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It is submitted that the Order-in-Council may be contained ithin a small compass. ¡omer could be given the Shan- -ghai cort to make orders respecting companies registered in hongkon with Local Registers in China with power to enforce them

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against the company and as against Eritien subjecte in Uhine, and a further clause would be the conv rae of tus proposti suund-

-men to the Ordinance above referred to and ive to the Chen. het cept power to carry out . the fullest extent within its

isdiction the orders of the lion kong court respecting companies ith local registers in China. It wouls seen that this mould meet

the object 3ir Havilland do Brumarez has in view is a further provision in the Order-in-Council for t.... ap¤limation u Hongkong Ordinance in China. Tae austrul of the Bungiei courts over local register companies may be further #urangtaoned by

amendments to the Ordinence, effected o course after cona: Ita-

-tion with Sir savilland, ander which luz 1 repintors would only be permitted to thone componins whore oflicers or & pertain

number or proportion of where officers) term trial. Die vier if I remember correctly is shared by Sir llavillen.

The foregoing mag erbions curl. I Llapa meet his desire to have the fullest control over lowl register

companies by the Shangai court with the as i tance in wae of difficulty of the longhon, Court.

As to the revenual side of Lu

which Sir Davilland alludes in his letter, 1 soal- Establishment of a brich registry in Shanghai will cost money

to establish and keep up and obviously unveil loss ol the llonken Government.

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February, 1912.

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(4.) Deca bvies.