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Sir,
Revision Room,
C.
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PAGE 22 JUL 12
Law Courts,
6th. June, 1912.
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter in which you inform me of the decision of the Executive Council on the subject of the Revised Edition. The Government has no right in law to withhold payment till they have scrutinized the work; they have a right to ask that the volumes should be accurate, and I have offered from the first to reprint any pages which any reasonable person as arbitrator considers sufficiently inaccurate to require it. I have not only offered this, but had given the necessary orders before your first letter reached me, and in order that there should be no mistake and, if possible, to avoid most unpleasant litigation, I hereby renew that offer.
So far as the question of copyright is concerned the law is too clear for argument, and the Government has practically admitted it. When the Government sought to obtain reprints of some of the Ordinances without consulting me I drew their attention to the fakt which they had overlooked that the copyright was mine, and the claim was never denied, nor could it be. The Ordinance itself expressly recognises my right to re- -print. I do not propose in view of the hostile attitude which you have without any reason adopted, to withdraw that claim or the MI claim for extra remuneration, though I have always been willing to submit the question to an impartial arbitrator. I have been com- -pelled to put it into a legal form because of the unreasonable- -ness of the Government attitude. You have overlooked the fact that the Executive Council stands pledged to deal with the matter "fairly*, and also that they have undertaken to pay the proper charges which have been incurred in consequence of the Government
amendments.
I am unwilling to sue the Government unless
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