Master, the Commodore and the Consul at Chefoo (copies attached).
As the Harbour Master deferred to the Commodore's opinion that 200 miles a day was a fair rate and as the Consul admitted that the proclamation was not justifiable if regard were had only to the British vessels then employed on the line, the matter was again referred to Executive Council along with the letter from the 16th June, Minister at Peking urging suspension and the Proclamation was accordingly revoked by another, No. 4 of 19th July.
(signed) A. M. Thomson.
19th May, 1894
1893.
12th July
1893.
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No. 4.
Sub-enclosure 1.
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Is the Hongkong Emigration Ordinance applicable to steamers carrying emigrants from Chefoo to Vladivostock?
Sir,
British Consulate, Chefoo, April 19, 1893.
I have the honour to request you whether I should put in force the regulations of the Hongkong Ordinance No. 5 of 1874 and No. 1 of 1889 in the case of steamers clearing from this Port to Vladivostock with more than twenty Chinese passengers, the British steamer, the "Kowshing" being one lately to instruct me.