t
requiring
evidence
of their
being British born subjects,
- I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that I have
recently,
with the advice of the Excentive Council, refused two applications which have
been made by Chinese traders
engaged in
- business in Siam, for certifientes
having been born
of i
their having
this Colony,
2.
It appears
that
Chinese residents in diam,
in
*
are su
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subject under the local registration laws to a certain triennial tax, from which ~ however the fact of being -
a
the registered subjects of
Foreign Power with which Siam has concluded a
exempt.
treaty, renders them
There is good
3.
reason to believe, therefore, that applications of the nature of those referred to
above, which have been
· very
Common
of late, are
:
arc
simply