On this question, which is likely
a troublesome one.
To prove
The conditions
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on
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protect
distinct
will in China recognise
a Colonially formed Company
my feeling is that it will be entirely
different from the conditions under which the Company may be formed in the Colony itself. Without a report from the Governor, I do not like to make
the statement bracketed at the end of Stubbs' minute, though it is quite correct. After some time
as in the first part of
I would write
that minute and send it, for return,
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5791.
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October 28th, 1904.
I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to
transmit to you herewith, for the consideration of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative
to the registration of steam launches belonging to
Companies registered at Hongkong but of which the
shareholders, in capital and membership, are mainly Chinese.
Mr. Secretary Lyttelton will observe that a case
has arisen in which a Company registered in Hongkong,
composed of Chinese subjects, has claimed recognition
as a British Company by His Majesty's Consul at Swatow.
Mr. Willis has refused to register the Company as
British or to afford them protection in China unless
he is satisfied that the majority of the shareholders
and Managing Directors are British subjects and the
greater part of the capital subscribed is also British.
Mr.
Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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