The U.S. Senate has approved President Roosevelt's appointment of Mr. William Douglas to the Supreme Court in place of Justice Louis Brandeis, who recently retired.
At various times reference has been made to the dilatory tactics of the local Chinese Courts in regard to foreclosure proceedings on mortgages on which principal is overdue and interest outstanding. This matter is still receiving the attention of your Committee and it is anticipated that ways and means of speeding up procedure will be found shottly.
Sub-Letting Abuses The law as between landlord and tenant, always a subject of dispute oh account of the conflict im principles as between Anglo-Saxon law and the code adopted by the Chinese Courts, has been taken up by your Committee and there has undoubtedly been less delay during the past six or eight months in obtaining bearings and written copies of judgments.
Voting members have been circularized with topies of some judgments, particularly those referring to payment of rent by means of "Hui-Hua" cheques and it appears to your Committee that a great deal of useful information can be made available if decisions of the Courts are forwarded to the Secretary of the Association for distribution. fist's advice. Heed him when he warns you that to ward off tects for gums as well as your You are all aware of the serious overcrowding of properties and the profits tenants are making from subtenants; also of the late sums of money which change hands when premises are sub-let, in many cases without the consent or knowledge of the owner of the property. These are abuses Which all owners should do their utmost to eliminate and I hope this question will receive the attention of the incoming Committee.
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