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floors might be illegal, yet as iss- vernment had not seen fit to inter- fere and institute numerow

·prosieu. for such offences, movers of

oroners of pro- perty could not be held responsible for breaches of the law which had

horw

been possed proved they

over

though it was not

were known officially,

and that, therefore, it was not equi- table to make deductions from pents

enhanced by overcrowding.

Again,

it

erv

bu.

лидел half of

the

Government that, where résuurus in form A had been made to the Assessor under section 23 of the Rating Ordinance N. 15 of 1888, clai - mants were stopped from attempting to prove that such retions of rental

were inaccurate and under the mark, Nevertheless,

though

the arbitrators. announced on the 30th December 1894 (see "Daily Press " sifs enclosed under date 31th December, 1894) that, in order

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to arrive at a

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fair compensation, the

rental should be taken and that in

every future case there should be clear evidence of the rental returns. made to the Assessor for the last 3 years, they,

on some vecasions, clearly

did not base their calculations on the actual resures of renta, made to the

Treasury.

Towards the end

of

the

-sittings, the arbitrators made certain awards in cases where the claims ad_ much in excess of

vanced were

very

the offers made and in which the

ted evere but she

granted

slightly above the Government offers. The question of costs was reversed for argument - during the argument I referred

: the Board to its presiones declaration regarding costs where excessive claims

and

were sent in.

On the 30th December 1894

the

the arbitrators said "we reserve

to

"right