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be treated as "foreign companies" by the British Courts
exercising jurisdiction over them there. I submit that
is it at least as unconstitutional to artificially confer
such a status on a colonial company which is brought into
being under Colonial law, which is subject to well known
restrictions, as directly, by an imperial Act or by
Order in Council made in virtue of the Foreign juris-
diction Act, to allow companies to register themselves
in an imperial registry and to come into existence in
virtue of part of the law of England which not only is
applied to Chine, but which is the law which every
British subject takes with him into such a country.
Shanghai
24m March 1911
A
(5.9) HW. de Sausmosey.
May
H