Government Agent, Southern Province V. Jayasekera

1913 Present: Pereira J.

GOVERNMENT AGENT, SOUTHERN PROVINCE,
v. JAYASEKERA.

302-C. R. Balapitiya, 9, 322.

Notice by Government Agent calling upon person owning land adjoining Crown land to make or renew boundary-May notice be signed by any other officer in his department ?-Ordinance No. 1 of 1844, s. 8.

Pereira J. -The statutory duly of issuing a notice in terms of the proviso to section 8 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1844 is expressly cast on the Government Agent or the Assistant Government Agent, and I doubt that the fact of such a notice being signed by an officer in the department of Government Agent or the Assistant Government Agent, even though he has official authority to sign notices generally on behalf of the Government Agent or the Assistant Government Agent, is a sufficient compliance with the requirements of the Ordinance.

IN this case the Government Agent, Southern Province, sues the defendant for the recovery of the sum of Rs. 69. 58, being double the cost of defining the boundaries of defendant's land called Polgahalanga at Batapola. The defendant sent a declaration to the Government Agent intimating h

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