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Seria! No,
Despatch
From or to whom,
Date.
Subject.
Tage.
From or to whom.
No.
Despatch No, &o.
Data,
No, ko.
1901.
1901.
-
vii
41
To
Commissioner
26
35
War Offee...
August 3
Military Arrangements. Describes revised arrangements made after consultation with the Admiralty.
August 23
Sir F. Dorward.
23
36
To Foreign Office...
August 9
Inclusion of the walled city of Wei-hai- Wei in British jurisdiction. States that the Commissioner has asked whether anything is being done, and trusts that the question will not be lost sight of when an opportunity presents itself for pressing it.
23
Subject,
Regulations bringing Territory under British Jurisdiction.
Approves of the Regulations enclosed in No. 28. States arrangement made with the Governor of Hong Kong and the Viceroy of Canton for the preven- tion of torture to criminals extradited from Hong Kong to Canton, and requests that an effort may be made to induce the Governor of Shantung to enter into a similar agreement with regard to prisoners extradited from Wei-hai-Wei.
Draft Legal Tender (British Dollar) Ordinance. Transmita for concurrence draft of an
ordinance.
Page.
29
37
War Office...
...
August 10
Use of Chinese Regiment for Police duties. Transmits copy of a letter to the Gene- ral Officer Commanding the troops, together with a copy of the reply re- ceived.
45
To Treasury
24
August 23
29
Civil Government of the island of Liukung tao.
46
Commissioner
Bir
11
A. Dorward.
38
To Foreign Office...
August 12
39
To War Office
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August 14
Draft Regulations placing Territory under British jurisdiction. Transmits copy of No. 28, and proposes to approve of the draft regulations, but to request Major-General Dor- ward to arrange with the Chinese Governor that a British Officer shall be present at the trial of any Chinese criminal given up to the Chinese authorities.
Military Arrangements. Requesta, in reply to No. 35, that no further steps may be taken as regards the reduction of the Chinese Regi- ment until Sir A. Dorward and the Governor of Hong Kong have been consulted in the matter.
June 22 (Rec. Aug. 26.)
Submits proposals
30
27
47
Commissioner
Magistrate for Mainland District.
Sir Telegram (Rec. Sept. 6.) | Concurs in the appointment of Mr. Hare
33
A. F. Dorward.
48
To
Commissioner Telegram September 6 Sir A. F. Dorward.
Appoints Mr. Hare magistrate for the
Mainland district.
33
49
Commissioner Sir 13
A. F. Dorward,
July 16 (Rec. Sept. 10.)
27
Chinese Jurisdiction in the walled city of Wei-hai-Wei, Urges that, for the reasons set forth, immediate steps should be taken to secure its abolition.
34
50
To
Commissioner
27
September 11
Magistrate for Mainland District. Confirms No. 48 appointing Mr. Hare...
35
Sir A. F. Dorward.
40
H.
To Governor Sir Secret
A. Blake
August 16
(Hong Kong).
Transmits copies of Nos. 35 and 39, and requests views as to the suitability of the Chinese regiment for service in the Colony.
27
51
Treasury
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Beptember 23
41
To Acting-Commis-
Becret
August 16
sioner Sir A, Dor- ward.
Transmits copies of Nos. 33 and 39, and enquires what arrangements can be made for the establishment of a civil police for the mainland, and what would be the estimated cost.
28
52
To
Commissioner Sir A. Dorward,
28
42
Foreign Office
August 17
Inclusion within British jurisdiction of the walled city of Wei-hai-Wei. States, in reply to No. 36, that His Majesty's Minister at Peking will be instructed not to lose sight of the question.
53
Ditto
Secret
28
43
Ditto
Angust 19
Regulations bringing Territory under
British Jurisdiction.
Concurs in the proposal to approve the 28
Regulations.
Draft Legal Tender Ordinance. Concurs in the draft of a Wei-hal-Wei Legal Tender Ordinance, and points out that no provision is made as re- gards subsidiary coinage.
Civil Government of the island of Liukung tao. September 26 Makes observations upon the proposals submitted in No. 46; asks that these may be reconsidered in connexion with No. 34, and a further report submitted.
September 26 Points out that the estimate of military and naval requirementa upon which the Committee of Sites based their proposals must necesarily be modified by the decision as to future military arrangements at Wei-hai-Wei, and that although the Treasury might be asked to increase the grant in aid to carry out proposals in No. 46, they could not be asked to include a vote for the pur- pose in any supplementary estimate that may be proposed for 1901–02.
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36
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From or to whom.
Date.
No., ko.
1901.
vini
51
To Foreign Office...
September 27
55
Foreign Office
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1
56
To
Commissioner
29
Sir A. Dorward.
Subject.
October 3
October 3
Chinese Jurisdiction in the walled city of Wei-hai-Wei. Transmits copy of No. 42, and enquires whether there is sufficient justifica. tion for requiring the cessation of Chinese jurisdiction within the city; Buggests as an alternative that the Chinese should remove the sergeant and replace him by a high grade military official, and that they should allot a sum to the expenses of the civil administration.
States that His Majesty's Government are precluded by the Convention of July 1, 1898, from ousting the local Chinese jurisdiction, and that His Majesty's Minister at Peking is being communicated with as to the ad- visability of opening negotiations for the surrender by arrangement with the Chinese Government, and trans. mits copy of the instructions sent to him.
Draft Legal Tender Ordinance. Transmits copies of correspondence relative to the proposal to make the British dollar legal tender at Wei-bai- Wei, and states that the Ordinance may be published subject to the con- ditions specified; requests views as to the supply of subsidiary coin to the Dependency.
Notifies that it has been decided that the Commissioner shall by Ordinance declare the British dollar legal tender at Wei-hai-Wei on equal terms with the Mexican dollar, subject to the consent of the Chinese authorities to steps being taken to ensure its free acceptance in the walled city of Wei-bai-Wei.
57
To Governor Sir H.
333
October 3
A. Blake (Hong Kong).
58
To
Commissioner
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