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molod að ta

vfanolvorg nood

Ynolo) and 7.

simonsą to nerbitdo oit.

wi atsojowe daltind sovion

.rofob snit al mroa

mod nerbilno aft

.(8)

10180A sďá to atosidue

orbitio ofiT

*8 ynolo

to the British Crown.

(5).

101

28724

Residents in the New Territories

of the Colony at the time of the cession of the said New

Territories to Great Britain.

The forms of certificate of birth

or nationality furnished by this Government to persons of

each class, revised in accordance with Mr. Lyttelton's

Despatch under reference were forwarded in my Despatch

marked 'Confidential' of the 13th. July, 1904.

4.

Since then Your Lordship has ruled

5-383

in Confidential Despatch of the 25th. of last February

that British nationality cannot be claimed for persons

24-810

3

in class 5.

It has been held in the past

(see pages 78 and 79 -Memorandum by Mr. R. W. Brant of

8th. November, 1898, and Memorandum by Sir J. Pauncefote

of 15th. March, 1879,- of the printed correspondence respect -

-ing British protection to Anglo-Chinese in China which

formed an enclosure to Mr. J. Chamberlain's Confidential

Despatch of 17th. July, 1903.) that persons in classes 1,

2, and 4 are by British Law held to be entitled to pro-

-tection in China, and the certificates for these classes

indicate this fact.

The