CO129-554-11 Stamp Amendment Ordinance 1935 18-4-1935 - 25-6-1935 — Page 3

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COLONIAL OFFICE,

HONG KONG.

NO:

223

sir,

DOWNING STREET,

25 June, 1936.

I have the honour to refer to Sir William

Peel's despatch No. 90 of the 12th February, 1935, and

to the Circular despatches of the 28th June and the 21st

November, 1934, from Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (now

Viscount Swinton) on the subject of the International

Conventions on Stamp Laws in connection with Cheques

and Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.

2. I observe from the despatch under reference

that it is desired that the Convention on Stamp Laws in

connection with Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes

should be applied to the Colony, subject to the

limitation contained in Section D of the Protocol to

the Convention. Before, however, action is taken to

give effect to this desire, I request that you will

inform me whether you see any objection to the

application also of the Convention on Stamp Laws in

connection with Cheques, a copy of which accompanied

the Circular despatch of the 28th June, 1934. It is,

I think, desirable on international grounds that both

Conventions should be applied to the Colonial

Dependencies generally unless for local reasons any

GOVERNOR

SIR ANDREW CALDRCUIT, C.N.G., C.B.E.,

eto.,

eto.,

eto.

serious