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5.-That, for these and other reasons given in the address of the Hong Kong Chamber to Her Majesty, such privileges bestowed at Hong Kong, or elsewhere, should be withdrawn or much curtailed.
It is moreover stated in a letter from Lord Rosebery to Count Hatzfeldt, dated April 26th, 1886, that a Postal Convention, similar to that made with France in 1856, was made with Belgium in 1876, and that in a case brought before the British Courts in which privileges of the Convention were pleaded, judgment was given adverse to the terms of the Convention, on the ground that such Convention was not legal unless authorised by Parliament.
It is therefore the opinion of your Memorialists that such privileges, not being allowed by the law of the land, should be withdrawn; and furthermore, that if it is necessary to grant any exemptions to vessels belonging to a foreign nation, they should be such alone as are unavoidable on account of political exigencies, and they should not be of a character to give any undue prestige or freedom to foreign vessels to the prejudice of British vessels and the interests of their owners.
The Council of this Chamber have unanimously adopted the following resolution, viz.:--"That foreign vessels engaged in trade, whether subsidised or not by their Governments, should not enjoy any privileges in British ports which are not accorded to British vessels."
Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Lordships will be pleased to advise that the Ordinances No. 18 and No. 19 of 1888, passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on the 28th day of August, 1888, and objected to by the Hong Kong Chamber may be disallowed, along with other Ordinances of a similar preferential kind passed in other British Crown Colonies.
And Memorialists will ever pray.
Your
Given under the Common Seal of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool this 10th day of January, 1889.
THOMAS H. BARKER, Secretary.
HENRY COKE, PRESIDENT.
100-1/1689.
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5.-That, for these and other reasons given in the address of the Hong Kong Chamber to Her Majesty such privileges bestowed at Hong Kong, or else- where, should be withdrawn or much curtailed.
It is moreover stated in a letter from Lord Rosebery to Count Hatzfeldt, dated April 26th, 1886, that a Postal Convention, similar to that made with France in 1856, was made with Belgium in 1876, and that in a case brought before the British Courts in which privileges of the Convention were pleaded, judgment was given adverse to the terms of the Convention, on the ground that such Convention was not legal unless authorised by Parliament.
It is therefore the opinion of your Memorialists that such privileges, not being allowed by the law of the land, should be withdrawn; and furthermore, that if it is necessary to grant any exemptions to vessels belonging to a foreign nation, they should be such alone as are unavoidable on account of political exigencies, and they should not be of a character to give any undue prestige or freedom to foreign vessels to the prejudice of British vessels and the interests of their owners.
The Council of this Chamber have unanimously adopted the following resolution, viz. :--"That foreign vessels engaged in trade, whether subsidised or not by their Governments, should not enjoy any privileges in British ports which are not accorded to British vessels."
Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray that your Lordships will
be pleased to advise that the Ordinances No. 18 and No. 19 of 1888, passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on the 28th day of August, 1888, aud objected to by the Hong Kong. Chamber may be disallowed, along with other Ordinances of a similar preferential kind passed in other British Crown Colonies.
And Memorialists will ever pray.
your
Given under the Common Seal of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce
of Liverpool this 10th day of January, 1889.
THOMAS H. BARKER, Secretary.
HENRY COKE, PRESIDENT.
100-1/1689.
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