W
FOREIGN OFFICE,
March 5 1900.
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Sir:-
I have laid before the Marquess of Salisbury
your letter of the 26th ultimo, transmitting a copy
of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, in
which His Excellency asks that a Passport may be
issued to Mr. T. H. Whitehead who proposes to travel
to Europe by way of Siberia.
In reply, I am directed by His Lordship to state
to you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamber-
lain, that it is against the Regulations for a Pass-
port to be sent abroad.
There seems no reason, however, why Mr. White-
head should not be supplied with a passport by the
Governor of Hong Kong.
Ry a Colonial Office Circular dated the 23rd of
September 1891, the Governors of Her Majesty's
Colonies were authorized to issue passports to Brit-
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
18h
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