CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904 — Page 170

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Cases

February.

The reference to regulation of drugs may accordingly be amended in future for passports issued to British subjects in China.

3. The rest of the changes affects chiefly the class of persons to whom passports are issued. A number were issued when passports were required for travel in the Colony, which included persons of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor of China, who had agreed to be subject to certain restrictions.

Sir H.A. Blake's Confidential despatch of the 16th of April 1903 refers to persons in the Colony of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor of China, with certain restrictions. It was agreed that the restriction "does not confer upon the bearer any claim or right to British protection".

A new certificate may accordingly be eliminated from the certificate. I desire, however, to call your attention to the penultimate paragraph of the Foreign Office letter, which suggests certain restrictions on persons to whom passports should be issued.

It would appear to be sufficient to require each applicant to provide proof of three years' continuous residence immediately prior to the issue of the passport.

4. The passport should in future...

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Cases February. The reference to regulation of drugs may accordingly be amended in future for passports issued to British subjects in China. 3. The rest of the changes affects chiefly the class of persons to whom passports are issued. A number were issued when passports were required for travel in the Colony, which included persons of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor of China, who had agreed to be subject to certain restrictions. Sir H.A. Blake's Confidential despatch of the 16th of April 1903 refers to persons in the Colony of Chinese parents, subjects of the Emperor of China, with certain restrictions. It was agreed that the restriction "does not confer upon the bearer any claim or right to British protection". A new certificate may accordingly be eliminated from the certificate. I desire, however, to call your attention to the penultimate paragraph of the Foreign Office letter, which suggests certain restrictions on persons to whom passports should be issued. It would appear to be sufficient to require each applicant to provide proof of three years' continuous residence immediately prior to the issue of the passport. 4. The passport should in future...
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Cases

February.

The reference

6 regulation to drugs may accordingly

in future for

la amatted in

the

passports issued to Britiske

Clinize.

3. The

rest of the compe

affects chiefly the class of

persaus

and

issued

A 100 b

a

to

was emired

разерыв

when passports

the for

Mer of

which

Sir H.a.

Blake's Confidential despatch of the 16th of April 1903

-i.c. persons for in the Colmcy of

Chinese

parents subjects of thre

Emperor

مها و

with

see

China

han agreed.

that

LAR

Sund

the restriction ttual

the passport

"dors not

confor upon the bearer

While written the Empire

નવાં કામ

shake

f

Quina

any claim ora

right to British Probation

words

A.

A

new

163

may accordingly

eliminated from

the artificate. I

desire however, to call your attention to the

penultimate paragrafile f the Foreign Office дай

dr Zeb? zą au C.O. Que

letter

letter

marche

1

the 15

which

Suggest certain

restrictions

persans to

(K

to the

when

shamed

these passports should to issued.

It would

to for sufficient

affear to br

require

each

three

years

کھا

cantumans residence

mimediatly previo the issue of the passport.

+. The passpal shamed in fature

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