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Straits Settlements, reject
to any modifications requid by local customs success
Ilocal
Malay
curstan of building divelling Conso
the
files
house
tidal rufis on the foreshore, which
and
was referred to hell.
by Colleges in auffatahen the question. Reference might be made in this Connexion to the case of the Attorney General of the
Straits Settlements Wemyss, 13/ Aff. Car. 192 6.8. The Law Officers further
smilar
adersid
that the question whether afgrant formerly made to the Company,
the and that one then
proposed, as well as other
ORAFT.
aberations of sea botton
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Te foward to by all.
Colleges, could be infected
Cotter,
would terra
the
has beca
question whether there w
any
substantial interference
with public rights.
profety of the Crown in the foreshore
and
The
in the soil of lenita
ial waters
was
Csubject
did
to the rights ofthe public, but it denot follow that erey reclamation of the foreshore, or of tenitorial
waters, would constitut)
a
fublic muisances.
I was also
7x
adersid. by the Law