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Section 11 provided that nothing in the Ordinance should be deemed to recognize any foreshore rights against the Crow.
Section 12 (1) provided that any of the persons whose names appeared in the Land Office as registered owners of Kow- loon Marine Lots 29, 30 or 31, or of any section or sub-section thereof having a frontage on Reclamation Street x xx (therein- after called the claimants) should, if they deemed that their property might be injuriously affected by reason of its access to the sea being interfered with by the authorized works, send in claims, and enabled the Governor to award such money or land as he might in his absolute discretion think sufficient as and by way of compensation for any such injurious affecting.
The Governor was to hear evidence and Counsel and there was to be no appeal.
The greater part of the Bill was adapted from the Praya Reclamation Ordinance, 1889.
21.
There was no opposition to the Bill and no representations were made to Government in relation to the Bill on behalf of the Crown Lessees of Kowloon Marine Lots 29, 30 and 31.
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The Government had some correspondence with the owner of Kowloon Marine Lot 32 whose lot is far away from Yaumati,
and arranged a satisfactory compromise, and the Bill was passed on the 12th November, 1909, and published in the ordinary way.
23. Between the first reading and passing of the bill, Mr. Beavis a Solicitor, had an interview with the Director of Public Works and inspected the plan of the Reclamation on behalf of the lessees of Kowloon Marine Lots 29, 30 and 31, but no object- ion to the wording of the Bill was raised.
24.
On the 8th September 1910 Messrs. Deacon, Looker & Deacon,
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