[ { "id": 235161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "content_text": "Rader, unmeh Tow Lew Kuong, was removing his family to this place for safety, as his native town, Kaoting, in Shuntuck, to the westward of Canton, was affected by the disturbances prevailing throughout the Province.\n\nHe had taken the precaution to hire armed boats, but there were attacks on the 10th instant at the entrance to the Capsuigmoon passage, which borders one side of our Harbour; his family members, 35 persons male and female, and the treasure and property seized are estimated at 60,000 Dollars.\n\n14. His man applied to me for assistance, but it was out of my power to help him, and Sir William Robinson was without a war steamer under his control, as some 90 or 100 men were absent from the \"Spartan\" (the majority being on the expedition to the \"Calderas\" wreck, to which I have above referred).\n\n15. He offered to incur any expense and wished to hire two Merchants' Steamers, provided British Seamen were put on board. He renewed his applications from day to day, and, when the Spartan's ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "D\n\nExchange\n\nat\n\nMongkong has\n\nin consequence of the scarcity\n\nof Mexican dollars, risen\n\nto $4.4/20\n\nCash in.\n\nHongkong\n\n5/8/1⁄2 thus working rate of 21 per annum - at\n\nleast 12 or 13 per cent of\n\nwhich would\n\nbe saved\n\nby a\n\nMint in\n\nHongkong.\n\nI annex\n\na\n\ncutting\n\nfrom a\n\nHongkong\n\ndaily paper of\n\na\n\ncase\n\nof Piracy\n\noutside the\n\nharbour, and may\n\nmention\n\nthat four\n\nsuch exports often\n\noccur monthly in the\n\nPolice Reports.\n\nMs.NN.\n\nPIRACY OUTSIDE THE HARBOUR.\n\nThe following is from the Daily Press of this morning:\n\nOn Sunday evening a Chinese passage-boat coming from Chungchow to Hongkong, having a crew and passengers numbering ten in all, was attacked by a piratical Hakka boat outside Lamma Island, and after a sharp contest in which four persons in the passage-boat were killed and three wounded, the piratical craft made off towards the Capsuymoon. It appears that the passage-boat had observed the Hakka boat bearing down upon them, but they anticipated no attack until they were hailed to stop. Discovering the nature of their visitor, the crew got up their arms, which consisted of four old muskets and some swords, and kept on their course with a light wind, when the other boat fired into them a charge of musketry. The fire was returned, all the passengers assisting in defending the vessel; and after a contest described as having continued for nearly an hour, the piratical craft made off, and the other boat kept on and anchored about 9 o'clock at the Salt Fish Bay, Lamma.\n\nMr. Sherman, bailiff of the Supreme Court, was returning from Aberdeen on Sunday evening, and when between Pokfulam and Mount Davis on the Aberdeen road, he had his attention called by a Chinaman who was looking on, to sharp musketry firing going on about 200 yards from the shore - two boats firing into each other. There were other boats in sight. One boat made off towards the Capsuymoon, and the other boat towards Hongkong. The boats were very near together, about ten yards apart only, during the time he saw them. He did not see the first of the firing.\n\nThrough the negligence of somebody, the matter was not brought to the notice of the proper authorities so soon as it should have been. The wounded men were conveyed to hospital, we believe not till the following day, as the Colonial Surgeon stated that he knew nothing of it till 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, when amputation of some of the limbs became necessary in the case of one or two of the wounded men.\n\nAn inquest was held yesterday at noon at the Coroner's, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against some persons unknown.\n\nAt the inquest, the owner of the passage-boat who escaped personal injury was asked if he had ever paid any \"squeeze money,\" or if he had reason to anticipate an attack through refusing to pay such. He replied that passage-boats and salt-fish-boats from Chungchow paid no such, nor was anything demanded in extortion from this class of boats to his knowledge.\n\n5\n\nCUTTING", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "## \n107% \n\nTheako) as \"ports for Chinese cruiser to Foxals from aut Exy dues in British, ke.\" The water. from Chuiler \n\n### 6. Junks \n\nChuise Customhouse Station is in the Capshuimoon Pass, which, (to any good map will shawd,) is near the mouth of the Caulon River, in quite a different direction... Again, the best Raval authorities are (so I can informed) already agreed that a Light-lonce is really wanted, not on any of the plands mentioned by General Sargent, but in another quarter. The Chuisso Light Ceauses are now under the control of the Imperial Custönn Sefartment; the head of which is Sir Robert Hart H.CING., who is not likely to reject any really well-considered and necessary proposals.\n\n(4) It would be easy to point out other grave objections in detail to the plan so inopportunely ventilated by General Sargent. Of course, the great extrusion which he proposes to give to the British territory on the mainland of China would increase and intensify the evils and difficulties connected with the Border population.\n\n### 8 \n\nPage 33.24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "page_number": 752, "title": "CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7]", "content_text": "Non-visual\n\nB-ttam Launch Towing Certificate.\n\nKowloon, 18th Febry, 1890\n\nThis is to certify that the steam Launch \"Ram\" owned by Ahok Wong & Wong Rung authorized to enter Chinese waters at pleasure to wait at or near the Custom House stations at Capshimoon, Chanchow, Dio To Chow, Kowloon for the purpose of towing native craft, with merchandise or carrying passengers, to and from between the Island of King Fing about 1 mile to the Eastward of the Capshimoon Station.\n\nThe limits within which she is permitted to ply are:-\n\nOn the East a line drawn from the northernmost point of High Island to the nearest point of Ap Steep Island about 2 miles S. M. by E. of the Chang Chow Station,\n\nOn the West a line drawn from outside the Fado Chow Station, to the immediate vicinity of the Kowloon Station.\n\nThis certificate must be produced when passing any Customs station or when required by Customs officers.\n\nIt is not transferable and from the date of issue, it must be returned to Commissioner of Customs Kowloon, to be cancelled.\n\n(Signed) H. Morgan\n\nCommissioner\n\nThe Launch is not permitted hereby to land or ship merchandise and passengers, or otherwise contravene the Revenue Laws of China, will become liable to the penalties laid down.\n\nCustoms Warehouse\n\nKowloon\n\n \nPage information is not available in this text, no page number detected.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-245 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 636, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nSir,\n\nMacau, December 12th 1894.\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your confidential communication of yesterday's date, and in reply beg to furnish the following particulars for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n1. All junks passing the stations under the supervision of the Foreign Inspectorate of Kowloon are subject to examination, no exception whatever being made.\n2. As regards junk boats bound from Hong Kong to Canton direct, they pay Likin only at Capsuimoon and Import duty on reaching their destination. Junks bound for intermediate...\n\nD. J. Sterling, Captain, ADC.\n\nGovernment House, Kowloon.\n\n(Per 29 APR 96) `7334`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357106, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 637, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "intermediate ports pay both Jusport duty & Likin at Capsuimoon before proceeding.\n\n3. Junks outward bound i.e. bound from Canton to Hong Kong direct, pay all Export dues and duties at Canton. On arrival at Capsuimoon, Duty paid Certificates are handed in, the varieties of goods and number & weight of packages being entered therein, but not the amount of duty collected. In this connection the irregularities occur which the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce ascribe to a differential tariff. By greasing the itching palms of the Deputies and Choks of the Hoppos Departments either more goods to pass than documents are allowed to call for, or excess weights are winked at, the result being that less duty is collected than would have been the case had the same goods been dealt with by the Foreign Inspectorate of Customs. Owing to the number of Junks passing the Capsuimoon station it is found impossible to tally every cargo, but our system is to pick out craft promiscuously and send them alongside a hulk into which all cargo is discharged. The result is that we frequently find packages and weights in excess, sometimes to a serious extent - especially in connection with junks conveying goods for direct transhipment to steamers bound for the Straits and Europe. We then fine the Captains concerned for presenting false manifests, as it were, and collect the duties short paid in Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "# Extract from the \"Daily Press\" of the 19th April, 1895\n\n## BOATING ACCIDENT OFF LAI-CHIKOK\n\n## GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING\n\nThe innate modesty of the four principal participators has prevented the public from learning sooner the facts of a serious boating accident off Laichikok on Sunday last and the gallant conduct of a Hongkong lad, who was instrumental in saving the lives of two of his companions. We give below substantially the narrative of one of the party.\n\nMessrs F. G. Stevens, of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., Mr. W. Stopani, of Mosers, Shewan and Co., Mr. W. N. Humphreys, and Mr. L. A. Sutton went out for a sailing picnic in a small schooner. The day was a pleasant one for a day's outing upon the water, and nothing exciting was experienced on the run to Laichikok Bay, where the party went ashore and partook of tiffin. All sails were set and the schooner was started off upon a cruise in a light breeze. The sea was very choppy, and as every one accustomed to sail in this locality knows, there is always a stiff current running through the Capsuimoon Pass from the Canton River.\n\nSuddenly the little craft was struck by a strong squall off the land, and before her crew could do anything to enable her to recover her equilibrium she was struck by a second squall, which heeled her over so much that she filled with water and sank within a minute, leaving her unfortunate crew struggling in the water. The point at which the accident occurred was from a mile to a mile and a half off the land at Laichikok. The position of the party - all young men - was precarious in the extreme. All were fully clothed, the current was carrying them away from the nearest land, and assistance could be expected only from some junks anchored half-a-mile away.\n\nStopani is a good swimmer, Humphreys was sufficiently good to look after himself, but Stevens and Sutton, while able to swim, were soon in difficulties, hampered as they were with their heavy clothing. Humphreys started to swim for the land, but Stopani, recognising the sheer impossibility of swimming ashore against the strong current, called to him to remain with the others and take the chance of being rescued by passing craft. Stopani had little difficulty in divesting himself of his clothes, and he made an unsuccessful effort to assist Stevens to get rid of a heavy yachting jersey. Humphreys got off his jacket and vest, in which latter were his watch and chain. Sutton, the youngest of the party and the least accomplished swimmer, seems to have become almost paralysed with fear, and Stopani at once proceeded to his assistance, supporting him for upwards of twenty minutes, Humphreys swimming alongside.