CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 430

Governments of Great

Britain and China

2

also hiruchira

copeer

defining of the Convention and of the Order in Council

2

The memoranda

of the Acting Chief Justice

and the Acting Attorney General, which form the

2nd & 3rd Enclosure, in

the despatch, render it

necessary

to enter into

the case,

Topics of the form

forms of British Subject

Certificates granted.

persons of

Other Memo:

6

granted form in

mentioned

Chief

20th gather

2 Arthur 1898 by which itself the territory within the limits and for the

term described in the

Convention was declared to be part and parcel of the Colony of Hong Kong

and also

by the Proclamation in the former's despatch

the

A print

of the Convention; with

reference to which

further correspondence

45 I Chamberlain

I show

te

3 It was the

requests that will

be considered that as the new Territory is ceded to Great Britain for a term,

the inhabitants did not thereby become British subjects

the date

from the when the territory was definitely

taken over

viz the 16th April last

428

take these papers into

your consideration,

and

your

opinion (1) whether,

and

of the inhabitants of the

new territory as the result regarded

as British subjects.

for all purposes, as from

the 14 July 1898 and

national

not, what is then

states in relation to Hong Kong Government as less bold day than Convention

(2) What power is the new territory #during the continuance to be regarded as British subjects.

I

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Governments of Great Britain and China

2

also hiruchira copeer defining of the Convention and of the Order in Council

2

The memoranda of the Acting Chief Justice and the Acting Attorney General, which form the 2nd & 3rd Enclosure, in the despatch, render it necessary to enter into the case,

Topics of the form, forms of British Subject Certificates granted. Persons of

Other Memo: 6 granted form in mentioned

Chief 20th gather 2 Arthur 1898 by which itself the territory within the limits and for the term described in the Convention was declared to be part and parcel of the Colony of Hong Kong and also by the Proclamation in the former's despatch

A print of the Convention; with reference to which further correspondence 45 I Chamberlain I show te

3 It was the requests that will be considered that as the new Territory is ceded to Great Britain for a term, the inhabitants did not thereby become British subjects the date from the when the territory was definitely taken over viz the 16th April last

428 take these papers into your consideration, and your opinion (1) whether, and of the inhabitants of the new territory as the result regarded as British subjects.

for all purposes, as from the 14 July 1898 and national not, what is then states in relation to Hong Kong Government as less bold day than Convention

(2) What power is the new territory #during the continuance to be regarded as British subjects.

I

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Governments of Great Britain and China

2

also hiruchira copeer defining of the Convention and of the Order in Council 2

The memoranda of the Acting Chief Justice and the Acting Attorney General, which form the 2nd & 3rd Enclosure, in the despatch, render it necessary to enter into the case,

Topics of the form, forms of British Subject Certificates granted. Persons of Other Memo: 6 granted form in mentioned

Chief 20th gather 2 Arthur 1898 by which itself the territory within the limits and for the term described in the Convention was declared to be part and parcel of the Colony of Hong Kong and also by the Proclamation in the former's despatch

A print of the Convention; with reference to which further correspondence 45 I Chamberlain I show te

3 It was the requests that will be considered that as the new Territory is ceded to Great Britain for a term, the inhabitants did not thereby become British subjects the date from the when the territory was definitely taken over viz the 16th April last 428

take these papers into your consideration, and your opinion (1) whether, and of the inhabitants of the new territory as the result regarded as British subjects for all purposes, as from the 14 July 1898 and national not, what is then states in relation to Hong Kong Government as less bold day than Convention

(2) What power is the new territory during the continuance to be regarded as British subjects.

I

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