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Mo SO. N 2263
there is no doubt that the Native inhabitants of ceded territory are said to be collectively naturalized in their new Country and have there all the rights of native-born Subjects, by the mere force of the cession of the soil without the necessity of anything being expressed concerning the people.
The Native inhabitants of Hong Kong at the time of the cession were, however, by the Proclamation by Bremer and Elliot of the 12th of February 1841 declared British Subjects, but I apprehend that