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A young man will study law, and prepare himself for the examinations, and then when he has passed the proper examinations he gets a certificate of fitness from the Law Society; and upon that being presented to the court, the court admits him as a solicitor or, as you would call it, an attorney.

The Law Society of Upper Canada has full jurisdiction in the way of discipline over all members of the Bar; and it is exercised very freely so that I may say, without undue self- laudation, we have a very respectable Bar in the Province of Ontario.

Now, as to the Bench.

As at present constituted, we have one supreme court, the Supreme Court of Ontario, which has full jurisdiction, criminal and civil, equitable and legal, over all classes of cases, from the most trifling crime to the most serious crime, and from the most trivial civil claim to the most im- portant.

In practice the inferior crimes, practically all except those which are punishable with death this statement is not literally accurate but is substantially so are tried by the in- ferior courts, and, similarly, any civil case involving up to say five hundred dollars is brought as a rule in one of the inferior courts.