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Chinese applicants.
The practice is for the applicant to
fill up the form and it is then given a number and returned
to applicant with instructions for him to present it with his
passport at the office of the Secretary of Chinese Affairs.
It is reasonable to assume therefore that there would be some
cases where these instructions were not carried out. Details
Enclosure V. of these missing numbers are shown in Enclosure V hereto.
Endorsements on Passports.
5.
Considerable sums are collected under this source,
but owing to the absence of any register or other record, and to
the fact that no application forms exist it is impossible to
ascertain whether all the revenue collected from this source
has been properly accounted for.
Similar remarks apply in respect of "Hong Kong
Resident" Endorsements.
6.
Renewals of Passports.
Application Forms are filed, and given a serial number, and the relative receipt number is quoted upon the application
form so that an audit verification of the receipts from this
source was a comparatively simple matter.
On examination of the filed applications the
following comments are made.
(a)
Renewals have been granted free of charge in many cases to persons said to be employed as Government servants or to
their families but the declaration, embodied in the form, is
not signed by the Head of Department or other responsible officer
of the Department to which they are associated. For examples vide Nos.52/9; 52/34; 53/134; 53/198; 54/21; 54/196.
(b)
Free grants of renewals have been issued in many
cases to persons employed in the Royal Naval Yard and said to
be "Travelling on Duty" whereas in several known instances the
applicants were returning to England on ter ination of their
residential service in this Colony. For examples vide 52/66;
52/116; 53/52; 53/122.