The Law Officers of the Crown
appear to have advised in 1867 (page 79 of the printed
102
paper referred to) that no claim of jurisdiction in China
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over the children born in Hongkong of Chinese parents
subjects of the Emperor of China should be asserted or
allowed by His Majesty's Government.
Nevertheless it was decided in
the correspondence which formed enclosures to Mr. Lyttel-
-ton's Confidential Despatch of the 6th. May, 1904, to
delete the words in the certificates formerly used for
this class indicating that the holder was not entitled in
China to British protection and to substitute the form of
words appearing in the revised certificate.
Cases coming under this particular
class are the most numerous and have consequently given
the most trouble, and it is in my opinion open to question
whether the decision to afford persons in this class
protection in China, was a wise one.
It is certainly anomalous that
A
protection should be extended to this class and to persons
in class 1 and should be denied to persons in class 5.
5.
The Chinese law now submitted by
Article 1 (a) denies recognition by the Chinese Authorities
of
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