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not abandon it unless I see that it is certain to throw impediments in matters of more essential value.
Licit : Col: Malcolm and Mr. Morrison are both at Canton at present, and I expect to hear on their return when I am to meet Keying, and when #:# is to come here to exchange the Ratificating of the Treaty.
I have the honour to be, &c.
Regard! Henry Pottinger
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Memorandum.
1. A registry Office is to be established at Hongkong.
2. No person will be allowed to reside, even temporarily, on the Island, who is not registered.
3. All Persons registered are to be considered amenable to the Police Laws of the Island so long as they remain.
4. Any Man found on the Island, and not registered, will be sent off it with a warning not to return. If he breaks this warning he will subject himself to punishment.
5. The Registry will extend to all classes Shop-keepers - Coolies - Boatmen, &c.
6. The Island of Hongkong having been ceded in Sovereignty to the Queen of England who is to make such Laws & Regulations as Her Majesty may please to it, the option to all Chinese will be given in the Island whether to quit the Island, being paid for their Lands & houses, or to remain Subject of the British Crown, and be entitled...
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