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"the Court of Chancery expresses --

opinion that Oriental Bank

3.

the

debtors are entitled to set off against their debte notes

possessed by them at the time of winding up, and since continuously held; declaring that the Order of the 8th May is not to be construed as interfering with such right of set off, or other right of set off now by law subsisting!

I referred this

telegram for the opinion of the

Attorney

Attorney-General of Hongkong; and he has reported as follows:-

If this Government

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were a debtor to the Oriental Bank, and also a holder

of

Oriental Bank notes, it

would have

an

interest

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in the opinion to

which this telegram

refers. Otherwise, I do "not see that it has

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any concern

with it

I do not know what

The Order of the 8th May"

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to

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