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ONFIDENTIA L.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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18 JUN 1910
289 6198
Government House,
Hongkong, 28th. April, 1910.
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onclosure 1.
R 28 MAY 10:
With reference to paragraph 5 of
my Confidential Despatch of the 9th. instant in which I
stated I had under consideration certain suggestions made
to me by Mr. A. H. Harris, Commissioner of the Chinese
Imperial Maritime Customs for co-operation between this
Government and the Imperial Maritime Customs with a view to
increasing the control over the launch and junk traffic
between Hongkong and China in order, on the one hand, to
protect China's revenue, end, on the other hand, to extend
facilities to the trade of the Colony especially in con-
-nection with the distribution of goods to non-Treaty
Ports, I have the honour now to forward herewith for Your
Lordship's favourable consideration the enclosed draft of
an Anglo-Chinese Customs Convention, which has been drawn
up in consultation with r. Harris, and embodies the
principles upon which alike in my opinion, and in that of
the Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs,
the objects aimed at may be best attained.
Fonclosure 2. Enclosure
3.
2.
The history of the establishment
of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs in Hongkong is
summarized in the enclosed Memorandum dated the 19th.
April, 1909, by Mr. C. Clementi, who has also shown in the
attached minute dated the 16th. ultimo that the removal of
the Chinese Customs to more distant stations, owing to the
acquisition by this Colony of the New Territories in 1899,
has
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE BARL OF CREWE,
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