PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 882
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Enclosure in No. 23.
UNITED-KINGDOM-OF-GREAT-BRITAIN-AND-IRELAND, HONG KONG. Certificate of origin for sugar manufactured in the Faited-Kingdom: Hong Kong, 1, the undersigned Collector of Customs, do hereby certify that the sugar designated below is about to be exported in the vessel
destined for (b)
to (a)
and consigned to (c)
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(No. 195.)
SIR,
and that the
said sugar has been manufactured in the Buitel Kingdom: Hong Kong from raw sugar imported from the countries endorsed thereon.
Xumber and Description
of Packages.
Marks.
Number.
Net Weight in cwts.
Description of Sugar, whether Best or Cane,
Polarization,
Number.
Description.
Port of Date
Directions:-
(a) Port to which shipped.
(4) Country of final destination.
(c) Nume of consignee.
(Signature)
Official Stamp.
Collector of Customs.
The validity of this certificate expires twelve months from the date thereof. This certificate is Lot applicable to sugar in transit,
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No. 25.
MR. LYTTELTON to Acting GoverNOR MAY,
[Answered by No. 31.]
Downing Street, June 24, 1904. WITH reference to the correspondence* noted in the margin, I have the honour Officer Administering the Government, guidance, the accompanying copies of corre- to transmit to you, for your information and No, 104, 11 March, 1904.
Secretary of State, No.90, 24 March, 1904, Secretary of State, Telegram, 13 April, 1904. Secretary of State, Telegram, 29 April, 1904,
Officer Administering the Government, Telegram, 30 April, 2904,
Officer Administering the Government, No. 160, 16 April 1904.
Secretary of State, Telegram, 21 May, 1904. Officer Administering the Government, No. 187, 2 May, 1901.
Ditto, No. 195, 7 May, 1904. Ditto, No. 197, 10 May, 1904.
Colonial Office to Customs, 24 May (with- out enclosure).
Colonial Office to Customs, 9 June (with-
out enclosure).
Customs, 17 June,
Customs, 17 June,
The
spondencet relating to the measures to be adopted in Hong Kong for giving effect to the provisions of the Brussels Sugar Convention which apply to the Crown Colonies. Parliamentary Paper [1632], of 1903, referred to by the Board of Customs, formed the en- closure to my predecessor's circular despatch of the 30th of July, 1903, and I enclose a copy of the Jamaica Law, to which reference is also made.
2. I return at the same time the Bill and draft Regulations forwarded in your
despatch, No. 160, of the 16th of April, in which are indicated in red ink the alterations suggested in the letter from this office to the Board of Customs of the 24th of May.
3. It would appear, from your despatch, No. 195, of the 7th of May,§ which was subsequently received, that no bounty-fed sugar is at present imported into Hong Kong, and further that no Hong Kong refined sugar is exported to any of the contracting States, although, if this is so, I do not understand the statement made by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, as reported in your despatch, No. 104, of the 11th of March, that the exclusion of Hong Kong sugar from French Indo-China involved a principle of very great im- portance to the sugar refiners of the Colony.
4. Apart from this, however, if it is the case that no bounty-fed sugar is at present imported into Hong Kong, the simplest course to adopt would apparently be to prohibit the importation of all foreign sugar which the Permanent Commission has decided to be bounty-fed, adopting at the same time the form of certificate of origin to be used in the case of sugar exported from Hong Kong which is recom- mended by the Board of Customs. There are objections to the alternative course suggested by the Board, viz., the formal adherence of the Colony to the Convention, which would, moreover, entail the placing of the refineries in the Colony in bond.
5. The Jamaica Law, which is enclosed, may perhaps be of assistance to you in framing the necessary legislation.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
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No. 24.
MR. LYTTELTON to ACTING GOVERNOR MAY.
(Sent 4.45 p.m., June 22, 1904.) TELEGRAM.
Referring to my telegram of 21 May,* despatch with full instructions going by next mail.
⚫ No. 15.
Enclosure in No. 25.
JAMAICA-LAW 10 OF 1904.
The Sugar Convention Law, 1904.
[21st April, 1904.]
Whereas His Majesty the King and divers Foreign Powers have entered into a Preamble, Convention signed the fifth day of March, Nineteen hundred and two, in relation to sugar;
And whereas provision is made under Article III., of the Convention for the establishment of a Permanent Commission, with Permanent Bureau attached to it,
↑ Nos. 16, 20, 22 and 23.
I No. 7.
No. 7, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19 and 21.
+ Not printed.
No. 19.
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