Commanding Royal Engineer to Acting Assistant Military Secretary
17720 RECE R 10 SEP 30
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A. A. M. S.
Sof Digby
H. Barber Beit A.D.C.
Act. Asst. Mily Secr
With reference to the Water Works Ordinance now under the consideration of the Legislative Council, I have the honour to point out that there appears to be no clause exempting the Crown from the provisions of the Ordinance.
The enforcement of some of the clauses - especially clauses 2, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 - against the Secretary of State for War, as representing the Crown, would be contrary to established precedent, and would in special cases be contrary to the arrangement which has been...
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This Excellency the Major General Commanding concurs in the desirability of such a clause as desired by Colonel Stores that suggested
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