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I have the honour to transmit to Your
Excellency with a request that you will be good enough to bring
to the notice of the Chinese Government the facts I am about
to mention, copy of a letter from a resident in this Colony
enclosing copy of a communication addressed to him by the
Bommissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District. The cor-
-respondence relates to a trip which the Cormissioner complains
was made without previous permission from the Chinese Authori-
-ties, by a launch owned by Captain Burnie to a small bay in the
estuary of the Canton Rivor.
2.
It seems to me somewhat irregular that the
Commissioner of Chinese Customs should address an official
letter direct to a resident of Hongkong, without any reference
whatever to the Government of this Colony xxxxx by whose
courtesy the Commissioner has been permitted for a consider-
-able time past to transact business in po gkong pending the
completion of an office on Chinese Territory at Kowloon.
This Government had occasion to take
exception to this mode of communication being adopted under
similar circumstances by Mr. McLeavy Brown's predecessor
Morgan - and the Commissioner has now been requested to com-
-municate with His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton on
questions arising between his Department and residents x in
this Colony.
3.
Another point suggested by Mr. Mc.Loavy
Brown's letter is whether the Chinese Government recognise the
authority of the Kowloon Commissioner of Customs to demand that
pleasure launches and yachts owned and registered by English-
-men in this Colony, should obtain the permission of the Com-
issioner