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        "content_text": "\n\nV. A tonnage \n\ndue payable in full of all charges. \n\nVI. Duties to be \n\nfees. \n\nV. Tonnage Dues. \n\nEvery English merchantman, on entering any one of the above-mentioned five ports, shall pay tonnage-dues at the rate of five mace per register-ton, in full of all charges. The fees formerly levied on entry and departure, of every description, are henceforth abolished. \n\nVI. Import and Export Duties. \n\nGoods, whether imported into, or exported from, any one of the above- charged according mentioned five ports, are henceforward to be taxed according to the Tariff as to tariff, and to be now fixed and agreed upon, and no further sums are to be levied beyond subject to no other those which are specified in the Tariff. All duties incurred by an English merchant-vessel, whether on goods imported or exported, or in the shape of tonnage-dues, must first be paid up in full; which done, the Superintendent of Customs will grant a port-clearance, and this being shown to the British Consul, he will thereupon return the ship's papers, and permit the vessel to depart. \n\nVII. Goods to \n\nbe examined by Custom-house \n\nVII. Examination of Goods at the Custom-house. \n\nEvery English merchant, having cargo to load or discharge, must give due intimation thereof, and hand particulars of the same to the Consul, who will immediately dispatch a recognized linguist of his own establishment to officer, in presence communicate the particulars to the Superintendent of Customs, that the goods may be duly examined, and neither party subjected to loss. The English merchant must also have a properly qualified person on the spot to attend to his interests when his goods are being examined for duty; otherwise, should there be complaints, these cannot be attended to. \n\nof merchant's \n\nagent. \n\nRegarding such goods as are subject by the Tariff to an ad valorem duty; Disputes regarding value for ad valorem if the English merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officer in fixing a duties, how settled., value, then each party shall call two or three merchants to look at the goods, and the highest price at which any of these merchants would be willing to purchase, shall be assumed as the value of the goods. \n\nTare how fixed. \n\nAppeal to Consul where disputes can- not otherwise be settled. \n\nVIII. Duties to \n\nshroffs. \n\nTo fix the tare on any article, such as tea; if the English merchant cannot agree with the Custom-house officer, then each party shall choose so many chests out of every hundred, which being first weighed in gross, shall after- wards be tared, and the average tare upon these chests shall be assumed as the tare upon the whole; and upon this principle shall the tare be fixed upon all other goods in packages. \n\nIf there should still be any disputed points which cannot be settled, the English merchant may appeal to the Consul, who will communicate the par- ticulars of the case to the Superintendent of Customs, that it may be equitably arranged. But the appeal must be made on the same day, or it will not be regarded. While such points are still open, the Superintendent of Customs will delay to insert the same in his books, thus affording an opportunity that the merits of the case may be duly tried and sifted. \n\nVIII. Manner of Paying the Duties. \n\nIt is hereinbefore provided, that every English vessel that enters any one be paid to licensed of the five ports, shall pay all duties and tonnage-dues before she be per- mitted to depart. The Superintendent of Customs will select certain shroff's, or banking establishments, of known stability, to whom he will give licences, authorizing them to receive duties from the English merchants on behalf of Government, and the receipt of these shroffs for any moneys paid them shall In the paying of these duties, be considered as a Government voucher. different kinds of foreign money may be made use of; but as foreign money is not of equal purity with sycee silver, the English Consuls appointed to the different ports will, according to time, place, and circumstances, arrange with \n\nbe \n\nPayment may made in foreign \n\nmoney. \n\nthe Superintendents of Customs at each, what coins may be taken in payment, Per centage on and what per centage may be necessary to make them equal to standard or foreign money, how pure silver. \n\nIX. Weights and Measures. \n\nSets of balance-yards for the weighing of goods, of money-weights, and \n\nfixed. \n\nIX. Standard \n\nof measures, prepared in exact conformity to those hitherto in use at the weights and mea- Custom-house of Canton, and duly stamped and scaled in proof thereof, will sures, for duties. be kept in possession of the Superintendent of Customs, and also at the Bri- tish Consulate at each of the five ports; and these shall be the standards by which all duties shall be charged, and all sums paid to Government. In case of any dispute arising between British merchants and Chinese officers of Customs, regarding the weights or measures of goods, reference shall be made to these standards, and disputes decided accordingly. \n\nX. Lighters or Cargo Boats. \n\nWhenever any English merchant shall have to load or discharge cargo, he may hire whatever kind of lighter or cargo-boat he pleases, and the sum may be engaged as \n\nX. Any boats to be paid for such boat can be settled between the parties themselves, with lighters, without out the interference of Government. The number of these boats shall not be limited, nor shall a monopoly of them be granted to any parties. If any \n\nlimit or monopoly. smuggling take place in them, the offenders will of course be punished according to law. Should any of these boat-people, while engaged in con- veying goods for English merchants, fraudulently abscond with the property, the Chinese authorities will do their best to apprehend them; but, at the same time, the English merchants must take every due precaution for the safety of their goods. \n\nXI. Transshipment of Goods. \n\nlicence. \n\nNo English merchant-ships may transship goods without special per- mission: should any urgent case happen where transshipment is necessary, ments only to be XI. Transship- the circumstances must first be submitted to the Consul, who will give a cer- made with special tificate to that effect, and the Superintendent of Customs will then send a special officer to be present at the transshipment. If any one presumes to transship without such permission being asked for and obtained, the whole of the goods so illicitly transshipped will be confiscated. \n\nXII. Subordinate Consular Officers. \n\nPakers \n\nXII. Subordinate \n\nAt any place selected for the anchorage of the English merchant-ships, there may be appointed a subordinate Consular officer, of approved good officers may be conduct, to exercise due control over the seamen and others. He must appointed at the exert himself to prevent quarrels between the English seamen and natives, shipping. this being of the utmost importance. Should any thing of the kind un- \n\nanchorages of the fortunately take place, he will in like manner do his best to arrange it amicably. When sailors go on shore to walk, officers shall be required to accompany them; and should disturbances take place, such officers will be held responsible. The Chinese officers may not impede natives from coming alongside the ships to sell clothes or other necessaries to the sailors living on board. \n\nXIII. Disputes between British Subjects and Chinese. \n\nXIII. Disputes \n\nWhenever a British subject has reason to complain of a Chinese, he must first proceed to the Consulate and state his grievance. The Consul to be settled, if will thereupon inquire into the merits of the case, and do his utmost to possible, amicably arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese have reason to complain by arbitration).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "Interpreter Surgeon \n\nHead Cleak \n\nClerk-- \n\nBrought found & 7537 10 \n\n\" \n\nThree Chinese Writers \n\nor \n\nLinguists & $.360 each __ \n\ne \n\nConsular Agent at Macar \n\nBrought forward & 14701 10 \n\nFoochow for Consulate \n\nConsul \n\nVice Consul_ Interpreter- Surgeon- blacks and Linguists \n\nat Amoy - \n\nHingpo Consulate Consul \n\nas \n\n750. \n\n\" \n\nか \n\n\" \n\n1080 243. \n\n200! \n\n200\" \n\n\" \n\n$ \n\nVice Consul Interpreter \n\nburgeon \n\nConsular Agent at Whampoa - black to the Agent at Maces - 900 Clerk to the Agent at whampn: 900 \n\nAmoy Consulate \n\nConsul - \n\n12:00\" \n\nVice Consul_ \n\nInterpreter \n\nburgeon - \n\nHead Clerk \n\nClerk \n\nTwo Chinese Writers or Linguists \n\nat $1360 each \n\nyoo \n\nboo \n\n270. \n\n720 162. \n\n易 \n\nCarried forward 1/1701 10 \n\n$ \n\nClarke & Linguists \n\nFor chow for- \n\nas at \n\nShanghai Consulate \n\nConsul \n\nVice Consul \n\nInterpreter \n\n\" \n\nCarried forward $26725 10. \n\n& \n\n$",
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        "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
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        "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
        "content_text": "and all Persons having letters to be sent to any of the Countries to which the payment of Portage at Houshong is compulsory. set forth in the Post Office Regulations published in the Government Gazette of \n\nto an \n\nas \n\nthe 9th Instant - must enclose such letters Agent or Friend at Honghong to pay the postage upon them. \n\n\"Letters that may come for individuals at any of the Ports where a Consul is stationed will henceforward be sent ( with a Memorandum of the Postage - if any chargiable on them) to the Consul, \n\nwho will be requested to allo: one Establishment to deliver them on \n\nof his \n\napplication / and payment of the Postage). \n\nThe Consuls will in like manner be-... requested to Keep a box open and to order letters to be received for transmission to Hongkong as laid down in the case of the Assistant \n\n{ \n\nAssistant Leeputy Post Master at Chutan - \n\nto any \n\nLetters that \n\nmay \n\ncome addressed \n\nother Place in China than Macas, \n\nthe Five Consular Ports and Chusan will \n\nbe Kept at the Post Office at Victoria, till applied for and the Postage(if any) paid upon them. \n\nBy Order, (Signed) Richard Woosnam \n\nGovernment House, Victoria, \n\nHoughong, 16th April, 1844 \n\nA True Copy \n\nMichael Wormann",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
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        "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
        "content_text": "\nα \n\necompanying \n\nthe Packets) on all letters \n\n-will be. \n\nwhich you anay forward agreeable to the Notification already sent to you collected and remitted to you by the Consuls, Consular Agent (at Macas) are Marine Magistrate (at Chusan) but his Henry Pottinger cannot allow thok functionaries to be further birthened with the duty of Post Office Clerks and it is only his anxiety for the feelings and convenience of private individuals that induces him to consent to the above arrangement \n\nWhen you \n\nhave perfected your \n\narrangement for the transmission of letters to mucus it can be published. and those who are disposed to do to can avail themselves of it. \n\nIam in conclusion desired to \n\nthat the whole of the \n\ninform you \n\ncorrespondence \n\nwith \n\nconrespondence and documents connected. your Duties will be transmitted to Her majesty's bovernment by the mail \n\nin a few days. \n\nthat is going \n\n(Signed) \n\nA true Copy \n\nI have, te, \n\nRichard Wrotham \n\nMichand Worman",
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        "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844",
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        "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844",
        "content_text": "\n\nV. A tonnage due payable in full of all charges. \n\nVI. Duties to be \n\nfees. \n\nV. Tonnage Dues. \n\nEvery English merchantman, on entering any one of the above-mentioned \n\nfive ports, shall pay tonnage-dues at the rate of five mace per register-ton, in full of all charges. The fees formerly levied on entry and departure, of every description, are henceforth abolished. \n\nVI. Import and Export Duties. \n\nGoods, whether imported into, or exported from, any one of the above- charged according mentioned five ports, are henceforward to be taxed according to the Tariff as to tariff, and to be now fixed and agreed upon, and no further sums are to be levied beyond subject to no other those which are specified in the Tariff. All duties incurred by an English merchant-vessel, whether on goods imported or exported, or in the shape of tonnage-dues, must first be paid up in full; which done, the Superintendent of Customs will grant a port-clearance, and this being shown to the British Consul, he will thereupon return the ship's papers, and permit the vessel to depart. \n\nVII. Goods to be examined by \n\nCustom-house \n\nVII. Examination of Goods at the Custom-house. \n\nEvery English merchant, having cargo to load or discharge, must give due intimation thereof, and hand particulars of the same to the Consul, who will immediately dispatch a recognized linguist of his own establishment to officer, in presence communicate the particulars to the Superintendent of Customs, that the goods be duly examined, and neither party subjected to loss. The English may merchant must also have a properly qualified person on the spot to attend to his interests when his goods are being examined for duty; otherwise, should there be complaints, these cannot be attended to. \n\nof merchant's \n\nagent. \n\nDisputes regarding \n\nRegarding such goods as are subject by the Tariff to an ad valorem duty; value for ad valorem if the English merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officer in fixing a duties, how settled. value, then each party shall call two or three merchants to look at the goods, and the highest price at which any of these merchants would be willing to purchase, shall be assumed as the value of the goods. \n\nTare how fixed. \n\nAppeal to Consul where disputes can- \n\nnot otherwise be settled. \n\nVIII. Duties to \n\nshroffs. \n\nTo fix the tare on any article, such as tea; if the English merchant cannot agree with the Custom-house officer, then each party shall choose so many chests out of every hundred, which being first weighed in gross, shall after- wards be tared, and the average tare upon these chests shall be assumed as the tare upon the whole; and upon this principle shall the tare be fixed upon all other goods in packages. \n\nIf there should still be any disputed points which cannot be settled, the English merchant may appeal to the Consul, who will communicate the par- ticulars of the case to the Superintendent of Customs, that it may be equitably arranged. But the appeal must be made on the same day, or it will not be regarded. While such points are still open, the Superintendent of Customs will delay to insert the same in his books, thus affording an opportunity that the merits of the case may be duly tried and sifted. \n\nVIII. Manner of Paying the Duties. \n\nIt is hereinbefore provided, that every English vessel that enters any one be paid to licensed of the five ports, shall pay all duties and tonnage-dues before she be per- mitted to depart. The Superintendent of Customs will select certain shroffs, or banking establishments, of known stability, to whom he will give licences, authorizing them to receive duties from the English merchants on behalf of Government, and the receipt of these shroffs for any moneys paid them shall In the paying of these duties, be considered as a Government voucher. different kinds of foreign money may be made use of; but as foreign money is not of equal purity with sycee silver, the English Consuls appointed to the different ports will, according to time, place, and circumstances, arrange with \n\nbe \n\nPayment may made in foreign \n\nraoney. \n\n} \n\nthe Superintendents of Customs at each, what coins may be taken in payment, Per centage ou and what per centage may be necessary to make them equal to standard or foreign money, how pure silver. \n\nIX. Weights and Measures. \n\nSets of balance-yards for the weighing of goods, of money-weights, and \n\nfixed. \n\nIX. Standard \n\nof measures, prepared in exact conformity to those hitherto in use at the weights and mea- Custom-house of Canton, and duly stamped and sealed in proof thereof, will sures, for duties. be kept in possession of the Superintendent of Customs, and also at the Bri- tish Consulate at each of the five ports; and these shall be the standards by which all duties shall be charged, and all sums paid to Government. \n\nIn case \n\nof any dispute arising between British merchants and Chinese officers of Customs, regarding the weights or measures of goods, reference shall be made to these standards, and disputes decided accordingly. \n\nX. Lighters or Cargo Boats. \n\nWhenever any English merchant shall have to load or discharge cargo, he may hire whatever kind of lighter or cargo-boat he pleases, and the sum may be engaged as \n\nX. Any boats to be paid for such boat can be settled between the parties themselves, with lighters, without out the interference of Government. The number of these boats shall not be limited, nor shall a monopoly of them be granted to any parties. If any \n\nlimit or monopoly. smuggling take place in them, the offenders will of course be punished according to law. Should any of these boat-people, while engaged in con- veying goods for English merchants, fraudulently abscond with the property, the Chinese authorities will do their best to apprehend them; but, at the same time, the English merchants must take every due precaution for the safety of their goods. \n\nXI. Transshipment of Goods. \n\nXI. Transship- \n\nlicence. \n\nNo English merchant-ships may transship goods without special per- mission should any urgent case happen where transshipment is necessary, ments only to be the circumstances must first be submitted to the Consul, who will give a cer- made with special tificate to that effect, and the Superintendent of Customs will then send a special officer to be present at the transshipment. If any one presumes to transship without such permission being asked for and obtained, the whole of the goods so illicitly transshipped will be confiscated. \n\nXII. Subordinate Consular Officers. \n\nXII. Subordinate \n\nAt any place selected for the anchorage of the English merchant-ships, there may be appointed a subordinate Consular officer, of approved good officers may be conduct, to exercise due control over the seamen and others. exert himself to prevent quarrels between the English seamen and natives, shipping. \n\nHe must \n\nappointed at the this being of the utmost importance. Should any thing of the kind un- \n\nauchorages of the fortunately take place, he will in like manner do his best to arrange it amicably. When sailors go on shore to walk, officers shall be required to accompany them; and should disturbances take place, such officers will be held responsible. The Chinese officers may not impede natives from coming alongside the ships to sell clothes or other necessaries to the sailors living on board. \n\nXIII. Disputes between British Subjects and Chinese. \n\nXIII. Disputes \n\nWhenever a British subject has reason to complain of a Chinese, he must first proceed to the Consulate and state his grievance. The Consul to be settled, if will thereupon inquire into the merits of the case, and do his utmost to possible, amicably arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese have reason to complain (by arbitration). \n\nņ \n\nHY",
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        "content_text": "are \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA, \n\nAND \n\nZECCE. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nEXTRA \n\nHONGKONG,\"SATURDAY, APRIL' BTS2843. \n\nat Hongkong and Macao, on the subject of postage chargeable on letters arriving in Bombay from Chins. \n\n2. I had before endeavoured to explain these been informed by Captain Richards of H. M. Ship rules to the Post-Master at Macao, but as I have \n\nTH annexed Copies of letters from the Fost Master General at Bombay, together with the No- tification alluded to it No. 1721 of 1842 are pub lished for general information, and with the ob ject of giving effect to those arrangements, the Cornwallis, that the greatest uncertainty prevails lowing local Regulations are laid down and will in China, in regard to the regulations under which come into operation from the 1st day of June next,ceived at this office, I have been induced to trou. letters, and particularly letters for Europe, are re both as regards the Post Office at Hongkong, andle you, in the hope that all the necessary informa the British Consular Office at Macao, \n\n1st. Boxes will always be kept open at the Post tion on the subject may, through your means be Offices for the receipt of letters to be transmit-communicated to the public, and that the Post Office authorities in China may be directed to fa. \n\nand a SEPARATE accounts of the foreign postage must be rendered every quarter. \n\n9. It must be borne in mind, I would observe in conclusion, that when letters for Europe are forwarded to Bombay either by Madras or Cal- catta, inland, postage according to the rates laid down in the Notification of the 14th August 1839, No. 134, Genl. Dept. published by order of the Hon. the President of the Council of India inj Council, will be chargeable. This might be pre paid in China in the same manner as has been above provided for Ship and foreign postage. All that is necessary is, that the accounts of each des- N \n\nI have thin honor to be &c. \n\nW. ESCOMBR Actg. Post-Master General, \n\nted to the different Presidencies of India when:cilitate the dispatch of letters, by adopting the cription of postage should be kept quite distinct. \n\never opportunities may offer, 2nd. On those letters that may be pat into the Bombay Box, outward Ship Postage will invar- iably be charged at the rate of 2 Ammas on a letter of three Tolas weight, and an Amma on every additional Tola \n\nSrd. The same rule will be applied to all letters that may be put in the Boxes for Madras- and Calcutta. \n\n4th. When the letters are addressed to Persons \n\ncourse which I have pointed out, in regard to the pre-payment of the whole of the Ship postage at the Ofice of despatch, \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nSin \n\nBombay \n\nin India, it will be optional with the Posters of Geul. Post Office \n\n14th Octr. 1842. them to pay or not, the inward Ship Postage which is the same as the outward-and in case they do not pay it, it will be recovered from the Receivers. \n\n5th. When letters are intended to go beyond India the inward and outward Ship Postage muust be invariably paid. \n\nNo, 1721-of 1842. \n\nTà \n\ngo \n\nYour most obit. Servant W. ESCOMOB Acting Post-Muster General. \n\nThe Post Masters at. \n\n[Signed] \n\nBombay Genl. Post Office 14th October 1842. \n\n[True Copy] \n\nW. ESCOMBE, Acting Post-Master General. \n\nYOTIFICATION. COMMANDERS Of Ships, trading with the Port of Bom bay, are bereby informed, that all Letters for England, arriving from Sea-ward, are subject in Bombay to Ship Posiage, and all Letters for Foreign Europe, to General Department Steamer Postage, in addition. \n\nHong-Kong, and Macão.