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6.- COMPANIES REGISTRATION, 1917.
(Companies Ordinances 1911-1915.)
Companies transferred to Shangbai Register.
Companies
transferred
from Shanghai
to Hongkong. liquidation,
ལ
Companies
Companies
Amount of fees received.
in the
course of
Defunct Companies.
registered during the year.
Collected in Hongkong.
Collected in Shanghai.
Total.
• 1
5
6
21
6,220,70
19,198,27 55,418.97
Chap Cheung Sing Ki.
6A. CHINESE LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS :-
A Tack & Co.
Kwong Ynen.
63.-UNREGISTERED COMPANIES UNDER PART VIII OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES, 1911 and 1915 ;—
The Kam Luu Cheong firm.
7.-OFFICIAL TRUSTS, 1917.
Number of Trust
Year.
Estates at the
Aggregate Amount of Trust Estates.
end of the year.
Commission received during the year.
Remarks.
1916,
1917,
21
75,568.69
113.29
**
23
65,251.49
264.32
Trust Estates were
wound up.
Number of Grants.
Probates.
Letters of
Administra-
tion. •
Affidavit
leading to
payment of
estato duty.
8. PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION, 1917.
(Ordinance No. 2 of 1897.)
Amount
sworn
nuder.
Probate Duty. †
Court Fees.
Estates administered by the Official Administrator,
Number
of
Estates.
Amount
sworn
under.
Oficial Administra- tor's Coni- mission.
Estates
Number of
wound up.
Aggregate
of Estutes wound up.
$
$
65,251.49
4,968.10
15
41,928,01
97
111
|9,260,000, 532,522.20 12,440.40 62
* Including grants to Official Administrator.
+ Excluding Interest and additional Probate Duty paid.
Number of Petitions
Crediturs'.
#led.
Number of Receiving
Oniers made.
Debtors".
On ('reditors'
Petition.
On Debtors'
Petition.
Number of
9. RETURN of Bankruptcies, 1917.
Number of
Petitions.
(Ordinance No. 7 of 1891.)
Administration Orderă.
Dismissed.
Withdrawn.
Consolidated.
Number of Publio Examinations.
Number of Adjudications. Scheme of Arrangement.
Number of Discharges.
Held over.
Number of
Proceedings Annulled.
Total Estimated
Assets.
·
Total Estimated
Total Fees paid Liabilities.*| in Stamps.
Offical Receiver's Commission
paid to
Treasury.
7
3
• In cases where a rocciving order was made and was not rescinded.
.$
60,865.74
130,707 61
1,094.30
1,694 39
N, B.-These returns relate only to bankruptoios occurring during 1917 except that the amounts show! under the two last headings are the total fees:rocoived during the year in respect of all bankruptcies.