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hearing of Counsel thereon
would be out of order.
The so-called owners, move.
properly
termed
had never
occupiers, any legal right
or interest in the wharves
and piers which were
encroachments that were
as an
act
of grace allowed. Government
to be made on
On
the
foreshore express condition that they might
at any
time be removed. by the Government without
compensation
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Con. Even if they compensation. Even
such right
ever had
any
and interest, these were
absolutely extinguished by section 6 of 16 of 1889. As a ofurther act of grace,
a
certain amount was assigned in that Ordinance for purposes of compensation, and the proposed bill does no more than provide the necessary machinery for apportioning the amount
that had thus been
gratuitously