\" \n\n8th. On letters intended for the United Kingdom Sir, \n\nno Postage except the outward and inward As great misunderstanding appears still to pro- Postage can be received under any circumstan-vail in regard to the postage leviable in Bombay ces it placed in the Bombay Box, but when on letters received from China, I have the hooor. placed in the Madras or Calcutta Boses, the to forward a Notification issued under date the 14th Indian inland Postage, agreeable to the annex March 1842, which contains all the rules neces- ed scale markod A, must be paid, in addition to ||sary for your guidance. the outward and inward Ship Postage. \n\n2. It may be attended, with much iconve- 7th, When leuters are intended for Foreign Eu-nience to oblige parties in China to have recourse rope or any intermediate Place, additional Post to an Agent in Bombay to pay the postage due age will be levied on them agreeable to the hore, and I therefore beg that you'will cause it to Table laid down in the Bombay Government be understood that the entire postage, both the Notification of the 14th March 1842, and such outward and inward, may be paid in your office, letters will accordingly bear four Items of by which all further charge will be done away charge namely \n\nOutward Ship Postage Inward Ship Postage Indian Inland Postage \n\nif put in the Madras \n\nor Calcutta Boxes \"Foreign Postage \n\nse \n\nSth. The same rules will be applied to Newspa- pers, Pamphlets &c. the Postage on them being charged agreeable to the Table inserted in the Bombay Government Notification above advert \n\ned to. \n\nwith, \n\nTo prevent disappointment, therefore, to parties not, acquainted with these rules, Commanders of Ships oro recommended only to receive Post Office Packets or Letters for places not in India,--on which they are themselves prepared to pay the postage, according to the lates laid down in the accompanying Table. \n\nBombay. Gent Post Afice. 6th September 1842. \n\nW. ESCOMBE \n\nAag. Post Mr. Geni, \n\nNorice is hereby given, that Letters arriving from Ben-ward for transmission to any place beyond the Territories of the East India Company, whether by Ship, or by the Government-Steamers, will be detain ed in Bombay until the Ship or Steamer Postage. or both, to which such Letters, may be liable, shall be paid according to the rates laid down in the subjoined \n\n3. It has lately been the practice to send mo- Table, \n\nney to pay the postage as well here as in England. \n\nThis is a very inconvenient proceeding and I have \n\nto request that it may be discontinued. In place \n\nof it, you will be so good as fo forward with each Mail a Bill showing the number of latters and the amount of inward postage due thereon to the Bombay Office. A quarterly return of the entire amount collected should be made up to the end of April, July, October and January, and the money should then he remitted by an order on the Trea- sury in Bombay or in any other mode which may be more convenient.. \n\n4. I have to request that when the entire post- \n\nis prepaid, the letters may be marked thus. \"Outward Ship-postage paid As. \"Inward Do \n\n9th. Although it is stated in the 6th Paragraph of \n\nthe Bombay Post-Master General's letter to the Post Master at Hongkong &e, that letters from Members of the China Expedition are to be ex-age cused Ship Postage, yet looking to the changes that have taken place since that letter was writ- ten, and to the return of a large part of the Ez- pedition to England and India, it is considered more than propable that the privilege therein referred to has been declared to be, or is, con- sidered null and void, and therefore persons for- warding letters are recommended not to rely on that rule being still in force. 10th The Regulations herein promulgated will be ters will be detained, \n\nde ba \n\nDo. As. \n\nRs. \n\nWhen only the outward postage is paid, that they may be marked \"Outward Ship-postage only.\" In this last case, provision must be inade for the pay- ment in Bombay of the inward postage, or the let- \n\ncommuniceted to the different. Goveruments of 5. These remarks are intended to apply to let- India by the first departure, and as they provide ters not for delivery in India; when letters are for! \n\nfor the transmission of letters &c under everyIndia, the Inward Ship postage can of course be possible circumstance, they will no doubt be ri-recovered from the addressees. \n\ngidly enforced, so that Individuals neglecting to 6. Letters from members of the China expedi-! conform to them will have only themselves to tion are received free of Ship postage. blame, should their letters be either detained in 7. No postage is leviable in India on letters: India or returned. \n\nfor the United Kingdom. It is collected solely in 11th. The only exceptions to Postage being levied England, and no pre-payment can, under any cir- \n\nwill be in favor of Official despatches, under the \n\ncumstances whatever, be made in India on such signatures of Her Majesty's Picnipotentiary:etters. the Naval Commander in Chief and the Gen- \n\n8. Letters for other places than the United \n\neral Officer Commanding Her Majesty's Land Kingdom are chargeable with a postage according Forces, or the Senior Officers of the Civil, Na-to the rates laid down in the accompanying table, val and Military Services in China. \n\nBy Order \n\nHongkong, Govt. House, \n\n6th April, 1843. \n\n`No. 1722-of 1842. \n\nTo \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGeneral Department, \n\nThe Secretary of Legation, Hong-Kong.. \n\nSir-I have the honor to forward Copy of a \n\nter I have to day addressed to the Post-Masters \n\nand this postage must be prepaid. When it may be inconvenient to parties to employ Agents in Bombay, the foreign postage can be levied in your Office in the same manner as Ship postage such foreign letters should then be marked. \n\n\"Outward Ship postage paid As \"Inward Do. - \n\nDo. As Do. As \n\n*Foreign postage \n\nTotal Rs. \n\nonal 6 Tolus weight. \n\nAn anna being ad. An anna being added for every additi-Two annas being added for every additi oual 100 Tolas up to 300 Tolas, beyond \n\ntional Tola. \n\nded for every addi \n\nwhich no Parcel will be received. \n\nAgua. \n\nceeding & ceeding Not ex- Not ex- \n\nNot exceeding 6 Tolas weight. \n\nNot exceeding 100 Tolas weight. \n\nTolas. \n\nTola \n\nAnnae. \n\nAnnas. \n\n2. \n\nAnnas. \n\nLETTERS \n\nOutward Inward. \n\nat each end jed papers packed in short covers, open, Parcels not exceeding 300 Tolas weight. \n\nNewspapers, Pamphlets and other print- Table of Ship Postage to be levied on Letters received or sent by sea. \n\nContinued to Second Page.",
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        "content_text": "229 Hany Run 162 \n\nMemorandum, and Indey of Conte Outwards \n\nFER 8 \n\nalready specially reported 1844, to be. 10- \n\nto the 1st of July. \n\n\"Letters - not \n\nwritten subsequently \n\nJuly 1843. \n\nGovernment House, Victoria (Hongkong) \n\nDate. \n\nTo whom \n\n^ \n\nPurport. \n\n14 July. John Rickett, Suf. Direiting. kim to administer Baths Consuls Agent, to suck of Her Majesty's Justices \n\nha@ao. \n\nAldrich, \n\n2 527 July Major Mdrich, \n\nof Peace as may apply to hime Sanctioning proposed rates of \n\nCommanding Engineers Working Pay for Madras Saffers, to \n\n4. Jelly Lord Sattern, \n\nMready transmitted in Despatch \n\nCommanding Lond. Pocos N. 7. of the 17th of July, 1843. \n\n44 17th July A. D. Gordon By. Conveying \n\nSauction to \n\nLand - Officer, 4o. forr. Stances for. Clock's \n\n4th July Major faine, \n\nChief Magistrate \n\n6 6th \n\nJuly Major faine \n\nGovernment Struser. \n\nbuilding. \n\nhear. \n\nConveying Aules regarding \"Prisoners confined till they \n\npay Fines. \n\nRectifying \n\ndu error in the Cathy \n\nThief Magistrate to be administered. to Justices \n\n76 July A. R. Johnston Pos \n\nAssistant Superintendenteh. \n\n8 6th July John Ricketts Bay. \n\nConsular agent Madão \n\nAhrich \n\n9 115 July Major \n\nof the Peace. \n\nJ \n\nRelieving Liant Sargent promen \n\nCommanding Enginers his duty as Assistent Surveyor \n\nand fixing his Pay, whilst o employed.. \n\nLo",
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        "content_text": "hil \n\nVictoria 19 - August 1843 \n\nIn reply to your letter he 865 of the 7t of June, addreind to the Post Master at this Place I am directed by His Excellency Six = \n\nبه \n\n\"the\": Henry Pottinger to forward to you accompanying copy of a letter from the British Consular Agent at Macao: from it will perceive, that the French Consul has declined paying the Postage charged \n\nthe Packet in question, which has upon therefore been deposited in this Office, wheres \n\nyou \n\nit will await \n\nyour \n\nwishes. \n\nI have vo \n\nSigned, Richard Homams. \n\nLieut Ouchterlony, \n\nMadras Engineers. \n\nSir \n\nVictoria, August 21 18468. \n\nInv \n\nNo: 64 \n\nJav reply to your \n\nletter of the 8505 Instant, I am directed by This Excellency the Governor to inform you, that the claim, \n\nthe \n\nyou prefer to further remuneration, on subject of a drame, cannot be taken into \n\nconsideration. \n\nYou \n\nAatar e \n\ninformed by my \n\nletter \n\nof the too of Ichuary last, that in granting : and to erect a Bazar, Government \n\nyou the \n\nhad \n\nزی \n\nno intention of incurring \n\narry \n\nsich \n\nthe \n\nexpouse, and looking to the Report of t \n\nund Officer, you \n\nmost liberally compensated. \n\nOn furnishing a certified -:tatement of the expense you activally incurred on the Market Place, resumed by Government, a Committee will be ordered to examine and report upon it, and its & alve will be hereafter paid either to you \n\n• your agents, should the decision of Her \n\nMajesty's \n\nPage 510Page 511",
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        "content_text": "Hil \n\nMajor General.. \n\nThe Lord. Saltour. W.C.B.M.0.H. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nthe \n\nto \n\nYo. Victoria, 11th November, 18/13 \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Lordship's letter. 805117 of the 9th, and in reply to say, that I think it very desirable, that the Evening; Gun, should continue to be fired \n\nat \n\nP. M. until. such a Harbour Police. can be established as shall obviate \n\nthe \n\nnecessity for the prohibition. against Chinese Boats \n\nplying after that hour... \n\nI therefore beg, that your Lordship. will be so good. as to give biders accordingly. \n\nI have to. \n\n(Signed.) Henry. Pottinger \n\nNE107 \n\nN. 108. \n\nLieut. Pedder, R.N \n\nHarbour Master.. \n\nSir \n\nVictoria, 14th November., 1843. \n\nWith reference to the Distressed. \n\nBritish Seaman, John. Walter, mentioned \n\nin \n\nYour \n\nletter, N. 154, of the 13th Instant; the Colonial Surgeon. has reported him to be in a \n\nas \n\n:fit state to be removed. \n\nfrom the Hospital, I um directed by His Excellency, the Governor to request You, to arrange. \n\ncrange . for his \n\ngoing to England. by the first opportunity; and should. there be no vessel., bound direct to \n\nEngland, likely to leave this Port in \n\n巍 \n\nShort time, His Excellency, desires \n\nYou to place Yourself in Communication. with. Mr Rickett the British \n\nConsular. Agent at Maçao, and \n\nrequest",
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        "content_text": "The Date. To whom . \n\n-Subject \n\n6 65 Jars Col. Campbell C & Acknowledging the receipt of his \n\nletter forwarding the Proceedings of the Committee appointed to investigate the complaints of the Passengers of the Lady Amherst, in whose opinion the Governor concurs, but does not see sufficient cause to withhold the balance \n\nof the Passage money of the hoops. Sanctiming $5 per montem at the Salary of a Chinese Police Clerk. Sug forny chany. \n\nhas the lure of $80 for the purchase of a Hlove for the chief - Unagistrate's Office, \n\nApproving of and confirming the \n\nof the Arbitrators in the, dispute between Mr Free Scott and Mess's Burd H. \n\n7 6 Jaw\" Moja Caine. \n\nbefanz Major Cause \n\n9 6 Janz Major Caine. Approving \n\n12. \n\naward \n\n65 Jaws 4 Scott Esqpe Replying to his letter and informing \n\nhind that the Chief Magistrate had been instructed to see the award of the arbitrators between himself and Mess Burd of carried into effect \n\n6\" \"Jan\" \n\ntheir \n\nwhich \n\n6 Jard Dr Anderson. Branting him leave of absence \n\nColarial Surgeon for five days, from the 12 Instant 14 A. Burgaft Acknowledging the receipt of their \n\nA. J. Gordon letter in which they give. C. Cleverly. \n\nRey opinions as to the terms C. E. Stewart Marine and Fown Lots should \n\nconfirmed to the present holders and conveying further observations fom the Governor on the subject. \n\non \n\n9 Jan J. Rickett Esp= \"With reference to a dispute between British Consular. Mr. J. Smith and W. Da Luzz about \n\nAgent. Macas. 2,000 bags of Rice at present in the \n\nKeeping of Mefors Holliday Wise, He, \n\nVictoria, \n\nrecorr \n\nmending them to submit the case to arbitration. \n\nDirecting \n\nNo: Date. \n\nTo whom. \n\nSubject. \n\n14 10 Jan Licul. Tedder. 2.4 Dirceting a confiscated Boat to be \n\nHarbour Master. sold by tenction and the proceeds to \n\nbe paid into the Treasury. \n\n15 16 Jaws Lieut. Sed der Rh he reply to his letter No) directing \n\nhim to feed and clothe four colored men, who \n\npicked up by \n\n1 fors, aut Adder \n\nwvere \n\nthe \n\nKansport Cornwall in an open canoe at sea. \n\na boat confiscated by sentence of the Chief Magistrate, directing it to be kept in the Harbour masters Department, if required. \" and if not to be offered to the Enginer \n\nCommisariat Department,\" I. lagre that, during 10 and A. I. Gordon (sy = Sanctioning the sense of $ 271 for \n\nWork, during the month \n\nor \n\nContingent of January. \n\n10 Jan A. J. Gordon Eigre. With reference to a charge of be in \n\nthe Estimate for Contingent work for \n\nJanuary, informing him that it will only be sanctioned during the present pressure on the Land Department. \n\n19 107 Jan A. J. Gordon Esq = Sanctioning the kin \n\nmentem as \n\nthe \n\n786 per \n\ntrages of a \n\na mavj \n\nto perform the duties of Office Coolie and Porter in the Land Office. \n\nEstimate to be made \n\n10 Janz A. J. Gordon Esgre Directing \n\nam \n\na \n\nof the Expense necessary to render the mat church serviceable for period of twelve months. 10 Jan & A. J. Cordon Esqpe Acknowledging the receipt of his \n\nletter dey forwarding a Plan of the City of Victoria, approving of the Han and directing it to be carried into effect - also instructing Mr Gordon to inform Mr Burd and the occupion of t \n\n\" the Upper Bazar that they must \n\nemove their houses in six months. pom the present date te te 22 13 Jan Lieut Pedder. Directing the confiscated Chines \n\nBoat",
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        "content_text": "I have t \n(Signed) Richard Worsnam. \nJohan Rickett Eogre \nSir. \nBritish Consular Agent. \nMacao . \nVictoria, Hongkong. 9 January, 1844. \nthis \nWith reference to a dispute which exists between IW John I amith and hot Joze Antonio da Luz (Merchants at Macao) regarding 2,000 Bags of Rice at present the keeping of Messrs Holliday, Wise 4 of 1 place, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to request you to inform to I amith that, in accordance with His Excellency's recommendation to submit the case to - arbitration, Mr. Da Luz has on his part \nnamed \nNo. 13 \n602 \nnamed Mr Felix Hillario de Azevedo : the further progress therefore to a final settlement of the question now rests with Mr I amith, who has not yet replied to a \nthe 18th of November \nletter written to him \nour \nlast enclosing a copy of His Excellency's recommendation to Mr. Da Luz. \nShould not I amith decline \nsubmitting the case to arbitration, in addition to the expense which will arccessarily accrue from Storeage \nfrom Storeage it is more than probable that the Rice will suffer considerable damage before the affair \nb \nlegally decided by \nand in \na \nCourt of Justice, \ncar \nthis light His Excellency desires \nwill represent the matter to Mr. __ \nyou I amith. \nI have to \n(Signed) Richard Worsnam \nNo: 164",
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        "content_text": "forward to \nyou \nan \nIndent from Me \nRickett, Her Majesty's Consular Agent at Macas, for \narms and ammunition \nrequired for the protection of the Lorcha \nattached to his Establishment and to \nrequest you to furnish such of them at you are able, for \nable, for which \nyou \nwill be \npleased to obtain Mr. Rickett's receipt and send a copy of it, together with the Original Indent to this Officer \nThe Porcha is now \nlying in this \nharbour, and the Master of her is ready \nto receive the arms. \nI have to \n(Signed) Richard Woomaner \nRear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, C.P. \nde \nJe, fe, \nNo:33 \nCouncil Chamber, Victoria . \nJanuary. \nSir \nJanuary 24th 1844 \nWe have the honor to enclose \n616 \nan \nOriginal letter which has been addressed \nto our Resident by \n7 \nof \nthe mercantile Form \nmay \nbe \nof Jamiesond How He praying that one of Her Majesty's Ships of War allowed to anchor in the toestern part the Harbour for the protection of that quarter of the Colony, and we shall be obliged by your giving the prayer your favorable consideration - so far as the Service will admit- until a regular and sufficiently strong organized \nWe have be \nPolice is \n(Signed). Henry Pottinger. (·) \nGeorge D'Aguilar. \nYou Cainer \n). \nNo: 34",
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        "content_text": "afford us every gratification to rectify\n\nwishes in that respect.\n\nyour\n\nWe have be\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\nGeorge D'Aguilar. ) You Caine\n\nC\n\nThe Honorable,\n\nI\n\nMajor Caine.\n\nSir,\n\nto my\n\nVictoria,\n\nHoughing 27 February 18/44\n\nNo: 79\n\nFrom the accompanying reply letter No:44 addressed by the direction of Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade to the British Consular Agent at Macao regarding a claim urged by Mr Hall against Messrs Bell H.\n\nwill perceive that\n\nyou\n\nalone\n\nof the\n\nParties\n\n...\n\nNo:80\n\n671\n\nare any\n\nany\n\nParties referred to in any letter longer at Macao - From Mr. Rickett's reply however, it also appears that both Mr Hall and Mr Melville are now\n\nin this Colony and as they\n\nParties between whom the\n\nare\n\nresiding\n\nthe\n\narrangement\n\nregarding the hire of the Fortescue was made. His Excellency directs me to request you\n\nto cite them before you\n\nand in your investigation of the case\n\nas well as\n\nto be guided by his Memorandum\n\nand by that of the Legal Adviser to Government, both of which together\n\nwith all the documents connected with the affair.\n\nare now\n\nforwarded\n\nfor your information.\n\nI have be\n\n(Signed) Richard Woosnam\n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "hired by Government pour Mr Gillespie Sam now directed by His Excellency to request that you will pay such sums to Mr. Matheson, on his furnishing you with the necessary receipts for the amount, as that gentleman has entered into a Bond to be accountable for when called upon by the Governor of the Colony to pay\n\nit\n\nI have t\n\nthe same\n\n(Signed) Richard Wornum\n\nThomas J. Scales Esqre\n\nVictoria,\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong, April 26, 1864.\n\nI have received and laid before\n\nthe Governor\n\nyour\n\nletter of the 18th instant in answer to mine of the 16th\n\nHis Excellency desires me to observe in reply that he considers it a wise rule for\n\nGovernment to promulgate no Regulations unless it has the ability to enforce them and is prepared to do so, and that he himself entertains considerable doubts whether Act of Parliament embraces or authorizes, Postage being levied on letters going to or coming from Macao, the Consular Ports, or Chusan.\n\nThe Postage which you may charge (that is include in a memorandum accompanying the Packets) on all letters which you may forward agreeable to the notification already sent to you will be collected and remitted to you by the Consuls, Consular Agent (at Macao) and Marine Magistrate (at Chusan) but, Sir Henry Pottinger cannot allow those functionaries to be further burdened with\n\n \nthe",
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        "content_text": "With similar instructions to the British Consular Agent at that settlement.\n\nTo\n\nWith regard to the deficiency in postage levied on letters sent from hence by the Audax to be forwarded to Bombay for the Overland Mail I beg to refer you to my letter No: 68 of the 10th of February : and to inform you that that deficiency, amounting upon seventy-two letters to Eleven Rupees and Four Annas ($11.10) will be recovered in the therein pointed out and placed to the credit of your account with this Government.\n\nIn conclusion I am directed by His Excellency to request you to address to the Deputy Post Master any further communications you may have to make on the subject of postage to this Colony.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed) Richard Hormuzd\n\nNo: 195\n\nA. J. Gordon, Esq.\n\nLand Officer,\n\nVictoria,\n\n7th May, 1864.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No: 12 of the 9th of January forwarding an Estimate of Four Thousand and forty-four Dollars ($4044) for the construction of Kitchens, and servants rooms at Government House, including the additions and alterations which you were verbally directed to make by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI am instructed in reply to convey to you the sanction of His Excellency in Council for the expenditure of the above mentioned sum for the completion.\n\nNo:",
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        "content_text": "It is desired to furnish full information on the subject.\n\nTheir Lordships; and to their Lordships desire more particularly to know whether the Entry in the Agent's Account is correct as to the Draft in question having been in favor of the Hong Kong Government whom the draft was handed by Sohuston, or who was the Party who received the money upon it per Messrs. Dent & Co.; and should the money have been appropriated to a different service from that for which it is stated to have been drawn, under what order or authority the change was made, and in what manner the loss of $30,000 has been accounted for.\n\nTheir Lordships concur in opinion with the Commissioners of Audit that Mr. Stewart, who appears to have acquitted himself with industry and ability of the important duty of winding up the Accounts, should be allowed full Salary at the rate of £200 a year from the 15th April 1844, to which date his salary was issued to him at Hong Kong, to the 30th Sept. 1844, when his duties in China terminated, and half Salary from the latter date to the 31st March 1845 when, after attending at the Audit office to furnish explanations on the accounts, he quitted London; and that he should also be reimbursed the expenses of his Voyage from Hong Kong to England.\n\nWrite to the Paymaster of Civil Services, and desire that he will make the payments of salary and half Salary to Mr. Stewart as above directed, and charge them to the Account of the Extra Establishment.\n\nWrite to Mr. Stewart that their Lordships have been pleased, in consideration of the service performed by him in completing the Account of the Government of Hong Kong, and of the Superintendents and Consular Establishment, to the close of the period of Sir Henry Pottinger's responsibility, to authorise the above payments to be made to him, being furnished with an account of the actual expenses of his voyage from Hong Kong to England, their Lordships will direct the account to be reimbursed to him.\n\nTransmit a Copy of this Minute to the Commissioners of Audit for their information.",