\n\nThey were carried by the current some 150 yards away from Stevens, whom the others thought had gone down; and Stevens, when afterwards rescued in a very exhausted condition, is reported to have given up all hopes of rescue. The choppy seas proved exceedingly troublesome to the whole of the swimmers, but especially to Sutton and Stevens, divested of their clothes and shoes. There was no desire on the part of any of them to waste their strength in shouting for assistance, but Stopani's efforts were successful in attracting the attention of some of the Chinese in the distant junks, and a small dinghy was put off to the rescue.\n\nWith the greatest difficulty, Sutton was helped into the dinghy, and then Stopani swam off in the direction where Stevens was last seen; Humphreys was too exhausted to do more than hang on to the boat. It seemed at first that Stevens was past all aid, as he was unable to answer Stopani's cries, but at last he was picked up and they swam together towards the dinghy. Sutton and Stevens lay perfectly exhausted at the bottom of the dinghy, which was so small that the others were unable to get in and had to be content to hang on to the gunwale.\n\nBy this time, Mr. Williams and Mr. Wolff, of the revenue cruiser `Kwongsing`, became aware that something was amiss, and they got out an eight-oared gig with commendable despatch and picked up the whole party and took them on board the cruiser, where they were treated with the utmost kindness and supplied with restoratives and warm, dry clothes. The `Kwongsing` afterwards landed them at Kowloon.\n\nThe adventure was one of the most exciting that has taken place in Hongkong Harbour for many years. The wonder is that, considering the conditions under which the accident occurred, no fatalities have to be recorded. There is not the slightest doubt that had it not been for the unselfish gallantry of young Stopani, one of the most popular members of the V.R.C., Sutton would most certainly have lost his life, whilst Stevens' escape was, to say the least, providential.\n\nWe have no doubt His Excellency the Governor, so soon as he has authenticated the facts we have given above, will see that Stopani's gallantry is brought to the notice of the Royal Humane Society with a strong recommendation for the award of the medal of that Society. Such an award was never more worthily deserved.--`China Mail`.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366796, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## EN CLOSURE 2\n\nC.O. 15702/201\n\nVer 20 JUN 98\n\nReport by the Captain Supt. of Police,\n\nHon. Col. Secretary.\n\nSeeing that Samund Singh was an Acting Sergeant, I refused to re-enlist him because his name was on the Wa Lane List.\n\nHe was a 15 years man and not entitled to pension, but as he had served over 10 years he would be in the same category as A.S. Macaulay & McIver to whom the Secretary of State has granted special pensions.\n\nA. No. 689 was present with the other Indian Constables who were identified as reported in C.S.O. 2302 of 1897, but was not identified.\n\nI happened to learn that the man Mak Cheung, who identified 15 Indian Police on the previous occasions, and who was at Capsuimoon in Customs employ, had paid money to 689 when 689 was a Constable.\n\nSo I sent for Mak Cheung and had 689 called up here at the same time and placed with 5 other Indians in plain clothes. Mak Cheung at once identified him.\n\nI then took the statement of which I enclose a copy from Mak Cheung after showing 689 the entry in the Wa Lane books referring to him.\n\nIt is of course a weak point that Mak Cheung did", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366798, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 203 \n## SUB-ENCLOSURE TO ENCLOSURE 2\n### O.O. 13762\n#### IREC?\n##### Police Officer 20 JUL 98\n\n12th March, 1898.\n\nPresent Summund Singh for Acting Sergeant No.689 in the Hong-Kong Police.\n\n- The Captain Supt. of Police.\n- Chief Inspector Mackie.\n\nSummund Singh is placed among 5 Indian Police in plain clothes, two of them being dressed in similar clothing to Summund Singh and is identified by Mak Cheung. The Captain Supt. of Police informs Summund Singh that the Colonial Secretary has referred to him the Petition addressed by Summund Singh praying for a pension in respect of his Police Service and that the Captain Supt. of Police has in his possession evidence of Summund Singh having received bribes from a gambling house while he was in the Police Force, and that the Captain Supt. will now produce his evidence in order that Summund Singh may hear it, and defend himself against it.\n\nThe Captain Supt. shows Summund Singh the account slip seized at No.3 East Street for the 15th day of the 11th moon of the year before last (19th December, 1896) and points out the entry \"689 656 85 cents\".\n\nMak Cheung states: I am at present temporarily employed at the Chinese Customs House at Capsuimoon. Up to the 21st of June of last year I was employed in a gambling house.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Page 207\n\nPetitioner was not entitled to pension after 10 years service (as stated in para. 12) since he joined subsequently to the 13th September 1884 (vide clause 4 of Pension Regulations for Hong-Kong Police dated 10th February 1891).\n\nIt is not true as stated in paragraph 9 that no reason was assigned for my refusal to approve of the Petitioner's re-engagement. On the contrary, I informed him in my office in the presence of the Chief Inspector and of Mr. Baboq, who acted as Interpreter, that the reason for my action was that I had found his name on the list of recipients of bribes from the gaming house in Wa Lane and that as he was a Sergeant, I could not re-enlist him.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 14, it is true that the Petitioner was asked to come to the Central Police Station on the 10th March. As the witness Mak Cheung had not arrived, I told the Chief Inspector to let the Petitioner wait in his office. Mak Cheung did not put in an appearance that day, and the Petitioner went away after waiting 2 hours. Next day, Mak Cheung came to my office and explained that he could not get away from his duties at the Custom House at Capsulmoon (which is, as you know, some 7 or 8 miles outside the Colony). I sent down to the Hotel for the Petitioner, but he was not there. I told Mak Cheung to return next day, which he did, and the identification of the Petitioner then took place in my presence. Mak Cheung", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367408, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "294\n\nsed the objections to a Chinese Consul in Hongkong, and a Consul's functions are strictly limited by law, much more should we object to the establishment in our midst of a Chinese Official with ill-defined and unlimited powers.\n\nThe Chinese Government should, I think, be permitted to have an agency in our Colony of a purely commercial character, merely for the purpose of issuing opium certificates, unconnected in any way with any other kinds of goods, and entirely of an unofficial character and beyond the control of any recognised officer of the Chinese Customs. The existing sub-stations, Chang-chow, Capsuimoon, Laichikok, Foto Chow, should be removed to points outside the leased territory as their retention on the present sites would be a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE\n\n## I.G. of Customs\n\nPeking, 27th June, 1898\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of 24th June informing me that you have received a communication from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs asking you, in view of the recent leasing to Great Britain of part of Kowloon peninsula and the adjacent islands, what arrangements the Imperial Maritime Customs of China would propose and where stations would be placed and, in reply, to state in the following numbered paragraphs what in my opinion will be necessary in and around Hong-Kong and its new territory to safeguard the revenue interests of China, a task which will be made in consequence of the increased area to be looked after, both onerous and expensive.\n\nThe proposals are made in the belief that Her Majesty's Government desire to give China liberal and sustained support in the protection of her revenue in that neighbourhood.\n\n1st. The right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong-Kong, where it is now only unofficially acknowledged, ought to be formally admitted and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese Official recognised. The existing sub-stations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Laicheekok, & Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "323\n\nthat Her Majesty's Government desire to give China liberal and sustained support in the protection of her revenue in that neighbourhood:\n\n(I) The right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong, where it is now only unofficially acknowledged, ought to be formally admitted and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognized. The existing substations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-Rok, and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present although they are in the leased territory. If it should be found that other stations are required they may be instituted.\n\n(II) The Chinese Customs at Hong Kong shall have the right there to collect duty and likin on any opium and similarly dues and duties on general cargo shipped on any native vessel to or from China. The Customs ought also to have the right to one or more special jetties in proximity to junk anchorages at which cargo may be examined and verified.\n\n(III) The Chinese Customs cruisers and launches may continue to exercise their functions within the waters of the leased territory.\n\n(IV) No opium raw or boiled shall be landed or stored, taken delivery of or shipped in Hong Kong, British Kowloon, or any of the leased territory without a permit to be issued by a Colonial Authority. Opium moved without permit or found anywhere or in any quantity in contravention of Colonial Ordinance shall be confiscated.\n\n(V) The Opium Farm, i.e., an official establishment with an exclusive right to retail (only boiled) opium, shall be maintained and the Ordinances Nos. 22 of 1887 and 21 of 1891, concerning opium movement, &c., shall be confirmed and amended to meet new circumstances and to make good those points on which they are insufficient.\n\nThe boiling establishments of the Farm, its retailing shops, and its books and accounts shall be open at any time to the inspection of an officer of the Customs to be verified.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369435, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## THE FINAL ASSAULTS.\n\nAbout 2 p.m. the look-outs reported the departure of the Dordogne and Heungshun escorted by the Seaborg (which had returned with the French fleet) by the Shingshimoon Pass, round D'Aguilar and thence North, past the Ninepins, evidently bound to Mirs Bay. At 4 p.m. the three men-of-war assembled off Tytam Head, the Eclaireur escorting her prizes, the Verona and Sungkiung, the two latter being sent off to S.E. Bay, Lama Island. The Triomphante and Descartes proceeded slowly Westwards. The Eclaireur entered Tytam Bay, preceded by two torpedo boats, the first about three-quarters of a mile and the second about half-a-mile ahead of her. The Eclaireur stopped about three-quarters of a mile from the entrance to the Inner Harbour.