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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 17, 1907.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

NOTICE is hereby given that as Solicitors for and on behalf of the NEDERLANDSCH

INDISCHE HANDELSBANK it is our intention to apply to the Legislative Council of Hongkong for leave to introduce a Bill entitled An Ordinance for giving to a Foreign Company called the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank certain facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

The proposed Bill is printed hereunder.

Dated this 7th day of May, 1907.

Premble.

Company may take hold and dispose of property of every kind.

Company

may sue and

be sued un- der its name,

as if under

JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for and on behalf of

THE NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HandelsbaNK.

A BILL

ENTITLEÐ

An Ordinance for giving to a Foreign Company called the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank certain facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

WHEREAS a Company has been incorporated in the Netherlands for the transaction of trading banking and financial business under the name of the Nederlandsch- Indische Handelsbauk under Royal Decrees of the late King of the Netherlands whereby the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares respectively: And Whereas an agency of the said Com- pany has been established in this Colony: And Whereas it appears that the said Company has in accordance with the law of the Netherlands no common seal and is therefore unable to exercise divers of the powers which corporations having common seals can and may exercise: And Where- as it is expedient to enable the said Company to carry on its business in the Colony in like manner as though it had been incorporated under the law of this Colony :

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. The said Company shall be capable in law to take hold and dispose of property moveable or immoveable within the Colony for the purpose of its business.

2.-(1.) The said Company may sue and be sued and take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of the Colony by the name of the Nederlandsch-Indische Han- delsbank.

(2.) All writs of summons notices and legal process may be served on the said Company by being left at the office in Hongkong hereinafter mentioned or at any other office in the Colony where the business of the said Company will in the future be carried on,

Deeds signed 3.-(1.) All Conveyances powers of attorney deeds and by Manager other instruments of whatsoever nature which if the said to be as valid Company were an English Corporation would require to be common seal sealed with the Common Seal of the said Corporation shall of Company. be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same be executed and signed in the name or on behalf of the said Company under the hand and seal of the Manager for the time being of the said Company's agency in Hongkong.

Manager to

(2.) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other mode of exccation which may for the time being be prescribed by the statutes of the said Company and which would be valid by the law of the Colony had this Or- dinance not been passed.

4. The Manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said have an office Company shall have an office in Hongkong for the trans- in Hong-

action of the business of the Company on the outside of kong.

which shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspienons position in letters easily legible the name of the sail Company.