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Straits Settlements, reject

to any modifications requid by local customs success

Ilocal

Malay

curstan of building divelling Conso

the

files

house

tidal rufis on the foreshore, which

and

was referred to hell.

by Colleges in auffatahen the question. Reference might be made in this Connexion to the case of the Attorney General of the

Straits Settlements Wemyss, 13/ Aff. Car. 192 6.8. The Law Officers further

smilar

adersid

that the question whether afgrant formerly made to the Company,

the and that one then

proposed, as well as other

ORAFT.

aberations of sea botton

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Te foward to by all.

Colleges, could be infected

Cotter,

would terra

the

has beca

question whether there w

any

substantial interference

with public rights.

profety of the Crown in the foreshore

and

The

in the soil of lenita

ial waters

was

Csubject

did

to the rights ofthe public, but it denot follow that erey reclamation of the foreshore, or of tenitorial

waters, would constitut)

a

fublic muisances.

I was also

7x

adersid. by the Law