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lub. Enclosure to Enclosure 2.

Objects and Reasons.

Proceedings by and against partnership firms have, in this Colony, since 1873, been regulated by Section 14 of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure.

That law has not worked quite satisfactorily. In England a new set of Rules dealing fully with this subject came into operation on 1st July, 1891.

The embodiment of those Rules in the Hongkong Code, In lieu of Section 14, seems a desirable improvement in our law and this Bill, which has been submitted to the Judges of the Supreme Court and approved by them, effects that object. This amendment of the Code should amongst other things facilitate the collection of debts from Chinese firms trading, 68 they often do, mudder styles which do not reveal the unies of the partners.

W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Attorney General.

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EGE 3 APR 33,

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