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0.27.
No.
Hongkong.
D
80
C. 0.
Goverment House
Hongkong, 14th. January, 1903.
sir.
Goe 29213
I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your Despatch No. 246 of the 14th. of last August,
informing me that pending the receipt of further explanations,
no advice will be tendered to His Majesty on the subject of
Ordinance No. 11 of 1902 entitled "An Ordinance to exempt
certain Crown Leases and Agreements for Crown Leases and per-
mits granted by the Crown from the operation of Sections 3
and 4 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance 1901*.
2.
The Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance re-
quires that the formalities prescribed by it shall be followed
in all cases no matter whether substantial interference with
private rights" is impossible or not. In this Colony reclama-
tions are of common occurrence and modifications in the line
of reclamation necessarily occur from time to time in large
undertakings. In the large works at present being undertaken
by Messrs.Butterfield and Swire this actually occurred and
the inconvenience and loss of time that would have been occasion-
ed by a fresh publication of the proposed extension of the
reclamation (though it was of trifling extent) under the
provisions of Ordinance 21 of 1901, was one of the reasons
that led to the enactment of the section 1(1) of Ordinance
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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