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        "content_text": "215 Treasury\n\nReturn of Payments made at the Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, on account of H. B. M's Diplomatic Department and Consulates in China, during the Year ending 31st March, 1846.\n\nAmount\n\n  \n    Diplomatic Department-\n    5955 18 6\n  \n  \n    Consulate, Canton (including Consular Agent at Whampoa)\n    7,054 11 5½\n  \n  \n     \" Amoy\n    3,360 4 7¼\n  \n  \n     \" Soochow foo\n    \n  \n  \n     \" Ningpo\n    4,392 17 5½\n  \n  \n     \" Shanghai\n    4,599 14 17¾\n  \n  \n     \" Agency in Macao (now abolished)\n    3,462 11\n  \n  \n    \n    165 13 3\n  \n  \n    Total £\n    22,991 19\n  \n\nAmounting to Seventy Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety One Pounds, Twelve Shillings, One Farthing Sterling.\n\nHongkong, April the 18th 1846.\n\nSigned W. H. Mercer\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer.\n\nFrederick W. G. Bruce.",
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        "content_text": "House Commor Adaralty\n\nAgent\n\nBoard of Tra\n\nBo\n\nForeign\n\nOffice\n\nInclosure in despatch 113 of 1845.\n\nDuplicate\n\nMr. Consul Macgregor\n\nExtract of a private letter from\n\nlify\n\nkoot 20.1845.\n\nSir\n\nThrugs office.\n\nJanuary 22 1846.\n\n33\n\nReferred to the Advocate General your despatch No 113. of the 23rd of July last, requesting instructions with reference to two questions which have arisen in China; - First, as to British subjects receiving Consular appointments in China from the Government of Foreign Countries; and, Secondly: as to the employment by British subjects of vessels under foreign Flags, and I now transmit to you a copy of the Queen's Advocate's report upon these points.\n\nI also inclose an extract of a note which I have received from Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister in this Country, enquiring whether Her Majesty's Government would have any objection to recognising the Donald Matheson as Danish Consul at Canton.\n\nWith reference to the questions to which these papers relate and to the opinion of the Queen's Advocate thereupon, I have written to John F. Davis, Bar-\n\nK",
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        "content_text": "House Commo Admiralty\n\nAgent\n\nBoard of Tra\n\nBoa\n\nForeign\n\nOffice\n\nOA\n\nStany and destillin\n\n7\n\nI presume that W. Martin sh. be informed that Sequens hem pleased to refer to her. Jes? Gladstone Els Petition haut mitted to. W. M. by W. Mr. but that, for\n\nthe reasons.\n\nabundy\n\ncommunicated to her. Martins\n\nin his conspice with this Office, Dr. Gladiation\n\nhas not been able to advise W. We b\n\nwarde to his request.\n\nM.G. 8 may\n\nhehlung\n\nD\n\n: \n\n134\n\n24 Honey Hong \"The Queen's Most willent Majesty\n\nThe humble petition of Robert Montgomery Martine Late Alicajuty's Treasurer for\n\nthe Colonial, Consular and\n\nDiplomatic Services in China ta Mencher of 14/11 Legistation Connel!\n\nHumbly chew th\n\n12h That Your Majesty cras graciously pleaked to apposit Petitioun Treasurer at Hong-Kong on 20 Janz &14.\n\n2nd That Petitioner having deter his life to an investigation of the British Colonial Possessions and Com -mercial interests deemed that he world be fulfilling his ducky to your Mapety by examining, in all their Velations, our Position & Prospects in China",
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        "content_text": "my having, in consequence, Represented to that officer that it is out of my power consistently with \n\nmy duty \n\n02 \n\nContent, to \n\nsubmit to any one of the assistants continuing to act in the capacity of Agent for the Post office at Hongkong, since it seriously interferes with the quiet transaction of the Consular business which is disturbed, particularly mail days, by the bustle attendant upon the delivery and despatch of letters, arising from a great number of people coming and going. Mr. Backley, in particular, being entrusted with the clearance of vessels and goods at the Custom House, I need not point out to Your Excellency the detriment that accrues to the service from the delays and omissions that must inevitably occur in consequence of the frequent interruptions to which Mr. Backley is liable in execution of his acknowledged duties.\n\nPage 108\n\nI am led to hope, therefore, that your Excellency will approve of the step I have taken in furtherance of the Consular service at this Port, according to Messrs Lindsay & Co.'s letter the merchants expect, as a matter of course, that more time, labour and attention should in future be devoted to the Concerns of the Post Office at Canton, than, from the circumstances above alleged, I am prepared to bestow upon them.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) Francis C. Macgregor.\n\n(Indorsed) Major General d'Aguilar, Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "Copy. No.89.\n\nSir,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nJune 18.47.\n\nI have sentively approve of your letter to Mr. Wyland, the Postmaster at Wongting, with deference to the difficulty of performing office duties, by the Consular Establishment alone, at a place like Canton, where the Commercial correspondence is so large. The Consular Establishment was cast on a scale only sufficient for its proper duties, and it is absolutely and indispensably necessary that a Post Office Clerk Agent should be established there from the 31st July. Of this I have caused J. M. Macgregor, Capt at Canton.\n\nPage 109\n\nAB\n\nJe\n\nJe!",
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        "content_text": "Pathed \n\nH. M. Addington Cogue Sie, \n\n180. \n\n22 March 27. \n\nEarl Grey your Letter of the \n\nI have laid before \n\n12 \n\nthat Earl Grey \n\nPalmerston you \n\nthe direction of \n\n12 instant in which by \n\nViscount \n\nrequest \n\nwould \n\nAcquaint \n\nViscount \n\nPalmerston with his \n\nwishes \n\nto have \n\n15 March Mr. Hawes \n\nIt does not occur to me that there is any reason. \n\nGrey should \n\non this in \n\nsuggest, to \n\nto Lord Palmerston, and \n\nPunishment at all \n\nWhy Lord \n\nin Object. It relates only to the Diplomatic Service : and to the functions of the Court at Hong Kong beyond the limits of that Settlement. By what right the process of that Court can be executed, against any person in China, I am not aware. But I presume \n\nthat there is some \n\nSpecial \n\nParliamentary enactment, authorizing it. Be this, \n\nhowever \n\nit may. \n\nthe subject is not, I think, \n\none that falls under the \n\nCognizance \n\nof the Head of this Department \n\nYou \n\n9.16/ \n\ntime withdrawn Her ... I think any similar Consular jurisdiction could do so, the jurisdiction of English Courts into China. My letter to ... \n\n15 has some promise \n\n... \n\nBrief \n\nthere \n\n4th dry \n\nJournals \n\nagent \n\nCourt of Hong Kong \n\nof writ of the Supreme \n\nrespecting 1. convict \n\nreply to his despatch \n\nby John Dairs in \n\nshould be addressed to \n\nwith instructions, if any,",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 11 in despatch 1720/1867.\n\nWhampoa.\n\nConeular agent\n\nOpinion of the British\n\nat\n\nin 2059 Hongkong..\n\nPEC 17\n\n132\n\nDraft of Consular Ordinance.\n\nAn Ordinance to authorize Her Majesty's Consular Officers to adjudicate in Civil Actions.\n\nWhereas it is expedient and necessary that some Provisions should be made to ensure a prompt and speedy administration of Justice in Civil Actions arising within the Dominions of the Emperor of China and whereas the present mode of proceeding in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in cases in which the causes of Action originated at a distance from the said Island has been found to be inconvenient and onerous to the suitors.\n\n1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained.",
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        "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of the Sums required to Defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st of January to 31st December, 1849, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1847.\n\nPAGE\n\n  \n    ITEM\n    OF\n    DETAIL\n    ESTIMATE FOR 1849\n    EXPENDITURE OF 1847\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    SALARIES\n    £ s. d.\n    £ s. d.\n  \n  \n    \n    OPPICE ALLOWANCES\n    CONTINGEN\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    FIXED ESTABLISH-MEST\n    PROVISIONAL\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    AND TEMPORARY\n    \n    7,183 17 9\n    34,505 17 27\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    34,997 18 10\n  \n  \n    1\n    ECCLESIASTICAL\n    ESTABLISHMENTS\n    26,399\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, & GRATUITIES\n    \n    \n    152 4 1\n  \n  \n    3\n    REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n    \n    311\n    53 8\n  \n  \n    4\n    ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE\n    \n    \n    13 6\n  \n  \n    5\n    Ditto\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    Ditto\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES\n    \n    7 10\n    15 7\n  \n  \n    8\n    EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n    \n    11 15 8\n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    IISPITALS\n    \n    15 9\n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    POLICE AND GAOLS\n    \n    2,238\n    2,675\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    998 6 0\n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    RENT\n    \n    191 1 8\n    1,234 3 11\n  \n  \n    12\n    TRANSPORT\n    \n    712 10\n    1,272 18 5\n  \n  \n    13\n    CONVEYANCE OF MAILS\n    \n    57 3\n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n    \n    10,057\n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES\n    \n    3,019 16\n    3,905 18\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    17\n  \n  \n    16\n    MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n    \n    115 3 6\n    358 13 5\n  \n  \n    17\n    INTEREST\n    \n    39\n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    LANDS PURCHASED AND CLEARED\n    \n    \n    146 10 7\n  \n  \n    19\n    SPECIAL EXPENSES\n    \n    23 50\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    TOTAL COLONIAL ESTIMATES\n    \n    52,196 10 8\n    56,178 5 33\n  \n  \n    20\n    SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    CONSULAR SERVICES\n    \n    5,166\n    5,776 7 7\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    20,829 14 0\n  \n  \n    \n    TOTAL\n    \n    78,462 10\n    82,784 6 11\n  \n\nThe above EXPENDITURE for 1847, included £3991, 15s. 8d. sterling paid in 1848: being £3740, 14s. 7d. for ESTABLISHMENTS (Salaries, Wages, and Contingencies for December 1847;) £10, 15s. 8d. under ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE; 12s. 6d. under CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES; £1, 0s. 10d. under HOSPITALS; £189, 19s. 11d. under POLICE and GAOLS; £48, 12s. 2d. under RENT: also £1548, 0s. 11d. sterling paid by the Agent in London, classed as follows-Item 1, ESTABLISHMENTS £1288, 14s. 9d.; item 9, POLICE and GAOLS £177, 8s. 6d.; and item 18, SPECIAL EXPENSES £82, 1s. 8d. sterling.\n\nN. B.-The Expenditure of the Colony for 1847, is,-paid in 1847, £50,638 8s. 4d.; for 1847 in 1848, £3,991 15s. 8d.; by the Agent in London, £1,548 0s. 11d.; as above £56,178 5s. 3d. sterling.",
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        "content_text": "Abstract of the Revenue of the Colony of Hongkong for the year from 1st April 1848 to the 31st March, 1849-\n\nLand sales.\n\nRent exclusive of Land- (Land Revenue).\n\nAuction Duty.\n\nLicenses.\n\nTaxes.\n\n  \n    Received at Hongkong.\n    Recovered by the Agent in London.\n  \n  \n    11,847\n    263\n  \n  \n    18,256\n    \n  \n  \n    24,072\n    5,818\n  \n  \n    8\n    11\n  \n  \n    30,938\n    3\n  \n\nFines, Forfeitures and Fees of Courts\n\nFees of Office.\n\nSale of Government Property.\n\nReimbursement in aid of Expenses incurred by Government:\n\n  \n    1,380\n    16\n  \n  \n    1,025\n    16\n  \n  \n    47\n    45\n  \n  \n    272\n    10\n  \n\nMiscellaneous Receipts.\n\nInterest.\n\nSpecial Receipts.\n\n  \n    356\n    49\n  \n  \n    9\n    9\n  \n  \n    7\n    \n  \n\nTotal £. stg. 26,337\n\n£. 26,356. 19.8% stg:\n\nThe Aid by Grant of Parliament for the Civil Government of the Colony for the year 1848/49 is.\n\n£25,000.\n\nDo. for the Superintendent of Trade & Consular Establishments.\n\n£32,429.\n\nThe portion of the Expenses to be contributed by the East India Company.\n\n£8,000.",
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        "content_text": "Receipts. Hongkong\n\nConsular Services.\n\nAmount recovered on behalf of the Canton Consulate :=\n\n2\n\nDo\n\nDo.\n\n10\n\n19\n\nNingpo. Do - Shanghai Do_\n\nFotal Listz\n\n20\n\n12 114\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of the Expenditure of the Colonial Government,\n\nof Hongkong for the\n\n34th March,\n\n1846.\n\nyear from the 1st April, 1848, to the\n\nPaid. at the Colonial Treasury of Hongkong.\n\nSalaries.\n\n47\n\nPaid in\n\nTotal Colonial\n\nLondon\n\nby\n\nthe\n\nArrears\n\nto\n\n12 month's from jetz\n\nMarch 1845.\n\n29 February Fixed.\n\n1848\n\nProvisional. Establishm& Temporary.\n\nand\n\nAllor\n\noffice\n\nContinge:\n\nAgent\n\nJ.\n\n#\n\n83\n\n17\n\n19 11\n\n||103| 4|2||32,216 | 12\n\n166\n\n9\n\n205\n\n153 16\n\nin aid and on account of Parliamentary Grants.\n\nCommissariat, China .\n\nReceipts\n\nfrom\n\nth\n\nFor the Colony of Hongking.\n\nSuperintendent of Trade and Consular\n\nservices in China .\n\nEstablishments 384 16 4 26117 14 11.4666\n\n-\n\nPensions, Retired Allowances and Gratuities . Recence Services, exclusive of restablishments.\n\nAdministration of Justice. do\n\nCharitable Allowances.\n\nEducation.\n\nHospitals, exclusive of Extablishments.\n\nPolice and Jails, D:\n\n25,000\n\n25000\n\nTotal\n\nLsty.\n\n50,000\n\nReceipt by the Colonial Agent in\n\ngent in London\n\nRent\n\non account of\n\nFransport\n\n542\n\nthe Shanghae Consulate, being pilotage of Her Majesty's ships between 5th. Airquet, & 11th Decemb. 1807\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nRoads, Streets and\n\nBridges.\n\nMiscellaneous Services-\n\nLands and Houses purchased.\n\nSpecial Expenses-\n\n17915 100\n\n68 15\n\n301 5 02\n\n164792\n\n859 19 257 10.\n\n118882 5\n\n2476 146\n\n390164\n\n45149\n\n1297\n\nTotal Colonial Expenditure. 58791 12 24 548. 4.4.\n\nSuperintendent of Trade-\n\nConsular Services.\n\n_\n\nTotal\n\n5211\n\n4.\n\nthe Expensitua in England\n\n18019 1 62 not known;\n\n74021 14\n\nThe Cxpenditure for 1848-419 on acet of the Colony is paid in Klaughing For gran\n\n5.01.\n\nI being for the Atty. Geul. 263.3.0 ttg :\n\nRegists Goal 41.13.4\n\nL. 354.16.4 Lty:\n\n#\n\nincluding\n\n#\n\nLondon.\n\n548.4.4 51,339,16,62\n\n£64,339.16.64\n\n£10.8.4 arrears, being\n\nme month's salary of third Celk in the Treasury, on sick leave.",
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        "content_text": "19\n\nFrench Vice Consul at Hong Kong until an application can be made by the Government of France to that of Her Majesty for this\n\nJunpoel\n\nLante\n\nMINUTE\n\nB\n\nBonham C.B. Sir-\n\n4850\n\nW&Hawes\n\n15\n\n15\"\n\nEarl Grey\n\nMEM.\n\n9198. 177 Hong Kong. 749 Tso\n\nEn 158.\n\n16 Jany/50.\n\nwith reference to your despatch No 9 of the 9th Novr last relative to the recognition\n\n» M. G. L. Waskell, an American Citizen to act as French Vice Consul in Hong Kong Trave\n\nto requaint you\n\nIt is not customary for the Recons Exequatur to be issued in confirmation of the appointment of Pro-Consular Agent.\n\nAs that instrument is not necessary for enabling Mr Waskell to perform the functions of the office in question you are at liberty without further",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG:\n\nPRINTED AT THE CHINA MAIL OFFICE. 1849.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\n3\n\nA.\n\nAbstract of the probable Revenue of the Colonial Government of Hong-Kong for the Year 1850, shewing also the Revenue received under the similar heads in the Year 1848, being the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared.\n\n46\n\nESTIMATED FOR 1850.\n\nREVENUE OF 1848.\n\n  \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    LAND SALES,\n    \n    \n    19\n    11\n    0\n  \n  \n    LAND REVENUE,\n    \n    \n    1,916\n    12\n    9\n  \n  \n    RENTS, EXCLUSIVE OF LANDS,\n    11,427\n    1\n    12,616\n    9\n    3\n  \n  \n    AUCTION DUTIES,\n    \n    \n    266\n    0\n    8\n  \n  \n    LICENSES,\n    5,240\n    9\n    4,416\n    7\n    3\n  \n  \n    TAXES,\n    2,800\n    0\n    2,575\n    18\n    4\n  \n  \n    POSTAGES,\n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FINES, FORFEITURES, AND FEES OF COURTS,\n    1,500\n    \n    1,572\n    18\n    10\n  \n  \n    FEES OF OFFICE,\n    888\n    \n    1,073\n    6\n    4\n  \n  \n    SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY,\n    60\n    \n    127\n    1\n    9\n  \n  \n    REIMBURSEMENT IN AID OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY GOVERNMENT.\n    226\n    5\n    276\n    3\n    8\n  \n  \n    MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS,\n    5\n    13\n    15\n    \n    17\n  \n  \n    INTEREST,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SPECIAL RECEIPTS,\n    23\n    \n    32\n    5\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    422\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total......\n    £24,090\n    0\n    £25,091\n    19\n    11\n  \n\nThe Aid by Grant of Parliament for the CIVIL GOVERNMENT of the Colony for the Year 1848-49, was,...\n\nDo.\n\nfor the SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE and CONSULAR SERVICES,\n\nDo.\n\nThe portion of the Expenses to be Contributed by the EAST INDIA COMPANY, was,\n\nThe Revenue received in 1849 in the Colony, is\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\nby the Agent in London, is\n\n  \n    £25,000\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    32,429\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    8,000\n    0\n    0\n  \n  \n    £25,072\n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    19\n    16\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    7",
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        "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of Sums required to Defray the Expenses of the Colonial GOVERNMENT of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1850 shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that for which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1848.\n\nPAGE 48\n\n  \n    \n    ESTIMATE FOR 1850\n    EXPENDITURE OF 1848\n  \n  \n    \n    £ s. d.\n    £ s. d.\n  \n  \n    1 ESTABLISHMENTS,\n    26,008 10 4\n    35,123 6 2\n  \n  \n    SALARIES OFFICE AND TEMPORARY. FIRED PROVISIONAL ALLOWANCES CONTINGENCIES ESTABLIS-MENT.\n    4,225 7\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    959 13 4\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    31,218 10 4\n    \n  \n  \n    2 PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, & GRATUITIES,\n    20\n    83 15\n  \n  \n    \n    83 15\n    27 27 14 3\n  \n  \n    3 REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n    175\n    133 16 7\n  \n  \n    4 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, Ditto,\n    145\n    355 18 3\n  \n  \n    5 ECCLESIASTICAL, Ditto,\n    53 55 51\n    95\n  \n  \n    6 CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,\n    101\n    22\n  \n  \n    7 EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n    68 15\n    35\n  \n  \n    8 HOSPITALS, Ditto,\n    254 10\n    282 6 0\n  \n  \n    9 POLICE AND GAOLS, Ditto,\n    1,626 16\n    2,138 8 3\n  \n  \n    10 RENT,\n    910\n    1,088 1 5\n  \n  \n    11 TRANSPORT,\n    307 10\n    357 10 9\n  \n  \n    12 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS,\n    174\n    31\n  \n  \n    13 WORKS AND BUILDINGS,\n    7,531 3\n    14,080 17 6\n  \n  \n    14 ROADS, STREETS, AND BRIDGES,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,\n    2,000\n    3,520 17 6\n  \n  \n    \n    33 476\n    3\n  \n  \n    16 INTEREST,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17 LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18 SPECIAL EXPENSES,\n    35\n    5,000 33 55 25\n  \n  \n    \n    312 16 2\n    \n  \n  \n    19 TOTAL COLONIAL ESTIMATES,\n    44,388 14 4\n    63,143 17\n  \n  \n    20 SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE, CONSULAR SERVICES,\n    5,890 16 8\n    5,107 4\n  \n  \n    \n    19,800\n    22,590 11 3\n  \n  \n    Total,..\n    70,079 11\n    90,841 12\n  \n\nThe above COLONIAL EXPENDITURE for 1848, includes £834, 18s. 3d paid by the Colonial Agent in London, being £263, 11s. 2d. under ESTABLISHMENTS, (£83, 17s. 11d. Salary of the 3d Clerk in the Treasury on sick leave and who died; £179, 13s. 3d. Contingencies for Stationery, Surveying Instruments, &c.); £297, 17s. 0d. under WORKS AND BUILDINGS, for Materials from the Ordnance; and £273, 10s. 1d. under SPECIAL EXPENSES for Standard Weights and Measures.\n\nThe Amounts paid in England on Account of the Consular Services are not known in the Colony.\n\nPAGE 48",
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        "content_text": "! \n\nof the 31st August, discharge of his office, directing. \n\nAugust, 1848. In the \n\nsuch operations \n\nhime \n\nC \n\n! \n\nreceived to \n\nrequisite for saving life and property during the \n\nérable stove, he \n\nlife \n\ned to its entire violence. \n\nexposed \n\nOn the three succeeding days, \n\nin the \n\nbe \n\navas \n\nnecessary routine of duty, \n\nexposed, \n\nîn \n\noper \n\nbout \n\nto the several vicissitudes of rain, cold, and Sun. The result \n\nwas \n\na long \n\nrecurrence \n\nwith all its \n\nviolence and great suffering. After \n\nof unavailing treatment, by the advice of his medical attendant, he proceeded to Amoy and subsequently to \n\nthe Straits \n\nMalacca. He \n\nreturned to Hongkong, having \n\nderived \n\n200 \n\n342 \n\nbenefit from these trips. We subsequently went to Whampoa, to relieve the Consular Agent, where he remained four months. On his return, his symptoms became greatly aggravated. He submitted himself again to medical treatment. At this time, there existed, besides almost entire loss of power on the left side, subacute inflammation of the pericardium, and a very large preternatural collection of fluid within that sac, causing painful dyspnoea. There were alarming symptoms, unexpectedly relieved by the",
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        "content_text": "OTEO\n\nAdmiralty\n\nGENT\n\nBoard\n\nof Trade\n\nForeign Office\n\nthat\n\nof a Vice Consular Agent, and the French Chargé d'Affaires has only asked that this Bonham's provisional Recognition of Mr Haskell may be Officially confirmed. Under these\n\ncircumstances I am to request that\n\nEarl\n\nyou will move East Grey to inform Mr Bonham in answer to his despatch\n\nof the 5th of August (and copy of which accompanied your letter of the 7th of November last) that the Queen's Exequatur is not requisite in order that Mr Haskell may perform the Functions of French Vice Consul's\n\nAgent at Hong Kong and that Mr Bonham is authorized to recognise him as such Agent.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nHumble Servant\n\nAddington\n\nPage 39",