\n\nIf they had contented themselves with watching the enemy from the redoubt on the hill, they would have done well, but unfortunately opening fire with their Nordenfelts on the hill, though they sank the other boat, they unmasked their battery. The Eclaireur at once rained a shower of shell on them, knocking the redoubt and the Nordenfelts to pieces, and killing half the men before they had time to run down the hill.\n\nAbout 2 p.m. the Hankow and Canton were seen to come out of the Capsuimoon pass, flying the British flag, and shape the usual course as if for Hongkong, and directly the loading boat rounded the point, going dead slow, she was blown to pieces by the fire of the Swift and Rattler. The Tommy Atkins, a military launch, was sent to where the wreckage floated and fortunately rescued both Captains Lloyd and Spencer Wilde, some dozen of the prizes' crews and a few Chinese were also picked up. The Hankow's passengers had been landed at Capsuimoon.\n\nCol. Yardhill was, however, so much impressed with the value of the redoubt on the hill that he sent De Horsey out another Nordonfelt in the evening, with orders to plant it just below the crest, on the West face, where it commanded the Shankiwan Road.\n\nThe Triomphante and Descartes, steaming slowly West, stopped between Round Island and Aplichau, and, firing at the new earthworks on the crests of the hills above Deep Water Bay, had their fire promptly returned by the 40-pounders in position, the same fatal mistake as was made at Tytam. Our guns were no match for those of the ironclad and cruiser. In half an hour four of our guns were dismounted, and the labour of the day—as far as the battery was concerned—wasted. Beyond knocking away some of the spars of the ironclad no material damage was done to her. The Descartes continued her attention to the guns at the Hacienda, dismounting both—but suffered somewhat herself from the plunging fire until the guns were silenced, part of her upper works and port bulwarks being knocked away, and damage was done to her quick-firers. Fernside, Genora, Kellett's Spur, and the houses on the East side of Mount Kellett were knocked into shapeless ruins.\n\nGeneral White ordered the guns above Deep Water Bay to be retired, otherwise every one would have been dismounted. The battery further East, commanding the Tytam Road, was sheltered from sea fire. Proceeding West outside Aplichau, the ships disabled three of the guns at Pokfolum Gap and demolished the stone wall across the road. One gun at Victoria Gap was dismounted, and the Tram station, which had escaped the Harbaroesk's fire, destroyed. It must be confessed that the ships made excellent practice, whilst great part of our fire was wasted. Our casualties amounted to six officers killed—of the Regulars two, both R.A. (Capt. Rawford and Lt. Hatthews), and four of the Home Guard—and 40 men, gunners and Home Guard. Wounded, 4 officers of the Home Guard, amongst them poor Cæsar Rawkins, and 27 men Regulars and Home Guard.\n\nIt had a very depressing effect on the Defenders; there was no element of personal strife, it was simply an Artillery duel in which we were hopelessly overmatched. Our losses were before our eyes, and the smell of blood in our nostrils. We could not see how, or if the enemy suffered, to cheer us up. That evening was pretty wretched; there were some attempts at jollity here and there; as you know the average Hongkong man of our day was cheery in the jaws of death—through which most of us passed in the next few hours—still we were so intermingled, the married men with the single, that for the most part the light-hearted were swamped by the heavy-hearted. Not that the latter fought one whit the worse next day—possibly better, though that could not be said either, where all did so well. It is impossible to deny, however, that the man whose hat covers his family can, and in some cases does, face inevitable death more cheerfully, than the man who leaves behind those that are dearer than life. The General, 'the soldiers, whose duty 'tis to die,' and some youngsters, got up a few songs; but on the whole the waiting was pretty wretched.\n\nThere was plenty of room in the Hospitals; already many of the cots and mattrasses had been vacated, and a temporary cemetery established in the West Borks parade ground, along the retaining wall of the Cathedral compound and below Beaconsfield House. As soon as it was dark we set to work repairing our earthworks, and taught by experience threw an embankment across the Pokfolum Road, in lieu of the stone wall destroyed, the splinters from which had been most destructive. Sungahs, or small redoubts, were thrown up on spurs, below the batteries on the hills.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \ncrests), with Nordenfelts, Gardiners and his own won, all of whom were familiar by Maxims, here and there, especially below the experience of many a field day with Rifle pits. Every gully and nullah in the sand hills, where the Hacienda had stood, were sunk where the soil permitted. If we had had a week, we would have made the place impregnable, but though we had been in possession 50 years, like the foolish virgins we slept, till it was too late; still, even at the eleventh hour, we did our best to provide a fitting welcome. The French, now that all chance of surprise had passed, and taught by the rough experience of the Russians, were evidently going to play the game by rule.\n\n## \nand 100 of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), choosing those whose snipe (and tiger) shooting excursions had often taken them over this very ground--he divided them into three mixed parties, under respectively Capt. Rerger, and Lieutenants Bowcroft and Banderson, with a Native and a House Guard officer each, and despatched them to heat up the French. Banderson was given 20 minutes' start of the others, leaving at 9.40-going to the N. W. with orders to go as far round the enemy's right as possible without alarming the outposts. Rerger and Bowcroft went off at 10-all the officers having compared their watches-Rerger for the French centre and Bowcroft for their left. At 11.15 p.m., having approached the camp as closely as possible, Rorger and Boweroft were to fire on them, and whilst the enemy were reassembling to repel the supposed attack on their left and front, Banderson was to attack their right. Hung Hom North and Kowloon West were to drop shell wherever the enemy burnt lights or fired rockets by.\n\nThe sight of Yaumati burning, the frequent explosions as the Docks were destroyed, and what they learned from the aliens in the Powan, demonstrated that the resistance to be still overcome was not likely to be feeble or wavering. The Lion's whelps were savagely at bay. No attempt was made at any time to force a pass into the Harbour-perhaps the naval force was too slender,-the fact remains the front door, fortified with such care, was never knocked at, whilst all the time the proverbial scullery window at the back was left open for the burglar to enter in assembling.\n\n## \nBefore 5p.m. the French, under General Renard, in Mirs Bay, had landed 2,000 men, and were joined by the 300 Russians guarding the line to Tolo Harbour, as well as the detachment from Capsuimoon. By six our scouts, after exchanging shots with the French skirmishers, scampered down the hills and back to our lines. A few shell were fired from Hung Hom North at the crest of the hill, but in the dark the fire was doubtless wasted and soon discontinued. The enemy were close down to the frontier, and bivouacked for the night by 9 p.m. amongst the sand hills north of our territory.\n\nTristful, however, had no mind that they should have a quiet night's rest to recover from their sea sickness. Selecting fifty of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), he...\n\n## \n...desultory fire from the gullies been kept up, but no more rushes being made. He still had some 300 men, having commenced the action with 400 (Pathans and Home Guards). The enemy's loss, however, as could be seen, had been six or seven times as great. Half his field guns were blown to pieces and the rest had to be withdrawn to avoid a similar fate. Our people were in excellent spirits, they could see the fruits of their labour. On the island, on the other hand, the tide of battle seemed to be louder, rolling higher and nearer.\n\n## \nTowards daylight the enemy were reported on the move, and our pickets were driven in. By 5, when it was fairly light, the assault was delivered in real earnest, the storming party coming on with great gallantry to the attack of the hill, the key of Tristful's position. A very large number of guns were also brought into action by the French. The enemy suffered severely, especially from the fire of the Hung Hom guns, both large and small, again batteries, numbers of their guns being destroyed by the heavy 10\" shell.\n\nHad it not been for the broken nature of the ground they would not have had a field piece in action by 7 a.m. Time after time they swept up bravely, only to be mowed down and torn to pieces, by musketry, the quick-firers from Tristful's hill and the flanking fire from the forts. Red breeches climbing up the sea front whilst the men were busy firing N. W. on the storming party attacking Tristful, rushed the forts and exterminated the Garrison.\n\nTristful's position was untenable, with overwhelming odds in front; the Hung Hom forts along the open shore would have been suicidal insanity. The Hung Hom guns were raking his lines from East to West, smashing his quick-firers and killing his men. Rerger, his second in command, was already dead; the Subadar-Major (Firoz Khan), and four native officers had been killed; the hill had to be abandoned. Tristful retreated Westwards in squares. Once off the hill they were sheltered from the awful fire of the Hung Hom guns, and then began a duel over their heads.\n\nIn Kowloon West they had seen how things had gone--the evacuation of the hill and the cause of it--and at once turned their fire on the Eastern forts, who very readily returned it. Tristful had stationed 25 of the Home Guard in the Hung Hom forts and 25 at Kowloon West, to assist and cover the Gunners.\n\n## \nFor nearly three-quarters of an hour the assault on Tristful's position had slackened... \n\nPage 28 \nPage 29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371799, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 548, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "No.52.\n\n(36)\n\n540\n\nColonial Secretary's Office.\n\nHong Kong, 16th May, 1899,\n\nC.O.\n\nSir,\n\n16557\n\nRECO REG? 27 JUN 19\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of the Vice-Consul's letter No.60 of the 13th instant and its enclosure respecting the question of the Chinese Customs Stations in the new territory.\n\nWith reference to the Viceroy's remarks on the subject contained in his despatch to you of the 12th instant, I am to observe that in three stations only, viz., Capsuimoon, Fotochow, and Cheung chow, are the customs officials permitted by Her Majesty's Government to remain until buildings outside the leased territory have been prepared for them, but under no circumstances later than October next. In the meantime, they can only collect in those waters such duties as shippers choose to pay for convenience and have no coercive powers whatever.\n\nAs regards the other stations, the Chinese officials have all ceased to collect duties. Mr. Hillier, the Commissioner, having been informed by the Governor that His Excellency could not allow such collection nor the continuance.\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Consul,\n\nCANTON\n\n128\n\nPage 128\n\n \n(no other text is given at the end, so no further action is taken)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 294, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "L (1217)-25237-8000-4-92\n\nor Individual Reign Date. 189\n\nAfuit previous Paper. Hang Hang No. 8816 Secret\n\n(Subject.) Extension of boundary Further as to 291\n\nRECR DOMESTIC. 