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CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

descendunts wherum form officisins who was Chimar

originals

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ag 27.6.

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12660

Rece

Sir,

C. O.

Red 23 JUN 32

Foreign Office

265

June 22th 1898

J22.

reply

to

your.

letter of

3/115.84

the 16th instant respecting the

nationality of a person of Chinese descent bom in Hong Kong, I am directed by the Marquis of-

Salisbury to request that you will state to Lord Knutsford.

that

any person born in Ster Majesty's Dominions is prima facies a British subject, but that the qualification should be added

"unless he has divested himself

British

of his nationality in the manners

provided by law." This, in the

Under Secretary of State.

Carl

Colonial Office

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