CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10] — Page 329

bro diwo 8 SIC ni noiustabisnuo tebnu nolsasun ent

j..

anino mi mrcotte ou að noidosdom and to ender

a ni mrod jed‚s.ie0 % Toreqid edd to atooidis to aetalico beei edes l'irres en? „(k[Po ora is J ee Ĝ nme(D) yaoloŭ sidin

To moich NIC G AÀ ITod cuanic) Teruo bus sredla od bo-

SIS.J Janilexude ingen. and grin.deb tu. Jovide me bec -daises moIV. 12 100 kis daro and to rebion and to sudeja dovo Tinku To Guterrotteg noe hi anhù al alongo0 e'...ll qui- noidnedorg Bid on ,hia ni umoo od dIvona Joojdu alt .geidub

晕

mítug fad to stoig Two mi saeideal ̧m, ecard od bobrotta od od -dua t. N ni di pakav road av tol beronşi ed bluoda to equidgau) erng on enviovoi facs sao lan sonadanymi vrebÃO- .ypileg oiloan

.S

noisreces and nut Bun 2001 oni su od 12 g) engi and prolab a. Tetawy wo" tond vd gadw toɔjdse aimed merb #591 nood Ron Wea 3JOBY TO 3ei Joana di rang 10h foam bevieos

o'qdnojet all delle dig off to esp sid ni noitatouib or

slideo. 913 anino mi niceso

****

દ

ord rod SVI ON C Cloth trades : anals eind of moitosd- sezt svig lfiw,brolle of badu.tib won ots yodd da. 3 moldoetong .ODNARIOVC) atoning and dei: Betwyni, nuoina/1258 od

.6 par 3001 ai no mugins flapot adril vinel ti: Swf

onomiaŭ univzorch is dviese sa doadong of rewog visnolcanonih Bui mi siioiab soow ydeeya. nill to dospun mod latus v. lutwal ni ergne ot vienes, C110 adiety oum bau ynofo✪ uzicird yımeli vit nous Rob Znsupeadus a mI „drog Wasid a ja ebang dum,8cosidus LVK İTH baribieron babuloni plomo sodun pašla Ti^ Loadqreb re:tal elow I .banaang Toven asw noites que aind allow bodastenq 90 Zizons Bontag stand and bodas 0:31. Tumek deid17¤ Todo stane droi yun? « mi esentep, Iutwal ni byja.ne

islo od boldiens ed .INOLD 12,sbod od beldiens ons ajoejuve 10 AN0BT9q GJ vwļai to eeno ni alarmurod wild to 899ilto boo; 90d anout .(simil troq yosert shipduo) enhilo ni eltä ydregorg

abior ZA (VIİLDS. Jo ge tied at been droo on are

a leo os Igenop

.Y 10

Page 15 of

Print 990/10 0.8.0.

Registrar- General's minute of 24.6.09. 3893/09 0.5.0.

edung See Corres-

-pondence in 4424/04 0.8.0.

.bic

.10

Sir E.Satow's memo. of 15. 6.03 in 6422A/03 C.8.0.

4424/04 C.S. 0. page 2 of print F.0. to 0.0. 4. 7.03 in 64224/03.

F.0. to 0.0. 29.2.04 in 4424/04.

2.

324

Consul "to use his good "offices" is a very different thing from "the exercise of diplomatic pressure", and is not expected to be as effective.

4. At present however the Governor does not discri- -minate between deserving and undeserving cases: the Registrar-Ceneral has received no instructions to report on any other point than the credibility of the evidence of birth, and it is desirable in the first instance, and with- -out regard to any other consideration, for the Governor so to exercise the discretion which he is apparently authorised (though this is by no means clear) to use, such a way as to confine the issue of these certificates

solely to individuals in the class which Sir Henry Blake

had in his mind.

in

5. The exercise of a discretionary power was in the minds of both the officers who advocated the protection of Chinese in Class 3 and it is improbable that the change

would have been recommended without some security that the

protection should not be abused.

6. The history of the abandonment of the discretion-

-ary power is interesting reading.

Sir Henry Blake desired that discretionary power

should be vested in the Governor or in British Consuls in

China. Sir Ernest Satow very rightly objected to conferring this power on His Majesty's Consuls. The Foreign Office went further, and thought that the exercise of discretion- -ary power by the Governor might possibly lead to differ- -ential treatment of persons within the same category, and suggested the issue of definite instructions to the Colonial Governors. To meet the view of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office sugested that certificates should only be issued to persons who had resided in the Colony for the three preceding years.

7.

This taken us a long way beyond what Sir Henry Blake contemplated, and the further condition, mentioned by

the