Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-03-05

-, .b;-.v DAYS in year. and his com.
...',,,stion liltle less, as the Argus says,
-, Two hundred dollars A man Of
.,,,os capacity and OF correct Eng
rs1 education is thought to be fl for a
.,aoe OF Probate. How correct this
onini,.n may be, shall not enquire.
Now for Judge Sedewick Through
-, The Commonwealth there are held
,,ss,sv-ssven regular terms Of the Su-
rrerne Judicial Court: ia many of the
loen,;es there arc invariably ADJOURN
ments. making at least thirty three
,erms in year. Seventeen of these
terms may be supposed 10 be fort
r;cht each the other sixteen, at least
one week each, making three hundred
Avs. during which some OF the Justic-
= are in the act of holding Court. But
a. one Justice may hold a court for the
rial Of Jury Causes, while three or
more Justices are holding court in a.
mother county, trying questions of law,
i follows, that each OF the said Justices
would not be actually employed during
three hundred days al the least calcu-
lsion. however, each jps;ice must pass
on, hundred and fifty days inthe Cours
house. More than this, they must
travel from one extremity of the Com
monwralth to the other. Judge Sedg-
wick is liable to travel from Berkshire
county to Castine in the county Of
Hancock, distance of four or five hum
dred miles and last fall actually did
hold all the courts in the district of
Maine. Thus, in addition to the time
Judge is actually in court, if we calcu-
late the time he is travelling from one
county to another, the sum cannot be
less than two hundred days. Consider
ing the time and expence necessary,
and actually incurred by our present
Judges to qualify them to discharge
the duties of their highly responsible
Offices the expence they are unayoid-
ably subjected to, while on the circuit (;
can any one capable of Judging, say this
compensation is too great +? While at
home with their families, if they do
their duty, all their time will be occu-
pied in examining the laws and differ
cot cases, that may be applicable to Ca
ses to be decided at the ensuing term.
A Judge Of the Supreme Judicial Court
in this Commonwealth has not single
day out of the year to provide for his
family. He must wholly depend on
his salary-And yet, this candid writer
in the Argus, compares the compensa-
ton of these Judges with that of the
Judges of Probate. AS there can be
no comparison between the magnitude
of these respective offices, nor of the
burthens they impose so neither can
there be any just comparison between
their respec ye compensations. And
this was the opinion of the trainers OF
our constitution as well, as of the first
legislature under it, who granted the
Judges of the Supreme Court their sal
aries in the first instance. As to the
jury law, it will be in time to censure
our present Legislature for repeating it,
when they shall have repealed it.
The law creating the county Attor-
MES is repealed. But all the county
attornies, appointed under Gov. Sulli-
vans administration have been by the
courts continued in Office. Does this
SAVIOUR of that inviacible bias to appoint
faderalists TO office, of which this demo-
Graf accuses the Judges, who are fede-
ralists. Even the Attorney of this couD-
ty has been re-appointed by the Court
OF Common Pleas.
But to prove that democrats viii find
fault, even when there is the greatest
cause for praise, see how the snarler in
the Pitts6eld Sun condemns the adj
ministration of MIR Gore, because ii
has made law prohibiting the curren-
cy of out-state Bank notes under FIVE
dollars, done expressly TO shield our CT
tizens from imposition by csunterfeits.
But because Berkshire bounds on the
state of New-York incommodes them,
net having the liberty to take bills OF
the New-York banks under five dollars
they therefore, as this writer says have
associated and agreed TO take the for
bidder bills, and hence from the abuse
ola highly beneficial law he argues the
inutility of it. RUSTICUS.
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