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SUPREME COURT
SHANGHAI,
6 MAYIS
February 7th, 1913
441
Sir:-
I have the honour to inform you that, acting on
your authority conveyed to me in the Foreign Office
despatch No. 21 of the 21st November, whilst in Hong-
kong I discussed the draft Companies Orcer in Council
with the Chief Justice. We were in agreement on all
the questions affecting the jurisdiction of the Courten
and in so far as the concerr Hongkong as to the other
points dealt with in the Ordinance with the possible
exception of Article 12, which provides for the
registered office of a China Company being in the
limits of the Order. I indicated the considerations
that I should lay before you with a view to amendments
of the draft and there was nothing to which he took
exception. As Sir W. Pees Davis said, so long as he
and I preside in the respective Courts there is no
danger that the provisions us to jurisulction will be
applied in any narrow spirit.
¡
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.G., M.P.
&c., &c., &c.,
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