Berial
Bubject.
Page.
From or to whom,
No
Despatch No, ko.
Date.
Bubject.
Pagu.
1901.
13
Mr. A. Gray
April 11
Jurisdiction at Wei-hai-Wei. Submits, with remarks, draft of an article giving effect to the request of the Admiralty for the reservation of a naval anchorage.
7
23
To Foreign Office...
May 30
14
To Admiralty
***
April 13
Transmits copy of No. 13, and enquires whether the draft clause sufficiently meets naval requirements.
8
Draft Order in Council, Transmits for concurrence copy of the draft as revised by the Law Officers, and further amended in consultation with the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who concur.
14
24
To Admiralty
May 30
Consure in the new sub-clause enclosed
in No. 20.
15
15
Admiralty
April 30
Returns draft clause amended to meet
naval requirements.
8
Proposal to make the British Dollar legal tender.
25
To War Office
May 31
16
War Office ...
May 1
Forwards, with observations, copy of a letter from Major-General Dorward expressing strong approval of the proposal.
9
26
Foreign Office
...
June 28
17
To Admiralty
...
May 4
Draft Order in Council. Demure to the amendments proposed
by the Admiralty, and anggests that Mr. Gray's draft fully provides for all possible contingencies.
Proposal to make the British Dollar legal tender. States that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury concur in the proposal and that Major-General Dorward will be instructed accordingly.
Draft Order in Council. Concurs in the terms of the draft trang-
mitted in No. 23.
15
15
10
27
To
Commissioner
18
July 12
Dorward
18
To Treasury
May 9
Proposal to make the British Dollar legal tender. Proposes to instruct the Commissioner to issue a Proclamation stating that after three months from the date of such Proclamation the Mexican and British dollars will be legal tender on the same terms.
Allowance to Mr. Barton. Confirms telegram agreeing to the pro- posal to grant an allowance at the rate of £150 a year to Mr. Barton with arrears.
16
11
28
Commissioner Dor-
ward.
10
June 1 (Rec. July 22)
Draft Regulations placing territory under British jurisdiction.
Transmits draft regulations in which the Governor of Shantung concurs, and recommends them for @nction.
16
10
To War Office
May 9
Transmits copy of No. 18 and calla attention to the last paragraph respect- ing payments to troops in British or Mexican dollars.
11
29
Commander E. A. A.
Gaunt, R.N.
July 19 (Rec. July 25)
Administration. Submits observations on various points
19
30
Draft Order in Council.
Council Office
20
Admiralty
May 25
Suggests a revised naval anchorage 12
clause to meet Colonial Office views.
31
To
Commissioner Sir A. F.Dot ward
20
August 2
July 80
The Wei-hai- Wei Order in Council. Transmita copies of the Order ...
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20
20
21
21
Treasury
22
Commissioner Dor-
ward.
7
Proposal to make the British Dollar legal tender.
May 28
Concurs in the proposal to instruct the 12
Commisioner to lague a Proclamation,
32
Civil Expenditure, January-March,
To Governor Sir H. A. Blake (Hong Kong).
255
August 2
1901.
April 17
| (Rec, May 30.)|
Forwards, with observations, statement of Civil Expenditure from January 1 to March 31, 1901, and recommends that an allowance of £150 per annum should be assigned to Mr, Barton, pay- able from the date of his arrival in Wei-hai-Wel, in addition to the Con. sular salary of £350.
W'ei-hai-Wei Order in Council, 1901. Transmits the Order in Council, and requests that steps may be taken at the earliest possible date for its publication in the Dependency.
Tranamita copies of the Order in Coun- cil and points out that the Supreme Court of Hong Kong is constituted a Court of Appeal from the High Court of Wei-hai-Wal.
21
13
33
To Commissioner Confi-
Bir A. F. Dorward
August 2
Conveys instructions and explanations...
21
dential.
34
Ditto
21
August 2
Administration. Transmite, with remarks, copy of No. 29
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