NOTIFICATION.
WHEREAS it has been brought to my knowledge that British subjects of Chinese descent having all the appearance of Chinese and speaking like natives, establish themselves in the interior of the country and permanently take up their residence there, acquiring all the privileges of Chinese subjects in violation of Treaty provisions governing the status and acts of British subjects in the Chinese dominions, it is hereby publicly notified, that anyone so offending is liable to be taken by the Chinese authorities to the nearest Consular Port to be handed over to the British Consul for punishment, in the same way as any other class of British subjects would be punished for a similar violation of Treaty.
Peking, November 28th, 1866.
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,
H. M's Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China,
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