(390), W1, 20024-26, 6000, 1106, A, & E, W,
(8327).
1081-7. 6000, 4/09.
No. 196.
Hongkong
My Lord,
C-0.
26526
RECE
Are! 9 AUG 09
Government House,
Hongkong, 7th. July, 1909.
I have the honour to transmit for
Your Lordship's consideration a précis of correspondence
relating to the examination in Hongkong Harbour by Doctors
attached to the United States of America Consular Service
of passengers, crews and cargo bound for Ports in the
United States. This correspondence also shows that a "poll-
-tax" is systematically levied in Hongkong by the United
States on passengers other than United States citizens
bound for the Philippine Islands, and that in one case at
least a seaman on a British Ship was illegally discharged
because the Captain of the ship preferred to run the risk
of a fine under Section 16 sub-section (12) of Ordinance
26 of 1901 rather than to sail for a United States Port
without the United States Hospital Service Doctor's
Certificate.
2.
I think Your Lordship will agree
that
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE
EARL OF CREW >
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