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First, however, I shall speak to you of the Bar; because, ac- cording to our system, no man can be a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario unless he has been at least ten years at the Bar of Ontario he cannot be a Judge of the inferior courts unless he has been a member of the Bar of Ontario for at least seven years.

In our country, no layman tries any case, no matter how small a case involving five cents is tried by a Judge who has been appointed a Judge by the Government of the Dominion of Canada for life, and who has been at least seven years at the Bar of Ontario.

The Bar is a self-governing body : the courts do not call to the Bar of Ontario.

Every five years (at the present time) the barristers in Ontario cast a vote for thirty men whom they desire to be Benchers, as we call them.

Those thirty men, together with some ex officio members constitute a body corresponding to the senate of a university and in some respects to a board of gov- ernors.