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V.8/176/1936.
RECE
30 JUL 1936 0.0. RECY
29th July, 1936.
Dear Gent,
As these Solicitors write to us at the direction of
the Secretary of State, we prefer to keep to the usual
channels of communication between public departments
and reply to you rather than to them.
There is no objection, so far as we are concerned,
to your telling them, for what it is worth, that our
practice in such cases is as it is stated to be in the
passage from Dymond on Death Duties to which they refer,
and that Hanson on Death Duties, in so far as it says
anything different, gives in our opinion an incorrect
account of it.
We must point out, however, that (a) the Hong Kong
Government and ourselves are working under different
statutes which may, for all we know, well justify
different practices, and (b) it is quite certain that no
Court, whatever statute it is construing, is going to be
in the least impressed by being told what our practice is.
G.E.J.Gent, Esq., D.S.O., 0.B.E., M.C.
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