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10.
When the proposed harbour of refuge is
completed the Colony generally will greatly gain and when the proposed reclamation is completed the financial resources of the Government will be materially added to by the premia on the sale of Crown leases of the reclaimed land and also by Crown rent and the rates and taxes payable when houses are erected on the reclamation land. While our clients not only will get no special advantage from the works, but will all suffer material injuries for which under the Ordinance they are debarred from obtaining compensation.
11.
Our clients ask for no more than fair treatment. They ask that they may be given an opportunity of proving the amount of damage that they will actually suffer from the authorised works and to be paid such amounts as the independe -ent tribunal which the Government propose to create may adjudge they are fairly entitled to.
12.
To effect this object we would suggest the omission from section 12 of the words "having a frontage on Reclamation Street" and also of the words "by reason of his access to the sea being interfered with by" and by the insertion of the words "or validated" after "authorised". The section would then read "Any of the persons whose names appear in the land office as registered owners of Kowloon Marine Lots 29, 30 and 31 or of any section or subsection of either of the said lots or of Kowloon Marine Lot 32 (who are hereafter referred to as the claimants) shall, if they prove that their property may be injuriously affected by the works authorised or validated by this Ordinance.
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In the event of the Government being unwilling to make the suggested or equivalent amendments in the Ordinance, we would ask for te favour of an early reply sothat we may be able to lay the matter before the Secretary of State before the pending amendment of the Ordinance is finally passed.
14.
We are venturing to address this to you in spite of the intimation we have received that the matter is in
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