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        "content_text": "Abstract of the Revenue of the Colony of Hong Kong for the year \n\nfrom 1 April 1830 to 37th March 1831.\n\nReceived or Recovered to the\n\n69\n\nHongkong Agent whenken. Total\n\n  \n    Land Revenue\n    10464.6.14\n    2464.\n    \n    Pent exclusion & land – 20731010\n  \n  \n    Licenses\n    Javes\n    4520.11.1.\n    2708175\n    \n  \n  \n    Herres Horfixtures and Fees of Court\n    207. 4. 12.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fees of Offices\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sale of Government Property-\n    Reimbursement in and\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Expenses incurred by Government\n    Miscellanious Acccipts sprucial dccipts\n    832.9.32\n    5. 12.82\n    113. 178.\n  \n  \n    f\n    S\n    4\n    10.464 € 72\n    春\n  \n  \n    2033.10.10\n    4520. 11. 1\n    2.70717\n    8327.36\n    2. 12. St\n  \n  \n    42.6.10. 1364.6.\n    7.119.\n    26.125\n    1.3.6.1.5.3. 7.14.11\n    34.7.6.\n  \n  \n    Total £.\n    21823\n    4413\n    51\n    15 3 71875 1 34\n  \n\nThe Aid by Grant of Parliament for the Colonial Government 7th. Colony for the year 1850/51 is # 20,000. The amount for the Superintendent of Trade & Consular Establishments China is 3.2.076. 10.",
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        "content_text": "Receipts Hengkeng.\n\nConsular Archives.\n\nAmount received on behalf of the Shanghai Consulate 2180 = Receipts\n\nAmount & Grants of the Parliament.\n\nin China/from England\n\n  \n    \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    Commissioner in Colonies\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    in Account of the year 1847/50 Balance\n    350\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18300\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    350\n    19900\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20250\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1850/51\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Vital & other Colony...\n    18450\n    1600\n    \n  \n  \n    on Account of Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade and Consular services in China\n    28,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (including\n    28,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    1466,650\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    48230\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Receipts in account of the Colony by the Agent London\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Reimbursement in Aid of Expenses incurred by Government.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    from Bullock, M. Papier, cost of an action at law to which he rendered himself liable\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    I.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Receipts.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    By A. M. Martin being the Balance due by him on final settlement of his Accounts\n    1\n    11\n    6\n  \n  \n    in the\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mr.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Allowed discharge in this Account for packing lists of Parliament\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    L.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Special Receipts.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Drawback on Stationery shipped per \"Streatham\" in Sept 1847\n    42\n    6\n    10\n  \n  \n    B.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    712\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nAbstract of the Expenditure of the Colonial Government of Hong Kong, for the year from 1 April 1850 to 31 March 1851.\n\n  \n    \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n  \n  \n    Paid at the Treasury of Hong Kong.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Paid in London by the Agent\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £\n    s.\n    d.\n    \n  \n  \n    Colonies.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Establishments.\n    23360\n    2\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    4289\n    16\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    1200\n    5\n    27\n  \n  \n    \n    83\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    23690\n    2\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    758\n    10\n    5\n  \n  \n    Pensions retired Allowances and Gratuities\n    110\n    8\n    4\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Allowances on salaries of Establishment\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Administration & printing\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Police and Gaols.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Arsenals\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Transport\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Works\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Buildings\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bridges\n    180\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    131\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    133\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    148\n    8\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1679\n    17\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    754\n    0\n    6\n  \n  \n    \n    5935\n    11\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    130\n    16\n    3\n  \n  \n    \n    431\n    16\n    7\n  \n  \n    \n    4\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total £..\n    51155\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Acting Colonial Treasurer.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Conveyance of Mails-\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Aud\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Roads & Streets and\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure\n    677\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    773\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1318\n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Colonial Expenditure\n    32,715\n    8\n    35\n  \n  \n    \n    1158\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Apparatus of Trade-\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Consular Services-\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Vital Statistics\n    5769\n    15\n    24\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    18:296\n    7\n    11\n  \n  \n    = stand is suit\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3697\n    13\n    5\n  \n  \n    \n    th\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    The Expenditure of the Colony, is paid in Hong Kong £32,725.8.3\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1138\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    in England Total £34,063.8.82\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    The amount paid in England under the head of Establishment consists of £855.15.1. Salaries to Officers on furlough (including £255.15.1 Ordinary Council Department £275. Hygienic Corps Clerk £150. Colonial Chaplain £175 and of £102.15.4 Office Contingencies",
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        "content_text": "243\n\nColonial Expenditure - Hongkong. Recapitulation of the Expenditure by the\n\nColonial Agent in London, included in\n\nthe foregoing detail.\n\n1) Establishments.\n\nTreasury\n\nEstablishment Contingencies.\n\nExpenditure - Hongkong.\n\nDept of the Expenses during the year 1850/51 £767.95. 22 820): Consular Services.\n\n  \n    Canton. Consulate, tidiano\n    £5182-15-10\n  \n  \n    Amoy\n    £143 5.1\n  \n  \n    Foochow for Many po Shaughan.\n    £255. 15/\n  \n  \n    Colonial Chaplain's Mantra le 26 My! 1850\n    £112. 10.\n  \n  \n    Chief Clerk & Months 15 days 18. Vivember 1850-\n    \n  \n  \n    Ansvery Cencial.\n    \n  \n  \n    Cluts of Bucks beyears half. In. lady to the 28th Sept 1850\n    £275.\n  \n  \n    Registrar Gennal\n    \n  \n  \n    Clock 1 Gears half Salary h23. Soc. 1850\n    £150.\n  \n  \n    Colimat Chaptam, \"Eclesiastical”\n    \n  \n  \n    6 Months half Salary & 24 bit 1851\n    £175.\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary.\n    \n  \n  \n    Acts of Parliament\n    £2. 2. 0\n  \n  \n    Postage\n    \n  \n  \n    Auditor\n    \n  \n  \n    Stationary &.\n    \n  \n  \n    Police Chief Magistrate.\n    £11-2\n  \n  \n    lav Backs Expenses of stuffingt\n    £1501.\n  \n  \n    \n    £173.\n  \n  \n    \n    £3.3.7\n  \n  \n    \n    £76. 3.\n  \n  \n    \n    £3745. 18. 5.\n  \n  \n    \n    £1250. 16. se\n  \n  \n    \n    £2205.\n  \n  \n    \n    £12\n  \n  \n    \n    £3111. 18.10|18,296 9\n  \n  \n    Total £..\n    £24,068. 5. Ji\n  \n\nThe payments mark in England 7 ft. Ms. Se peren. Indent of Shade and Consular suries in China sect Huown of the Colonel Treasury,\n\n  \n    All\n    £28.6\n  \n  \n    \n    £3.18.\n  \n  \n    \n    £855. 15. 1\n  \n  \n    \n    £102. 15.\n  \n  \n    \n    £958. 10. 5\n  \n  \n    Acting Cobriel Svarins.\n    \n  \n  \n    & Pensions Ritind allowances and Gratuities.\n    \n  \n  \n    cars Pension & Mrs Smithish 1 July 1850.\n    \n  \n  \n    8/ Hospital.\n    \n  \n  \n    Fright &r for Medicines.\n    \n  \n  \n    Assurance prenicum\n    \n  \n  \n    Medinius.\n    £7\n  \n  \n    Police.\n    £20.\n  \n  \n    \n    -10, 7, 10\n  \n  \n    \n    £3.2.11\n  \n  \n    \n    -£137.12.9\n  \n  \n    \n    £137. 3.\n  \n  \n    \n    £7.3.\n  \n  \n    \n    £1.2.\n  \n  \n    \n    £31′′\n  \n  \n    Assurance premium p Schie Clothing-\n    \n  \n  \n    Works and Benldings.\n    \n  \n  \n    15/ Wed\n    \n  \n  \n    Farel Ihres Hays –\n    \n  \n  \n    Fetal Tayments in England b 31 Zecember 1850\n    £1138. 0.",
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        "content_text": "274\n\n\"Caps: Charles Ellist, as Assistant & the Harbour master of Hong Kong, having previously been offered by Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer, a Berth of Supernumerary Second Master Naval service, which he declined on account of better prospects in the Civil Service of the new Settlement, though at the time, the duties were extremely laborious, from the numerous transports and vessels of war constantly coming and going out of the Harbour, and great hardships had to be endured owing to the want of dwelling houses and protection against the unhealthiness of the tropical climate, in the new Colony.\n\nThe pay at that time was only £150 a year, a sum barely sufficient to procure the absolute necessaries of life, as everything was exorbitantly dear in consequence of the barren state of the Colony.\n\nIn the summer of 1843 H. E. Sir Henry Pottinger was pleased on account of good service to raise the salary to £300 a year, and the undersigned was confirmed Assistant Harbour Master, in that situation he had to perform nearly the whole duty of Harbour Master Lieutenant W. Pedder R. N., being fully engaged with the duties of marine magistrate.\n\nThe undersigned was acting Harbour Master during the year 1845, when Lieutenant W. Pedder went to Europe on sick certificate, and on the return of the latter continued in the department as before, with the additional duty of gun-boat service without any allowance, although the duties were both arduous and full of danger.\n\nThe only extras besides his pay, which the undersigned has received during his period of service in China, were £100 from Lieut: Pedder's half pay whilst acting as Harbour Master, and £8 prize money, with the China war medal, for services in the Louisa.\n\nOn the 30th January 1847, one year's leave of absence to Europe was granted to the undersigned, his health having been much impaired by so many years of constant exposure by day and night in open boats in the performance of his duties. He returned to this post at the expiration of his leave, sufficiently improved in health, & resumed his duties, which he continued & discharged until the 1st of May, 1849, when at the request of H. E. Governor Bonham, he proceeded to Whampoa to officiate as British Consular Agent at that port, during Mr. A. Bird's absence. This being at the most unhealthy season of the year, he was obliged to live in a miserable native boat on the river, surrounded on all sides by swamps. His duties were very onerous, having to keep order and discipline amongst the crews of thirty or forty British merchant vessels, constantly at anchor in the reach, and also to prevent disturbances between them and the Chinese of the surrounding islands, known to be the most treacherous.",
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        "content_text": "Despatch 238 84/858.\n\nInclosure 1.4 in\n\nImplicate.\n\nRevenue and Expenditure of\n\nHe estimated and actual\n\nComparative Statement for\n\nHongkong on the\n\nyear\n\n31st December 1851.\n\nended\n\nN° Q\n\nCommercial\n\nCopy to\n\nAus\n\ninform 41\n\n17 May 13\n\n3216 đang trong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nW. 19 18/2\n\n511\n\n\"W. Victoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord,\n\n18th February, 1852.\n\nI have the honor to\n\nforward to Your Lordship Copy of a Letter to my address from Mr.\n\nP.S. Forbes, Consul General in China.\n\nfor the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, requesting me to recognize Mr. C. D. Williams as Consular Agent at Hongkong for those Kingdoms.\n\nPerceiving from Your Lordship's Despatch No 15 of 16th January 1850, that the Queen's Exequatur is not necessary in confirmation of appointments of this nature,\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl Grey\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "have acceded to the request of Mr Forbes, and expressed my readiness to recognize Mr Williams as Consular Agent for Sweden and Norway at Hongkong, subject to Your Lordship's approval.\n\nI beg now to state that I consider the appointment desirable on account of the vessels which trade with this Colony under the flags of those Nations; and I have accordingly to request Your Lordship's approval of the appointment.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordship's, Most obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nW. J. R. Graham\n\nPage 5\n\nPage 52",
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        "content_text": "M. Meinale\n\nF.B. Baying\n\nthat the dept written to the Gover\n\nConquence of their Letter of the 9 Jan 1850 Appiezed them that the sequatur was not requisite for & Sice Cornel..\n\nseems to have made a mistake in the\n\nMother. I rather think an\n\nExquestion is unnecessary for\n\nThe Earl Grey..\n\nGovernor Bonham 18th February, 1852.\n\nVictorian, Hongkong,\n\n1 In closure.\n\nReceived\n\nfor those Kingdoms.\n\nConsular Agent at Canton appointed Mr. S. F. Williams\n\nSweden and Norway, has\n\nConsul General in China for Reporting that Mr. Forsed,\n\nCopy.\n\non GR1178/1922/32(III)\n\n53\n\nCanton, 20 February, 1852.\n\nConsulate of Sweden & Norway,\n\nSweden and Norway. I have named Consul General in China for the Kingdoms of\n\nHaving appointed Consular Agent\n\nS. F. Williams, Esq.\n\nwill instruct a sufficient person for the Commerce of Hong Kong and Canton\n\nThe intimate connection between\n\nagreeable to your Excellency -\n\nthat such an appointment would be at Canton, having been informed\n\nasking you\n\nto be\n\nfrom a quarter having\n\nappointment though coming\n\nverifying this\n\nTo His Excellency\n\nGeorge Bonham, K.C.B.\n\nGovernor of the Colony of Hongkong and Commander-in-Chief\n\na fourth.) AB.19/4.\n\nI rather apprehend that\n\nwhat the former calls \"Consular\n\nAgent\n\n\"Vice Consular Agent mean, the same\n\nway 7.27\n\nagent\n\nsubanchh\n\nConsul\n\nthing,\n\nis asta.\n\nConsul himself -\n\n& that S. F. Williams.\n\nThere is no need to exequatur.\n\nNote Fi\n\n1. Barkington suffers. His appointment\n\nis within the meaning of their letter of Jan 9 (50. although the party is termed \"Consular Agent\"?\n\nBm Az\n\nI think with Mr. Merivale that\n\nexequatur\n\nhome requires\n\nJ\n\nPage 53\n\n \n...\n\nPage 53",
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        "content_text": "M4 Date of Jus. Jep. 1852\n\nSubject of despatch\n\nBinance department and applying for instructions on the subject of Governos despatch 1005 of 24th November 1850.\n\n5. 23 chang Peporting\n\n7\n\nBit measures adopted for the relief of the sufferers by the fire of the 28th Ultimo, and applying for an additional Grant of $2500 towards defraying the expenses of the Colony during the year 1852.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of despatches to P265 of 5th November, and Despatches \"Separate\" of 4th and Military P26 of 17th November, together with Circulars dated 13th and 19th November 1851, etc.\n\nTransmitting Quarterly Returns for the quarter ended 31st October, 1851.\n\nTransmitting Returns of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Colony for the year ended 31st December 1851, and reporting thereon.\n\nIncl.\n\n2.\n\n4\n\n1 of date of\n\nJeep.\n\nSubject of despatch\n\n9. 18 Feby. Reporting that Mr Forbes, Consul General in China for Sweden and Norway, has appointed Mr E.D. William, Vice-Consular Agent at Canton for those Kingdoms.\n\n10.\n\n11. 20th\n\n12. 24th\n\n13.\n\nReplying to His Lordship's Despatch 19262 of 21st October last, on the subject of Piracies on the Coast of China and in the vicinity of Hong Kong.\n\nTransmitting List of Lots of Crown Lands sold by Auction.\n\nTransmitting an application from Mr Hillier, Chief Magistrate of Police, to be allowed to subscribe to the Superannuation Fund from the date of his entering the Colonial Service and recommending the same.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of despatches to 267 & 8 December, despatches \"Separate\" of 29th November, and Sundry Circulars, the last dated 21st December 1851.\n\n3\n\nMone",
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        "content_text": "4145 Hongkong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDerga Office\n\nMAY. 12\n\n1852\n\nMay 11.1852\n\n17 May 15...\n\nmy\n\nYou: 1\n\nwith reference to\n\nLetter of\n\n69\n\nthe 4th instant, relative to the resignation\n\nof Mr. Withams as Consular Agent for Sweden and Norway at Hongkong, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury\n\nthat the formal Exequatur is not necessary\n\nin the case of Mr. Withams, and\n\nthat the recognition of that Gentleman in that capacity by the Governor of that Colony will suffice.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nhumble Servant\n\nA.B. Merivale",
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        "content_text": "No of Date of \n\nDasp: Beas:\n\n4852\n\nSecbject of Deepetch\n\nBef\n\nSnake\n\n44 22 Jany. Replying to His Lordship's Despatch N°366\n\n523 4 of 3rd November regarding payment of Ground-Rent due on Marine Lot N°22 purchased by the Ordnance Department, and applying for instructions on the subject of Governor's Despatch N°105 of 22nd Novb. 1830.\n\n2 Reporting measures adopted for the relief of the sufferers by the fire of the 28th Ultimo, and applying for Grant of £2500 towards additional defraying the expensis of the Colony during the year 1852.\n\n676. Acknowledging receipt of Despatch N°265 of 5 November, and Despatches separate of 10th, and Military N°26 of 24th Novb., together with Circulars dated 13, and 19th Novb. 1852.\n\n7 25 Jan. Transmitting quarterly Returns for the quarter ended 31st December, 1851.\n\nNo of Date of Deep: Deep:\n\n1859\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\n9 29 Jan. Transmitting Returns of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Colony for the year ended 31st December, 1851, and reporting thereon.\n\n10 13 Feby. Reporting that Mr. Herblay, Consul General in China for Sweden and Norway, has appointed Mr. C. G. Willians Consular Agent at Hongkong for those Kingdoms.\n\n11 19 Feby. Replying to His Lordship's Despatch N°262 of 21 October last, on the subject of the vicinity of the Court of China, and in the case of Henrytory.\n\n12 21 Feby. Transmitting List of Crown Lands sold by Auction on the 7 Instant.\n\nTransmitting an application from Mr. Hillier, Chief Magistrate of Police, to be allowed to subscribe to the Superannuation Fund from a certain date.",
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        "content_text": "4.\n\n5\n\n} and for the arrangement and settlement of all and all manner of differences, contentions, suits, and variances that might or should happen or arise between them or any of them; and should moreover have power and authority, as far as in them might lie, to compose and settle all and all manner of differences, contentions, suits, and variances, that might or should happen to arise between British subjects and the subjects of the Emperor of China, or between British subjects and the subjects of any foreign Power, and which might be brought before them for settlement; and Her Majesty was further pleased to order that Her Majesty's Consuls and Vice-Consuls in China, or any persons acting provisionally as such Consuls or Vice-Consuls, should, in the exercise of the jurisdiction so granted to them, be governed by such laws and ordinances in that behalf as might be enacted with the advice of the Legislative Council of the Island of Hong-Kong, by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, being the Governor of Hong-Kong; and Her Majesty was further pleased to appoint the Colony of Hong-Kong as the British colony, wherein crimes and offences committed by British subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, which it might be expedient should be inquired of, tried, determined, and punished within Her Majesty's dominions, should be so inquired of, tried, determined, and punished:\n\nAnd whereas in virtue of the powers conferred upon Her Majesty by the above recited Act passed in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China,\" divers ordinances have, by authority of Her Majesty, from time to time been enacted by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, being the Governor of the Island of Hong-Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said island; and whereas it is expedient to consolidate and... amend the same:\n\n0\n\nI. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above-recited Act passed in the 3rd and 4th of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act to regulate the trade to China and India,\" and in pursuance of the above recited Act passed in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China,\" and in execution of the powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council vested, Her Majesty is pleased, with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and doth hereby order, That from and after the first day of October next ensuing each and every Ordinance enacted as aforesaid by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, being the Governor of the Island of Hong-Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said island, between the 23rd day of January, 1844, and the 28th day of January, 1852, shall be and is hereby repealed: Provided always, that anything done by the Chief Superintendent or any Consul or Vice-Consul, or person duly authorized to act as such, in pursuance of any Ordinance so repealed previously to the first day of October next ensuing, shall have the same force and effect as if this present Order had not been passed.\n\nII. And it is further ordered, That the term \"Chief Superintendent\" in this present Order shall be construed to mean the Superintendent of British Trade in China for the time being, or the person duly authorized to act as such; and the term \"Consul\" shall be construed to include all and every officer in Her Majesty's service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person duly authorized to act in any of the aforesaid capacities within the dominions of the Emperor of China, and engaged in carrying out the provisions of this Order; and that wherever in this Order, with reference to any person, matter, or thing, any word or words is or are used importing the singular number, or the masculine gender only, yet such word or words shall be understood to include several persons, as well as one person, females as well as males, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; and that the terms British ship or vessel,\" or \"ship or vessel under the British Flag,\" shall be taken and held to include any ship or vessel\n\nC\n\n45:",
