CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899 — Page 206

the persons inhabiting

Lenitory who

the

...

were before the Session

Chinese subjects

are

as British

...

be regarded subjects for all papers

as from

the date 16th

April last, cession

of territory

effects a change.

the nationality of

the inhabitants, the

territory cession

has been ceded and is now British

territory, the fact that

the cession is for a

term of years and does

not affect the

conclusion that by the

cession the inhabitants

became for that term British subjects.

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2. I further

advised that persons in the territory

of the

continuance

of the lease must

...

be regarded British subjects.

J. Chambers