8616 & REGP 10 APR 191 subsequent Paper 406) sec.\n\nind was I think (Minutes.) est other concession. 194\n\ncyphund sent and J.N.G. A. 6. 順 Precorded\n\nTelegraph in cipher to Governor Hrytsong remain Haut asks that customs stations on islands manned until Changchw Capsimoon and Potrochou may till October when they will be removed. I consider this reasonable and unless you should see very strong objection, telegraph your concurrence to Petrin on the distinct condition that removal...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425305, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## COPY\n\nHon. O.S.\n\nEnclosure \n\n21902 \n\n18 JUN 1910 \n\nCO 327 16121 \n\nRece REGS 28 MAY 10 \n\nWith reference to the discussion in Committee yesterday I attach two interesting tables. The first is taken from a report by R.B. Moorhead, dated 31st December, 1901 (`Customs Decennial Reports` for 1892-1901, Vol. II p. 210), and the 2nd taken from a report by Mr. A.E. Harris, dated the 27th February, 1909 (`Returns of Trade for 1908` Part II Vol. IV p. 575).\n\nThese tables purport to show the total revenue collected by the Kowloon Customs both before and after the lease of the New Territories to Hongkong. For the years 1892-8 inclusive the collections were made by stations at Capsuimoon, Changchow, Fotochow and Kowloon, and during first half of 1899 collection was also made at these stations. During the second half of 1899 and for the years 1900 to 1908 inclusive, the collections were made by stations at Taishan and Lintin, at Samun and at Shauchung, Shamchun and Shatowkok.\n\nFor the years 1899 to 1901 inclusive the tables overlap and the figures do not agree, Mr. Harris giving in each case somewhat higher figures possibly owing to the inclusion of duty and likin on opium, which Mr. Moorhead neglected.\n\nThe figures are:-\n\n| Year | Moorhead | Harris | Differences |\n|------|----------|---------|-------------|\n| 1899 | Tls. 328,467 | Tls. 385,090 | Tls. 56,625 |\n| 1900 | 299,534 | 350,024 | 50,490 |\n| 1901 | 581,460 | 634,450 | 52,990 |\n\nThe differences, however, do not correspond exactly with the figures for duty and likin on opium given by Mr. Harris.\n\nThe combined tables show (a) that from 1892 to 1896 the revenue collected by the Kowloon Customs steadily increased: (b) that in 1897 there was a slight fall of Tls. 40,055: (c) that in the following year 1898, i.e. the year before the Customs abandoned their stations at Capsuimoon, Changchow, Potochow and Kowloon, there was an abrupt decrease\n\nPage 330 \nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "# 328\n\nThere is, however, little doubt that the removal of the Customs stations from Capsulmoon, etc., to Taishan, etc. has greatly increased the cost of collection: but, as the Customs publish no figures as to their expenditure, it is impossible to ascertain what loss has been caused to them by the lease of the New Territories. I have been told by credible informants that the Customs have never yet succeeded in making their \"Kowloon station\" pay. Perhaps Mr. Moorhead states that \"the decrease in 1897 was probably due to the opening of the new West River ports and the stringent carrying out of the transit pass rules, both of which causes helped to divert trade from junks to other channels\" and that the decrease in 1898 was due to \"the same causes, assisted by the desire on the part of shippers to escape a tax called Tao-lu levied this year for the first time in certain articles (Tobacco, Salt Fish, Kerosene Oil, Samshu, etc.) passing the stations\".\n\nFrom Mr. Moorhead's table, which unfortunately has not been retained in the annual Returns of Trade, it appears that the figures for 1898 (when collection was made at Capsulmoon, etc.) and for 1901 (when collection was made at Taishan, etc.) were almost identical: while as regards the distribution between the several stations \n\n(a) in 1898 Capsulmoon and Changchow collected in all Tls. 307,354: but these stations were replaced by those at Taishan and Lintin which in 1901 collected Tls. 301,666 i.e. very nearly the same amount.\n\n(b) in 1898 Fatshan and Kowloon collected in all Tls. 31,252: but these stations were replaced by those at Samun, Saüchung, Shanchun and Shatowkok which in 1901 collected Tls. 49,794 i.e. a considerably increased sum.\n\nThere was a decrease of Tls. 162,009 or 51% in the total revenue collected: and that since then the total collection has remained fairly constant. \n\n| Year | Amount |\n|------|--------|\n| 1898 | 307,354 |\n| 1901 | 301,666 |\n| 1898 | 31,252 |\n| 1901 | 49,794 |\n\n# OUD, POA \n081, 183 \n# \n# \n0081 \n1001 \nBOOHOTO Alb eft \nBeon6re7710 \nxsa,50 004.08 090.38 \n\nBIT \n# \nerid reiw vijosxe broqnoroo den ob novewod \n.atmal \n\nTyd nevis muigo no ntvti bos yjub not newgit sunever crit 8001 of 1981 morî darit (s) nofe neidad beatdwoo aff TEBI mi dørit (0) besoni qIlheads amodwo noolwo? erit yd bedoellos BIT to IIa) silla a auw ezerid galuollot ert at dadd (o) :020 \n\nIt appears the rest of the text is not readable or meaningful after OCR. Only the last part was somewhat coherent and has been reproduced above.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "Losure 4.\n\nAlovure\n\ntheir stocks. To this the firms in question raised no serious objection and the transfer of stocks has been satisfactorily carried out.\n\n8.\n\nI enclose copy of a letter dated 11th December which I addressed to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, for communication to the Tu Tu, copies of Mr. Jamieson's replies dated 15th and 16th idem and copy of a further letter from myself of 20th December which speak for themselves.\n\n9.\n\nOn 30th November Mr. Ray, a British subject and a broker, called on the Colonial Secretary and stated that he had been approached by the Republican Government at Canton to charter ships for the transport of troops to North China, presumably for an attack on Peking but that he did not wish to take any steps to which I might object. In reply to a question he said that he believed the intention of the Government was to charter British and failing them Norwegian vessels and to ship vià this Port. Mr. Ray was informed in reply that in no case would shipment of troops for such a purpose through the waters of the Colony be permitted and that if the intention was to avoid Hongkong waters and steam straight out to sea, although this Government was not in that case affected, Mr. Ray should consult His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton. On 8th December the news which had already reached me was confirmed by Mr. Jamieson that the troops would be conveyed in vessels of the China Merchants Steamship Company (a Chinese Company). I intimated that I should not allow them to enter the harbour and I requested the co-operation of the Naval Authorities in the matter. I subsequently learned that one vessel had sailed in the early morning of 10th and another early on 11th December. I accordingly requested Mr. C. Clementi and Mr. Wei Yuk to proceed on His Majesty's Ship \"Taku\" to Capsuimoon in case either vessel might endeavour to make the Harbour. Neither in fact made any such attempt. I took these precautions, because on the one hand, the Peking", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 529, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "Certificate of Jicepos \n\neequired by \n\nThip in water of the \n\nColony: \n\nQualifica- tions for holding certificate a! \n\ncolonial registry. \n\nDeclaration necessary \n\nregistry. \n\nfor colonial \n\nNo. 10 of 1899. \n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING. \n\non the East a north and south line drawn through the Fow- \n\ntomoon Pass; \n\non the West a north and south line drawn through the \n\nCapsuimoon Pass; and \n\non the South-an east and west line drawn through the centre of Lochau or Beaufort Island, and continued until it meets the east and west boundaries: \"Port of the Colony\" and \"port\" where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, means such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port: \n\n\"The Harbour Master\" includes any person deputed or author. ised by the Harbour Master to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon hita by this Ordinance: \n\n\"International Collision Regulations\" means the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea made under the Merchant Shipping Acts: \n\n\"The Merchant Shipping Acts means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and al Acts amending the same, and all regulations made thereunder. \n\nPART I REGISTRY. \n\n3. (1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with either- \n\n(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Ship- ping Acts; or \n\n(b) a certificate of colonial registry under this Part; or \n\n(a) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British or colonial ship; \n\nor, \n\n(d) in the case of a steamship not exceeding 60 tons, a licence under section 37. \n\n(2) The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a certificate of colonial registry as hereinafter provided to any ship owned wholly by any person or body corporate qualified to be the owner of & British ship as described in section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act, \n\n1894. \n\n[para. rep. No. 2 of 1908, s. 2.] \n\n(8) When any person as aforesaid is desirous of obtaining a certificate of colonial registry for any ship, he shall forward to the Colonial Secretary an application therefor, together with a declara- tion in writing stating that the ship for which such registry is \n\n* As amended by No. 2 of 1908, No. 80 of 1911, No. 50 of 1081, \n\nNo. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1919. \n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING. \n\nNo. 10 of 1899. \n\n524 \n\nsought is intended to be employed solely in voyages with China: s., \n\ncontd.] Provided always, that if such declaration is false, or the colonial ship to which it relates is not employed in conformity with it, the registry thereby obtained shall ipso facto become null and void. \n\n(4) A certificate of colonial registry shall be issued by the Documenta Registrar of Shipping on production to him of the following for colonial \n\nregistry. documents:- \n\nnecessary \n\n(a) the surveyor's certificate as hereinafter provided; \n\n(b) a declaration of ownership, with proof thereof, to the satisfac- tion of the Registrar of Shipping. \n\n[para. rep. No. 2 of 1903, s. 2.] \n\n(5) The surveyor's certificate referred to in the last anb-section Surveyor's certificate. shall be a certificate granted by the Government Marine Surveyor specifying the proper measurement of the ship, the particulars descriptive of her identity, that such ship has proper anchors and chains, that the boiler and machinery (if a steamship) and the sails (if a sailing ship) are in good condition, and that she is, in all respects, strongly built and properly equipped for the trade for which she is intended. \n\n(6) Et shall not be lawful for the owner of any colonial ship to Marking of \n\nship. give her any name other than that of her registry. Such name shall, before registry, be painted in white or yellow letters, not less than 4 inches long, upon some conspicuous part of her stern and on each bow, in a distinct and legible manner, and shall be so kept and preserved. A scale of feet denoting her draught of water shall also be marked on each side of ber stem and of her stern post, in such manner as the Government Marine Surveyor may approve. For the breach of any of the provisions of this sub-section, the owner, or (in the absence of the owner from the Colony) the master, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars. \n\nof certificate \n\n(7) The certificate of registry of every colonial ship shall be Production \n\npro- duced once at least every 6 months to the Harbour Master, who of colonial shall indorse the date of such production thereon. On failure of registry to such production, such certificate may be forfeited, unless satisfac- Master. tory cause for such non-production is shown to the Harbour Master. \n\nHarbout \n\nregister, etc. \n\n(8) Every register, certificate, indorsement, declaration or bond Proof of authorised or required by this section may be proved in any Court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## Hongkong-Port Regulations, &c.