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Evening Star, Issue 4229, 15 September 1876, Page 2

The following is a copy of the receipt given by Mr Smythies as compensation for loss sustained by him by the operation of the Law Practitioners Act of 1866, to which reference was so frequently made in the course of yesterday's debate in the House of Repre sentatives:—

I, the undersigned Hxsby Smythibs, do hereby acknowledge> that I have this day received from the Honoiable the Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of rfFaiZsl *,.' th , e Bum of one thousand pounds (Ia.tHJO) sterling, being a sum of money which by a resolution of the House of Bepresentatives of the sa.d Colony, passed on the second day ot October instant, was voted to be paid to me "by way of compensation for tbeloss which he has sustained by the operation of the Law Practitioners Act Amendment Act, 1866:" And Ido hereby further acknowledge and declare that the said sum is received by me iu full discharge and satisfaction of all or any claims or demands which I allege to have or to have had against the saidoColony or the General Assembly thereof, for or by reason of any. thing contained in the Law Praefitioners Act Amendment Act, 1866, or any Act amending the same, and which may in any manner have affected or concerned me, directly or indirectly, in the respect of the practice of the profession of a barrister of the Supreme Court or solicitor thereof, or any other function, duty, or privilege whioh as such barrister or solicitor I was or might have been entitled to perform or exercise.