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Hong Kong was required to have a registered office within the Colony; it must presumably have within and subject to the jurisdiction of its Courts some servants and property on which penalties could be imposed by such Courts.
That In Antrobus was to request us to take the papers into our consideration and to report :-
(1) Whether Ordinance 16 of 1907 was ultra vires of the Hongkong Legislature :
(2) If the answer to the last question was in the affirmative, by what other means the object of that Ordinance could be secured.
We have taken the papers into consideration, and, in obedience to Your Lordship's commands, have the honour to Report that in our opinion the Ordinance 16 of 1907 is not ultra vires of the Hongkong Legislature.
We have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servants,
M.S. Arnot
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