\n\n\"**Colonial ship**\" means and includes every ship provided with a Certificate of Colonial Registry under Part 1.\n\n\"**River steamer**\" means any steamship, exceeding 60 tons register, having a Passenger Certificate under section 10, and regularly plying between the Colony and any port or place on the Canton River, or the West River, or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung Province, or Macao.\n\n\"**Passenger**\" includes any person carried in a ship, other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants.\n\n\"**Tons**\" and \"**Tonnage**\" means tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage.\n\n\"**Local trade limits**\" means the waters surrounding the Island of Hongkong within the following boundaries:-\n\nOn the East.--A north and south line drawn through the Fowtomoon Pass;\n\nOn the West.—A north and south line drawn through the Capsuimoon Pass; and\n\nOn the South.—An east and west line drawn through the centre of Lochau or Beaufort Island, and continued until it meets the East and West boundaries.\n\n\"**Port of the Colony**\" and \"**port**\" where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, means such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port.\n\n\"**The Harbour Master**\" includes any person deputed or authorised by the Harbour Master to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance.\n\n\"**International Collision Regulations**\" means the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea made under the Merchant Shipping Acts.\n\n## Hongkong Port Regulations, &c.\n\n### PART I\n#### REGISTRY\n\n3.--(1.) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with either-\n\n(a) a Certificate of Registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or\n\n(b) a Certificate of Colonial Registry under this Part; or\n\n(c) a Certificate of Foreign Registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British or Colonial ship; or,\n\n(2.) in the case of a steamship not exceeding 60 tons, a licence under section 37.\n\n(2.) The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a Certificate of Colonial Registry as hereinafter provided to any ship owned wholly by any person or body corporate qualified to be the owner of a British ship as described in section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.\n\n(6.) It shall not be lawful for the owner of any Colonial ship to give her any name other than that of her registry. Such name shall, before registry, be painted in white or yellow letters not less than 4 inches long, upon some conspicuous part of her stern and on each bow, in a distinct and legible manner, and shall be so kept and preserved. A scale of feet denoting her draught of water shall also be marked on each side of her stem and of her stern post, in such manner as the Government Marine Surveyor may approve. For the breach of any of the provisions of this sub-section, the owner, or (in the absence of the owner from the Colony) the master, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 500 dollars.\n\n| Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3(1)(a) | Certificate of Registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts |\n| 3(1)(b) | Certificate of Colonial Registry under this Part |\n| 3(1)(c) | Certificate of Foreign Registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British or Colonial ship |\n| 3(2) | Licence under section 37 for steamship not exceeding 60 tons |\n\n**Certificate or licence required by ship in waters of the Colony.**\n\n**Qualifications for holding Certificate of Colonial Registry.**\n\n**Marking of ship.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508452, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926", "content_text": "## 8.\n\n- \n50\n\nstatus of any kind\": and further that the existing sub-stations Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok, and Fotochow should be removed to points outside the leased territory, as their retention would be a fruitful source of friction and would always be misconstrued by the Chinese mind. There were, as Major-General Black pointed out, many points both on the coast and on adjacent islands where the Chinese Customs could establish new stations.\n\n## 11.\n\nI can find no reply from the Colonial Office nor any communication from the British Legation on this subject: but, as a matter of history, the view of Major-General Black prevailed. The sub-stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs have been removed to Chinese territory at Sham-chun, Sha-tau-kok, and along the coast of Mirs Bay, while the officer of the Foreign Inspectorate, still called \"Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and District\", remains to this day in Hong Kong island, only \"unofficially acknowledged\" in Sir R. Hart's phrase, with a residence at the Peak and an office in Victoria City. Moreover, the questions raised by Mr. Fleming in 1890 as to the exact position of the Kowloon Commissioner, his powers, whom he really represents, and to whom he is responsible have never been answered.\n\n## 12.\n\nThe only further event to record in this connection is that, upon the opening of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in October, 1911, it was arranged for the convenience of through traffic that Chinese import duties should be collected by the Kowloon Commissioner at the railway terminus at Kowloon Point in British territory.\n\n## 13.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-8 General policy in China 30-11-1926 - 30-11-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 2\n\nRough outline of suggested plan of co-operation between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs for the safeguarding of China's Customs Revenue and for the securing of reciprocal benefits to trade and commerce.\n\nThe Chinese Customs Office in Hong Kong, which was established in April 1887, was opened there by virtue of the Opium Agreement of 1886, and by this agreement the four Stations already existing for the control of traffic in the delta, one at Capsuimoon, one at Changchow, one at Fotochow, and the fourth at Kowloon, were placed under the Kowloon Commissioner.\n\nWhen the New Territory was handed over to the Hong Kong Government in 1899, in accordance with the terms of the Convention of 1898 for the Extension of Hong Kong, those Stations with the temporary exception of Kowloon were closed, and new Stations and Frontier Guard Posts were established at various distant points along the new frontier; while the Chinese waters, outside the British area, were patrolled by the Customs Revenue Cruisers.\n\nOn the completion of the Canton-Kowloon Railway in October 1911, a Chinese Maritime Customs Examination and Duty-collecting Station was, by mutual agreement, opened at the Kowloon terminus (mainly for the convenience of the...\n\nPage 60 \nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "## \nMeanwhile Sir R. Hart in a letter to Sir C.M Macdonald, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 27th June, 1898, recommended that in view of the leasing to Great Britain of the New Territories, \"the right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong where it is now only unofficially acknowledged ought to be formally admitted and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognized. The existing substations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory. If it should be found that other stations are required they may be instituted\". Upon those recommendations Major-General T. Black, then Officer Administering the Government, wrote in despatch No.221 of the 29th July, 1898, to Mr Joseph Chamberlain strongly urging that \"the Chinese Customs be not formally accorded the right to maintain its office in Hong Kong and that the Commissioner of Customs be not recognized as a Chinese Official, but that he remain as at present without official status of any kind\": and further that the existing sub-stations -Chanchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotochow - should be removed to points outside the leased territory, as their retention would be a fruitful source of friction and would always be misconstrued by the Chinese mind. There were, as Major-General Black pointed out, many points both on the coast and on adjacent islands where the Chinese Customs could establish new stations.\n\nPage 394", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "# APPENDIX NO. 2\n\nRough outline of suggested plan of co-operation between the Hongkong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs for the safeguarding of China's Customs Revenue and for the securing of reciprocal benefits to trade and commerce.\n\nThe Chinese Customs office in Hongkong which was established in April 1887, was opened there by virtue of the Opium Agreement of 1886, and by this Agreement the four Stations already existing for the control of traffic in the delta, one at Capsuimoon, one at Changchow, one at Fotchow and the fourth at Kowloon, were placed under the Kowloon Commissioner.\n\nWhen the New Territory was handed over to the Hongkong Government in 1899, in accordance with the terms of the Convention of 1898 for the Extension of Hongkong, these Stations - with the temporary exception of Kowloon - were closed, and new Stations and Frontier Guard Posts were established at various distant points along the new frontier; while the Chinese waters, outside the British area, were patrolled by the Customs Revenue Cruisers.\n\nOn the completion of the Canton-Kowloon Railway in October 1911 a Chinese Maritime Customs Examination and Duty-collecting Station was, by mutual agreement, opened at the Kowloon terminus (mainly for the convenience of the Hongkong merchants), and has functioned there ever since, a fact which creates an invaluable precedent for the further extension of Chinese Customs activities within Hongkong territory.\n\nAt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "15.\n\n10%\n\nChamber passed the following resolutions:-\n\n13.\n\n(1) that the Customs office be no longer permitted to collect duties in the Colony or its waters:\n\n(2) that all opium arriving in the Colony be accounted for either through the agency of bonded warehouses or otherwise:\n\n(3) that the Government do all in their power to protect the Chinese revenue, more especially with regard to the Opium Farmer:\n\n(4) that the revenue stations and revenue cruisers be moved beyond the limits of British territory and British waters.\n\nMeanwhile Sir R. Hart in a letter to Sir C.M. Macdonald, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 27th June, 1898, recommended that in view of the leasing to Great Britain of the New Territories, \"the right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong where it is now only unofficially acknowledged ought to be formally admitted and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognized.\n\nThe existing substation at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory. If it should", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "103\n\n16.