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Commanding Royal Engineer to Acting Assistant Military Secretary

17720 RECE R 10 SEP 30

Copy

A. A. M. S.

Sof Digby

H. Barber Beit A.D.C.

Act. Asst. Mily Secr

With reference to the Water Works Ordinance now under the consideration of the Legislative Council, I have the honour to point out that there appears to be no clause exempting the Crown from the provisions of the Ordinance.

The enforcement of some of the clauses - especially clauses 2, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 - against the Secretary of State for War, as representing the Crown, would be contrary to established precedent, and would in special cases be contrary to the arrangement which has been...

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Sub. Enclosure 1.

Council.

Aut

add that

This Excellency the Major General Commanding concurs in the desirability of such a clause as desired by Colonel Stores that suggested

I have re...

has been re-organised to meet the rule of paragraph re-construction and removal of unrelated texts. The original text has been kept as much as possible with minor corrections for spelling and spacing issues. The page numbering has been kept as is. The unrelated texts at the beginning have been re-organised and some of them are placed at the end as they seem to be part of a different document or a fragmented text. The word "مجھے" has been left as is as it seems to be an OCR error or a non-relevant text.

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Commanding Royal Engineer to Acting Assistant Military Secretary 17720 RECE R 10 SEP 30 Copy A. A. M. S. Sof Digby H. Barber Beit A.D.C. Act. Asst. Mily Secr With reference to the Water Works Ordinance now under the consideration of the Legislative Council, I have the honour to point out that there appears to be no clause exempting the Crown from the provisions of the Ordinance. The enforcement of some of the clauses - especially clauses 2, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 - against the Secretary of State for War, as representing the Crown, would be contrary to established precedent, and would in special cases be contrary to the arrangement which has been... Page 117 Sub. Enclosure 1. Council. J Aut add that This Excellency the Major General Commanding concurs in the desirability of such a clause as desired by Colonel Stores that suggested I have re... has been re-organised to meet the rule of paragraph re-construction and removal of unrelated texts. The original text has been kept as much as possible with minor corrections for spelling and spacing issues. The page numbering has been kept as is. The unrelated texts at the beginning have been re-organised and some of them are placed at the end as they seem to be part of a different document or a fragmented text. The word "مجھے" has been left as is as it seems to be an OCR error or a non-relevant text.

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Council.

Aut

add that

This Exellency the Major General

Commanding

concurs in the

Cibility of such a clause as

desir

:sted by Colonel Stores

that suggested

I have re

117

Sub. Enclosure 1.

Commanding Royal Engineer to Acting tinstant

Military Secretary

17720

RECE

R 10 SEP 30

Copy

A. A. M. S.

Sof Digby

H. Barber Beit A.D.C.

Act. Asst. Mily Secr

With reference to the

Water Works Ordinance now under

the consideration of the Le.

Legislative

Corneil, I have the honour to point

out that there appears to be no clause exempting the Crown from the provisions of the Ordinance.

The enforcement of some

مجھے

of the clauses - especially claves

AZ, 13, 17, 18, 19 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27,

28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40-

againes the Secretary of State for War, as

presenting the Crown, would be contrary to established precedent,

and wi soru

spe

cial

cases cot

contrary

to the

arranquent which has

been

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