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12.

Jurisdiction in regard to "Shanghai Companies" has not been

touched upon in the previous correspondence, but it must be

decided in connection with any scheme adopted: and it occurs

to me to suggest that the present occasion might be turned to

account by arranging that appeals in such cases should be

heard if in Hongkong by a Court consisting of the Hongkong

Chief Justice, the Hongkong Puisne Judge and a Judge of His

Majesty's High Court at Shanghai sitting together, and if in

Shanghai by a Court consisting of the two Judges of His

Majesty's High Court at Shanghai and a Judge of the Supreme

Court of Hongkong sitting together. Such an arrangement might

prove to be the first step in bringing about the reconstitu-

-tion of the Hongkong Appeal Court on the lines proposed in

the correspondence ending with Lord Crewe's Confidential

Despatch of the 25th. May, 1910: and the experience so gained

would be useful in determining whether or not it is practic-

-able to make the proposed change in the constitution of the

Appellate Court general in its scope.

5.

I will address you separately on the

subject of the so-called "Manila Companies", i.e. foreign companies, formed and registered in Hongkong, but trading in a foreign country other than China where there is exterri- -toriality: for, as is pointed out in the 2nd. joint-memoran-

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