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104 LIFE OF BABU BHYAHA CHURN SIRKAR. CHAPTER IV, HIS CAREER IN THE HIGH COURT. "In 1848, Shama Churn was recommended by the Hon'ble C. H. Cameron, President of the Council of Education, to the notice of Mr. Charles Tucker, Chief Judge of the late Sudder Court Being impressed favourably with Shama Churn's abi- lities and acquirements, Mr, Tucker advised him to act as his Peshkar for two years, in order that he might become fully acquainted with the working of the Court, and promised to give him, at the expiry of that time, the sunud of a Pleader, for which Shama Churn had asked on his first introduction. Shama Churn accepted Mr. Tucker's advice, and went on work- ing as a Peshkar, reading mists and drawing rubukaries, <fcc, in Urdu and Bengali Before the expiry of the two years, ill- health compelled Mr. Tucker to go to the Cape, and he was succeeded in the Court by Mr. John Dunbar, who, finding some difficulty in disposing of his work, asked Shama Chum for his assistance as much as possible. In these circumstances, Shama Churn began making translations of the records of cases for disposal ; and these translations were found so great a con- venience and advantage in the transactions of business, that the practice became almost general in the Court. With the sane tion of Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General, Mr. John Russel Colvin, the Chief Judge of the Sudder Court, - appoint-' ed in 1850 Shama Churn Translator to the Court on a salary of lis. 400 per mensem. The practise of translating the records of suits was subsequently introduced for the first time, and the post of translator was created in every district Judge's Court in Bengal. To Shama Churn is, therefore, due the credit for this important improvement in the working of the Sudder and Zillah Courts. The reform has been allowed the fullest and freest scope under the present High Court In June, 1857, he