs.
tho notwortc of Municipal righto aa against prirat® holdora

when proporty bogino to take ilofinito ohapo In tho town of
Uanamah, is going to land him in a raaxo of logoi toOhniOali-
tlOS* Poo pi® dio, aro born, thoy onoroaoh on oaoh other1 b
righto and on tho public righto, thoy go bankrupt and or©
fugitives from Justtoo In India, and tho Political Agont la
oxpootod, struggllng with adminiBtrativo problems, to compose
all those private quarrolo in hio loiuuro momonto or allow

then to eottlo thomsolvoa which only makoe oonfuaion worse
confounded and nullifios his moaouroa of roform* I want to
givo hla asoistanco and havo chooon tho path of least resist­
ance wfcoroby at a comparatively umall ooot to tho administra­
tion — I myself boliovo, at no coot - ho can shufflo off all
those minor worries on to tho ehouldora of a trainod Judicial
advisor* If, au I rocognioo io only too likoly to bo the
oaso, wo havo at timoo to drive a coach and four through the
Bahrain Order in Council, at loaot lot it bo dono by someone
who has liondlod tho ribbono boforo and has oorao rudimentary

notions of how to drive* As judgoo and magistrates, Daly
and hio prodoooooor, Dloknon, noro bonoath oontompt and wwild'
probably bo tho firot to admit tho fact* nohlnd thorn strotoh
a long lino of tomporary holrtorn v/lio had no timo and probably
not tho inclination to tackle Bahrain logal problems, whioh

aro, In thomsolvoa, of ubsorblng intorest* I shall tell the
him in m7 mind*a oye, that ho ie
Judicial Advisor, as X aoo
his reooipts and
at all tlmoB to koop a moot watchful oyo on
oxtont tho moasure of his
expondituro and that to a vory groat
amount which ho requires
suocoss will bo tho amallnoo® of tho
tho Bahrain Customs rovonuoo* He must drag
to draw from *. ■
reooipts and oxpondituro into tho llmell&vi
ovory penny of