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(4) The amount of this fiduciary issue would

be reduced year by joar by the issue to the Bank without payment of a Certificate of Indebtedness fɔr a sum equal to the dɔllar equivalent of a proportiền of the net incɔme of the long «ong me hange tund for the year in question, such proportion to be arrived at as explained in sub-paragraph (5) below, until such time as the whole of the additional fiduciary issue referred to in sub-paragraph (3) ab¬ve had been so eɔvered.

(5) The proportion of the annual net incɔm® of the Exchange Find tɔ be aɔvered by the issue of a Certificate of Indebtedness tɔ the Bank would be such proportion as the mum of

16 million bears to the tɔtal face value of the notes issued by the Japmese autɛorities, after defueting the dɔllar equivalent of the sume to be paid in cash by the pmak to the

xohange und as provided in sub-paragraph (8) above.

înder these proposals the Pank's liability would be clearl; limited and its ¡Fobable ultimate

1-as confined tɔ the immediate cash jayamat of $1,000,000. The whole of the remaining 1ɔss involved, the amount of which is unknɔw, would rest with the govern:snt through the Hong Kong Exchange Fund. uch a settlement representa, in ur. Hall's view, the maximum extribution which

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