CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 445

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not know what special provisions there may be in it for

the control mnd management of the new territóry.

are sasured, however, that there is nothing in it about the Custome; but that, at the same time the Convention

was signed, letters were exchanged between our Minister and the Teungli-Imen to the effect that the British Gov-

eriment would do all it could to safeguard the Chinese

revenue in the new territory; and in connection with

that promise Sir Robert Hart has put forward the follow-

ing demands:·

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(1) That the Commissioner of Customs now known a

che (Chinese) Kowloonɛ Commissioner shull be fully re-

cognised in Hongkong and by the Hongkong Uovernment as

an Imperial Chiness offloor, raad his office in Hongkong

shall also be recognised and soknowledged.

(2) That the Imperial Marliign Customs shall be

full, authorised and empowered to collect, in Hongkong, all duties, lekin included, on opium and on all goods

and merchandise carried from or to any Chinese porte

in Chinese junks or ve essls.

(3) That the better to enable them to do this, they

shall have set apart for them in the harbour two or more

wharves or jetties, close to the junk anchorages.

(4) That their cruisers and launches shall be per-

mitted to exercise the same rights in the waters of Mira

Bay, Deep Bay and all the meters newly assigned to us as

they have done to date 1.-., complete aqcess to all por-

tions at all timea with full rights of seizure and search

in respect of all vesselo, as if the watere wero wholly

Chinese.

(5) The right to retain all their existing stations Capsul-moon, Lai-Chi-Kok, (in our very harbour)