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        "content_text": "and for the arrangement and settlement of all manner of differences, contentions, suits, and variances that might or should happen to arise between them or any of them; and should moreover have power and authority, as far as in them might lie, to compose and settle all manner of differences, contentions, suits, and variances, that might or should happen to arise between British subjects and the subjects of the Emperor of China, or between British subjects and the subjects of any foreign Power, and which might be brought before them for settlement; and Her Majesty was further pleased to order that Her Majesty's Consuls and Vice-Consuls in China, or any persons acting provisionally as such Consuls or Vice-Consuls, should, in the exercise of the jurisdiction so granted to them, be governed by such laws and ordinances in that behalf as might be enacted with the advice of the Legislative Council of the Island of Hong-Kong, by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, being the Governor of Hong-Kong; and Her Majesty was further pleased to appoint the Colony of Hong-Kong as the British colony, wherein crimes and offences committed by British subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, which it might be expedient should be inquired of, tried, determined, and punished within Her Majesty's dominions, should be so inquired of, tried, determined, and punished:\n\nAnd whereas in virtue of the powers conferred upon Her Majesty by the above recited Act passed in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China,\" divers ordinances have, by authority of Her Majesty, from time to time been enacted by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, being the Governor of the Island of Hong-Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said island; and whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the same:\n\n## Ordinances\n\nI. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above recited Act passed in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled \"An Act to regulate the trade to China and India,\" and in pursuance of the above-recited Act passed in the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled \"An Act for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China,\" and in execution of the powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council vested, Her Majesty is pleased, with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and doth hereby order, That from and after the first day of November next ensuing, each and every Ordinance enacted as aforesaid by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China, being the Governor of the Island of Hong-Kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said island, between the 23rd day of January, 1844, and the 28th day of January, 1852, shall be and is hereby repealed: Provided always, that anything done by the Chief Superintendent or any Consul or Vice-Consul, or person duly authorized to act as such, in pursuance of any Ordinance so repealed previously to the first day of November next ensuing, shall have the same force and effect as if this present Order had not been passed.\n\n## Interpretation of terms\n\nII. And it is further ordered, That the term \"Chief Superintendent\" in this present Order shall be construed to mean the Superintendent of British Trade in China for the time being, or the person duly authorized to act as such; and the term \"Consul\" shall be construed to include all and every officer in Her Majesty's service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person duly authorized to act in any of the aforesaid capacities within the dominions of the Emperor of China, and engaged in carrying out the provisions of this Order; and that wherever in this Order, with reference to any person, matter, or thing, any word or words is or are used importing the singular number, or the masculine gender only, yet such word or words shall be understood to include several persons, as well as one person, females as well as males, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; and that the terms \"British ship or vessel,\" or \"ship or vessel under the British Flag,\" shall",
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        "content_text": "46.\n\nCommercial.\n\n76.4300/54\n\nFr. info 17 Oct / 14.\n\nVide F.O. 4.200.\n\n8753 Hong Kong. 302\n\n183+\n\nVietnam, Augustons\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n29 July, 1854\n\nI have the honour to\n\nacknowledge receipt of Your Grace's\n\nDespatches A23 & 25 of May last,\n\nas Consular\n\ndirecting the recognition of Mr William Mansfield as Agent for Prussia in this Colony\n\non\n\nreceipt of which I have to state that I find on enquiry\n\nthat Mr Mansfield has taken his departure\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\n&c. &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nEN\n\nLaw Officers\n\nForeign Office\n\nSir Gr Bonham's Desps 404-1854\n\nInclosure here\n\n3\n\nGovernor in Council\n\n27 May/57\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 20\n\n1854\n\nForeign Office May 19.1854\n\nI am directed by\n\nthe Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a copy of a note from the Prussian Minister at this Court requesting that the British Authorities in Hong Kong might be instructed to recognize M. William Menging as Consular Agent at that Place, and to request that in laying the Chevalier Bunsen's note before His Grace you will comply with the wishes expressed herein.\n\nOur most obedient,\n\nHumble Servant\n\nC. B.\n\nTo Herman Merivale Esq.\n\n...\n\nPage 76",
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        "content_text": "78\n\nLaw\n\nOfficers\n\nFore\n\nMenzing in that\n\nexpacity unless you.\n\naucENE >\n\nof any\n\nobjection to his\n\nbeing so recognised\n\nI have.\n\nF.6. 4300 86 Kong\n\n8 Scammond Surg\n\nMINUTE MBB\n\n1354 MAY 24\n\nNEWliot\n\nMerivale M&E Peel\n\n24\n\n24\n\n25\n\nStift to Gour\n\n27 May/54\n\nI am directed\n\nMy the Decke of Narcaolle.\n\nto ack\n\nع.\n\nyour letter\n\nof the 19 Instant and to acquaint you that, in compliance with the requests of the Prussian Minister,\n\nthe Governor of Hong\n\nKong\n\nwill be instructed\n\nto recognise Mr William\n\nMeusing\n\nas Consular\n\nAgent for Prussia",
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        "content_text": "Admiralty\n\nEntered\n\n79\n\nAGENCY\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFor\n\nthere should be no objection to that Gentleman's recognition in that capacity.\n\nE January\n\n5.6. 4300\n\n24y00 $753/8\n\nEsq\n\n17th May\n\nBy\n\nMINUTE\n\n398 Narroway\n\nMELBOURNE\n\n1854 STR\n\nMerivale\n\nMr. Peel\n\nSir\n\nJ\n\nW.M\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th May last requesting the recognition of William Merzinger, Consular Agent for Prussia in Hong Kong, I am directed by Sir Geo Grey to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that a Despatch\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested and to apply the rules for OCR proofreading:\n\nAdmiralty\n\nEntered\n\n79\n\nAGENCY\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFor\n\nthere should be no objection to that Gentleman's recognition in that capacity.\n\nE January\n\n5.6. 4300\n\n24y00 $753/8\n\nEsq\n\n17th May\n\nBy\n\nMINUTE\n\n398 Narroway\n\nMELBOURNE\n\n1854 STR\n\nMerivale\n\nMr. Peel\n\nSir\n\nJ\n\nW.M\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th May last requesting the recognition of William Merzinger, Consular Agent for Prussia in Hong Kong, I am directed by Sir Geo Grey to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that a Despatch\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the given rules.\n\n## Step 1\nFirst, correct spelling errors and make necessary adjustments.\n- \"Admiralt\" -> \"Admiralty\"\n- \"AGEN\" -> \"Agency\"\n- \"Fore\" -> \"For\"\n- \"E Janu\" -> \"E January\"\n- \"beetBy\" -> \"By\" (and adjust the surrounding text for clarity)\n- \"MELLO!\" -> \"MELBOURNE\"\n- \"Merivale\" seems correct but ensure it's correctly placed.\n- \"Sirbce:dirty\" -> \"Sir\" (and adjust the surrounding text for clarity, \"J\" and \"W.M\" might be initials)\n- \"dincetect\" -> \"directed\"\n- \"Sexy\" -> \"Sir\" (likely referring to a title)\n- \"bequaint\" -> \"acquaint\"\n- \"informistion\" -> \"information\"\n- \"Bare\" -> \"Board\"\n- \"blaunden\" -> \"Trade\" (likely referring to \"Board of Trade\")\n- \"William Menziing\" -> \"William Merzinger\"\n\n## Step 2\nApply the rules for formatting and reordering.\n- The text seems to be a mix of unrelated and related content. Focus on correcting and formatting the coherent parts.\n- The initial part seems to be unrelated to the latter part. The latter part appears to be a formal letter or despatch.\n\n## Step 3\nReformat the text into proper paragraphs and apply Markdown formatting where necessary.\n\nAdmiralty\n\nEntered 79\n\nAgency\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFor there should be no objection to that Gentleman's recognition in that capacity.\n\nE January 5.6. 4300 24y00 $753/8\n\nEsq 17th May By MINUTE 398 Narroway\n\nMELBOURNE 1854 STR\n\nMerivale Mr. Peel Sir J W.M\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th May last requesting the recognition of William Merzinger, Consular Agent for Prussia in Hong Kong, I am directed by Sir Geo Grey to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that a Despatch\n\nThe final answer is: \nAdmiralty\n\nEntered 79\n\nAgency\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFor there should be no objection to that Gentleman's recognition in that capacity.\n\nE January 5.6. 4300 24y00 $753/8\n\nEsq 17th May\n\nBy MINUTE 398 Narroway\n\nMELBOURNE 1854 STR\n\nMerivale Mr. Peel Sir\n\nJ W.M\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th May last requesting the recognition of William Merzinger, Consular Agent for Prussia in Hong Kong, I am directed by Sir Geo Grey to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that a Despatch",
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        "content_text": "AGEN\n\nLaw\n\nOfficers\n\nhas been received from the Lieutenant Governor of that Colony reporting that Mr W Menzing had left the Colony and, it would appear without the intention of returning\n\nComm\n\nCopy to\n\nGov 25 May 1857 -- 26.\n\nRussian Legation\n\nLondon May 9.1857.\n\nThe undersigned Prussian Minister by Command of H.M. the Prussian Govt has the honor to inform\n\nThe Earl of Clarendon H.B.M. principal Secy of State for Foreign Affairs, - that the Prussian Consulate at Canton has been authorized to appoint\n\nMr. William Mensing, a Merchant at Hong-Kong, as a Consular agent for Prussia.\n\nThe Undersigned begs to request ... Clarendon",
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        "content_text": "Law \n\nOfficers \n\nForen \n\nrequest His Lordship to cause that such instructions may be given to the respective English Authorities at Hong-Kong, that when the Royal Prussian Consulate at Canton or W. William Mensing Minnets may apply to them in this capacity, the said authorities at once may recognize and admit Moti William Mensing as a Consular Agent for Prussia.\n\nThe Undersigned has the honour, &c.\n\n(signed) Bunsen.\n\ninstructed 15 Aug /84-08:19.\n\nfurther 18-can/55.\n\nAnswered 19-\n\nIf trade 4019.4/54\n\nMerman.\n\n7034 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG.19\n\n1854\n\n81\n\nForeign Office\n\nAugust 9, 1854\n\nI am directed by the Earl Clarendon to transmit to you, a copy of a Letter from the Board of Trade, relative to the transport from Canton on board the British Barque 'Tannah' in the early part of 1852, of 30 Chinese who are stated to have been subsequently sold at Macao by Messrs. Havel...",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nThe cases complained of are two-fold:\n\nvenience would be caused if the new system were brought suddenly into stringent operation:\n\n1. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, a Bill of Sale or a Power of Attorney to execute a Bill of Sale, have been sent by the Registered Owner to the United Kingdom,\n\n2. Where a Ship being registered in a Colony, the Registered Owner is in the United Kingdom, and wishes to sell her here,\n\nIn both these cases, the Registrars of Shipping would, before\n\nMy Lords wish to suggest to the Commissioners, the expediency of adopting the following relaxations, to take effect at once, and to last during such time only as may be necessary to bring the New System into complete operation,\n\n1. Ships registered in the Colonies may, for such time as the 1st of May, have registered the Ship de novo, without waiting hereinafter mentioned, be registered de novo in this Country, upon the production of such Documents or Evidence of Title the Registrars have heretofore been in the habit of receiving as sufficient.\n\n2. In all such cases the Vendor or his Agent shall give to the Registrar security that the transaction shall be completed, and that the Registrar and the Commissioners shall be kept harmless from any loss or damage which they might incur if it were to happen that the Ship was in the meantime disposed of in the Colony. A suggested Form of Bond for this purpose is enclosed.\n\n3. The Vendor or his Agent must fill up and sign and deliver to the Registrar at the Port of Registry de novo, a form of application calling for a transfer of the registry under the provisions of the Act,\n\nThis application, the Registrar at the Port of registry de novo, will forward with the old certificate of registry to the Colony.\n\nIf it is wished to sell or mortgage the Ship in any part of the Empire other than that in which the Ship is registered, Statutory Powers of Attorney for the purpose (called in the Act \"Certificates of Sale or Mortgage\") can be procured at the Port of Registry.\n\nThese Certificates will confer a perfect title on those who take under them, whilst, as they will be entered on the Register Book at the Port of Registry, persons who might desire to purchase or lend Money on the Ship there, will have full notice of their existence.\n\n4. On registering the Ship de novo, the Registrar will insert in his Book the words \"Registry to be transferred from the Port of \", and, on receiving the requisite information from the Colonial Registrar, he will write under those words \"Registry completed by transfer from the Port of with the date.\n\nMy Lords consider it of very great importance for the interests of Shipping that these Certificates should be brought into use as quickly and as universally as possible, and that nothing should be done which would have the effect of permanently infringing the principles of the new system, or of inducing persons concerned in Shipping to believe that it will henceforward be possible to confer a Title to a Ship by any means except those which the Act, and the Regulations which have been issued under it, point out as necessary.\n\n5. The relaxation is to take effect at once, and to last, as to Ships Registered in the American Colonies, until the end of September, and as to Ships registered in more distant Colonies, until the end of February next.\n\nThe effect of the relaxation will be to place the persons who accept the title in this Country in as good a position, so far as regards the registry, as they could have enjoyed under the former practice, whilst they will have the additional advantage (which they could not have had under former Acts) that their equitable title to the Ship, will, under the provisions of the New Act, be perfectly good,\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nmany Ships have lately been sent, and are now being sent from the Colonies, for the purpose of being sold in this Country, according to the practice which has heretofore prevailed, and that considerable inconvenience...\n\nIn re JAMES LINDON, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given to the Next of Kin and all other Persons to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above Parties that may be in their possessions, before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, the 11th day of August, 1855, or if none, that the Next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration failing which, Administration will be granted to the Acting Registrar of the said Court.\n\nBY THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE. The Post-Office will be closed on THURSDAY, the 9th inst.\n\nTHE next GENERAL MAILS by the Singapore, at 6 P.M., and the CUSTOMARY SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL, will be made up the following Morning between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock.\n\nTHOMAS HYLAND.\n\nPost-Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nIN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nMESSRS MACEWEN & Co., (for G. Duddell,)\n\nwill sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, by order of W. H. MITCHELL, Esq., Marshall of the Vice-Admiralty Court, on MONDAY, 6th August, 1855, and following days, commencing at 1 o'clock P.M., at the AUCTION MART, Queen's Road, where the Goods are now on view.\n\nA Large Quantity of damaged CHINESE CARGO, landed from the stranded Steamer \"Unicorn.\"\n\nTERMS OF SALE-Cash before delivery in MEXICAN Dollars, at 7.1.7.; all Lots to be at purchaser's risk as soon as knocked down.\n\nHongkong, 4th August, 1855.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nMESSRS SMITH & BRIMELOW have received instructions to dispose of by PUBLIC AUCTION, on MONDAY, the 6th August, 1855, at 11 o'clock A.M., at their Sale Rooms, Queen's Road, for the benefit of the concerned,-\n\n2 Chests OLD PATNA OPIUM, damaged by Sea Water.\n\n7 Bales GREY SHIRTINGS.\n\nAlso,\n\n4 Bales T-CLOTHS.\n\nAfterwards,\n\n2 Pairs Six-pounder GUNS.\n\nDo. Four-pounder do.\n\n32 Piculs SHOT, of different kinds.\n\n14 MUSKETS with BAYONETS.\n\nCOPPER POWDER MAGAZINES.\n\nA quantity of BLOCKS, &c., &c.\n\n89 Dozens STRAW HATS, and\n\n54 do. CIGARS CASES\n\nTERMS OF SALE,—Cash before delivery, in Mexican Dollars, and 7.1.7.\n\nIN @ Wo wan's Rundings,\n\nDoug Reng 24 August, 1233.\n\nThe Secretary of Customs.\n\nNOTICE. THERE will be no SESSIONS of the SUPREME COURT under its CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, during the present month.\n\nBY ORDER OF THE COURT,\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nCourt House, 2d August, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBy Order of the CONSULAR DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT COPENHAGEN, it is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the Vacant Appointment of the Office of DANISH CONSUL of Hongkong, will be received by said Department until the 15th October, 1855.\n\nFRED. H. BLOCK, Acting Danish Consul.\n\nDanish Consulate, Hongkong, 28 July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ROBERT ANGUS has been appointed AGENT of the Canton Branch of THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA.\n\nCanton, 7th July, 1855.\n\nEDGAR CORRIE,\n\nManager.\n\nWe have established Mr WILLIAM HAMMOND FOSTER, JR., in Hongkong, as Agent for our Houses in Canton, Shanghai, and Foochow: and all Business to his address comes under our control and guarantee.\n\nCanton. 1st July, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nMR JAMES CRAMPTON is authorized to sign our firm per procuration from this date.\n\nHANBURY & Co. Shanghai, 10th May, 1855.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. NEWBOLT, Surgeon Dentist, has left Hongkong for Malacca, but intends to return to China in a few Months.\n\nHongkong, 1st August, 1855.\n\nCARD.\n\nCHARLES MARKWICK, Government and Supreme Court Auctioneer and Appraiser,\n\nand\n\nGENERAL STOREKEEPER, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nEstablished 1843.\n\nT. H. FARRER.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION OF LANDED PROPERTY.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on the Ground, on MONDAY, the 20th August next, at Noon, the whole of\n\nMARINE LOT No. 58, situate in Victoria West, with the BUILDINGS thereon, known as Prous's Cottages.\n\nThis Eligible Property possesses a Sea Frontage of 230 Feet, and presents facilities for adding very largely to its value by reclaiming from the Sea.\n\nThe Queen's Road Frontage extends 260 Feet from East to West. and from the nature of its position, near the Centre of a populous part of the town, forms an admirable site for a range of CHINESE SHOPS and DWELLING HOUSES.\n\nThe present Depth on the West Boundary is 108 Feet, and the East 72 Feet,-both capable, at a very small outlay, of being increased by from 40 to 50 Feet.\n\nThe whole Lot contains an AREA of 20,948 Feet, and is leased from the Government for 75 Years (which can be increased on application to 999 Years,) at a yearly GROUND RENT of £183.1.4§.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Auctioneers.\n\nTERMS OF SALE. Cash in MEXICAN Dollars weighed at 7.1.7. The purchaser to pay the Ground-rent from the 25th June last, and the Expense of Transfer. One-third of the Purchase Money to be paid on the fall of the Hammer, and the Balance on the completion of the Transfer.\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1855.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW,\n\nSHIP CHANDLERS,\n\nWholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants, Auctioneers, and Commission Agents,\n\nNos. 1 & 2 Wongsam's Buildings,\n\nHave always on hand an Assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY STORES of every kind.\n\nAlso,\n\nAn extensive and well-selected supply of WINES, BEER, and SPIRITS, LIQUEURS, CORDIALS, &c., of a superior description.\n\nOILMAN'S STORES from the well-known house of Copland, Bures & Co.; also, STORES per Overland Mail Steamers Monthly for domestic purposes.\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1855.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.\n\nPRICE, 6 per Annum. 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        "content_text": "335\n\n\"Commander\" and \"Master\" of Sea-going Vessels; the Terms \"Commander\" and \"Master\" of a Ship shall include any Person for the Time being in command or charge of the same; the Term \"Emigration Officer\" shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Immigration Agent or Protector of Emigrants, and every Person authorized by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the Provisions of this Act; and the Term \"British Consul\" shall include every Person lawfully exercising Consular Authority on behalf of Her Majesty in any Foreign Port.\n\nPassengers and Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\nLegislative of Hong Kong to enact regulations:\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong \"I declare length of voyages.\n\nNo Chinese Passenger Ship to clear out on voyage of more than 2 days without Emigration Officer's certificate and every regulation until bond be given to Care.\n\nPenalty of bond when recoverable.\n\nI. The Passengers Act of 1855 shall not apply to Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\nII. It shall be lawful for the Legislature of Hong Kong to enact Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships, and respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea, and until such Enactment the Regulations contained in Schedule (A) to this Act annexed shall be in force.\n\nIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor of Hong Kong to declare, by Proclamation, for the Purposes of this Act and of the said Regulations, what shall be deemed to be the Duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship.\n\nIV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Three Days Duration until the Master thereof shall have received from an Emigration Officer a Copy of the aforesaid Regulations, and a Certificate in the Form contained in Schedule B to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as may be prescribed by the said Legislature, which Copy and Certificate (herein-after designated as Emigration Papers) shall be signed by the said Emigration Officer, nor until the Master shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by the said Emigration Officer, have entered into a joint and several Bond in the Sum of One thousand Pounds to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Form contained in Schedule D to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as shall be prescribed by the said Legislature; and in the Case of any Foreign Ship one of the Conditions of the said Bond shall be that the Master thereof shall conform to the Provisions of this Act and of the Regulations aforesaid, in like Manner as if the said Master were a British Subject, or the Ship were a British Ship.\n\nV. The said penal Sum of One thousand Pounds shall be due and recoverable notwithstanding any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by this Act or by the aforesaid Regulations, and whether such Penalties or Forfeitures shall have been sued for and recovered or not.\n\nVI. If any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any such Voyage as aforesaid without such Emigration Papers, or before the Master shall have entered into such Bond as aforesaid, such Ship shall be forfeited to the Use of Her Majesty.\n\nVII. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of less than Three Days Duration without a written Authority from an Emigration Officer in the Form contained in Schedule C to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as may be prescribed by the said Legislature; and any such Ship which shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any such Voyage without the said written Authority shall be forfeited to the Use of Her Majesty.\n\nVIII. It shall be lawful for the Commander of any of Her Majesty's Ships of War, or for any Emigration Officer, Custom House Officer, or British Consul, to detain, enter, and search any Chinese Passenger Ship (being a British Vessel or within British Jurisdiction) so long as such Ship shall have any Passengers on board, and for Forty-eight Hours afterwards, and to require the Production of the Emigration Papers of such Ship or the written Authority aforesaid, and to examine all Persons on board of the same in order to ascertain whether the Provisions of this Act and of the Regulations aforesaid have been complied with.\n\nIX. If the Master of any Chinese Passenger Ship (being a British Ship or within British Jurisdiction) shall obstruct, avoid, or refuse to allow of such Entry, Search, or Examination, or, being so required as aforesaid, shall fail to produce his Emigration Papers, or, being on a Voyage of less than Three Days, such written Authority as aforesaid, or if in any such Ship any Fraud shall have been practised in respect of or in connexion with such Papers or Authority (of which any Alteration or Erasure in them shall be primâ facie Evidence), or the Provisions of this Act or of the Regulations aforesaid shall not have been complied with, the Ship shall be forfeited to the Use of Her Majesty: Provided, that for the Purposes of this Section every Ship provisioned for more than Ten Days shall be deemed to be engaged on a Voyage of more than Three Days Duration, unless such provisioning shall be mentioned in the written Authority aforesaid.\n\nX. Every Person concerned in any Act or Default by which any Chinese Passenger Ship may have become liable to Forfeiture shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding One hundred Pounds for each Offence.\n\n(O.89.)\n\nXI. Any...",
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        "content_text": "3236\n\n120\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt having been notified in the London Gazette of August 17th, 1855, that \"the Chinese Passengers' Act 1855 has received the Royal Assent, His Excellency The Governor is pleased to direct the publication of the same for general information.\n\nThis Act will therefore be enforced from this date, and the Emigration Officer has been instructed accordingly.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th January, 1856.\n\nANNO DECIMO OCTAVO & DECIMO NONO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nCAP. CIV.\n\nAn Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships.\n\n[14th August, 1855.]\n\nWhereas Abuses have occurred in conveying Emigrants from Ports in the Chinese Seas: And whereas it is expedient to prevent such Abuses: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:\n\nDefinition of certain Terms herein mentioned.\n\nI. In the Construction of this Act, the Term \"Chinese Passenger Ship\" shall include every Ship carrying from any Port in Hong Kong, and every British Ship carrying from any Port in China or within One hundred Miles of the Coast thereof, more than Twenty Passengers, being Natives of Asia; the Word \"Colony\" shall include all Her Majesty's Possessions abroad not being under the Government of the East India Company; the Word \"Governor\" shall signify the Person for the Time being lawfully administering the Government of such Colony; the Term \"Legislature of Hong Kong\" shall signify the Governor and Legislative Council or other Legislative Authority of the same for the Time being; the Word \"Ship\" shall include all Sea-going Vessels, the Terms \"Commander\" and \"Master\" of any Ship shall include any Person for the Time being in command or charge of the same; the Term \"Emigration Officer\" shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Immigration Agent or Protector of Emigrants, and every Person authorized by the Governor of any British Colony to carry out the Provisions of this Act; and the Term \"British Consul\" shall include every Person lawfully exercising Consular Authority on behalf of Her Majesty in any Foreign Port.\n\nII. It shall be lawful for the Legislature of Hong Kong, by any Ordinance to be by them enacted for that Purpose, to make Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships, and, in the Case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at Sea; and until such Enactment, the Regulations contained in Schedule (4.) to this Act annexed shall be in force. Provided always, that no such Ordinance shall come into operation until Her Majesty's Confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor thereof.\n\nIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor of Hong Kong to declare, by Proclamation, for the Purposes of this Act and of the said Regulations, what shall be deemed to be the Duration of the Voyage of any Chinese Passenger Ship, and by such Proclamation to alter the Scales of Dietary, Medicines, and Medical Comforts contained in the aforesaid Schedule (4).\n\nNo Chinese Passenger Ship to clear out on Voyage of more than Seven Days without Emigration Officer's Certificate and Copy of Regulations, nor until Bond be given to Crown.\n\nIV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration until the Master thereof shall have received from an Emigration Officer a Copy of the aforesaid Regulations, and a Certificate in the Form contained in Schedule B. to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as may be prescribed by the said Legislature, which Copy and Certificate, with any Documents to be attached thereto (hereinafter designated as Emigration Papers,) shall be signed by the said Emigration Officer, nor until the Master shall, with Two sufficient Sureties, to be approved by the said Emigration Officer, have entered into a joint and several Bond in the Sum of One thousand Pounds to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Form contained in Schedule C. to this Act annexed, or in such other Form as shall be prescribed by the said Legislature.\n\nV. The said penal Sum of One thousand Pounds shall be due and recoverable notwithstanding any Penalty or Forfeiture imposed by this Act or by the aforesaid Regulations, and whether such Penalties or Forfeitures shall have been sued for and recovered or not.\n\nVI. It shall be lawful for the Commander of any of Her Majesty's Ships of War, or for any Emigration Officer, Custom House Officer, or British Consul, to enter and search any Chinese Passenger Ship (being a British Vessel or within British Jurisdiction) so long as such Ship shall have any Passengers on board, and for Forty-eight Hours afterwards, and in case such Ship shall be engaged on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' Duration, to require the Production of the Emigration Papers of such Ship, and to examine all Persons on board of the same, in order to ascertain whether the Provisions of this Act and of the Regulations aforesaid have been complied with; and any Person who refuses to allow, attempts to avoid, or obstructs any such Entry, Search, or Examination, or who knowingly misleads or deceives any Person lawfully making any such Search or Examination, or who, being the Master of the Ship or having the Emigration Papers in his Custody, fails to produce the same when required as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor.\n\nVII. In case of any Neglect or Refusal to comply with any of the Provisions of this Act or any of the Regulations aforesaid, or to perform any Stipulation in any of the Contracts made with the Passengers, the Master of the Ship, and any other Person who may have been guilty of or have aided or abetted such Neglect or Refusal, shall each be deemed for each Offence guilty of a Misdemeanor.\n\nVIII. If any Chinese Passenger Ship clears out or proceeds to Sea on any Voyage exceeding Seven Days in Duration without such Emigration Papers as aforesaid, or if the Emigration Papers of any Chinese Passenger Ship are forged or fraudulently altered, such Ship shall, if she is a British Ship, or if, not being a British Ship, the Offence is committed and the Ship is seized in Her Majesty's Dominions or in the Territories of the East India Company, be forfeited to Her Majesty.\n\nIX. Every Person who commits or aids or abets in committing any Act or Default by which any Chinese Passenger Ship may become liable to Forfeiture shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding One hundred Pounds for each Offence.\n\nX. It shall be lawful for any Commissioned Officer on Full Pay in the Military or Naval Service of Her Majesty, or any British Officer of Customs, or any British Consul, to seize and detain any Ship which has become subject to Forfeiture as aforesaid, and bring her for Adjudication before the High Court of Admiralty in England or Ireland, or any Court having Admiralty Jurisdiction in Her Majesty's Dominions or in the Territories of the East India Company, and such Court may thereupon make such Order in the Case as it thinks fit, and may award such Portion of the Proceeds of the Sale of any forfeited Ship as it thinks right to the Officer bringing in the same for Adjudication, or to any Persons damaged by the Act or Default which has rendered the Ship liable to Forfeiture.\n\nXI. No such Officer as aforesaid shall be responsible, either civilly or criminally, to any Person whomsoever in respect of the Seizure or Detention of any Ship that has been seized or detained by him in pursuance of the Provisions herein contained, notwithstanding that such Ship is not brought in for Adjudication, or, if so brought in, is declared not to be liable to Forfeiture, if it is shown to the Satisfaction of the Judge or Court before whom any Trial relating to such Ship or such Seizure or Detention is held that there are reasonable Grounds for such Seizure or Detention; but if no such Grounds are shown, such Judge or Court may award Payment of Costs and Damages to any Party aggrieved, and make such other Order in the Premises as he or it thinks just.",
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        "content_text": "Colonial Receipts. Hengkeng.\n\nOn Account of Grants of the Imperial Parliament.\n\nIn China In England from the by the Agent Total. Commissarial for Colonies. the.\n\n£ S.A.\n\nOn Account of Her Majesty's Superintendency of Trade and Consular Service in China:\n\nap of 1854/55 1855/56\n\n15,000 0 309\n\nStatement of Specie Receipts and Issues at the Colonial Treasury of Hongkong during the Year 1855.\n\n1855.\n\nBalance on 17 January\n\n+ Receipts\n\n  \n    From or Fer\n    Chinese Rupees.\n    Cush.\n    Dollars.\n    Coins.\n    Sterling Total.\n  \n  \n    Collector of Crown Rent\n    \n    \n    82,300\n    \n    23,927\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary\n    64\n    \n    \n    \n    8.9481\n  \n  \n    Registrar Supreme Court\n    \n    \n    4\n    \n    14,111\n  \n  \n    Chief Magistrate\n    \n    \n    51\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Licenses\n    \n    \n    20,000\n    78\n    \n  \n  \n    Premon Land sold\n    216\n    \n    53,597\n    0\n    78\n  \n  \n    \n    908\n    5\n    549\n    10\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    9100\n    \n    677\n    6\n    17219\n  \n  \n    \n    1.035\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    42250\n    11010\n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mariner — Do.\n    158357\n    \n    13.876\n    29\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    378\n    13\n    938\n    13\n    1.203\n  \n  \n    \n    159\n    23\n    0\n    \n    1588\n  \n  \n    \n    3.917\n    \n    367\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    386\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6.703\n    175\n    2.99\n    14\n    20534\n  \n  \n    \n    181\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    131%\n    \n    1.652\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shoriff\n    7.2010\n    \n    140025\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    138\n    \n    2,605\n    be 65\n    \n  \n  \n    Registrar General\n    33%\n    \n    2771\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    111\n    3\n    3.56\n    \n    93,832\n  \n  \n    \n    849\n    50\n    1,371\n    17\n    117\n  \n  \n    \n    1.598\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Police Rate Collectors\n    35,000\n    0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1118%\n    400944\n    142\n    12\n    25\n  \n  \n    \n    778\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendent of Police\n    521\n    \n    1.992\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    shs 50\n    \n    15752\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For Colonial Services, apc of 1854/55\n    163411\n    1734\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    980%\n    \n    3.368\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Surveyor General \"Deed\"\n    51172\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    72\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendent of Trade\n    110\n    \n    36.634\n    111734\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    38.368\n    \n    22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    75,452\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,820\n    \n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    &\n    \n    515\n    113\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    £ 4.400.0.0.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    675\n    \n    60\n    15\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    26\n    \n    76\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    489\n    19\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    38,909\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1446,600\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,525\n    47\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1.868\n    15\n    3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    #\n    \n    1,634.1.1\n    1734\n    1.1\n  \n  \n    Dr.\n    not available\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Harbor Master\n    5\n    \n    1/1972\n    75\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    6,033\n    50\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    206\n    11\n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    513411\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    734.11.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nThe Grant ap. of the Colony for 1854/55 drawn in 1854, vide Account of that year I 1765.18.11 of which\n\n1855 in Phong động, England\n\nAmount overdrown, to be repaid\n\nThe Trant for 1855/36 made by the by the Imperial Parliament; 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        "content_text": "INDEX.\n\n1856\n\nCont\n\n7 April 574\n\n8\n\n\"\n\nGov Bowering\n\nReports the circumstances\n\n4\n\n402\n\nunder which the sentences of Death passed on 7 Chinese, have been commuted.\n\n55 M. Oubecks Recognition as Prussian Consular Agent Reports Fail\n\n56 Capture of 9 Military Deserters on board an American Whaler. The alarming amount of Military Desertion has been brought to notice by Lieut Col Graham.\n\n57 Iron Safe for Surveyor General's Dept Requests that the Colonial Agent may be directed to procure and forward an Iron safe, as described in letter from Surveyor General.\n\n10 58 Conveyance of Military Convicts to England. Asks instructions whether to send those men by this bringing home Military Invalids.\n\n59 Violation of Chinese Legislation\n\nPagenges",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n9 \n\n140 \n\nDate of \n\n34 2014 Subject of Despatch \n\nDeep: Desp \n\n52. April, 2 Acknowledging Despatch No 25 of 20th January \n\nreporting in favor of One Block's Appointment as Danish Consul at \n\n53 \n\n54 \n\n53. \n\n56. \n\n77 \n\n# \n\n\" \n\nAnd re \n\ndongkong. \n\n74 Reporting Execution of 2 Criminals \n\non \n\nthe 26th March. \n\nReporting Governor's decision on the \n\ne of 7 Chinese Capitally convicted on the 3rd March \n\nAcknowledging Despatch No128 of 23rd January, and reporting recognition in Gazette of Mr. Meerbeck as Prussian Consular Agent in Hongkong \n\n8th On the subject of a recent capture of mine deserters from the Garrison, found secreted on board an American Whaler \n\n\"1 \n\non \n\nNo of tel. \n\nJoof Date of Deep. \n\nSubject of Despatch. \n\n60 April 14 Transmitting part I of the Laws of \n\nHongkong issued from the China Mail Office \n\nnones. \n\n61. \n\nnone, \n\n2. \n\nnone. \n\nnona \n\nsubmitting application for an Iron safe for the Surveyor General's Department 1. \n\n10a Regarding conveyance of Military \n\nConvicts to England, and applying for instructions \n\nunder \n\n11. Reporting violation of the Chinese \n\nPassengers Act by two Vessels. the Hawaiian Flag \n\n62. \n\n63 \n\n64. \n\n65 \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\n\" \n\nReporting in favor of her Majesty's \n\nappointment as Hamburg Consul at Hongkong, vice Keirners, resigned \n\nRelative to Mr Silas E. Burrows' appointment as Consul for New- \n\nGranada, in Hongkong, and his temporary recognition in Gazette. \n\n1. \n\nnone. \n\nmone. \n\n17% Submitting Draft Ordinance, relating \n\nto Gaming Houses. \n\n18. Submitting for confirmation \n\nOrdinance No. 80 of 1888 for Buildings and \n\nNuisances.\" \n\n24. Recommending the liberation of \n\nthe convict Lee-Ahsow, now in Jail under sentence of Transportation for Life \n\n66 . : May 12 Acknowledging receipt of Despatches \n\nto No 3b of 7th March 1858, 10, \n\nnone \n\n67 \n\n\" \n\n1. \n\nsubmitting for Approval Reports and \n\nEstimates 8.14 and 27 of 1885 for the erection of Central Police Station and a \n\nStation at West-Point - \n\nPolice \n\n1. \n\n1. \n\n1 \n\nhones \n\n2.",
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        "content_text": "it has been laid before this Excellency The Governor\n\nin Executive Council.\n\nI have,\n\n(Signed) J. M. d'Almada e Castro\n\nfor the Clerk of Councils\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n1158- Miscellaneous.\n\nI T. B. informed 17 Dece. E.P.C\n\nHongkong, 22nd Decr, 1856.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDEC. 9 1856\n\n271\n\nGovernment Offices, Hongkong\n\nAug 30th 82 Decr, 1856.\n\nI have the honor to state that I\n\ninformed that an exequatur\n\nwill be applied for, on behalf of L. I. Gutierrez as Vice Consul for Spain.\n\nM. Gutierrez, a subject\n\nof Portugal, has acted for\n\nsome years\n\nas Spanish Consular Agent at this Port, and to prevent the delay of\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHerman Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "47\n\n2\n\nof the Act by the seizure of the ship, or otherwise, should be committed to the Emigration Officers, or Officers of Customs exclusively, and that Naval Officers should not interfere.\n\nIn the 2nd case: My Lords are also of opinion that the search of a Chinese Passenger Ship, being British, in a Foreign Port, should be left to the Consular Officer there, and that Naval Officers should not interfere.\n\nAs respects the 3rd case; viz. That of a Chinese Passenger Ship, being British, met with on the high seas; the Officers in command of Her Majesty's ships are to deal with such vessels as follows:\n\nWhere no Emigration Papers whatever are produced, and where it also appears that the Passengers are suffering from ill-usage or neglect, the Officer in command of Her Majesty's Ship is, under the 8th clause of the Act, to seize the vessel, and to send her for condemnation to the nearest port where there is a Vice Admiralty Court; taking care in every instance to send the most ample proofs in his power, by declaration and otherwise, to substantiate the facts of the case; and taking all such further steps to ensure her condemnation and forfeiture, as if the vessel had been captured in War, or had been engaged in the Slave Trade.\n\nIt is to be understood, however, that an Officer thus seizing a vessel is not authorized to put the Master or crew under arrest, or to detain him or any of them against their will; though it would be desirable in each case, to obtain, if possible, the attendance before the Admiralty Court of the Master and of some portion of the crew.\n\nWhere, however, although there are no Emigration Papers on board, it does not appear that the Passengers are suffering from ill-usage or neglect, or where the Emigration Papers produced appear to have been forged, or fraudulently altered, or that the regulations prescribed by the Act for the comfort and convenience of the Passengers have been contravened, the Officer in command of Her Majesty's Ship is not to take any step for the seizure of the ship; but is, in accordance\n\n3\n\nwith the 15th section of the Act, to make a full statement of the facts in a declaration, which should state the nature of the offence sought to be proved. As this document may be used as evidence in legal proceedings of a very penal character, it must be framed with great caution and particularity, and the circumstances of the case be stated as simply and with as much precision as possible: a duplicate of the declaration\n\nis to be sent officially to the Governor of Hong Kong, and another duplicate to the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.\n\nIn reference to the 4th point: If an Officer\n\nin command of one of Her Majesty's Ships shall receive a requisition, in writing, signed by an Emigration Officer, Officer of Customs, or British Consular Agent, to give his assistance\n\nin navigating to the nearest port where there is an Admiralty Court a vessel which shall have been seized by any of the said Officers, such Naval Officer is to furnish, provided the exigencies of the Service will admit of it, a sufficient crew for the above purpose. As this proceeding, however, is purely ministerial on the part of the Naval Officer, Her Majesty's Government will indemnify him for any expenses incident to this service, and for any damages\n\nand legal charges which he may incur.\n\nMy Lords desire that you will, upon the receipt of this despatch, give the necessary instructions to the Officers in command of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels under your orders, and desire them to act in conformity with the views herein expressed, so far as the exigencies of the Service, and the nature of the duty upon which they are employed, will permit.\n\nYou will further instruct them to transmit to you, for the purpose of being forwarded to this office, a report of any proceedings which they may adopt consequent hereon, and copies of all declarations which they may make.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nTHOS. PHINN.\n\nGent\n\nForeign Office",
