C.S.O.N: 905. –
Hong Kong, 28 March, 1879. (Received, 28th March, 1879.)
Messrs. Codrington Sharpe & Fowler,
Solicitors
to
Acting Colonial Secretary, (H.E. Cecil C. Smith.)
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation: Request powers be granted to-
so as to enable the corporation to carry on business at Singapore and elsewhere.
that extended.
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Report of the Acting Attorney General upon
Ordinance No. 1 of 1872
entitled "An Ordinance enacted by 'The Governor of Hong Kong
with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.'"
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to amend Ordinance No. 5 of 1866, and to give to the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Company
" certain extended Powers." This Ordinance was
to supply an omission
in Section
of Ordinance No. 8 of 1866. Since that Ordinance came
into operation Saigon has obtained
Inclosure No. 2 in Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy's Despatch No. 4 of 17 April 1872
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