a settlement to be a portion of the Shiver Empire which was taken by force from the Government on the
I 5- it thank 1849 by the then Governor Amaral, who expelled the Chinese local Authorities and established there the Convention made in 1844 by the Imperial Commissioner Keying and the then Governor Pinto. Against this act of appropriation of territory and breach of Convention the Chinese Government have always protested, alleging the
Portuguese took advantage of the
"then existing belief between England
and China to wrest from
and China a portion of the province of
155 Kwangtung, which they occupied only under an Edict of the then Emperor of the Tsing Dynasty in 1586 on payment of a ground rent
Thus and....
1691
it was
Maels
per
of.
1
a
m
which in
reduced to Three hundred;
and subsequently settled at Five hundred Taels, which
were paid yearly by the Procurador of the Senate to the Cheang Than Magistrate his presenting a discharge signed by the Imperial Treasurer at Canton,
ceased only with the seizure
and
of Macao by Governor Amaral
above mentioned"
This claim of the Chinese Government of Sovereignty over the