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My Lord,
320
Government House,
Hongkong, 30th. July, 1890.
I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information copy of a latter, with its enclosures, which I have addressed to Her Majesty's representative at Peking enquiring whether the Chinese Government recognise the authority of the Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and Dis- -trict to require British owned steam launches and yachts of this Colony, *x*x*xxiXXXXXKEKİKİ to obtain his permission be- -fore leaving the waters of the Colony, and to issue certain "towing" certificates, described in the letter, to Hongkong
Launches.
Your Lordship will remember that in the Agreement under the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention, signed at Hongkong in the autumn of 1886, it was arranged that China should for the better protection of her Opium Revenue esta* -blish a Maritime Customs Office in Chinese territory in the mainland opposite Hongkong. Pending the building of such office, the Commissioner ofCustoms for Kowloon was allowed to reside and transact business in the Colony and he has continued
to do so ever since.
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I have lately addressed Sir John Walshan on this subject pointing out the desirability of the Commissioner's Offics being removed to Chinese territory, and I have now, will be seen by the letter above referred to, asked Sir John Walsham to ascertain for me from the Chinese Government what the powers and position of the Commissioner really are, as they
do not appear to me to have been ever defined.
I may mention in conclusion that as Your
Lordship
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