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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 42430/11.
and address—
The Under-Secretary of Stato.
Foreign Office,
mr bridge Bowme
no 37: Sept. 27.
London.
Sir:-
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1911.
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I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit
to you herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, copy of a despatch from Er. Açt-
ing-Judge Bourne, relative to the Registration of Joint
Stock Companies at Shanghai.
While pointing out the evils of the present unlimit-
ed speculation in Shanghai, Mr. Bourne suggests, with
special reference to the subject of forward share con-
tracts, that legislation should be introduced in the
sense of the Hongkong Ordinance No. 5 of 1891.
I am to request that Mr. Secretary Harcourt will be
so good as to inform Sir E. Grey whether the legisla-
tion of 1891 in Hongkong on the subject of forward
share contracts has worked satisfactorily and whether
he considers that it would be desirable, if feusible, to
introduce
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.