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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 21, 1907.

HONGKONG.

No. 9 OF 1907.

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

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F. H. MAY,

Officer Administering the Government.

[21st June, 1907.]

WHEREAS a Company has been incorporated in the Preamble. Netherlands for the transaction of trading banking and financial business under the name of the Nederlandsch- Judische Handelsbank 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 muable to exercise divers of the powers which corporations having common seals cau 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:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Nederlandsch- Short title. Indische Handelsbank Ordinance, 1907.”

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

hold and dispose of property of every kind.

3.-(1.) The said Company may sue and be sued and Company take all legal proceedings in any of the Courts of the may sue and Colony by the name of the Nederlandseh-Indische Han- be sued un- 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 shall in the future be carrielou.

der its name.

as if under

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

(2.) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other mode of execution 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.

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