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regard to the bearing of the question on the sovereign

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rights of china it was pointed out that the registering

of a company is an aot authorised by Treaties and necessary

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to our domsaroo; that it is already done in China by

Germany and France; and that Hongkong Ordinance allowing

local registers in Shanghal amounts to se great an in-

vasion of sovereign rights as would an Imperial Registry

there, being accompanied moreover by the levy of a tax

by one polony on the business of persons neither connected

with it nor benefited by it nor enjoying represent at ion

in its administrat ion.

Me foregoing sramate aid othern in the same diro0-

tion were sugported by me in my despatchee los38 and 915

of 1511 already referred to. I pointed out the anomaly

that a shissing ocupany, for instance, should have to

register in Hongkong while all its property is registered

at Shanghal end its bus bless carried on in China, and I

recomended the establishment of a Registry of Companies

in Shanghai under the Board of Trade in the name way as a

Registry

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