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Sir,
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4 DEC 24
FOREIGN OFFICE. S.W. 1.
December 3rd, 1924.
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With reference to your letter No. 45222/1924,
of 26th September, relating to the new Consolidating China Order in Council, I am directed by Hr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that as the result of semi-official discussion with your department, in which His Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai took part, it has now been arranged that paragraphs a,b and g of Article 203 shall apply to all British companies operating in China, and that paragraph of that Article shall, as proposed by the Governor of Hongkong, be confined to companies not incorporated under Hongkong law.
This limitation 'but
is accepted on the understanding that Section (2) of the Companies' Order in Council, 1911, shall be replaced by the provision contained in the telegram from the Governor of Hongkong, dated 14th loveber, of which a copy was enclosed in your letter No.V53692 of 1st December.
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With regard to the other points raised by the Governor of Hongkong in his telegram of 22nd September, the alteration proposed in Section 187 (1) has been made.
In
Article 190, the expression "the Ordinance" has, at the surgestion of the Board of Trade, already been replaced by the expression "The Companies' Ordinance, 1911 of the Colony of "Hongkong, or any ordinance amending or substituted for the
"I game".
3./
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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