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at the same time as
any
may hereafter be passed.
We
beg
Bill that
most respectfully
to suggest that His Excellency should forward our protest without
de
delay
to the Right Honourable the Secretary of
State with a request that the opinion of the Law Officers of
the
Crown should be taken as to the
correchiess
of the ruling against which we protest. The matter seemo plain and simple to us that we cannot but believe that His Excellency has been badly advised and that a reference to the competent.
England will lead
authorities in
to a
different result when we
renew our
application to be heard
before the Council when the Bill
comes up.
and
again for consideration.
We regret extremely Иеледаст
apologise for
the
delay
ей
sending
sending
in
are
protest. We kept it
back until the last moment ni the
hope that the
negotiation
ns between
representative Mr. Francis Q. C.
and the as
General would-
attorney
adjustment that
result in some
would render protest and appearanc
needless. Mr. Francis
occupied
in Court for many days during the
fortnight
which
elapsed from the Meeting of Council to the other
one Me
and was unable to attend to the business as
promptly or give
much time to it as he otherwise
would have done, and in a small
place like this there is little or no choice of advisers as in England.
It is now
suggested that the whole of the persons interested in the distribution of the Wharves and Piers compensation money
should concur in a submission to
arbitration.
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