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241, 242: Canadian Ar- chives, 56, 83 ; 18 A, 131.

The Lords of Trade recommended that "in all Courts Canadian Subjects shall be admitted to practice as Barristers, Advocates, Attornies and Proctors under such Regulations as shall be prescribed by the Court for Persons in general under those descriptions": Moreover, they recommended that "not only the chief justice but also the puisne judges should under- stand the French Language" : 246.

All legal objection based upon the old English Statute was thus disposed of.

This, by the way, is quite similar to what occurred in respect of appeals to the King-in-Council : the right so to appeal was in England, a Common Law right, but, leading to excesses, it was abolished in the reign of Charles I by the Star-Chamber Act of 1640 only, however, in the Kingdom of England.

Consequently, it contin- ued throughout the rest of the Kings Dominions: and, indeed, continues today in all the Empire except the British Isle So, while the Statute of James like the statute of Charles was law in Canada, it did not affect rights in Canada.