270
Companies transferred to
Shangbai
Register.
(02)
6. COMPANIES REGISTRATION, 1920. (Companies Ordinances 1911-1915.)
Companies
transferred
Companies
Companies
Amount of fees received..
in the
from Shanghai
course of
Defunct Companies.
to Hongkong.¡ liquidation.
registered during the year.
Collected in Collected in Hongkong. Shanghai.
Total..
2
22
16
50
11,182.90
$
121,608.68
132,741,58
6A. CHINESE LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS :-
The Chinese Mercantile Company of Hongkong, 6B.-LIMITED PARTNERSHIP :--
Lyson Co.
Nil.
7.—Official TRUSTS, 1920.
Year.
Number of Trust Estates at the end of the year.
Aggregate Amount of
Trust Estates.
Commission received during the year.
$
18
85,880,33
52.96
1919, .........
1920,
19
86,461,58
85.77
Remarks.
1 Trust Estate was wound up.
No New Trust Estates
opened.
No Trust wound up. 1 New Trust opened.
8.-PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION, 1920,
(Ordinance No. 2 of 1897.)
[
Number of Grants.
Amount
sworn under.
Duty. †
Probate Court Fees.
Estates administered by the Official Administrator,
Number
of
Estates.
Amount
Official Administra-
sworn
under.
tor's Com- mission.
Number of
Estates
wound up.
Aggregate
of Estates wound up.
for the
1 account
126
149
was filed.
Com- missioner
7,065,247 367,958,25 14.218,80 80
* Including grants to Official Administrator.
† Excluding Interest and additional Probate Duty paid.
127,514.97
979,90
9. RETURN OF BANKRUPTCIES, 1920.
(Ordinance No. 7 of 1891.)
Number of
Petitions
filed.
Number of Receiving
'Orders made.
Creditors'.
Debtors'.
On Creditors'
Petitiou.
On Debtors'
Petition.
Number of Administration Orders,
Dismissed.
Withdrawn.
Consolidated.
Held over.
Number of Petitions.
Number of Public Examinations.
Number of Adjudications.
Scheme of Arrangement.
Number of Discharges,
Number of
Proceedings Annulled.
Total Estimated
Assets. *
28
24
18,732.16
Total Estionced Liabilities.
17
10
10
三
8
F
$
4
...
300,467.29
613,688,07
• In cases where a receiving order was made and was not rescinded. (In some cases no Statement of Affairs
was filed and the Estimated Assets and Liabilities are not known),
Six receiving orders rescinded.
Total Fees paid iu stamps $2,760.45 and Official Receiver's Commission paid to Treasury $6,529.20.