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higher than the -
highest sum offered in
any other tender. It appeared to me, however, and the Executive Council agreed with me, that to accept such a tender would be unfair to the other tinderers,
prejudice the.
and would
sale of the farm in the
future. Moreover, as
mentioning
no
specifie
sum,
the Attorney-General
was
opinion that it did not,
of
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comply with the published
conditions
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conditions of tender. I had, therefore, no hesitation in rejesting it; and I accepted that of Mees". Lee Keng Yam and Koh Cheng sean as offering the largest specified amount, because, in the opinion of all those best requainted with the subjest, if renewed tenders had been invited, (the only other
course
open to me) it was
very doubtful whether so large
a sum would be offered.
again.
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