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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Arbitrators, quite a junior member of my profession (whose duties are really merely nominal), is to receive 6,500 guineas."

Mr. Balfour Browne was called to the Bar in 1870, and Sir Edward Boyle in the year 1887, who is consequently Mr. Balfour Browne's junior in the profession by many years.

We should add that if Mr. Balfour Browne requires the brief to be delivered to him in the Colony to be marked with a fee in accordance with the understanding come to with him, such request should, in our opinion, be complied with.

We have, &c.,

SUTTON, OMMANNEY, AND RENDALL.

Enclosure 2 in No. 276.

3 and 4, Great Winchester Street, London, E.C., May 10, 1905.

Straits Settlements.

Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited.

DEAR MR. BALFOUR BROWNE,

IN reference to my interviews and correspondence with you, I have to confirm the arrangement I have come to with you with respect to your acting as Counsel for the Government of the Straits Settlements in connection with the acquisition by the Colonial Government of the undertaking of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Com- pany, Limited, namely, that a fee of 4,000 guineas is to be paid you for your services, in addition to your expenses of your journey to and from the Colony, and your stay there during the arbitration proceedings, this fee being agreed on the under- standing that the same includes all services to be rendered by you as counsel for the Colonial Government in connection with the acquisition of the undertaking by the Government, your journey to and from the Colony, the conducting of the arbitration proceedings in the Colony, advising on all points which may arise, whether advice is sought in England or in the Colony, and generally your services from the date of your retainer until conclusion of the arbitration proceedings, you to have the assistance in this country of a junior counsel, and in the Colony the assistance of such counsel as may be retained there by the Colonial Government. This latter stipulation, however, is not to relieve you from the responsibility of conducting the arbitration proceedings personally in the Colony until the conclusion thereof.

It is also understood that the arbitration is to take place in the Colony in October next, and that in the event of a general election taking place this autumn your retainer is at your option to cease.

I shall be glad to have an acknowledgment of the receipt of this letter, at your

convenience.

J. H. Balfour Browne, Esq., K.C.,

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41, Parliament Street, S.W.

Yours, &c.,

C. H. OMMANNEY.

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I also enclose a copy of the Attorney-General's report on the Ordinance.

I have, &c.,

Enclosure 1 in No. 277.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

ORDINANCE NO. XVI. of 1905.

JOHN ANDERSON.

An Ordinance to amend "The Tanjong Pagar Dock Ordinance, 1905.”

(L. S.) JOHN ANDERSON,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

[1st September, 1905.]

It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Tanjong Pagar Dock Ordinance 1905 Short title. Amendment Ordinance 1905." It shall be read and construed as one with "The Tanjong Pagar Dock Ordinance 1905" (hereinafter called the 'principal Ordinance.")

Any copy of the principal Ordinance printed after the commencement of this Reprints. Ordinance shall be printed with the additions and amendments required by this Ordinance.

» Section 13

2. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after the Amend word "Counsel" the words "and for any solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judica- ment of ture of England to act as Solicitor" and by omitting the words "before the Court of the and inserting in place thereof the words "in connection with the arbitration."

Passed this 1st day of September, 1905.

REPORT ON

G. B. STRATTON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Enclosure 2 in No. 277.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE TANJONG PAGAR DOCK ORDINANCE,"

being No. XVI. of 1905.

1. Under our existing law no person can practise as a barrister or solicitor in

the Colony unless he has been duly admitted to the local bar.

2. It being considered necessary that counsel should be specially sent out from England to conduct the case on either side in the Tanjong Pagar Dock Arbitration, special provision was made by Section 13 of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Ordinance, 1905, enabling them to appear.

3. Subsequently it was decided to send out solicitors to instruct the counsel, and this amending Ordinance has been passed to enable them also to perform their functions without infringing the law.

4. I am of opinion that this Ordinance is one which may properly receive the Royal Assent.

Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore,

September 14, 1905.

W. R. COLLYER,

Attorney-General.

principal

Ordinance.

No. 277.

GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON to MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received October 16, 1905.)

[Copy of Ordinance sent to Messrs. Sutton, Ommanney, and Rendall, October 21, 1905.] [Ordinance sanctioned October 20, 1905, No. 290. L.F.]

(No. 405.) SIR,

Government House, Singapore, September 19, 1905.

I HAVE the honour to forward herewith copies of Ordinance No. XVI., of 1905, entitled "An Ordinance to amend 'The Tanjong Pagar Dock Ordinance, 1905.'"

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No. 278.

GOVERNOR SIR J. ANDERSON to MR. LYTTELTON.

(Received 11.50 a.m., October 16, 1905.) TELEGRAM.

Arbitration sitting commences preliminary meeting to-day, regular commences

to-morrow.

Particulars of Company's claim delivered. Principal items as follows: Net main- tainable income $1,524,536 by twenty-two years' purchase equals 33,539,792 dollars. Prospective enhancement 26,000,000 dollars. Allowance for re-investment $741,854.

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