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        "content_text": "AGENT\n\nbut may be charged with or punished before the Consular Tribunals in China, for offences - committed within their jurisdiction, It is not intended, at all Events for the present, to appoint Emigration Agents at any Posts in China, but all British \"Chinese Passenger Ships will be allowed to touch at Hongkong for the purpose of there obtaining the Certificate of the Emigration Officer.\n\nIt has only been provided that, in cases of infraction of the Law by the Master of any Ship it will probably be easier to proceed against him under his Bond, than by any other mode of proceeding. The Consuls will therefore be careful in all cases of breach of the Law except where the offence has been committed by Masters, bound to try their declaration: the Bond given under the XV Sect. of the Act, when the Consul will decide whether the Bond should be put in suit in the above manner against the Sureties of the Master or what other proceedings should be taken in the matter.\n\n(signed) (mandor",
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        "content_text": "places, respecting\n\nthe mode\n\nCarrying into\n\neffect the Chinese\n\nPassengers Act of\n\nlast Session.\n\nJamie\n\n$\n\nYou 11324/35\n\n320 trong chương\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJAN 12 1826\n\n106\n\nForeign Office\n\nJanuary 10, 1856\n\n16. M.\n\nJun 8 1860\n\nvide hour 5042.\n\n23 Janst. Graft with Sor: 11324/55=\n\nGovernor instructed to 2.5\n\nAnse 23 Ja\n\netnouvered further 1450\n\nmun\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a Copy of a Note from the Dutch Minister at this Court, requesting that Mr G. Overbeek may be recognized as Dutch Consular Agent at Hong Kong, and I am to request that you will communicate to Lord Clarendon the Instructions such as may be given to the Governor of Hong Kong in this respect.\n\nI am,\n\nMerivale En\n\nEng\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nHumble Servant",
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        "content_text": "The Undersigned, Chargé d'Affairs H.B.M. has the honor to inform H.E. the Principal Secretary of State H.B.M. for Foreign Affairs, that the Queen his August Sovereign, has been pleased to establish a Spanish Consulate at Hong Kong, and to nominate thereto Don Lorenzo Juan Gutierrez, a Spanish subject, who has been until now a Consular Agent in that place, as ... the Earl of Clarendon,\n\n...\n\nPage 318\n\nDie 11/046\n\n... recognized for ... Inform the ... L.F ... Gutierrez or Consul. Jo ... 12 dear ne ... 7861460 ... M. 19",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nAG\n\nCity\n\nNov 29\n\nBoard & Trade 353\n\nof\n\nRevenue raised under Ordinance 6153, being applied to any other purposes than that for which raised :\n\nForeign Office.\n\nJan 7 Chinese Passenger Act. Encloses Copy of Despatch to Sir John Bowring.\n\nJan 9 Encloses copy of Circular Instructions to H. M. Consuls.\n\n=\n\nJan 16 Mr. Overbeck's Appointment as Prussian Consular Agent. Does any objection exist thereto?\n\nJan 16 Mr. F. H. Block's Appointment as Danish Consul. Does any objection exist thereto?\n\nJan 23 Position of Barristers in Cases before Consular Courts. Encloses copies of two Despatches to Sir J. Bowring on the subject.\n\nFeb 18 Chinese Passenger Act. Forwards",
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        "content_text": "14\n\ndad de\n\n15\n\n117\n\ncase wo the bong voyageransp\n\nthe Pacific or round Cape Mount.\n\nBut such a result is not to be desired. Should thrown\n\nGoods unto the hands of Foreigners\n\nwho would be under\n\nno control, or of British Luckigests\n\nwho would be in complicity\n\nwith the Lace, and wither\n\nclap would be likely conducting it to consider little beyond the profits of the\n\nparticular voyage.\n\nThe\n\nimprovements in the general\n\ntrade which might be expected to follow from the example of well conducted departures would\n\nbe lost, and the new Emigration\n\nwould continue as at present\n\nto be marked by\n\noccasional disasters of an appalling\n\ndescription.\n\n& appears to us then of much importance that an Emigration Officer should be Established at Sierra\n\nas well as\n\nAt Hongkong to carry out their several Passengers Act. Sir Bowning\n\nasks what is to be done at... For to where there is no Consular Authority, such as\n\nSwalew, Havana etc.\n\nthe presence of a British Agent, whether in\n\nregard to Seamen or in\n\nanything else\n\n159",
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        "content_text": "71\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nCOPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPARTIES having their own ENGRAVED PLATE can have their Cards, &c., printed in the best style at the Office of\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nof the respective Papers, which will secure early insertion.\n\nEverything taken at Cowloon will be sent to the Government Office, if not claimed before 4 o'clock.\n\nyou will receive an official communication from me, the bending of which I should be glad to avoid, but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles listed were way whet\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Public Worship at the HONGKONG REGISTER UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Hongkong, 28th April, 1857.\n\nTO LET by the month, & Three capacious Rooms, capable of accommodating ten gentlemen, with apartments for any number up to that amount.\n\nApply to\n\nBOWRA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 28 April 1857.\n\nTo the Editor at the \"Hongkong Register.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 27th April, 1857,\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Felaban on the 10th April, Mrs. J. CALOROSSET Sure, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Shangwe, on the 15th April, Mrs. H. KOONS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Macao, on the 9th April, Mrs. B. E. CARNEIRO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Trinity Church, Shangbae, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Halon, WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esq. of Calcutta, to GUNA EMILY, third Daughter of George Hargreaves, Esq., Liverpool.\n\nOn board American Ship \"Celestial,\" in this harbour, on the 25th April, by the Rev. J. W. Johnson, John A. CREWS WALD, Esq. of Boston, to FRANCES ANNE, Daughter of Edwin Lemist, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nDrowned, in March last, in the 37th year of his age, JOHN VAUGHAN, Esq., M.D., eldest son of the Revd Dr. Vaughan, of Regent's Park, London.\n\nAt Macao, on the 20th April, PATRICK STEWART, Esq., Acting British Consular Agent at that port.\n\nAt Hongkong, on Sunday, 26th April, of dysentery, THOMAS HOPE, eldest and sole surviving son of the Rev. M. C. C., Assistant Chaplain to the Forces. Aged 2 years.\n\nN., lat. 31.16 N., and long. 121.46 E.; on the 22nd, the British barque Whampoa, in lat. 28:21 N., and long. 122.1; on the 23rd, the British schooner Eamont, in lat. 25.24 N., and long. 119.56 E.; on the 24th, the British schooner Emily Elphinstone, in lat. 23.17 N., and long. 121.29 E. Passed the Lady Mary Wood, on the 22nd instant, to the Northward of Turnabout near the use of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nDEAR SIR—Having had occasion to be in Gough Street yesterday (Sunday) morning, I was surprised to see this usually quiet street a scene of bustle and activity, and thinking that I had seen it announced in the Colonial Gazette that no Government or Police work was allowed on the Sabbath, I merely wish to know: 1. If any new private instructions have been given to Contractors or others to set aside this Government order. 2. If not, it is a high disgrace that Government should allow its servants to employ labourers on public work on a \"day of rest.\"\n\nI merely state what I saw almost under the windows of our Lieutenant Governor's house and opposite the house of the Registrar General and the Collector of Police &c., several Chinese workmen were employed in repairing the road; lower down the street, near the house of the Attorney General, and just outside Formosa, on the 24th instant, spoke the American brig \"Getes,\" whose gang of workmen were busily employed in setting up the large iron gates at the bottom of Gough Street.\n\nVox Populi is not admissible on the ground, amongst others, that the writer falls into the errors which he condemns. In addition—the letter is anonymous.\n\nJ. BOWRING,\n\nTo the Honorable COLONEL DUNLOP,\n\nThe Colonel issues the following Memo., attaching to it the Governor's letter, which requires that all the stolen property be forthwith returned to the Government Office:\n\n[No. 17—APRIL 29, 1857.]\n\nMemo. The undersigned offers notice that parties who have any articles which were taken at Cowloon will immediately return them to this Office. Officers are requested to state their names, or that they have returned all to this Office.\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) JOHN KING, Captain,\n\nTown Major.\n\nTOWN MAJOR'S OFFICE, 25th April, 1857.\n\nThe officers naturally felt annoyed at having such accusations made against them, and their several replies are amusing enough. They run thus:\n\n1. \"Have nothing—I never took anything.\"\n\n2. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n3. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\n4. \"Seen.\"\n\n5. \"Not a legal question—stole nothing.\"\n\n6. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n7. \"Stole nothing.\"\n\n8. \"Stole nothing: the two hats Dr. Bridges said there was no bar in taking. I have already returned.\"\n\n9. \"I have stolen nothing.\"\n\n10. \"Has stolen nothing.\"\n\n11. \"I took nothing away from Cowloon.\"\n\n12. \"I have not stolen anything.\"\n\nThis was not all; one of them afterwards wrote a letter demanding an apology under the threat of \"court of inquiry.\" We have not this intermediate correspondence, but the fellow who signs himself \"X X X\" in the China Mail, has said, so it has come to pass, the Registration Ordinance is progressing, and we have an altered and amended—if not improved draft copy of the Ordinance in the last Government Gazette.\n\nThe Band of the 59th Regiment will be performing to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4½ p.m., the following pieces:—\n\nMarch—\"Souvenir des Alpes\"—Leitzer.\n\nPolka—\"Jalve.\"\n\nSelection 4—\"Quadrilles Mouton.\"\n\nWaltz—\"Auf dem Lufte, Gung'—Strauss.\n\nGallop—\"Corsa\"—Kulorer.\n\nWe beg to return our sincere thanks to His Excellency Sir John Bowring Knt. LL.D. &c. for so kindly furnishing us with the precis of the contents of the papers taken at the attack on Cowloon, &c.\n\nBetween that and \"stolen\" there is a mighty difference in the minds of some people. We will illustrate the difference by telling the following story:—A Leith wine merchant whose business had been declining, and upon whom a strong desire for military fame just at the same time fell, was glad to take service with Don Pedro when he contended with Miguell for the throne of Portugal.\n\nIt would have been for him had he in the course of his universal acquirements stumbled upon the precaution of the good Chamundas; or had looked nearer one at the protector-te of Olyfe the hammer, when the community was governed without Laws. Back leginnion, however, was not suited to the busy, meddling mind of Wilmi le Teary. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so hemmed by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one now] could walk a large within the risk of having off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap—\"Knicker\"-bocker's History of New York.\"\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nThe COVENT, 1st April, 1857.\n\nDEAR MR. F——\n\nMy wife (who can fight anticly for my peace of mind) derives her views of Hongkong politics from the Friend of China. Upon the ideas of the mild expositor of Sir John's responsibilities, she grafts a few of her own, and the following shortly shadows forth the result.\n\nWas Colony ever at such a pass\n\nWhat with poison, Sed riots, de dear that gas.\n\nA pretty large role of ill it will sum to\n\nThe taxes increasing, such a state the police in,\n\nAnd coolies refusing to carry our chairs;\n\nIf you'd know why this was, it is simply because\n\nThat horrid Sir John's authe Board of affairs!\n\nHe has truly thrown things in a terrible mix,\n\nAnd no wonder it is that with ge we are tow'ring;\n\nLa jury pays a,\" when the public\n\nWhy, who is the party to blame but Sir John?\n\nThe responsible man.—if your servants are capable,\n\nIf your carriage raptures, or child falls down stairs,\n\nFor sourbour, bad potatoes, or premature babi\n\nIs that dreadful old man at the head of affairs!\n\nJust look how he went and black-holed those poor bakers,\n\n(As it must be admitted they'd given you cause,)\n\nAl then four out Murrow & Co. to be breakers\n\nBy housing some coolies) of liberty's laws.\n\nFor struggling young orlenists ain't le a rush nares.*\n\nNor Christian nor Pagan is safe from his energet\n\nHet in happy to heap our dear chaplain's dham Gua\n\nThis cruel old man at the head of affairs!\n\nIf the ad come too late, or fire catches a chimney,\n\nIf our sleep is histure'd by a noisy cock,\n\nEve it a man-of-war strikes on a rock.\n\nf the sun is too hot, or the street lamps burn dim—nay,\n\nthe bugs at the school of St Andrew are lousy,\n\nOr the 59th Band plays unpopular airs;\n\nIf offcids are idle, or paracas are affils!\n\nIt's all the old as it the head\n\nBy his hobbies not only the clothes get se mangled,\n\n\"That buttons and darts take the wake of one's timiz,\n\nBut we're liable, too, in our beds t\n\nto be strangled,\n\nAnd he won't hang the man who emitted the crime.\n\nJould know how his sid yazilation\n\nIf he the load of ane's family rates,\n\nIncremes\n\nHe would practise (what I can't, fin enre) resignation,\n\nAnd put that dear end at the head of affairs.\n\n(Morita loquitur)\n\nAnd now. you've done, pray let me have a word to\n\n(That politics sextainly not a good hand)\n\nI would have you remember it's very absurd, to\n\nTalk about things that you don't understand.\n\nIf he'd three heads, His Cerberas, still be'd have reason\n\nTo say he's tough work to grizzle his air;\n\nAnd I really believe, in' you'll think it high tresom,\n\nWo might have a wote inan at the head of affairs.\n\n*Tron, WELDA.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 1857.\n\nRooms, where such documents as the government desires to make known are supplied for the use of all the papers without respect to party or color. It would of course be expecting too much from a man who was only a radical member of parliament any such liberality—that style of individual does not act in such a way. All his liberality is expended in clap-trap, and when the time of action comes, he is found to be nothing but a windbag—As for the Mail we could expect no courtesy from it in such a case.\n\nThe Coromandel returned to harbour on the morning of the 26th, from the survey of the rock on which the unfortunate Raleigh struck. The survey was made by Captain Bates, who was accompanied by Mr. Williams, Master of the state that so well known Raleigh, and when then for him.\n\nAs we are a day behind the for, thanks to our kind friends, the above firm, we think it unnecessary to republish the documents, but we call attention to the reasonable inference drawn by the\n\nThere is one drop of comfort in this bucket of filth—the Ordinance never will be carried out, not even when the gloss of novelty is upon it. There is no staff of officials to carry it out.\n\nWe may therefore rest satisfied that the minds of the Chinese will not be undermined by this Ordinance, and the only bad effect of it will be to disgrace a British Statute book. Spies there are, and will be—like other vermin they are useful and can be dispensed with; but the more we can do without them the better, and we hope never to see the day when the inhabitants of a whole colony shall turn spies, and no one however respectable be safe.\n\nThe Sampson has had an engagement with pirates near Mi-chin bay, to the South of the entrance of the Straits of Hainan. The steamer had followed them up to this place which it appears they have made their rendezvous for some time past.\n\nThe result of a sharp and successful contest was the complete defeat of the Pirates who were compelled to retire, having about 200 killed, wounded, or prisoners, in the hands of the assailants. We have not heard of any serious casualties to any of the Sampson crew.\n\nXI. A Chinese Houses shall be divided into things or Káp of Ten Houses each, wherein every Occupier of a House shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct of the occupiers of the other nine; and Occupier of a House shall be Kápcheong or Thingman to be elected by common vote of the said Tithing or Kap to that office, subject to the approval of this Government, and he shall be the proper Representative of the said Tithing or Kap, and be distinguished by some Badge to be appointed by His Excellency, and he shall hold his said office during one year; and no other person shall assume the title or badge of Kápcheong of such Tithing or Káp.\n\nXIV. It shall be the duty of every Occupier of House to report to his Kápcheong without delay, to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, Suspicions of Crime, committed or to be committed, and respectively, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, to be aiding and assisting to the said Kápcheong in the execution of the same; and further, to do his utmost to prevent all crimes, felonies, and misdemeanours, and to apprehend all persons whom he shall find in the actual commission of the same.\n\nIV. It shall be the duty of the Kápcheong to communicate forthwith to the Registrar General all such reports as in Section Fourteen are mentioned, when the same are received by him; and likewise to report to him to the utmost of his skill and knowledge, all Cases, or Suspicions of Crime, whether reported from the Kap or not; and in all other respects to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of a Constable of the Police Force of Hongkong, so as the same are altered by this Ordinance.\n\nThis is the spy system on which the Ordinance rests.\n\nWe give below part of a correspondence between Sir John Bowring and the officers who were employed on the descent lately made on Cowloon, powerful in her armament and crew as the Sampson is.\n\nGovernment Office, 25th April, 1857.\n\nMY DEAR COLONEL—I have been quite shocked to hear that, among other things, the official sent were eiti- Register\" or \"Register's Advertiser, please address to the \"Printer and Publisher\n\nWe further learn that the Chinese captured have been given up to the Mandarins at Amoy, and that the Portuguese taken are to be handed over to the Macao Authorities.\n\nThe expedition to Chek-chun was accompanied by Mr. Wan and acquainted with only one of the inculpating facts by surprise. A large number of \"braves\" were found concealed in the city, and a few house before the attack.\n\nThere is no evidence that poisoning as an art has been practiced in China, and we search her annals in vain for a case parallel to that of Hongkong.\n\nThe pith failed through the dilatoriness of the mandarins sent for distribution among a portion of the attacked force, & quantity of a perennial creeper found on the hills of the central provinces. Its botanical character, as well as its precise physiological action, we have yet to ascertain.\n\nIts active principle appears to be highly volatile, and great exactness is needed in preparing it. Several of Mr. Markwick's gold wristlets were found concealed in a two watchkeys, a ring, and a gold watch and chain had also been pawned to pay a gambling debt, but were not in league with the police.\n\nThe expedition to Cowloon was accompanied by Dr. Bridges, Mr. Caldwell being confined to his room with illness and though the inslemency of the weather prevented it from starting till day light, several hours after the time contemplated, the soldiers were within a hundred yards of the fort ere the Chinese thought of even closing the gates.\n\nThe doors were instantly scaled, the gates opened, and the fort taken possession of, without the longest violence being used towards the Chinese.\n\nIt is said that not far from every poison tree the antidotes were ordered from the Pacific to join Commandant was of course in a state of great alarm.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nShanglus, 23d March, 1857. (From North-China Herald, March 29.)\n\nNotice is hereby given, that in pursuance of arrangements made by the Chinese Authorities for the improvement of the navigation of the Yangtze Kiang, Eight patriotic Iron Nan Boyus have been moored between Chatela Island and Woosung. These have been laid down by M. GEORGE L. CAER, Master, N., in the following positions :-\n\nOn the South Sand, three painted Black, and numbered 3, 9, 5.\n\nOn the North Sand, three painted Red, and numbered 2, 1, 6.\n\nOn the North Spit, off the entrance of Woosung River, one painted Red, and numbered 9.\n\nThe bearings are all Magnetic.\n\nThe Light Ship is moored in 4½ fathoms, at low water, Spring Tides.\n\nThe Trevs upon Block House island bear from N. 15,0,0 West, distance 3 miles.\n\nGO. 1. CA, Master. BN,\n\nBy Order,\n\nH. M. S. Pique.\"\n\nSECRETARY,\n\nNINGPO.\n\nA ROCK NOT NOTED IN THE CHARTS.\n\nThe Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, right in the way of vessels going in to Ningpo from sea through the Fisherman's chain. She was 12 hours on the reef, and 3 feet under her stern at low water.\n\nThe bearings of a rock or reef on which the Brig \"Mariner's Hope\" struck, are as follows:\n\nSkald Island, S. & B., distance 3 cables,\n\nSouth extreme of Chiu-san, E ½ S.\n\nLarge Volcano, S. W. westerly Extremes of Ruggeds, N. N. W. W.,\n\nand N. X. E.\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "No. 75.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n[MAY 16, 1857.\n\nMAY 16, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint JULIUS CHARLES POWER, Esquire, to be a Registrar of Marriages in the Colony of Hongkong, under Ordinance No. 1 of 1852, in the place of ROBERT RIENAECKER, Esquire, resigned.