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 limits.—It might not be amiss if each of the six circuits had it's subordinate Chancery, with proper officers, upon a more contracted scale, both of salary and jurisdiction.

The sale of offices in any way connected with the Administration of Justice (even those which are ministerial) is repugnant to the National feelings, which inculcate in our countrymen a veneration for it's principles unknown to and unfelt by any other People.—The increase of salary to the Judges, which would be considered an adequate compensation for these little advantages, cannot be an object of much consequence in the general account of National Expenditures; and the withholding it may be considered as among those pitiful savings by which a Government, profuse and prodigal in many other respects,