742 representative at Peking enquiring whether the Chinese Government recognise the authority of the Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and District to require British owned steam launches and yachts registered in this Colony to obtain his permission before leaving the waters of the Colony, and to issue certain "sailing" certificates, described in the letter, to Hong Kong launches.
2. Your Lordship will remember that in the Agreement under the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention signed at Hong Kong Autumn of 1886, it was arranged that China should for the better protection of her Opium Revenue establish a Maritime Customs Office in Chinese territory on the Mainland opposite Hongkong. Pending the building of such an office, the Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon was allowed to reside and transact business