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SUPREME COURT,

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IPS 3 AUG 08

SHANGHAI,

June 10th, 1208.

No.22.

(24894)

Sir:-

With reference to the note dated April 13th,

1908 transmitting for my observations copy of a des-

patch from the Colonial Office dated March 26th en-

closing Hongkong Ordinance authorising Companies

registered under the Companies Ordinance 1865 to

keep local registers of their members outside the

Colony, I have the honour to report that this Ordin-

ance embodies an arrangement come to by Sir Havil-

land de Sausmarez directly with His Excellency the

Governor of Hongkong. It seems to me exactly to meet

the necessities of the case: the injustice of death

duties being payable both to this Court and to the

Court in Hongkong is removed, while the Hongkong

revenue is protected. The arrangement is quite ac-

ceptable to the mercentile communities in China and

has

Sir Edward Grey, Bert., M.P.,

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