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CONFIDENTIA L.
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- 28 SEP 12
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 23rd. August, 1912.
Sir,
Gov. 34662/13
Gov 28724/04
Gov. 21149/10
In reply to your Confidential Despatch of the
17th. may, I have the honour to inform you that I propose to
continue to issue tine forms of certificate forvarded in my Confi-
-dential Despatch of the 13th. July, 1904, to the different classes
of British subjects of Chinese descent referred to in paragraph 3 of my Confidential Despatch of the 9th. June, 1910, subject to
the limitations suggested by Er. Hurst in his inute of 1st. September, 1910, (page 22 of printed correspondence No. 28910/1910) in the classes he has designated (b) and (c). I shall be glad, however, to learn whether you desire the limitation in (c) to
individuals who continue to reside in Hongkong to be extended as suggested by Sir F. Lugard to individuals resident in a Treaty Port of China. I am not myself in favour of the extension.
I understand that the above procedure will
conform to what Sir F. Lugard intended.
3.
I take this opportunity of acknowledging your
Confidential Despatch of the bin. of July and of informing you
that I have not received the printed enclosure referred to in Sir
E. Grey's letter of 27. June, 1912, to Sir J. Jorden.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Lost obedient, humble servant,
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HRCOURT, M.P..
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