\n\nshould be found that other stations are required, they may be instituted\".\n\nUpon these recommendations Major-General W. Black, then Officer Administering the Government, wrote in despatch No. 221 of the 29th July, 1898, to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain strongly urging that \"the Chinese Customs be not formally accorded the right to maintain its office in Hong Kong and that the Commissioner of Customs be not recognized as a Chinese official, but that he remain as at present without official status of any kind\": and further that the existing sub-stations - Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotochow should be removed to points outside the leased territory, as their retention would be a fruitful source of friction and would always be misconstrued by the Chinese mind.\n\nThere were, as Major-General Black pointed out, many points both on the coast and on the adjacent islands where the Chinese Customs could establish new stations.\n\n14. I can find no reply from the Colonial Office nor any communication from the British Legation on this subject: but, as a matter of history, the view of Major-General Black prevailed.\n\nThe sub-stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs have been removed to Chinese territory at Sham-chun, Sha-tau-kok and along the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "152\n\n65\n\nHong Kong and its new territory to safeguard the revenue interests of China, a task which will be made in consequence of the increased area to be looked after, both onerous and expensive.\n\nThe proposals are made in the belief that Her Majesty's Government desire to give China liberal and sustained support in the protection of her revenue in that neighbourhood.\n\n1. The right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong, where it is now only unofficially acknowledged, ought to be formally admitted, and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognised.\n\nThe existing sub-stations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok, and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory.\n\nIf it should be found that other stations are required they may be instituted.\n\n2. The Chinese Customs at Hong Kong shall have the right there to collect duty and likin on any opium and similarly dues and duties on general cargo shipped on any native vessel to or from China. The Customs ought also to have the right to one or more specified jetties in proximity to junk anchorages at which cargo may be examined and verified.\n\n3. The Chinese Customs cruisers and launches may continue to exercise their functions within the waters of the leased territory.\n\n4. No opium, raw or boiled, shall be landed or stored, taken delivery of, or shipped in Hong Kong,\n\n/British", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "224\n\n15.\n\nChamber passed the following resolutions:-\n\n13.\n\n(1) that the Customs office be no longer permitted to collect duties in the Colony or its waters:\n\n(2) that all opium arriving in the Colony be accounted for either through the agency of bonded warehouses or otherwise:\n\n(3) that the Government do all in their power to protect the Chinese revenue, more especially with regard to the Opium Farmer:\n\n(4) that the revenue stations and revenue cruisers be moved beyond the limits of British territory and British waters.\n\nMeanwhile Sir R. Hart in a letter to Sir C.M. Macdonald, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, dated the 27th June, 1898, recommended that in view of the leasing to Great Britain of the New Territories, \"the right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong where it is now only unofficially acknowledged ought to be formally admitted and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognized. The existing substation at Castle Peak, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok and Fotoohow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory. If it should", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "should be found that other stations are required, they may be instituted\".\n\nUpon\n\n225\n\n16.\n\nthese recommendations Major-General W. Black, then Officer Administering the Government, wrote in despatch No. 221 of the 29th July, 1898, to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain strongly urging that \"the Chinese Customs be not formally accorded the right to maintain its office in Hong Kong and that the Commissioner of Customs be not recognized as a Chinese official, but that he remain as at present without official status of any kind\" : and further that the existing sub-stations Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-ohee-kok and Fotochow should be removed to points outside the leased territory, as their retention would be a fruitful source of friction and would always be misconstrued by the Chinese mind. There were, as Major-General Black pointed out, many points both on the coast and on the adjacent islands where the Chinese Customs could establish new stations.\n\n14. I can find no reply from the Colonial Office nor any communication from the British Legation on this subject: but, as a matter of history, the view of Major-General Black prevailed. The sub-stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs have been removed to Chinese territory at Shan-chun, Sha-tau-kok and along\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "65\n\n274\n\nHong Kong and its new territory to safeguard the revenue interests of China, a task which will be made in consequence of the increased area to be looked after, both onerous and expensive.\n\nThe proposals are made in the belief that Her Majesty's Government desire to give China liberal and sustained support in the protection of her revenue in that neighbourhood.\n\n1. The right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong, where it is now only unofficially acknowledged, ought to be formally admitted, and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognised.\n\nThe existing sub-stations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok, and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory.\n\nIf it should be found that other stations are required they may be instituted.\n\n2. The Chinese Customs at Hong Kong shall have the right there to collect duty and li-kin on any opium and similarly dues and duties on general cargo shipped on any native vessel to or from China. The Customs ought also to have the right to one or more specified jetties in proximity to junk anchorages at which cargo may be examined and verified.\n\n3. The Chinese Customs cruisers and launches may continue to exercise their functions within the waters of the leased territory.\n\n4. No opium, raw or boiled, shall be landed or stored, taken delivery of, or shipped in Hong Kong,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "432\n\n433\n\nl'revalence of\n\nsmuggling at Hongkong.\n\nEstablishment\n\nby Cantou\n\n(6)\n\n(then Mr.) Parkes (Article 6). The treaty, however, gave a decided impetus to the China trade generally. Some of the restrictions against which it had previously struggled might still exist to hamper it, but with a revised tariff, greater commercial facilities, and with Hongkong as a free port and a centre for trade operations, business ventures both lawful and unlawful could be carried on with much greater ease and security. Considering the circumstances, it was only to be expected that the altered condition of affairs, while fostering legitimate trade, should also tend directly to the encouragement of opium running and smuggling generally. The trade in opium especially offered strong temptations to clandestine trading. The new treaty, by one of the rules of trade (Rule 5) drawn up in pursuance of Article XXVI, had legalised the import of opium at a fairly high rate of duty, leaving all transport of the drug into the interior of the country entirely in the hands of the Chinese. Hongkong as a free port offered great facilities to those trading in this commodity, and while most of this business was conducted openly and in complete accordance with regulations, there was nevertheless, on account of the high rate of duty and the tempting profits to be made, a large amount of smuggling. Unfortunately, as the years passed the illegitimate trade grew to such proportions that in order to protect China's revenue rights and to deal with the very active smuggling in opium, salt, and munitions of war from Hongkong to China, which flourished exceedingly in the early sixties of last century, the Canton Viceroy Jui Lin (), anxious especially for his lawful revenue on opium, and after informing the British authorities in Canton and Hongkong, opened in 1868 on Chinese territory a number of stations on the east and the west sides of the Kowloon frontier for the purpose of preventive collection of likin on opium when conveyed in Chinese junks. Shortly afterwards the Hoppo, or Superintendent of Customs at Canton, who, in addition to being the colleague of the foreign Commissioner of Maritime Customs, was also in charge of the original Native Custom House and its stations levying dues and duties, distinct from likin, on native vessels and their cargoes, decided that as the Viceroy's likin barriers had been a great success he could not do better than imitate so worthy an example. Accordingly, he proceeded to establish an active patrol of revenue cruisers, and also to open stations for the collection of those dues and duties coming under his cognizance, these stations being either in close proximity to those already established by the Viceroy or functioning in the same building with them.* One of these stations was at Capsuimoon (*), to guard the entrance to the Canton river; another at Changchow (), on the route to Macao and the west coast; a third at Fotochow (), near the Lyeemoon () Pass, to watch the trade from and to the east; and a fourth at Kowloon city. Shortly before this, from 1st April 1864, the Chinese Government had cancelled the privilege which had been allowed till then of permitting the shipment of Chinese produce in Hongkong with the same advantages as obtained at a regular treaty port. The Hongkong authorities and Hongkong merchants protested against the withdrawal of this transhipment privilege and objected strongly to the Hoppo's stations and water patrol, which they designated\n\nauthorities of\n\nCustoms stations round Hongkong\n\nservice of revenue cruisers.\n\n* British Parliamentary Papers: \"Hongkong: Report of the Commission to enquire into the Circumstances attending the alleged Smuggling from Hongkong into China of Opium and other Goods\" (1884), p. 6; also \"Correspondence relating to the Complaints of the Mercantile Community in Hongkong against the Action of Chinese Revenue Cruizers in the Neighbourhood of the Colony\" (1875), pp. 16, 36.\n\non the subject of the Revision\n\n+ LG. Circular No. 2 of 1865. British Parliamentary Papers: \"Memorials of the Treaty of Tiantain\" (1868), p. 27. British Consular Reports for China, 1865, p. 93.\n\n(7)\n\nas the Customs blockade of Hongkong, regarding both as an unwarranted interference with the trade of the Colony. The patrol of the adjoining Chinese waters by armed Chinese revenue cruisers was particularly obnoxious to Hongkong traders, more especially as these cruisers, on the ground of being recognised as men-of-war, could, when not engaged in the suppression of smuggling, make free use of the waters of Hongkong harbour.\n\ntion, 1869.