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n326\n\n5\n\nNo. VIA RETURN of the Quantities and Value of MANUFACTURED ARTICLES and RAW PRODUCE IMPORTED in BRITISH VESSELS, which were shipped from CANTON to the undermentioned Ports in China, during the Year 1856,\n\n  \n    NO. IN TARIFF\n    DENOMINATION OF ARTICLES\n    QUANTITY\n    Amoy\n    Fuuchom\n    Ningpo\n    Shanghat\n    TOTAL VALUE\n  \n  \n    12\n    Raw Cotton,\n    catties,\n    1,522,001\n    \n    6,650\n    \n    $152,955\n  \n  \n    14\n    Cotton Yarn,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    Grey Shirtings\n    pieces,\n    164,700\n    3,000\n    \n    1,529,551\n    @$10 p. pic. of 100 catties\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    164,700 @ 27.50\n    \n    45,292\n  \n  \n    15\n    Woollens, Long Ells\n    \n    10,250\n    2,000\n    \n    47\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    15.25\" @ 2.25\n    \n    \n    \n    34.312 change,\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,880\n    \n    2,880\n    \n  \n  \n    (a)\n    Spanish Stripes,\n    per chang.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1.40\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    4,032\n    \n    640\n    648 @ 9.40\n    \n  \n  \n    31\n    Metals, Lead\n    catties,\n    \n    \n    \n    6,091\n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    \n    \n    69,000\n    \n    \n    69,000 @ 8.50 per picul.\n    5,865\n  \n  \n    Tita\n    \n    \n    \n    41,880\n    \n    41,880\n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    18\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    46\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SE\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    35\n    Fishmaws,\n    \n    5,026\n    \n    21\n    5,886\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    5,886 @ 16\n    942\n  \n  \n    59\n    Sandal Wood,\n    \n    \n    \n    7\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    110,029\n    \n    \n    110,029 @ 10\n    11,003\n  \n  \n    7\n    Cloves,\n    \n    \n    41,256\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    38\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    41,256 @ 14\n    \n    5,770\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    38\n    Shark's Fins,\n    \n    18,161\n    \n    \n    18,161\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    (2.5\n    \n    4,540\n  \n  \n    04\n    Cum Olibanum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    46,475\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    46,475 @ 5\n    \n    2,324\n  \n  \n    4\n    Bicho de Mar,\n    \n    \n    7,105\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    7,195 @ 18\n    *\n    1,379\n  \n  \n    On\n    Cluseng,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    4,742\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    4,742 @ 1.60\n    \n    7,587\n  \n  \n    33\n    Putchuk,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    14,890\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    14,890 (@16\n    \n    2,342\n  \n  \n    39\n    Sen Otter Skins,\n    number,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Saffron,\n    catties,\n    358\n    \n    12,924\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    350\n    \n    12,924\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    @@ 30 per skin.\n    \n    \n    \n    10,740\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    @ 5.25 per picul.\n    \n    \n    \n    679\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    $300,823\n  \n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1857.\n\nNo. 76.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nIn accordance with Instructions from the Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Esquire, to be Post-Master of Hongkong, in the place of THOMAS HYLAND, Esquire, retired.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th May, 1857.\n\nNo. 77.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nIt is hereby notified, that His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's approval, FREDERICK HENRY ALEXANDER FORTH, Esquire, Colonial Treasurer; HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, Esquire, Chief Magistrate; and GEORGE LYALL, Esquire, to be Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nThe Oaths of Office having been administered to them, The Honourables FREDERICK HENRY ALEXANDER FORTH, HENRY TUDOR DAVIES, and GEORGE LYALL, Esquires, took their Seats accordingly, at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. T. BRIDGES,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that a Sale by Public Auction of Crown Lands at Aberdeen, for the construction of Docks, will be held at the Surveyor General's Office on Monday, the First day of June next; the sale to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon.\n\nAfter which, one Lot on the Queen's Road, near the Old Protestant Burial Ground, will be sold on the ground. Plans of the Lots to be sold and the Conditions of sale, which, with regard to the Docks are very special, may be seen on application at the Surveyor General's Office.\n\nThe following Descriptive Statement of the Lots to be offered at the sale is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th May, 1857.\n\nOffice of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nNo. VII. A Comparative Statement of the Quantities of TEA EXPORTED from the PORT OF CANTON to the Countries and Places undermentioned, during the FIVE YEARS ending 31st December, 1856.\n\n  \n    COUNTRIES\n    1852\n    1853\n    1854\n    1855\n    1856\n  \n  \n    Great Britain,\n    32,620,000\n    38,311,000\n    28,890,300\n    31,819,000\n    \n  \n  \n    Australia,\n    986,301\n    3,490,139\n    3,500,000\n    2,075,820\n    \n  \n  \n    United States,\n    15,894,187\n    \n    \n    11,739,665\n    \n  \n  \n    Europe,\n    \n    \n    \n    15,452,781\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    17,603,000\n    101,800\n    \n    1,629,170\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    7,518,484\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    3,284,000\n    2,583,900\n    3,284,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,350,000!\n    909,400\n    1,327,100\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total,\n    52,784,448\n    56,124,704\n    49,193,081\n    20,243,370\n    42,740,404\n  \n\nHARRY S. PARKES,\n\nH.B.M.'s Consul Officiating.\n\nOffice of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nPORT OF CANTON,\n\nNo VIII-DIRECT TRADE in British Vessels from and to GREAT BRITAIN and BRITISH COLONIES.\n\n  \n    \n    NUMBER OF VESSELS\n    TONNAGE\n    TOTAL\n    NUMBER OF CREWS\n  \n  \n    ARRIVED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Great Britain,\n    14\n    8,418\n    \n    322\n  \n  \n    India, Singapore, &c.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hongkong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Australia,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    DEPARTED\n    44\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    With In Ballast\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carport\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Great Britain,\n    21\n    12,005\n    \n    779\n  \n  \n    India, Singapore,..\n    9\n    4,525\n    \n    347\n  \n  \n    Hongkong,...\n    20\n    6,345\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Australia,....\n    56\n    30,088\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4\n    1,820\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    13\n    6,345\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,525\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    347\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    76\n    39,747\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    779\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    779\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    43\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    44\n    27,219\n    \n    1,024\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    INDIRECT or CARRYING TRADE in British Vessels from and to OTHER COUNTRIES,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    NUMBER OF VESSELS\n    TONNAGE\n    TOTAL\n    NUMBER OF CREWS\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    DEPARTED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COUNTRIES TO WHICH DEPARTED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4 Ports of China,\n    31\n    10,213\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Neth. India, ...\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Manila,....\n    1\n    779\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hamburg,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    South America,\n    3\n    361\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    28\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3\n    1,747\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    168\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,915\n    \n    \n    73\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ARRIVED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COUNTRIES WHENCE ARRIVED\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    With Cargoes\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Ballast\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4 Ports of China,\n    35\n    12,857\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pacific Islands, Manila,.....\n    3\n    592\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Neth. India,...\n    5\n    1,740\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Siaut,....\n    3\n    1,136\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    46\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    10,046\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    20,259\n    \n    \n    1,099\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nSchedule of Lots of Land proposed to be Sold.\n\n  \n    ORDER OF SALE\n    LOCALITY\n    BOUNDARY MEASUREMENTS\n    CONTENT\n    FIXED ANNUAL RENT\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    N.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    S.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    E.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    W.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    SQUARE FEET\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    ABERDEEN.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (For Docks.)\n    \n    600\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    600\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    840\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    840\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    11+ Acres\n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    (id.)\n    600\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    600\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    840\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    840\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    11A\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £ 100 0 0\n  \n  \n    3\n    C. of G. Hope,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Marine.\n    99\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    99\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    9\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    125\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    147\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    78,478\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    10,649\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    89,127\n    4,282\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    95\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    62\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    157\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    54,187\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    33,809\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    87,996\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    VICTORIA,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Queen's Road East.\n    40\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    40\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    100\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    100\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    4,000\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    10 0 0\n  \n\nTHOS. L. WALKER,\n\nActing Surveyor General.\n\nNo. 20.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, has been pleased to appoint, pending reference to Her Majesty's Government, Dr WILLIAM KANE to the Office of British Consular Agent in Macao, vacant by the death of the late PATRICK STEWART, Esquire.\n\nBy Order,\n\nSuperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th May, 1857.\n\nW. WOODGATE.\n\nPage 326\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.\n\n[MAY 16, 1857.\n\nPage 327",
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        "content_text": "# China Mail, Vol. XIII. No. 655.\n\n## INTIMATIONS.\n\n**NOTICE** -- All Persons having Claims against the Estate of the late WILLIAM R. LORRAIN, sen., are requested to send in their claims to the undersigned on or before the 20th November next.\n\nADAM SVET, A. E. DIXSON. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1887.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nAll Persons indebted to the Estate of the late ... are requested to make payment of the amounts due without delay, and parties having Claims against the said Estate, are required to forward particulars of the same to the Office of this Consulate for the 1st proximo.\n\nO. CLEVERLY, Acting British Vice-Consul &c. Macao, 24th August, 1887.\n\n## IN THE COURT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CHINA.\n\nWILLIAM BURRAGE vs. Quincy Shaw, Hathaway, Rogers, and others.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that an Assignment of all the Property of the Firm of WETMORE & Co., in China, was made on the 12th day of August, 1857, by WILLIAM SHEPARD WETMORE, Partner in said Firm, to Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Consul at Canton, in trust for the Creditors of said Firm.\n\nS. WELLS WILLIAMS, Clerk of the Court, Legation of the United States of America in China. Canton, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## IN THE UNITED STATES CONSULAR COURT OF CANTON, IN BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.\n\nWHEREAS, LUMAN NORTON HITCHCOCK, an American Citizen, and Partner in the mercantile Firm of KING & Co., carrying on business at Canton and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of China, has made application in writing to this Court, verified by his oath, setting forth the insolvency of said Firm of KING & Co., and asking that he might be discharged from his debts as Co-partner; and it being necessary that a Receiver of his Property should be appointed to take and hold the same for suitable distribution: I, OLIVER H. PERRY, Consul of the United States of America for the Port of Canton, China, have appointed, and do by these presents appoint, Jay P. Blanchard, Esq., with full power and authority to take and hold the said LUMAN NORTON HITCHCOCK's Property, real and personal, and the Property of the said Firm of KING & Co., and hold the same subject to the order of this Court, at the Consulate of the United States Legation.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY, United States Consul for Canton. Macao, 8th May, 1887.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nBy order of His Excellency PETER PARKER, Commissioner of the United States to China, &c., &c., it is hereby made known to all American Citizens, that His Excellency has been officially informed, that His Britannic Majesty's Naval Commander in Chief, with the concurrence of Sir John Bowring, H.B.M. Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, hath declared, from and after the instant, a strict blockade of the River and Port of Canton by all its entrances; and the same is hereby communicated for the information of American Merchants, Ship-masters, and others interested in said Blockade.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY, United States Consul for Canton. Canton, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## SHIPPING.\n\n**PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMSHIPS.**\n\nOne of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamships, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, and SOUTHAMPTON; BOMBAY, MADRAS, and CALCUTTA, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th of September, at 9 A.M. Cargo will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 9th.\n\n## CONTENTS IN AND VALUE OF PARCELS REQUIRED.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Package for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Date of Taking on with Parcels, and the Company will not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen through incorrectness in such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER, Superintendent. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 26th August, 1857.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE.\n\nThe Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company's STEAMERS ply regularly between Trieste and the Levant, corresponding with the Monthly and Bi-monthly Indian Steamers. The Fares have been reduced, and the following are the Rates, viz: 1st Class, £14: 2nd Class, £11; 3rd Class, £7: in valuing Packages and Furs.\n\n## INSURANCES.\n\n**THE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.** (Established in 1843.) The Premium of Insurance charged by this Office has been reduced from 1/4 to 1/8 per cent. on Goods insured to London, the Ports of this Office intervening. Charge the Risk of Railway from Southampton.\n\nR. S. WALKER, Hongkong, 19th August, 1857.\n\n**\"NETHERLANDS INDIAN MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BATAVIA.\"** The undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the Company in China, are prepared to grant Insurances on ORDINARY MARINE RISKS, to EUROPE, UNITED STATES, India, the STRAITS Java, or the Coast, at the Rates of Premium current at the Places--Policies can be obtained at BOMBAY, SINGAPORE, PENANG, and Batavia. TURNER & Co. Bankong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n**\"RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY.\"** The undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above-named Society, are prepared to grant POLICIES, payable in London, Calcutta, BOMBAY, RANGOON, Penang, Bangkok, and CHINA.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 1st October, 1856.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** Messrs. GADO, LEVINGSTON & Co. beg to give notice, that they have this day admitted Mr. HENRY HALTON as a Partner in their Firm.\n\nGADO, LEVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 10th July, 1837.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** The undersigned beg to give notice, that they have this day established themselves as AUCTIONEERS, COMMISSION AGENTS, and GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, and will have constantly on hand a full assortment of Wines, &c., &c.\n\nWANDKLA, HEDGE & Co. Foo-chow, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## APPEALS.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** The Partnership of the undersigned, under the Firm of BUCK & WELSH, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 21st August, 1855. The affairs will be wound up by H. WELSH.\n\nW. CURRIN, D. WELSH. Pagoda Island, August, 1857.\n\n## AGENT.\n\n**NOTICE.** The Copartnership carrying on Business as MERCHANTS at Canton under the Firm of BATESON, BUTT & Co., is dissolved by mutual consent (as advertised in the Canton Register, dated June 17th, 1857.). The Affairs of this late Partnership will be wound up by CHARLES ROWIN BATESON, who will sign the Firm in Liquidation.\n\nBATESON, SUTT & Co. Macao, 18th August, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Hongkong as MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT.\n\nA. J. P. DE CASTRO. Macao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\n**JUST RECEIVED.** Bass's Trademark BEER, in best condition. Guinness's and Flavel's STOUT, in bottles. PORT, SHERRY, and BRANDY of the best quality.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 31st August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nInvoice of SALT BUTTER, just landed.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 31st August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nVALUABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC MACHINE, a Pair of Profit Schottle Lenses, and Complete supply of Chemicals.\n\nApply to LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nOLD and GOLDEN SHERRY, in 3 Dozens. Also PORT WINE, of superior quality.\n\nApply to LINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 28th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\n5% **\"CLAUSE\"** Bonds, lately arrived. SUPERIOR PALE SHERRY, in cask and Bottles for the well known vintage of 1847. A few Patent Fluted Cots MATTRESSES.\n\nD. LAPRAIK. Hongkong, 30th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nBRANDY, White and Pale, and of various other Brands. SHERRY, of excellent quality. PORT Wines. TINTO WINES, from London. Manilla CHEROOTS, No. 2, New and Old.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 13th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nInvoice of CREAM and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, and Core LINES. Also CANVAS and European and Ostrich CORDAGE.\n\nApply to LY ALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nRAW SILK, of various qualities. PONJAM SILK, do. do. SUGAR, from the West Indies. TEAS from Canton.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 12th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nBEST Australian COAL.\n\nApply to LINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 9th April, 1855.",
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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1857.\n\n#### LATEST DATES\nEng Nov. 19; San Francisco, Dec. 21; Singapore, Jan. 13; Manilla, Nov. 13; Jan. 14\n\n#### CHINESE CHANTUNG\n11 Muia, Gish Days\n\nAs soon as each division of the city is closed, and gates are set up, appointing a man to keep the gate, examining those who are passing and reporting should anything fearful occur, let the gates be shut and lugs to prevent thieves from doing mischief.\n\nAgain, in the several divisions of the city let a strict examination be made, and in every row where disorderly women live let them be shut in all defences; and when they have suspicious strangers, weapons, and other instruments, as ferrets, let them be searched for daily.\n\nTowards the Wells—in each division of the Town where there are wells, let a watchman be appointed by night and day to watch it, some person reputed or recommended by some one who knows his faithfulness, in order to guard against the treacherous putting in poison; opening at six o'clock in the morning and closing at six in the evening. Let the owners of water pay 3 cash per load for the water man's wages.\n\nFire—Hongkong ought to put up a reward or prize for any who shall seize a water or miscreant in any Mandarine's employment; and when masters of these shall be convicted under evidence, let a reward of hundred dollars be given to the informer.\n\nAlso, should any shop or dwelling house for want of care allow fire to kindle, let the offender be taken up and receive a thrashing of one hundred blows, made to carry it for three months correction, for not being careful against fire and the sin of involving others. Thus by the establishment of such a rule, men would certainly be careful against the grievous accident with catching animosity.\n\nBarbarians—At present the Mandarines of China have laid an embargo on Hongkong—prohibiting intercourse. