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It is requested that any reply to this Letter may be addressed to the Comptroller of the Companies Department, 27, Great George Street, London, S.W., (Telegraphic Address : **Companies, London,") and that the following number may be quoted:
3242.
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I am directed by the Board of Trade to refer to previous correspondence relating to the draft HongKong Ordinance, and to say that the draft has now been care- fully examined in the Companies Department and I am to offer the following observations for the consideration
of the Secretary of State:-
Clause 4(1)(ii); clause 5(1)(ii); clause 6(1)(ii).
The word "proposed in the margin seems to be super- fluous and without meaning, and I am to suggest that the
word should not be inserted.
Clause 27(1). The Imperial Act provides that the
Shak annual list of members should be made up to the four-
teenth day after the ordinary general meeting, and the same requirement is made in, so far as the Board of Trade
are aware, all the Colonial Companies Acts. The Ordin- ance suggests that the annual list of shareholders should
be made up to the day of the ordinary general meeting.
This, in practice, might be found very difficult and
inconvenient, and, if there is no special reason to the
contrary, the Board of Trade are of opinion that it is
desirable to avoid small differences of this character
and suggest that the provisions of the Imperial Act in
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