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"Voyage Charter" would be carefully amended.
7.
The Admiral concurred generally
in them and in his despatch to the Foreign Office of 28th.
November, 1907, he suggested various modifications which
the Consul-General embodied in a new draft set of Regula-
-tions. Sir Havilland de Sausmarez will make proposals to
the Foreign Office as to the best method of giving legal
effect to these Regulations after they have been further
modified in accordance with the points to which I referred
in paragraph 5. Even though it may not be possible to give
them full legal sanction without an Order-in-Council he
has stated it as his opinion tn the urgency of the
circumstances that they should be brought into operation
at once, since they create no new illegality, and will
operate to very effectively remedy the present state of
things, which besides being illegal are distinctly unjust
to China, and have given rise to a system of fraudulent
declarations of ownership (the intermediary receiving a
fee for the use of his name), and other abuses. It is
probable that if the solution is found in the direction
proposed the number of launches flying the British flag
will be greatly reduced and passenger launches will be
entirely precluded from using it. I have not been able to discover
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