Number of Ordinance and Year,
No. 25 of 1895
No. 21 of 1887 No. 22 of 1887 No. 22 of 1891
No. 21 of 1891
No. 4 of 1894
No. 15 of 1897
No. 1 of 1898
No. 4 of 1890
No. 15 of 1889
No. 25 of 1891
No. 15 of 1894
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Title or Short Title.
Extent of Non-applica- tion.
An Ordinance to further amend The, Cattle The whole.
Diseases, Slaughter-houses, and Markets Ordinance, 1857.
The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887 The Raw Opiam Ordinance, 1887
The Raw Opium Amendment Ordinance,
1891.
The Prepared Opium Ordinance, 1891 An Ordinance to amend The Prepared Opium
Ordinance, 1891.
The Prepared Opium (Divans) Ordinance,
1897.
An Ordinance to amend The Prepared Opium
(Divans) Ordinance, 1897.
An Ordinance to amend The Public Health
Ordinance, 1887.
The Buildings Ordinance, 1889
The Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 1891 The Closed Houses and Insanitary Dwellings
Ordinance, 1894.
The Building (Amendment) Ordinance, 1895 An Ordinance to amend The Buildinge Ordi-
nance, 1889.
The whole.
The whole.
The whole.
The whole. The whole..
The whole.
The whole.
Section 3.
The whole.
The whole. Sections 7 and 8.
No. 7 of 1895 No. 5 of 1896
The whole.
The whole.
No. 16 of 1896
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The Births and Deaths Registration Ordi-
nance, 1896.
The whole.
No. 24 of 1898
The Liquor Licences Ordinance, 1898
The whole.
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and he agrees with Mr. Chamberlain that the proposals of Sir Robert Hart are also inadmissible.
Mr. Chamberlain suggests that the Chinese Customs duties on opium imported into China from Hongkong, including the new extension, should be actually collected by the Government of Hongkong, in the form of an export duty, and the whole proceeds, after deducting the cost of collection, paid over to the Chinese Government.
Lord Salisbury agrees that the course proposed is that which on the whole is least open to objection, and it would certainly provide a simple and efficient solution of the difficulty. His Lordship is therefore prepared to press its adoption on the Chinese Government.
With reference to the question of the boundary, the third point-referred to in your letter, Lord Salisbury considers, and he gathers from your communication that Mr. Chamberlain is of the same opinion, that Mr. Lockhart's proposals constitute too wide a divergence from the line as defined in the Convention to make it possible for Her Majesty's Government to put them forward in negotiations having for their object the carrying into effect of that instrument.
With regard to the town of Sham Chun, however, which it is desired to include within the leased territory, this place appears to be situated less than two miles north of the Convention boundary, and as the Convention provides that "the exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments," Lord Salisbury agrees that it would be a reasonable demand to make in the circumstances.
I am to enclose the draft of a despatch which His Lordship proposes, with the con- currence of Mr. Chamberlain, to address to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject.
The map (No. X.) which accompanied your letter is herewith returned.
I am, &c.,
FRANCIS BERTIE.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 882
5 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
27906.
(Confidential.)
SIR,
No. 52.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received December 12, 1898.)
[Answered by No. 53.]
Foreign Office, December 10, 1898.
I LAID before the Marquess of Salisbury your letter of the 30th ultimo,* for- warding a copy of Mr. J. H. S: Lockhart's report of his recent visit to the territory in the vicinity of Hongkong acquired under the Convention with Chima of June 9th, 1898, and I am to state that His Lordship entirely concurs in Mr. Secretary Chamberlain's opinion as to the very valuable and interesting character of this report, and as to the assistance it affords in dealing with the various questions involved.
With reference to the three points to which Lord Salisbury's special attention is invited, I am to state, with regard to the first, namely, the jurisdiction to be exercised in Kowloon City, that His Lordship is glad to observe that it is probable that the diffi- culty anticipated in regard to this Article will gradually disappear of itself. The pro- vision in the Convention that "it is at the same time agreed that within the City of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction, &c.," clearly contemplated the case of the civil officials, and Lord Salisbury therefore considers that Her Majesty's Government can fairly call upon the Chinese Government to withdraw the military garrison as suggested.
With regard to the question of the prevention of smuggling into China and the collection of the Chinese Customs duties, Lord Salisbury has already, in the letter addressed to your Department on the 26th September,† expressed the opinion that the "Regulations" drawn up by the Viceroy of Canton for the purpose cannot be accepted,
• No. 47.
↑ No. 32.
Enclosure in No. 52.
(Draft. Sir C. MacDonald. No. .)
SIR,
Foreign Office, December 1898. As you are aware, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, received instructions in June last, being then on leave of absence in this country, to return to his post in order that he might inspect, and furnish Her Majesty's Govern- ment with a report on, the territory acquired from China under the Convention of June 9th, 1898.
2. I now transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Colonial Office on the sub- Colonial ject, together with a copy of Mr. Lockhart's report.
Office,
3. It is proposed that the formal ceremony of taking over the new extension Nov. 30. should take place early in February, and it is therefore necessary that no time should be lost in coming to an understanding with the Chinese Government on some of the more important questions involved.
4. For the present these may be summarized under three heads:-
5.
(a) The jurisdiction to be exercised within the city of Kowloon.
(b) The measures to be adopted for the prevention of smuggling, and for the
collection of the Chinese Customs.
(c) The question of the boundary.
With regard to the first, it would appear from Mr. Lockhart's report that the jurisdiction hitherto exercised in Kowloon city has been of a military rather than of a civil character, and that there is a likelihood of the departure of the military garrison being followed by that of the small civil population. If so, the difficulty anticipated with regard to this Article of the Convention may gradually disappear of itself. In any case, however, the continued existence of a Chinese garrison in territory administered under the British Crown is inadmissible. Moreover, the provision in the Convention that "within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall con- tinue to exercise jurisdiction," &c., was clearly intended to apply to civil officials only. It would, however, be advisable to avoid, if possible, all discussion with the Chinese -authorities on the point, and to confine the communication to be addressed to them to a request for the withdrawal of the troops at an early date, to be mutually agreed upon,