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be treated as "foreign companies" by the British Courts

exercising jurisdiction over them there. I submit that

is it at least as unconstitutional to artificially confer

such a status on a colonial company which is brought into

being under Colonial law, which is subject to well known

restrictions, as directly, by an imperial Act or by

Order in Council made in virtue of the Foreign juris-

diction Act, to allow companies to register themselves

in an imperial registry and to come into existence in

virtue of part of the law of England which not only is

applied to Chine, but which is the law which every

British subject takes with him into such a country.

Shanghai

24m March 1911

A

(5.9) HW. de Sausmosey.

May

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