M. Bramston
Article 83 not 81 of the Services Regulations is meant in Port Offer letter
In reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.
No. 336
RECP CO. 3056 REG 21 FEB 63
Treasury Chambers, 20 February, 1863.
See pages 41-2
Sir,
It is difficult to define what the obligations of the conceding State under the Convention which are common to all Countries which have joined the Convention.
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith a copy of a letter from the Post office dated the 15th instant respecting the concession to the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company for landing a cable at Hong Kong, to the grant of which, as proposed in M. Bramston's letter of the 23rd Ultimo, My Lords agreed, under certain conditions, by the letter from this Department of the 29th Ultimo; and I am to request you to state to His Lordship that My Lords are of opinion that a stipulation should be inserted in the concession binding the Company to accede to the obligatory clauses of the International Telegraph Convention of the 10/12 July, 1875.
I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,
At Todd
FOA22Beb/83 China is not a Contracting State - So Resolution 83(3) does not apply but with as proposed. a if the Co. refuse we Can take up that grane with the horny.
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The Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.