CO129-510-15 China (Companies) order in Council- 1925- correspondence 19-4-1928 - 31-12-1928 — Page 45

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shares of many Companies already carrying on business in

such colonies; that accordingly it was provided that the

colonial register might only be kept in colony in which

the Company keeping it "transɛcts business"; and that a

similer and even more strongly worded condition ms 180

made essential under the provisions of the Hongkong

Ordinance. it ip pears clear that the legislature never

contemplated the keeping by a Colapemy of a colonial register

(or of a local rekister in the case of hongkong) in a plxe

where such Company does not carry on ny part of its business.

Nor was it ever the intention of the legislature that the

colonial register or local register should be used 98 a meɛns for introducing the shares of a Company on the arkets of such

a place; and that, it would seem clear, is the only object

which the Petitioners in this rtter have in view.

Shanghai, 27th April, 1928.

(DIGNAD)

ALLAN G. MOBOP.

Crown Advocate.