CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906 — Page 558

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NË ASIMOVA D

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(a) That the past practice of first the Hongkong Government and then the Rritis ʼn Consular authority en- quiring into the merits of a claim for recovery of a debt incurred in Hongkong should be discontinued.

(b)

That the production of the record of a juag- ment of the Hongkong Courts in the case of an absconding Chinese debtor should be a sufficient warrant to the Consular Officer to press the Chinese Authorities to give effect to it.

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(0) That if no such record is produced Consular assistance should be confined to obtaining an investigation of the claim by the Chinese courts.

(d) That the law of Hongkong should be amended to admit of judgment for debt, baing entered against abscond-

to Companies ing bankrupts or contributárids wound up by order of the Court

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And that the consular assistance given in

any case should be the same whether the creditors are

British subjects of non-Chinese or chinese nationality or non-British subjects.

4. I anall be glad to learn whether Your Ex- cellency concurs in these views and of so what ing ructions in the matter Your Excellency proposes to issue to Consul-

ar Officers.

I have etc.,

(Signed) . Nathan.

Governor