Courts of law (permanent appointments). Copy of the minute of the Board of Treasury issued in 1873, directing a circular to be sent to the judges and other heads of the administrative departments of the courts of law, to press upon them the expediency of suspending any permanent appointment to vacancies in their gift until such time as the Royal Commission on the Legal Departments should have reported, and Parliament should have decided, in regard to any recommendations which it might make [electronic resource].