That the Crown is not bound by
An
act
J
Parliament and a forti
-one by a Colonial ordinance un
-less expressly
named there in
Taking there well recognised Jarin
-ciples
B
A
guide there can
be
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doubt that the occupier of the premises
gould be exempt from the payment of rates,
crowns, by yourself, acting
because the crown,
in the service
the Crown
The
e only
is the occupier.
doubt which Yentertained
was whether having regard to the pe-
culiar language of the proviso
-
claim immunity from the payment of
local ordinance the
owmen could
в
zates,
the grounds
that the premises.
B
were demised to the Crowns.
Looking Lowener at all the cincue
- stances of the case, more expecially to The fact that if the owner
of the premises
could be held liable for the rates, the
effect
in the shape of increased rent, I am of
Opinion that the owner
as well as
Crown would in
have to
to pay
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C.
443
occupier of the premises, during the time of the occupation, must be held exempt.
I have etc. rod, Henry John Ball
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Copy
Soi
Is Shaw acting bearing
696.67
Colonial Secretary - Office Hong Kong 25th May 1867
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of the 15? Just. together with the copy of a letter bearing date the 1215 April 1865, addressed to the there assistant Commisery Generales by the them Acting Attorney General
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letter
to the Governon
ication and the aforesaid
were in due course
Radmitted
This Exxcellency has insturcted one
to state that in his opinion the colution of
the question involved in
commmmnection is
by amlagy to be found in the decisions here the liability of Militery officers and other Servants of the Crown occupying crown
Property
Captain Wilkinson Shaw
Acting Depto. Afs! 22. M.? Emeral
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