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hearing of Counsel thereon

would be out of order.

The so-called owners, move.

properly

termed

had never

occupiers, any legal right

or interest in the wharves

and piers which were

encroachments that were

as an

act

of grace allowed. Government

to be made on

On

the

foreshore express condition that they might

at any

time be removed. by the Government without

compensation

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Con. Even if they compensation. Even

such right

ever had

any

and interest, these were

absolutely extinguished by section 6 of 16 of 1889. As a ofurther act of grace,

a

certain amount was assigned in that Ordinance for purposes of compensation, and the proposed bill does no more than provide the necessary machinery for apportioning the amount

that had thus been

gratuitously