CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 602

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property at $40,000 and considered himself

fully entitled to be paid that sum, as

being

more

not

"

than the full

and fair compensation

expreped in the proviso of his lease for

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resumption.

10.

Nevertheless he added that, as one of his valucitors had named the sum of

$35.000 as the value of the property it that

time he believed he "Could not fairly insist

on a

M.

higher compensation" qe qe qe

I certainly

drew no other inference

from the above language than that M2

Duddell was reluctant to sell at all, and that although he would have liked to

reject any

he was

lower valuation than $40,0

any

prepared actually to "resist lower valuation than $35,000, by bringing

the

case

ао

تلف

might

have been arranged

for him to do, before the Supreme bount

the ground that the fuweyor Queral bound under the leave to

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was

give full and fai compensation and had not done so. 12 I well knew that, if it

came

question of evidence to be weighed by

might

to

a

fury, the Government", beforehand be almost

certain of a verdict

Moreover,

on

a

against the brown, and

I felt

reluctant to tatte

very

any

Man's property from him

aguind

such

а

strong protest

Encloome 313. 18th tfil /bt

reply

مار

Duddell..

us that received from M

Accordingly I directed a

be sent to Mo Lapraik informing him that Iwas advised the sum already offered

was

C

for above the selling vilure of

($32,500)

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