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.notatoeb
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No. 196 of the 21st. of July last, with en- -closures raising the question whether the Chinese inhabitants
of the leased territory are British subjects.
2.
I caused your despatch and its enclosures to
be submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, and I have to
inform you that I am advised by them that the persons inhabiting
the new territory who were before the cession Chinese subjects
are to be regarded as British subjects for all purposes as from
the 16th. April last, inasmuch as cession of territory effects
and as the
a change in the nationality of the inhabitants,
territory in question has been eeded and is now British terri-
tory, the fact that the cession is for a term of years only
does not affect the conclusion that by the cession the in-
-habitants become for that term British subjects.
3.
I am further advised that persons born in the
territory during the continuance of the lease must be regarded sỗ
British subjects.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) J. Chamberlain,
Governor
Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G.,
80.
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