CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9] — Page 521

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20

Nov 1902.

Hong Kong,

No

Sir H. A. Blake

R. E. S. 16/11

Mr Johnson

13fs

Anoḍ 36986

&

I have the honour to ack the receipt

of your desp No 486 of the 30th of Sept

as to the oanment of Counsel's

fees in

cases

in which the A.C. appears on behalf

ask

of the Crown and to

you to inf-

orm Str H.Berkeley that I regret that !

cannot accede to his request that he should

recent and

be allowed to retain such fees.

A

2. I propose to address a further deso

gu Lo you on the question of the payment

: of these fees to the Govt meanwhile, I

cannot refrain from expressing my SUI-

prise that Lord Knutsford's ruling in 1890

should have been entirely disregarded.

I have &c.