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Article 1073. The adopter must be at least twenty years older than the person to be adopted.
Article 1074.-Where a married person adopts a child, he must do so jointly with his spouse.
Article 1077. The relation between an adopted child and his adoptive parents, is the same as that between a legitimate child and his parents unless it is otherwise provided for by law.
Article 1078.-An adopted child assumes the surname of the adopter.
Article 1079.-Adoption must be effected in writing, unless the person to be adopted has been brought up as a child of the adopter since infancy.
Article 1080.-The relation between an adopted child and his adoptive parents may be terminated by mutual agreement of the parties.
The termination mentioned in the preceding paragraph must be done in writing.
Article 1142. The order of succession for an adopted child is the same as for a legitimate child.
The successional portion of an adopted child is one-half of that of a legitimate child, but, in case the adoptive parents have no lineal descendant by blood for their heir, his successional portion is the same as that of a legitimate child.
Appendix No. 20.
Extract from League of Nations' Commission of Enquiry into the Control of Opium-smoking in the Far East.
REPORT TO THE COUNCIL.
VI. HONGKONG. A Short Description of the Geographic, Ethnographic, Political and
Economic Conditions.
The British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, with a leased territory, the so-called New Territories, jointly administered with the Colony, is geographically a part of China, being situated in or along the mouth of the West River. Hong Kong may be said to form the lower extremity of the left bank of the West River estuary; at the head of this estuary is the city of Canton, and on a peninsula at its mouth stands the Portuguese colony of Macao. The distance from Hong Kong to Canton is only about 83 miles by water and 112 miles by rail. The island of Hong Kong was ceded by China to Great Britain in 1842. Further territory on the Kowloon peninsula was ceded in 1860 and additional parts of the peninsula, with outlying islands, were leased from China for 90 years in 1898. The total area of the Colony and the leased terri- tories amount to about 374 square miles. The number of islands belonging to Hong Kong is about 60. The centre of Hong Kong is the city of Victoria on the Island of Hong Kong. On the opposite side of the harbour on the mainland is the town of Kowloon. Outside these two places there are no towns in the Colony, but only a few fishing villages,
Hong Kong, which here is taken to include the Colony proper as well as the leased territories, is situated between 22°9′ and 22°17′ N. lat., and thus lies just within the northern limits of the tropics.