THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1907.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance for giving to a Foreign Company called the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.
WHEREAS a Company has been incorporated in the Preamble, Netherlands for the transaction of trading banking and financial business under the name of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij under Royal Decrees of the late King of the Netherlands whereby the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares respectively: And Whereas all agency of the said Company has been established in this Colony: And Whereas it appears that the said Company has in accordance with the law of the Netherlands no common scal and is therefore unable to excrcise divers of the powers which corporations having cominou seals can and may exercise: And Whereas it is expedient to enable the said Company to carry on its business in the Colony in like manner as though it had been incorporated under the law of this Colony:
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The said Company shall be capable in law to take Company hold and dispose of property moveable or imunoveable with- in the Colony for the purpose of its business.
2.-(1.) The said Company may sue and be sued and take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of the Colony by the name of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij.
(2.) All writs of stammons notices and legal process may be served on the said Company by being left at the office in Hongkong hereinafter mentioned or at any other office in the Colony where the business of the said Company will in the future he carried on.
may take
hold and
dispose of property of every kind. Company may sue and be sued un- der its name.
as if under common seal
3.—(1.) All conveyances powers of attorney deeds and Deeds signed other instruments of whatsoever nature which if the said by Manager Company were an English Corporation would require to be to be as valid sealed with the Common Seal of the said Corporation shall be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same be of Company, executed and signed in the name or on behalf of the said Company mider the hand and seal of the Manager for the time being of the said Company's agency in Hongkong,
(2.) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other mode of execution which may for the time being be prescribed by the statutes of the said Company and which would be valid by the law of the Colony had this Ordinance not been passed.
have an office iu Hongkong.
4. The Manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said Manger to Company shall have an office in Hongkong for the trans- action of the business of the Company on the outside of which shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous position in letters easily legible the name of the said Company.
cause memo-
5.-(1) Such Manager shall cause a memorial in the Manager to form and to the effect set forth in Schedule A or as near rial to he thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit of verified filed with by a Statutory Declaration in writing to be filed in the Registrar of office of the Registrar of Companies in Hongkong.
Companies.
(2.) Such memorial shall prior to being filed be signed by the said Manager and shall be accompanied by or have annexed thereto or endorsed thereon copies of the degrees notarial acts articles and other instruments under which the Company is established and copies of the various rules under which the business of the Company is conducted and also translations into the English language of such copies such translations being verified by Statutory Declaration or otherwise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.
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