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I find great difficulty in dealing with this

The enquiry of the Becretary of State is "whether in the opinion of the Board the practice of the Colony [of Fong Kong] fulfils the requirements of the [Venice] Convention", of 1857.

The official pupers appended in that connexion

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1st. Ryelaws us to notification of infectious

disease issued 27th Novembar lobL.

These byolaus relato

to the intermal administration of the Colony, and have no reference to the action of the Colony as rogurus arrivals from other countries, such as aro in question

in the Venice Convention.

1097.

na. Quarantine Regulations published on 10th April

These regulations embody a number of rules

leaving to an individual official the right to determinu

& number of questions such as the length of periods of detention "in quarantine", the right of persons free from

infectious disease to land bo.

It was one of the principal objects of the

Venace Convention, as of the three previous International

Conventions of Venice, Dresden and Paris, that much

matters should not be loft to the discretion of inui-

vaculis, but that Governments accepting the Convention

should make it definitely know to countries trading

with them whet restrictions would have to be suami tued

to if they entered their pores.