C O P
No.104.
Enclosure 2.
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Her Majesty's Consulate
Canton, July 24, 1899.
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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 19th instant enclosing copy of a petition signed by certain Anglo-Chinese on the subject of their right to British protection in China, and asking if I can point out any reasons against the grant of the prayer in the petition.
As explaining the position taken up on this question by Consular Officers in China, I quote from the "Instructions to Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China and Japan" by Sir Edmund Hornby, Kt, formerly Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Supreme Court, for China and Japan, edited and revised in 1885 by Sir Richard Rennie, Kt, the then Chief Justice of the Court.
The quotation runs thus:-
"All persons of Chinese race born in a British possession, are in strictness, according to English law, British subjects; but, as against the Authorities of China,
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
Hung-Hong
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