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Control can best be provided for without opening a door to such abuses as the Chinese authorities fear, by fraudulent impersonation and transfer of registration certificates, is the question for consideration, and on this part of the Subject I shall be glad to receive any suggestions from Your Excellency and your opinion as to what steps it may be in your power to take to secure the desired end.
I have &c.
(Signed) Frederick Albeck
(Copy)
Sir,
11th April 1866.
In the Memorandum already adverted to in my Dispatch of this date, Your Imperial Highness's attention was drawn to the position of British subjects of Chinese extraction who may be charged with offences within the dominions of the Emperor of China; and my Despatch of yesterday will have informed His Imperial Highness The Prince of Kung.