costume. If Ke Kan Fring Take have or not discarded Chinese they have not, you will recall to their recollection the Form of notification. You will do well at the same time & warn all other British Subjects in the same Category that protection can only be secured by them by accordance with the conditions therein prescribed & when registering will impress upon them.
The Subject need not for the present make any representation to the local authorities, but I shall inform the Police of King hat Subjects of H.M. Born of Chinese parents have been called upon to put away their Chinese costume in China, & those residing at your port must be careful in their dress for protection to abide by referred to.
I have &c.
(SD) J. F. Dade
My Lord,
Jan. 30.18(68
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With reference to the question of protecting British Subjects of Chinese descent. They are in strictness entitled to protection only on condition that they put away Chinese Costume.
The matter having been discussed in the Department named in the margin, Sir R. Alcock, under instruction from the Earl of Clarendon, issued a notification requiring British Subjects within the above category, when resorting to China, to discard the Chinese Costume &c.
Earl Granville K.G.