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From the Colonial Secretary to Messrs. Hastings and
Gentlemen,
Hastings.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 27th. April, 1907.
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I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 25th. instant covering a Petition in tripli-
-cate, with enclosures, addressed to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies by the Executrixes of Tong Wan Chiu and Ku Pai Shan
praying for compensation for losses sustained and expenses
incurred in connection with the purchase of certain property at
Kowloon City from Lam Tak-luk and Lam Cheung-fuk.
2.
In view of the fact that no matter is con-
-tained in this Petition that has not already been put forward
in the Petition on the same subject recently addressed to Sir
K. Nathan, I am directed to bring the following facts to your
notice in connection with the question of the tax receipts upon
which you laid special emphasis in your letter of the 11th.
instant, and to enquire whether after a perusal of the state-
-ment of these facts your clients still wish their Petition
to be forwarded.
(D.M.D
3.
It is true as alleged by your clients that
a number of tax receipts were put in evidence and were before
the Court on the hearing of the appeal and that these receipts
shewed that the payer of tax was Yut Ying, but there was nothing
on the face of the receipts to identify Yut Ying with the claim-
-ants Lam Cheung Puk and Lam Tak Luk, the connecting link being
supplied by the deed which is a forgery.
These tax receipts shewed that Yut Ying
paid
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