CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 445

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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

A-20

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

Theme

No 280

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

You стру в

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

the

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