S.7 (vi) re the Praya Reclamation
dated 16th July 1889 said
"In case signify
any
violence shall not
his acceptance
he shall have no claim to any compensation in respect of depreciation of his lot or works, but the Government may if he thinks fit award to him
such a sum
of money
as consideration for his lease
or such a
new land
may in his absolute discretion
he
think sufficient
as and by way of
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1st August 1904
The Under Secretary of State,
Sir,
Cowes,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 25299/1904, under date 28th July, written by Mr. H. Bertram Cox by direction of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton,
informing me that the decision given by the Governor as arbitrator in the matter of compensation for our Marine Lot No. 184 must conclude the matter.
To conclude the matter before compensation has been properly ascertained and paid, and to refuse my request to have it ascertained upon the principle laid down by Her late Majesty's Government in 1857, which principle is in accord with that of the Imperial Legislature of the present day, is not what I expected from the representative of His Majesty, the fountain of justice.
way of compensation for any injury that such level have sustained by the so works"
The Court in Strong Kong deater
that the order was within the competing of the legislature
The Privy Council refused spent
leve & afferal sapie
decision of the for
having an
that the
was final
be
absolute discretion would
whi no C+ glaw
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For the first time it is now admitted that the decision of the Governor was given as Arbitrator,
and Chief Justice Sir John Carrington has stated that the Attorney General of Hong Kong very properly admitted that if the Governor is indeed an Arbitrator under the Ordinance, some of the things which are stated to have been done by the Acting Governor cannot be supported; and Mr. C. A. Crippa, K.C. has said that on the admitted facts, the Chief Justice should have set aside the Award.
The decision now under consideration has been arrived at under like conditions as the first, without hearing us,
and Mr. Secretary Lyttelton refuses to state the reasons put forward against our claim