NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE MAATSCHAPPIJ ORDINANCE, 1907

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE MAATSCHAPPIJ ORDINANCE, 1907

No. 10 of 1907.
An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying on its
business in the Colony.
[24th July, 1907.]
WHEREAS a company has been incorporated in the Netherlands for the
transaction of trading, banking, and financial business under the
name of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij under Royal
Decrees of the late King of the Netherlands whereby the liability
of the shareholders is limited to the amount oi their shares
respectively : AND WHEREAS an agency of the said company has been
established in this Colony: AND WHEREAS it appears that the said

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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 WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the said company to carry on
its business in this Colony in like manner as though it had been
incorporated under the law of this Colony -

1. This Ordinance inav be cited as the nederlandsche
handel-maatschappij ordinance, 1907.

2. The said company shall be capable in law to take, hold,
and dispose of property, movable or immovable, within the
Colony for the purpose of its business.

3.(11) The sald company inay stic and be sued and take,
all legal proceedings in the courts of the colony by the name
of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij

(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 nientioned, or at any other office in
the Colony where the business of the said company shall be
carried on.

4.-(1) All conveyances, powers of attorney, deeds and
other instruments of whatsoever nature, which if the said
coinpany were an English. corporation would require to be
scaled with the common seal of the said corporation, shall 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 of the said com-
pany's agency in Hongkong.

(2), Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other
niode of execution which may be prescribed by the statutes
of the said company and which would be valid by the law of
the colony had this Ordinance not been passed.

5. The manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said
company shall have an office in Hongkong for the transaction
of the business of the company, on the outside of which shall
be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous position in
letters easily legible the nanie of the said company.

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6.-(1) Such manager shall cause a memorial in the form
and to the effect set forth in Schedule A, or as near thereto
as the circumstances of the case will admit, verified by -a
statutory declaration in writing, to be filed in the office of the
Registrar of Companies.

(2) Such memorial shall, prior to being filed, be signed by
the said manager and shall be accompanied by or have
annexed thereto or indorsed thereon copies of the decrees,
notarial acts, articles and other instruments, under which the
company, is established, and copies of the various rules the
which tfie business of the company is conducted, and also
translations into the English language of such copies, such
translations being verified by statutory declaration or other-
wise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

7. No memorial shall be filed unless the authority of the
manager by whom it is signed and the copies of the decrees,
acts, deeds and other documents accompanying the memorial
shall beauthenticated either by the signature and seal of office
of one of the Ministers of the Government of the Netherlands
at the hague, such signature and seal being verified by a
British ambassador or consular officer, or unless the same
shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of one of
the Secretaries of the Government of netherlands India at
Batavia and countersigned by the British Consul at Batavia.

8. Whenever any new or other manager of the agency in
Hongkong of the said company shall be appointed or any
change in or addition to any of the facts stated in any
memorial which may have been filed shall take place, a like
memorial in the form and to the elfect set forth in Schedule
B, verified as aforesaid, shall, as soon as may he after such
appointment, change or addition shall have been made, be
filed as aforesaid, specifying the name and description of
such new or other manager, and containing a statement of
the change or addition which may have taken place in the
facts aforesaid.

9.-(1) Until such memorial as first herein-before men-
tioned shall have been filed, the provisions 4 shall
not come into operation.





(2) Until the memorial by this Ordinance required to be
verilied and filed in the event of the appointment of a new
manager shall have -been duly verified and filed, the person
whose name shall appear In the last memorial which shall
have been duly filed in the office of the Registrar of Companies
as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be
deemed to be the manager of the agency in Hongkong of the
said company as if no new manager had been appointed.

10. An examined copy of every memorial filed pursuant
to this Ordinance certified to be a true copy under the hand
of the registrar of Companies shall be received in evidence
as proof of the contents of such memorial, and proof shall
not be required that the person by whom the memorial
purports to be verified was at the time of such verification
manager of the agency in hongkong of the said company.

SCHEDULE A. [s. 6.]

Memorial made the day of 19 by the
manager of the agency at Hongkong of the Nederlandsche Handel-
maatshcappij pursuant pursuant to Ordinance -No. 10 of 1907, entitled an ordi-
nance for giving to the Nederlandsche-maatschappij certain facilities
for earrying on its business in the Colony secting forth the particulars
required by section 6 of the Ordinance.
Situation of office of manager.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the Colony.
I manager of the agency in Hongkong of the

nederlandsche handel-maatschappij do solemnly and sincerely declare that
the above-written memorial is true in all respects : And I make this
solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by
virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 18.35. 5

SCHEDULE B. 8.1
Memorial made the day of 19 by the manager
of the agency at Hongkong of the Nederlandsche handel-Maatschappij
pursuant to Ordinance No. 10 of 1907, entitled An Ordinance for giving
to the Nederlandsche handel-Maatsehappij certain facilities for carrying on
its business in the Colony setting forth the particulars of change or
changes as required by section 8 of the Ordinance.

Name and description of new manager.

Situation of office of new manacer.

Changes (if any) it) such situation.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital of the company.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operaLions in the Colony.


I, newly appointed manager of the agency in
Hongkong of the Nederlandsche handel-maatschappij, do solemnly and
sincerely declare that the above-writLen memorial is true in all respects: And
I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the saine to he
true 'and by virtne of the provisions of the Statutorv Drclarations Act,
1835.
[Originally No. 10 of 1907. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be a valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Schedule A. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Schedule B. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Eamined copy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.

[Originally No. 10 of 1907. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be a valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an office in Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Schedule A. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Schedule B. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Eamined copy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.

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