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18. That it would be inconvenient as well as tedious to criticize the various New Sections of the Bill in the body of this Petition, and Your Petitioners respectfully draw your Excellency's attention to the remarks contained in their memorandum hereto attached.
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That Petitioners therefore humbly pray that Your Excellency as the Head of the Govern- ment and President of the Legeslative Council may be pleased to direct that the Bill in its present form be withdrawn from the further consideration of the Council and that it be re modelled on more liberal lines granting compen sation wherever individual interests and rights have to be interfered with and sacrificed.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Dated the 5th day of September, 1902.
(Here Follow Signatures)
TO HIS EXCELLENCY
SIR HENRY
ARTHUR BLAKE,
Knight of the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commauder in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
The humble petition of Jardine Matheson and Company, The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited, Douglas Lapraik and Company, The Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat Company Limited, The China Fire Insurance Company Limited, The China Traders Insurance Company Limited, The Spanish Dominican Procuration, The Humphreys. Estate and Finance Company Limited, Hormusjee Narojce Mody, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, C.M.G., David Sassoon and Company Limited, E. D. Sassoon and Company, Linstead and Davis, and Siemssen and Company sheweth that
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1. Your petitioners are among the principal European landowners in this rettioners.
2. On the 7th July 1902 a Bill entitled An Ordinance to Consolidate and mm. Amend the Laws relating to Public Health and to Buildings was read for the first time in the Legislative Council, the Bill having for its purpose the improvement of the sanitary condition of the colony.
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3. Your petitioners welcome the prospect of new legislation for this purpose, Petitioners agree believing that modern discoveries in sanitary science, the ravages of plague and other B diseases in the colony during the last few years, and the late frequent collapses of buildings, amply prove some change in the law to be desirable,
4. Your petitioners however most respectfully but strongly urge that the Bill Bil defective in is defective in respect of certain principles which should be fundamental to such change.
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5. The first and most important of these principles is that, whenever private compensation. vested rights are sacrificed for the public advantage, full compensation should be No made, as is always directed in such cases by English Acts of Parliament. principle is more firmly established in our constitution, or has oftener been upheld by
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