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Rule as expressing the idea of modern Publicists: "Legitimate children, wherever born, are regularly members of that state of which their fathers are members at the time of their birth, but may choose, if they prefer it, the nationality of their place of birth."
The Government Notification hereinafter referred to is explicit and final on the Point. I apprehend, however, that this question of the nationality of Anglo-Chinese, if agitated, is one calculated to cause the British Consuls no little trouble and difficulty. Up to this time, however, I have not heard of a Chinese in this Colony laying claim to British nationality, or even dreaming that he was entitled to any such privilege.
With respect to the mode of furnishing Anglo-Chinese with Documentary Evidence of their British nationality, I would refer His Excellency the Governor to the Government Notification on the subject published on the 28th of October 1862 in the Hong Kong Gazette for that year, p. 290.
There is no Ordinance in this Colony as to Naturalization, which is regulated by the Imperial Act 10 and 11 Vic. C. 83. Under that