CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 212

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Enclosure. 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

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RECR REG 210EP 03

Hongkong,

13th August,..

1903.

Report on Ordinance No. 13.

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No.13 of 1900 entitled

"An Ordinance to facilitate the hearing, determination

and settlement of land claims in the New Territories,

to establish a Land Court, and for other purposes

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to

the Governor's Instructions.

To supply an omission in the New Territories Land

Court Ordinance, 1900, by providing that the Crown may ap- -peal to the Supreme Court in cases where Crown rights and public interests in land in the New Territories are inju- -riously affected by a decision of the Land Court.

There is reason to believe that the Land Court has

from time to time been imposed upon by the production by claimants of forged documents of title and of other fraudu- -lent evidence in support of clains in respect of land in the New Territories the property of the Crown, and that by such -