commissioners, instead of being loaded with fresh burdens, were given time to enquire carefully into all the difficulties which attended their revenue administration; if they were free from the constant pressure of superior officers, whose distant view disables them from forming as true an opinion as themselves, and permitted a limited discretion; if the rent courts were regarded not so much as tribunals for the registration of decrees, but rather as the administrative machinery for realizing rents, and allowed sufficient leisure and establishments to discharge their proper duties, duties which under the present arrangement can hardly fail of being almost entirely overlooked. And surely, with the enormous surplus it pays to the imperial treasury, the province has the right to ask for an official staff of sufficient strength to preserve its property from destruction.