\n\n§ 6. To remove this tension, if possible, and to provide the Chinese Government with a legitimate safeguard, Sir Rutherford Alcock, in his Convention, drawn up at this time and signed\n\na Chinese Consul\n\non 23rd October 1869 by him and by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries appointed by the Emperor,* proposed that Chinese duty-paid goods passing through Hongkong in transit from one treaty port to another should be accorded the same transhipment privileges as obtained at a regular treaty port (Article 5), and, mindful perhaps of the hint given by Lord Aberdeen to Sir J. F. Davis Proposal to allow that it might be necessary to tolerate the presence in Hongkong of a Chinese mandarin for the to function in control of the natives,† suggested as a quid pro quo that the Chinese Government be given the Hongkong. right of placing a Consul in the Colony to protect Chinese interests (Article 2). This latter suggestion met with fierce opposition from the Hongkong community, who, in their memorial to the Home Government opposing the Convention, maintained that such an official if appointed would \"in reality be a spy on the Chinese merchants residing in this Colony \"‡ and would use his position simply as a means of exacting contributions from his countrymen, that, unlike British subjects in China, Chinese subjects in Hongkong needed no Consular protection, that \"the establishment of a Consul here, surrounded as he would be by a staff of Chinese officials and employees, would subject\" the trade in native goods passing through the Colony \"to a supervision resulting in the levy of taxes or duties for the Imperial Exchequer, in addition to those paid to the local officials,\n\nand thus a deadly blow would be struck at the trade\n\nand prosperity of this Colony.\"§ Alcock had little difficulty in answering these contentions, pointing out that China cannot be expected to confer upon Hongkong the benefit of allowing native goods to be transhipped there without losing their status as such except in return for some compensating advantage, that the Chinese are entitled both by treaty and by international law to adopt any measures on their own territory and in their own waters which they may consider necessary to protect their revenue from the loss of half a million pounds sterling, which they estimate they are called on to undergo annually \"by this irresponsible proximity of a British free port at the mouth of one of their great rivers,\" that when the Chinese had endeavoured to enforce their revenue laws by means of cruisers and land barriers they had been met by a loud outcry of protest from both the merchants and the officials of Hongkong, and that, this being so, it seemed to him that if this latter method of trade control was so reprehensible and injurious, the only other alternative was to co-operate with the Chinese authorities by \"giving them the means in accordance with international usage of exercising a perfectly legal and reasonable degree of surveillance over the trade carried on by the native vessels sailing from\n\n* British Parliamentary Papers: China No. 1 (1870), p. 1.\n\n+J. F. Davis: \"China during the War and since the Peace\" (2 vols, London, 1852), Vol. II, p. 45.\n\nBritish Parliamentary Papers: China No. 6 (1870), p. 13.\n\nIbid., p. 19.\n\n|| British Parliamentary Papers: China No. 10 (1870), p. 10 (vide Appendix E).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "436 \n\n437 \n\nControl of \n\nCustoms stations \n\nand of revenue cruisers handed \n\nover to Chinese Maritime Customs Service. \n\nopium revenue.* \n\n(10) \n\nBut as the Hoppo, with a view to economy, had some time previously reduced his cruising flotilla and thereby relaxed the blockade considerably, the Hongkong representative looked askance at the proffered gift. He declined it, but expressed himself willing to accept co-operation. The outcome of the Commission's labours was the Opium Agreement, signed at Hongkong on 11th September 1886. By virtue of this instrument the Chinese Maritime Customs—which had hitherto confined its attentions solely to foreign shipping at the treaty ports—was for the first time to be entrusted with the control of Chinese craft sailing out of Hongkong into Chinese waters and vice versa, and also for the first time with the collecting of likin and, as a natural consequence, of Native Customs duties. The Agreement provided not only for the collection of duty and likin on opium under the cognizance of the Inspector General, but also for the settlement of disputes between Hongkong junks and the Native Customs revenue stations or cruisers in the neighbourhood. It was therefore natural and indeed round Hongkong inevitable that the management of the Hoppo's stations round Hongkong should devolve upon the newly created Kowloon office of the Maritime Customs, a result necessitated not only by its work of controlling all opium movements, but also by its position as arbiter in settling complaints made by junks against the Hoppo's stations or cruisers. The Hoppo's patrol service and four stations at Kowloon, Capsuimoon, Changchow, and Fotochow were accordingly handed over to the Inspector General to administer, and at the same time, for the greater convenience of the trading public, the Hongkong Government—instead of insisting on the letter of the Agreement that the office of the foreign Inspectorate should be established on Chinese territory on the Kowloon side—permitted, without extending official recognition, the opening in the city of Victoria of an office of the Chinese Maritime Customs, where a British Commissioner of Customs, appointed by the Inspector General, functioned as the Chinese official in charge of the Kowloon district and of all the Chinese revenue-protecting agencies within its limits. The Agreement also removed the grievance of Hongkong merchants regarding duty discrimination by providing that junks with their cargoes trading between Chinese ports and Hongkong should not be subject to any dues or duties in excess of those leviable on junks and their cargoes trading between Chinese ports and Macao. On the 2nd April 1887 the Kowloon Commissioner was able to commence the levy of likin and chingfei on general cargo, the collection of Tariff import duty and Convention likin on opium on the 14th of the same month, and on 1st July the collection of Native Customs duties on general cargo according to the existing tariffs. The transfer thus effected was, however, not a root-and-branch one, for there still remained at each of the stations agents of certain corporations who had farmed the collections of likin and other local levies on certain articles of trade, such as kerosene oil, matches, and so forth. To convince the provincial authorities that the operations of these agents were an inconvenience to merchants and a constant source of friction, and that this method of collection was not only wasteful but also unnecessary, took some little time, but by June 1890, as soon as all vested interests had been satisfactorily disposed of, all these agencies were removed and the Maritime Customs service was left as the sole revenue authority at all the stations‡ \n\nRemoval of discriminatory trade taxation. \n\np. 682. \n\n* L.G. Circular No. 418, Second Series. \n\n+ Hertelet: \"China Treaties,\" Third Edition (2 vols., London, 1908), Vol. I, pp. 90, 91 (vide Appendix F). \n\nCustoms publications: Statistical Series, No. 6.—\"Decennial Reports, etc., 1882-91,\" First Issue (Shanghai, 1893), \n\n(11) \n\nKowloon Territory, 1898. \n\n9. This so-called Kowloon Office of the Chinese Maritime Customs in the city of Victoria continued to function, on sufferance, till the summer of 1898—the year of the international scramble for leases of Chinese territory,—when the question of the extension of the territory of Hongkong brought up sharply once more the issue of the Chinese Customs operating on Hongkong soil. Sir Robert Hart, to whom the matter was referred by the British Minister, proposed, apart from special provisions for the control of opium—\n\n(1) That the right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hongkong should be formally admitted, the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognised, and the existing stations to be maintained, although inside the newly leased territory; \n\n(2) That the Chinese Customs should have the right to collect dues and duties in Hongkong on general cargo, as well as on opium, shipped to and from China, and that for the control of junks the Chinese Customs should have one or more special jetties at the junk anchorages; \n\n(3) That the revenue cruisers should continue their activities within the waters of the leased territory; \n\n(4) That no arms or munitions of war or contraband goods should be shipped in Hongkong on board any vessel proceeding to a Chinese port without a permit issued or countersigned by the Chinese Customs; and \n\n(5) That the Hongkong Government should pass such legislation as might be necessary to give effect to these provisions.* \n\nThese proposals were endorsed by the Canton provincial authorities,† but met with unqualified opposition from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, which was \"profoundly convinced that the freedom of the port can only be properly safeguarded by the withdrawal of the Chinese Customs stations to Chinese territory, and the refusal of permission to Chinese Customs officials to collect duties either in the Colony or its waters.\" This opposition was supported by the London Chamber of Commerce and by the China Association in London, which latter body maintained that \"to authorise the collection in Hongkong of duties (likin included) on all goods and merchandise carried from or to any Chinese ports in Chinese vessels would be to place Hongkong on the level of a Chinese treaty port,\"§ and then proceeded to add: \"if the presence of Customs stations on the adjacent mainland and at the entrance of the harbour, and of Customs cruisers in the waters surrounding the Colony, has been a hindrance and a source of vexation when these territories and waters were Chinese, the annoyance would be less endurable still when they assumed the character of foreign establishments within territory under British control.\" As a solution of the opium difficulty the Association, with the approval of the Hongkong branch, suggested that the Colonial Government might arrange to collect on behalf of the Chinese Government, against actual cost of collection, duty and likin on all opium \n\n* British Parliamentary Papers: China No. 1 (1899), Enclosure in No. 294, pp. 201, 202 (vide Appendix G). \n\n† Ibid., Enclosures in No. 382, pp. 283, 284. \n\n‡ Ibid., p. 282. \n\n§ Ibid., p. 296. \n\n|| Ibid., p. 296. \n\nproposals for Chinese Customs control. \n\nPage 430\n\nPage 431", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "439\n\nEstablishment of Custom stations on new frontier.\n\n(12)\n\nexported from the Colony into China. The attitude of the merchants, both in Hongkong and in London, was uncompromising, and might fairly be summed up as a strong desire to see the Chinese Customs cleared bag and baggage out of the Colony and of Colonial waters.