CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7] — Page 101

ONFIDENTIA I.

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Hongkong.

21149

Rece

R 11 JUL 10.

12304

My Lord,

90

Government House,

9th. June, 1910.

04

With reference to Mr. Alfred

Lyttelton's Confidential Despatch of the 6th. of May, 1904,

and to previous correspondence on the subject of the

status in China of British Subjects of Chinese race born

in Hongkong, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lord-

-ship's information the enclosed copy of a translation,

prepared in His Britannic Majesty's Legation at Peking and

furnished to this Government by the courtesy of His Bri-

-tannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires there, from the text

of the Chinese Law of Nationality sanctioned by Imperial

Decree of March 28th., 1909, and published in the Official

Gazette of March 31st. in the same year.

2.

I am advised that the words

translated "Chinese" in Article 1 (a) and in Article 5 (a)

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

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&C..

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are