CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 605

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bound hand and

foot to submit to

any

Compensation whether nominal or real to

be

given

bring

them in the event of their loto resumed by the brawn. I do not

believe that however

ever

adequate protection

there might be in the expectation of

Governor or Sunveyor General joining

such spoliation.

there

nevertheles

no

in

is an appeal to a

legal authority in such matters and that

the Government

ean

be made to

prove

such resumption is really for Public

punposes

that

and also that the Compensation

offered is that intended by the words of

full and

the leases, namely a full

fair Compensation.

18. Therefore if Mo2 Duddell, as he stated

in his Memorial

to the

objected

he

offered and threatened

as

Compensation

certainly

did to

insist on

receiving not

lefs than $35,000

I presume he had his remedy if the

Goverment persisted in their claim. In

the same

way all intention of resuming his

it would appear that when

abandoned there

AN CLO

ground

was

nothing for him under

the circumstances to resist and

claim. He remained in

nothing to

popepion of his

ground, which he said he did not wish

mo

to sell at all, and which wider circumstances would he pell at lep

$35,000.

19.

His

than

agunt. Mr. Lapucite who piqued

signed

for him his Memorial against the resumption must be regarded as equally empowered to

have insisted on

that resumption when

the period fixed for it arrived, if the contract

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