CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936 — Page 82

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Probate of The Will

and Codicils of Sir Catchick

Paul Chater, deceased. (Continued)

AND APPOINT the senior representative in the Colony of Hongkong for the time being of Messieurs E. D. Sassoon and Company Limited to be such Per- manent and Managing Director provided but provided only Messieurs E. D. Sassoon and Company Limited or their said senior representatives in Hongkong shall before accepting such Permanent or Managing Directorship pay to my estate the sum of Eight hundred thousand Dollars my hope being that Sir Victor Sassoon Baronet will as far as possible fulfil such Permanent and Managing Directorship and should Messieurs E. D. Sassoon and Company Limited or their said senior representative not pay to my estate the aforesaid sum of Eight hundred thousand Dollars I (if I legally can do so) NOMINATE AND 10 APPOINT Sir Robert Ho Tung also of Victoria aforesaid to be such Permanent and Managing Director as aforesaid of the said Company Provided Sir Robert Ho Tung shall before accepting such Permanent or Managing Directorship pay to my estate the aforesaid sum of Eight hundred thousand Dollars AND should neither the said Messieurs E. D. Sassoon and Company Limited or their said senior representatives in Hongkong or Sir Robert Ho Tung be prepared to pay to my estate the aforesaid sum of Eight hundred thousand Dollars then and in that event I (if I legally can do so) NOMINATE AND APPOINT my nephew JOHN THEOPHILUS BAGRAM to be such Permanent and Managing Director but all benefits of whatsoever nature derivable therefrom shall from 20 time to time be paid into my residuary estate and form part thereof.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Twenty-fifth day of May One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

SIGNED by the said Honourable Sir Catchick Paul Chater (by making his mark he being incapable through illness of writing his name after the nature of this Codicil had been fully explained to him and he appeared perfectly to understand the same) as a Codicil to his Will which bears date the Seventeenth day of April One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of cach other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:

THE HON. SIR CATCHICK

PAUL CHATER.

His mark.

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Sd.

H. J. ARMSTRONG,

Solicitor,

Hongkong.

Sd. C. A. P. XAVIER,

Cashier to Messrs. Deacons,

Solicitors,

Hongkong.

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