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HONG CUNG
Gov/48067
393
Sir,
518
Indexed.
20
Nov 1902.
Hong Kong,
No
Sir H. A. Blake
R. E. S. 16/11
Mr Johnson
13fs
Anoḍ 36986
&
I have the honour to ack the receipt
of your desp No 486 of the 30th of Sept
as to the oanment of Counsel's
fees in
cases
in which the A.C. appears on behalf
ask
of the Crown and to
you to inf-
orm Str H.Berkeley that I regret that !
cannot accede to his request that he should
recent and
be allowed to retain such fees.
A
2. I propose to address a further deso
gu Lo you on the question of the payment
: of these fees to the Govt meanwhile, I
cannot refrain from expressing my SUI-
prise that Lord Knutsford's ruling in 1890
should have been entirely disregarded.
I have &c.