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to Your Lordship
my duty to submit to
when I have had occasion to speak of the working of the Supreme Court:
The facts of the case which
have caused the Shareholders to address
to
me
the letter now enclosed
are
sufficiently
clear from that communication, and it certainly does seem to me that the action
raised by the Administrator of the late
against the Shareholders
Mr. Edwards's estate against
of the
Hongkong Club ought to have been instituted against the local Government. I however thought it my duty to submit the question for the opinion of the Attorney General of the Colony, and now enclose copies of my letter to him and of his reply.
No. 2
on the subject,
No. 3.
; as well.
answer to the Shareholders
on
that opinion.
represented by
The case as
the Shareholders, so far as I can judge
No. 4.
from the Records of this Government,
appears to me to be fairly stated, and I entertain strong hopes that unless they be thrown out of Court on some technicality, they will obtain a verdict in their favour.
I have the honor to be,
With the highest respect,
Your Lordship's,
Most Obedient,
Humble Servant
MacDonnell
Since writing the above, I have ascertained that the Plaintiff's Attorney has proposed to the Defendants to compromise the matter on their (Defendants) paying $1,000 and costs. These costs already amount to $1,126, besides the bill of the Plaintiff's Attorney, which will probably in the way that matters are