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No.30.
sir,
H.B.K.Consulate,
AMOY,
28th July, 1918,
565
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your
despatch No.13 of May 31st last, enclosing copy of a despatch from the Governor at Hongkong regarding differences
in the number of passengers permitted to be carried by
emigration vessels from various ports in North China.
I have been unable to trade the copies of the admeasurem ment certificates which, it is suggested in your despatch,
were sent to this Consulate by the Colonial Government
(of Hongkong). The certificates of admeasurement in
use in this Consulate were originally furnished to this Consulate by the Goverment of the Straits Settlements,
for which Government His Majesty's Consul at Amoy aate as
Emigration Officer; and it is under the Ordinance No.
XXXII of 1910 and the Passenger Stemmer Rules of 1911
promulgated by the Straits Settlements that emigration is conducted in this port. I enclose copy of a certificate
form. It is more complete in detail than is a Hongkong
certificate.
No copy of the Straits Settlements Ordinance being found in this office --having doubtless been lent to some previous Marine Surveyor and never returned --I was obliged to apply to the Straits Settlements Government for a copy of the Ordinance before I could reply to your
despatch. This reply is therefore somewhat delayed.
The Right Honourable
Sir John Jordan, G.C.1.E., K.C.B., K.O.F.G.,
etc.
eto.
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His Majesty's Minister, PEKING.
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