CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 274

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18127/12

sir.

Poki: 1983

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Roc? REG 20 MAR 13

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 22, Tranty, of the 20th December lust for- warding copies of ourrespondence with the Colonial Office oa the su✔ject of the statur ia China of British subjects of Chinese race and instructing me to furnish you with my observations on paragraph 2 of the Colonial Office

letter of the 15th lovenser. In this paragraph Hr. Har-

court points out timt unler the special rules of the Chinese Nationality Lnw residence in a foreign Concession excludes residence in a Tranty Port outside the limita of the foreign Concessions nai that, for the purpose of the rules, British suoject of Chinese rucs residing outside the British Concession in « Tranty Port is rajır-

ded as living in the interior of Chim and would consequent-

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ly, unler Rule 4, se trented as a Chinese subject.

Ar liarcourt also desires to be infonset of the

he Right Honournale

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.0., M.F.,

etc.

etc.

8tc.

nature