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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 22nd May, 1920.
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My Lord,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's telegram of the 13th January, 1920, on the subject of certain payments proposed, in my confidential despatch of the 18th October, 1919, to be made to Mr. A, H. Wilzer, and to enclose for your information copies of letters which have been received by the Custodian from the Minister for the Netherlands at Peking and from the Consul-General for the Netherlands at Hongkong.
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of the shares in question sixteen are on the Hongkong Register and one on the Shanghai Register. I have authorised the immediate sale of these, and the payments authorised will be made to the Consul-General here.
The remaining shares, thirteen in number, are on the London Register and a question arises as to whether these shares fall within the jurisdiction of this Colony or within that of the United Kingdom. The head office of the corporation is in Hongkong and neither the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1866, nor the Deed of Settlement of the corporation contains any express authority enabling the corporation to establish local registers outside the Colony.
It was held, however, by the Supreme Court of the Colony in a
suit for the recovery of Hongkong probate duty, Original
Jurisdiction No.46 of 1901, that the local registers at
Shanghai and London were good and valid registers and that the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
VISCOUNT KILNER, G.C.B.,
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