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that office, on the subject of the Chinese Regiment at Wei-hai-wei. and its proposed use at Hong Kong.
2. I shall be glad if you will inform me at your early convenience of your views as to the suitability of the men of this regiment for service in the Colony.
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No. 44.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN to COMMISSIONER SIR F. DORWARD.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No. 26.)
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SIR,
No. 41.
M CHAMBERLAIN to ACTING COMMISSIONER SIR A. DORWARD.
(Secret.)
[Answered by No. 63.]
Downing Street, August 16, 1901.
I HAVE the honour to forward, for your consideration and report, a copy of a letter received from the War Office, and of the replyt which I have caused to be addressed to that office on the subject of the Chinese Regiment at Wei-hai-wei, and the proposal to use some of the men of this regiment for police purposes on the main-
land.
2. I shall be glad if you will inform me at your early convenience of what arrangements you can make for the establishment of a civil police for the mainland, and will send me an estimate of the cost.
Downing Street, August 23, 1901.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 10, of the 1st of June, and to inform you that I approve the Regulations for giving effect to the provisions of the Convention for the lease of Wei-hai-wei, a draft of which was enclosed in that despatch.
2. An arrangement has recently been made between the Governor of Hong Kong and the Viceroy of Canton which provides that a British officer shall be allowed to be present at the trial of any criminal extradited from Hong Kong to Canton, as a safeguard against the infliction of torture.
3. This is, at present, only a temporary and local agreement, but His Majesty's Minister at Peking has been instructed to endeavour to secure the permanent adoption of this course in the case of every offender extradited from British to Chinese territory.
4. Pending the settlement of the general question, I should be glad if you would try to induce the Governor of Shantung to enter into a similar agreement with regard to persons extradited from Wei-hai-wei.
I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
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I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
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No. 45.
SIR,
No. 42.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 19, 1901.)
[Copy to Commissioner, August 23, 1901, Confidential. L.F.]
Foreign Office, August 17, 1901.
I HAVE laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your letter of the 9th instant, relating to the inclusion of the walled city of Wei-hai-wei within British jurisdiction. I am directed by His Lordship to inform you that His Majesty's Minister at Peking will be instructed not to lose sight of this matter.
SIB,
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
[Answered by No. 51.]
Downing Street, August 23, 1901.
WITH reference to your letter of the 28th May last, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commis- sioners of the Treasury, the draft of a Wei-Hai-Wei Legal Tender Ordinance.
2. I am to enquire whether their Lordships concur in the terms of this draft.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
am,
&c.,
F. H. VILLIERS.
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No. 43.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received August 20, 1901.)
Foreign Office, August 19, 1901.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant,§ and to state that His Lordship concurs in Mr. Secretary Chamberlain's proposal to approve the Regulations provisionally agreed upon by the Commissioner of Wei-hai-wei and the Governor of Shantung, to give effect to the provisions of the Convention for the lease of Wei-hai-wei to His Majesty's Government. In regard to the question of the presence of a British officer at the trial of Chinese criminals extradited from Wei-hai-wei, I am to refer you to the letter from this Department of the 15th instant, from which it will be seen that His Majesty's Minister at Pekin is being instructed to endeavour to obtain from the Chinese Government an undertaking that the temporary arrangement now in force at Canton shall be rendered applicable to Chinese subjects extradited from any portion of the British Dominions.
I am, &c.,
T. H. SANDERSON.
(Draft.)
Enclosure in No. 45.
Whereas by the Wei-Hai-Wei Order in Council, 1901, it is provided that there shall be a Commissioner and over the territories within the limits of the said Order,
and that the Commissioner may make and proclaim ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the said territories, and of all persons within the same:
Now, therefore, I, the Commissioner for Wei-Hai-Wei, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the said Order in Council, do proclaim as follows:-----
1901.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wei-Hai-Wei Legal Tender Ordinance,
2. (i.) The British silver dollar of the standard weight and millesimal fineness specified in the first schedule to this Enactment shall be the standard coin of Wei- Hai-Wei.
(ii) Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter and thing whatever relating to money, of involv- ing the payment of or the liability to pay any money, shall, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, be held to be made, executed, entered into, done and had in Wei-Hai-Wei according to the standard coin of Wei-Hai-Wei.
(iii.) The coin mentioned in the second schedule to this Enactment shall be treated as equal to the standard coin.
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