A Recorder and President of the Court would act as legal organizer, adviser, magistrate, and member and be answerable for the rationalization and systematization of Rupert's Land judicatory. the primary Recorder was Adam Thom, UN agency control the post till 1854, though alleviated of most of his duties by his deputy some years before. He was succeeded as President of the Court from 1862 to 1870 by John