Further on 9040/03 Caylen.
436.
No.
Hongkong.
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C. 0.
45657
REC
5 NO!
Government House,
512
Hongkong, 30th. September, 1902.
8882
до
sir,
With reference to Lord Knutsford's Des-
patch No. 96 of the 29th. May, 1890, concerning the moluments
August 1902. September 71902.
of the Attorney-General, I have the honour to transmit to you
the enclosed copy of 2 minutes from Sir Henry S. Berkeley
requesting that the Attorney-General may be permitted to re-
ceive such Counsel's fees as may be from time to time awarded
by the Court in cases in which he appears as Counsel on be-
half of the Crown!.
2.
Notwithstanding the ruling of Lord —
Knutsford, the practice at present in this Colony is that,
when the Attorney-General appears in any case, Counsel's fees
are included in the Crown Solicitor's bill of costs, the
amount of the fees allowed by the Registrar on taxation vary-
ing in accordance with the importance of the case, the labour
entailed on Counsel in preparing his argument and the time
occupied in Court. When the amount allowed on Counsel's fees
is recovered it is paid by the Crown Soliciter into the
Treasury.
3.
I shall be glad to have your decision in
this
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&C...
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