†\n\n§ 10. The Inspector General's proposals were not accepted. The New Territory was handed over to the Hongkong Government in April 1899 by virtue of the Convention for the Extension of Hongkong, signed at Peking on 9th June 1898, and the Chinese Customs stations were closed on the 4th October that year. New duty-collecting stations were established at Taishan (A) and Liutin (B), in the estuary of the Canton River, to replace Capsuimoon, and at Shaichung (C) and Samun (D), to the east of Mirs Bay, to replace Fotochow. Shumchun(E) was opened as a collecting station on 1st March 1900, and on 19th February of the following year Shatowkok (F) was raised from the position of a frontier post to that of a collecting station. In addition, frontier guard posts, some of which have on occasion served also as collecting stations, had to be established along the land boundary. The number of these frontier posts has varied from time to time, but it includes, or has included, the following: Chekwan (G), Kwaimiao (H), Shatau (I), Lungtsunhu (龜津虂), Lofong (羅坊), Lowu (飔門), Lintong (華場), Shatowkok (沙头角), Yimtin (J), Kaichung (K), Tipfuk (L), Hasha (M), and Namo (N). This elongation of the land frontier was a great advantage to smugglers. Prior to 1899 the frontier was only about 2 miles in length and was protected by a stout bamboo fence, some 8 feet high, along the entire line. This fence was pierced by six gates, and an armed patrol both by night and by day saw to it that only legitimate trade passed through these gates. After 1899 the frontier ran for some 60 miles through rough and hilly country from Chekwan on the west to Mirs Greatly increased Point on the east. To add to the difficulty of controlling this greatly extended line the waters of the Shumchun River were declared to be British, while the boundary along the shores of Deep Bay and Mirs Bay was delimited at the high-water mark. This enabled smugglers to lie protected in British waters within a yard or so of Chinese territory and as it was manifestly impossible for the Chinese Government to provide preventive officers to guard every junk to slip their goods ashore practically when and where they pleased. The Chinese Customs office, however, in the city of Victoria, for the convenience of the trading public, was allowed to remain where it was, but on the old status of sufferance only. Revenue cruisers and cruising launches continued to patrol Chinese waters and to make use of Hongkong harbour as ships of war, but the sea-line now to be patrolled was perforce extended from a little over 20 to some 80 miles, a fact which also rejoiced the hearts of the smuggling fraternity.\n\nDifficulties of control.\n\n§ 11. Relations between the Colony and the Chinese Customs remained practically in this position for the next 10 years, but the decade was marked by a characteristic incident. In 1902 negotiations were proceeding between Great Britain and China for a new commercial treaty. This treaty, inter alia, was to provide for a revision of the import tariff to bring the rates up to an effective 5 per cent. duty—the first actual revision of China's import tariff for over 40 years—and to arrange for other tariff changes, especially in regard to the levy of likin. The Colony became apprehensive that its growing trade might be adversely affected by such changes. In the years preceding the Opium Agreement of 1886, as we have seen, Hongkong merchants and officials were indignant that the Chinese authorities levied higher duties on junk-borne cargoes to and from Hongkong—a foreign place—than they did on such cargoes to and from Macao, at that time Chinese territory.* China, although within her rights in making such levies, had removed the grievance by granting the wished-for concession in the Agreement of 1886, and Hongkong trade had benefited accordingly. Now, however, the Hongkong merchants, having reaped the advantage of the lowered junk rates, were fearful lest these lower rates should affect adversely the carrying trade in foreign steamers between Hongkong and the treaty ports in the province of Canton, when a higher import tariff on foreign goods going into China, and possible alterations in the likin procedure, were about to be put into force. Accordingly, an article was inserted in the so-called Mackay Treaty, signed at Shanghai on 5th September 1902, to the effect that \"duties and likin combined levied on goods carried by junks from Hongkong to the Treaty Ports in the Canton Province and vice versa, shall together not be less than the duties charged by the Imperial Maritime Customs on similar goods carried by steamer.\" This article, although designed for a specific purpose, was in effect a recognition of the principle that the amount of taxation to be levied on goods should not vary with the mode of conveyance, a principle which, in these days of greatly increased Maritime Customs tariff rates, has a wider significance than probably was intended by the framers of the article. Another event happening in this decade, which was destined to affect vitally the relations between the Colony and the Chinese Customs, was the Imperial Edict of 20th September 1906 ordering gradual cessation of opium trade.† This led to domestic coercive measures on the part of the Chinese Government for the suppression of the production and use of the home-grown article and to an agreement with the British Government for the gradual reduction and eventual extinction of the import of the drug from India. Such an arrangement could not but have an adverse reaction on the Colony's revenue. Happily, thanks largely to the genial personality of Mr. W. R. McD. Parr, who was Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon district from November 1904 to September 1908, the relations between the Chinese Customs and the Hongkong Government had lost much of their former official stiffness, so that when the Colonial Government decided to tax alcohol and spirits§ in order, if possible, to make good the revenue that was being forfeited by the cessation of the opium trade it was felt to be natural that the Colony should seek China's assistance in the matter. Hongkong's necessity, in fact, became\n\n(13)\n\n1902.\n\nDuties on goods carried by steamer.\n\nMackay Treaty.\n\nImperial Edict of September 1906.\n\n...\n\n* British Parliamentary Papers: China No. 1 (1899), p. 297.\n† Vide \"Hongkong Daily Press,\" 9th, 10th, and 15th September 1898; also Customs publications: Office Series, No. 62. \"Kowloon Customs\" (Shanghai, 1899).\n‡ Hertalet, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 120, 121.\n§ Vide Map, facing p. 1.\n* Macao was never officially recognised by China as Portuguese territory till the signing of the Protocol of Lisbon of 1887, the articles of which were confirmed by the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Portugal and China, signed 1st December 1887 (vide Chinese Customs publications: \"Treaties, Conventions, etc., between China and Foreign States,\" Second Edition (2 vols., Shanghai, 1917), Vol. II, pp. 273, 275).\n† British Parliamentary Papers: China No. 1 (1908), p. 1.\n‡ Ibid., pp. 14, 17, 21, 29, 45, 47, 48. MacMurray, J. V. A.: \"Treaties and Agreements with and concerning China\" (2 vols., New York, 1921), Vol. I, 861-866.\n$ Hongkong Ordinances No. 27 of 1909 and No. 9 of 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "460\n\n34)\n\nnumbered paragraphs what, in my opinion, will be necessary in and around Hong Kong and its new territory to safeguard the revenue interests of China, a task which will be made, in consequence of the increased area to be looked after, both onerous and expensive.\n\nThe proposals are made in the belief that Her Majesty's Government desire to give China liberal and sustained support in the protection of her revenue in that neighbourhood.\n\n1. The right of the Chinese Customs to maintain its office in Hong Kong, where it is now only unofficially acknowledged, ought to be formally admitted, and the status of the Commissioner of Customs as a Chinese official recognised.\n\nThe existing sub-stations at Changchow, Capsuimoon, Lai-chee-kok, and Fotochow ought to be maintained as at present, although they are in the leased territory. If it should be found that other stations are required they may be instituted,\n\n2. The Chinese Customs at Hong Kong shall have the right there to collect duty and li-kin on any opium and similarly dues and duties on general cargo shipped on any native vessel to or from China, The Customs ought also to have the right to one or more special jetties in proximity to junk anchorages at which cargo may be examined and verified.\n\n3. The Chinese Customs cruisers and launches may continue to exercise their functions within the waters of the leased territory.\n\n4. No opium, raw or boiled, shall be landed or stored, taken delivery of, or shipped in Hong Kong, British Kowloon, or any of the leased territory without a permit to be issued by a Colonial authority. Opium moved without permit, or found anywhere or in any quantity in contravention of Colonial Ordinance shall be confiscated.\n\n5. The opium farm, i.e., an official establishment with an exclusive right to retail (only boiled) opium, shall be maintained, and the Ordinances Nos. 22 of 1887, and 21 of 1891, concerning opium movement, etc., shall be confirmed and amended to meet the new circumstances, and to make good those points on which they are insufficient.\n\nThe boiling establishment of the farm, its retailing shops, and its books and accounts shall be open at any time to the inspection of an officer of the Chinese Customs specially deputed for that purpose.\n\n6. All Ordinances regarding the possession, movement, preparation, or sale of opium in the Colony and its waters, afloat and ashore, shall be rigidly enforced by the Colonial Executives, and its officers rewarded from proceeds of seizures with a view to encouraging zeal.\n\nAll proceeds of sale of confiscated goods shall be divided equally between the Chinese and Colonial Governments.\n\n7. No army, munitions of war, or contraband goods may be shipped on any vessel proceeding to a Chinese port in Hong Kong or its waters, without a permit issued or countersigned by the Chinese Customs.\n\n:\n35)\n\n8. The Hong Kong Government shall pass such legislation as may be necessary to give effect to the above provisions.\n\nThe above-numbered paragraphs are put forward merely to represent what I consider it proper should be done at Hong Kong to meet Chinese revenue requirements. I may, however, express the opinion that the system it provides for, and more especially the recognised presence of a fully authorised Chinese Customs at Hong Kong, gives promise of enabling measures to be taken which will make the working of the West River trade, especially at those places of call to seawards of the first port (Samshui) considerably easier than at present; also, of securing arrangements which might facilitate the trade anticipated to grow up under the new inland steam navigation rules. In both respects anything which may be possible—and without a custom-house I do not see that much will be possible—is sure to redound to the commercial advantage of the Colony as well as of the Chinese trade. On this point, however, the occasion does not call upon me to say more at present.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT HART, Inspector General of Customs.\n\nNo. 381.\n\nLondon Chamber of Commerce to the Marquess of Salisbury.\n\nLONDON, November 11, 1898.\n\nI am directed to inform you that the East India and China Trade Section of this Chamber had under its consideration at its last meeting a communication from the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, dealing at length with the terms of the Anglo-Chinese Convention to secure an extension of the boundaries of Hong Kong, signed at Peking on the 9th June last, and which have been made public, and regarding which the Hong Kong Chamber have, I understand, made representations to Her Majesty's Government.\n\nThe Hong Kong Chamber take strong objection to the clause of the Convention which provides that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction, and that the existing landing-place near that city shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese vessels.\n\nThis is regarded as tantamount to having a foreign authority exercising jurisdiction in British territory, and to the establishment of a Chinese port within Hong Kong Harbour for the use of Chinese war-vessels and Customs-cruisers, a position absolutely without parallel.\n\n461", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]