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22, Museum koad,
ghanghal,
31r E. D. H. Fraser, K.C.M.G..
Registrar of Companies,
Shanghai.
4th Way, 1916.
sir.
The China (Companies) order-in-: ounci) 1915
With reference to my letter to you of the 17th "arch and to my interview with you and the crown Advocate on the 27th April, I understand that the Crown advocate has expressed the view (in variance from the view of the Registrar of Companies, fongkong) that the meaning of Article 15 of the China (Companies)
order-in- ouncil 1915 16 that the main body of the Hongkong rdinance of 1911 now appliss in China to Companies registered in England but carrying on part of their business in China (hereinafter, for the pur- pose of brevity, referred to as "Home Companies").
The matter is of considerable importance to such Companies as ritish-American obacco Co., Ltd. (on whose behalf I am interested) which would be in a position of considerable doubt and difficulty if
the view of the Crown Advocate is adopted, and I therefore venture to set out below some points in
favour of the construction adopted by the egistrar
at Hongkong:-
The main body of the Hongkong ordinance of
1911 deals with Companies which are formed and exist under the provisions of that ordinance, and therefore
have
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