CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 488

700.

Sir:-

Co

435

C

43478 FOREIGN OFFICE,"

December

REG

141€€ 071907.

With reference to your note of the 11th ultimo,

respecting the appointment of Senor Don Buenaventura

G. Seosne as Consul-General of Peru st Hongkong, with

Jurisdiction in all the British possessions in Asia,

I have the honour to state that it would appear, from

the terms of this gentleman's Commission, that the

Consular district assigned to him includes His Majes-

by's Indian possessions, in which Consuls of Peru

elready reside respectively at Calcutta and Rangoon,

In this case I beg leave to explain that, in ac-

cordance with an invariable rule, the jurisdiction

accorded in Exequaturs granted by His Majesty to For-

eign Consular Officers in His Indian possessions is

limited to the actual ports at which such Consular

Officers reside. In the present, instance, His Majes-

ty'e Secretary of State for India, to whom I referred

jor Lembcke,

&c.,

&C.

the