Hongkong, 28th January, 1867.
Attorney General (Julian Pauncefote)
Hongkong Ordinance (No. 5 of 1866).
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Report upon.
Enclosure in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 205 of 31st January, 1867.
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The Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
(Copy)
1. In the main, in the opinion expressed by the Double Attorney General, as it seemed very inconvenient to the Bank if its Ordinance of Incorporation were disturbed, and a very requisite provision of the terms of the Treasury can be introduced in the Deed of Settlement in preparation.
2. Not like making ... I found by Branches. The Corporation have no objection to the Notes circulated by its Branches, in the respective currencies of the localities where such Establishments
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were situated.
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