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HONGKONG,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
17th. June, 1915.
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With reference to the correspondence ending
with Mr. Harcourt's Confidential Despatch of the 15th. February, I have the honour to inform you that it was recently found impossible to deport a Chinese born in Hongkong of Chinese parents who was not the possessor of, and to whom this Government would not have issued, the certificate which this Government issues in approved cases to Hongkong natural born Chinese, but who had been registered at the end of last year at His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General in Canton on the production of an extract from the Birth Register showing that he had been born in Hongkong.
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It may be that the interpretation Indicated in paragraph 2 of my Despatch No. 23 of the 22nd. of January, 1914, of paragraph 2 of Mr. Harcourt's Despatch No. 329 of the 24th. of October, 1913, is not correct. But in any case I would enquire whether there is objection to the law being amended so as to make registration in a Consulate in China no longer a bar to deportation from this Colony. In this connection I would refer to paragraph 6(e) of the Despatch just referred to which appears to indicate that the test is the possession of a British born certificate and not registration at a Consulate.
I have the honour to be, gir,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
E RIGHT HONOURABLE
Governor, &c.
ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,
&c.,
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