we combat scel
in out in
Itat
despatch, to be kept in resewer
tire the moment arrives for formed
tabung
OVE
the territory.
всем
Souppose we ought open 7.0.
Concurrence.
MrLucas. MWingfeld
2016
MrLockhart letts me that the proclamation annexed is one which he wome's purpose trissue in Chinese when the leaved land is taken over
to inform the inhabitants generally of the change of foremment. He does not wish the boundaries mentioned ungeh the city g
Kowloon
willy
The proclamation effect nor is it intender
ما
is suff
дел
to have
have legal any.
to be corned for informationiss Itce no
objection to it's termo
Other questions will arise when we get the Hact terms of the lease, for example,
Will the land be foreign teinton
has acquired juniisdiction.
British territory so love In the former
we muro
over which Am
or will it be
the leave laste?
It come an order
in Council under the Foreign Jurisdiction White. In the Kowloon
the new
It would
inexation g1801 there
annesing order in Council passed an
Hong Kong. (fer Vol herewith) seem that this new teinton
territon
curtainly
will be as much "part of It I dominion"
the district in wh: Dr Jameron
28
planned
I& commenced his raid. Another question will be whether the native Inhabitants of the leased land will become British subjects.
нве
21 June 98.
M. Lockhart's proposed procla
·mation should sait the Chinese well. I do not thing I love need
math any reference in it to the City of Howloon.
the based fari-
As to the more important questing wired in M. Cxt minute Would it not be well to butt the spection avoid defining the Status I
•tory and its inhabitants but n learning the actual tums of the convention simply annex it to Hongtion by Letter Patout as follows "Whereas the Faritory
adjoining on colony of Hongkong and its depend maxes and
order in Council annex it to
a the man bustament
The
om
to
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