CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 481

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with Her Majesty's Minister at Peking.

(4)

Under the agreement of 1886, the Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District has supreme charge of the Revenue

Cruisers of the Chinese preventive service, and : this Government corresponds

direct with him

questions arising out of the administration of that

service.

In

In future

are such

communications to be

addressed to the Consul?

476

These are the principal

a

points that occur to me the moment, on which

on

are

required definite

instructions for the

guidance of this Government

I notice that the

5.

appointment of the Consul is to be on

-probation, as it

were, for

for one year. With due deference I

Now

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