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" Condon. It should be added that similar European settlements have been created of late years at Shanghai, and the other Treaty Ports in China; and that they are all managed, like the Shameen at Canton, by Municipal Councils, elected by residents, who cheerfully pay the rates required for public works, police, and other necessary purposes.
8. These European settlements in China present a very interesting subject for the political and historical student. So far as I am aware, nothing analogous to them exists, except, perhaps, in the Venetian and Genoese Colonies in Turkey during the Middle Ages.
Though containing a considerable proportion of Germans and of residents of other nationalities, these settlements have already been assimilated, like our Colonies in America and in Australasia, by the English majority. They may now be regarded as practically English settlements; and they are governed according to English laws and customs. They are, of course, nominally under the supervision of the Foreign Office; which, however, requires only that the Regulations and By-laws shall be approved by the Minister at Peking, and interferes in no other way with the full local self-government exercised.
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