The Court has no Officers but one Clerk, and

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not organized nor supplied with any officers in that Department of the Exchequer, which in England has the care of the revenue.--The judges of the Supreme Court hold their offices during the King's Will and Pleasure and are Judges of Nisi prius of Course by act of Assembly, & Annually perform a Circuit through the Counties.-- The Decisions of this Court in General are final unless

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where the Value exceeds ,£300. Sterling, in which case the subject may be relieved from its errors only by an application to the Governor and Council, and where the Value exceeds £500 sterling an appeal lies from the Judgment of the latter to His Majesty in Privy Council.

By an Act of the Legislature of the Province suits are prohibited to be brought in the Supreme Court where the Value demanded does not exceed £20. Currency. The Clerk's Office of the Supreme Court has always been held as an Appendage to that of the Secretary of the Province.

There is also in each County an Inferior Court of Common Pleas, which has the Cognizance of all actions real, personal & mixed, where the matter in demand is above £5. in value.

--The practice of --Their Erthese Courts is a mixture between the Kings Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster. rors are corrected in the first Instance by Writ of Error brought into the

Judges hold their offices during pleasure.