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work is that of England and Scotland under the act. The analogy is fairly close the authority which

42 recognizes or creates a company is one, the Board

of Trade in one case, the Governor of Hongkong in the other. The jurisdictions are entirely separate in both cases; the Court to be applied to in the case of English companies 1.e. companies registered

in England is the High Court of Justice.

companies the Court of Session.

Of Scotch

Here in the case

of companies with their registered office in Hong- kong the Hongkong Court should be the Court, in the case of China Companies the Supreme Court for China. The main amendments necessary will be the introduction in sections 3,4, and 5 of the Ordinance of a subsection analogous to subsection 2 of sec- tions 3,4, and 5 of the Act, of sections analogous

to sections 131 and 135 of the Act which are omitted

and the substitution of the definition of "the Court"

in section 285 of the act for that of "the Court" in

section 261 of the ordinance.

consequential amendments.

There may be other

I am very anxious to have:

your confirmation of this proposal as early as

possible

7.