CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 141

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requiring

evidence

of their

being British born subjects,

- I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that I have

recently,

with the advice of the Excentive Council, refused two applications which have

been made by Chinese traders

engaged in

- business in Siam, for certifientes

having been born

of i

their having

this Colony,

2.

It appears

that

Chinese residents in diam,

in

*

are su

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subject under the local registration laws to a certain triennial tax, from which ~ however the fact of being -

a

the registered subjects of

Foreign Power with which Siam has concluded a

exempt.

treaty, renders them

There is good

3.

reason to believe, therefore, that applications of the nature of those referred to

above, which have been

· very

Common

of late, are

:

arc

simply

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