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exept when some advantage is to be gained by its dis-
play.
Such persons benefit by practically all the
advantages of British nationality and suffer very few
of its disabilities. It does not, for instance, act in
practice as a deterrent against residing and owning
property in the interior, and the individual's estate,
when he is dead, excapes death duties in nine cases out
of tene
I have the honour to enquire whether I an au-
thorised to refuse to register as British subjects Tan
Lu-tek and other similar claimants to British status,
I have further the honour to enquire whether
the terms of your despatch No. 28, above quoted, are
to be interpreted as excluding the registration of per-
sons of Chinese race, who are British Protected Persons
as defined by chapter XXII, Faragraph 10 of the General
Instructions to H,K, Consular Officers,
There appears to be no doubt that under the
sxisting instructions persons of Chinese race who held
either I perial or Lecal Certificates of british natur-
alisation are not entitled to registration.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant,
(Signed) A. E. EASTES.
H. B. M. Consul.