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Colony which require a Recinter of Shareholders to be kept

in the Colony and the colonial authorities no doubt contend

that the representatives of a deceased shareholder cannot

avnii themselves of any non-compliance with thie ublicatio

engopayment or duty on tho value of his aharon. Their

urgument, it may be anuen to that if the ahures are on

a Register kept in Hongkong they gertainly form part of

the Fongkong eatnto and if they are not on such a register

but are on an informal rapister kept songwhere also they

munt nevertheless be treated aa part of the Monekong entate"

when the rourosentativea of the opened into dank

them: for they can only form part of the estate if the

docomodous either exprously or by implication inserthod

koharaholder in a proper reciater.

what is the case

of the Hunakong authoritien and I aunnot way that in my

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opinion there is any direct answer to it. Future are

soveral matters to be taken into consideration when est

mating the value of the Colonial coverrments olat

compared with the claim of X. X. Shọc màufourt that the

shares really form part of the estate in Shanghai.

In the

first place the Shanghai Gas Company Limited and companies

like it have nothing to do with Hongkong except that they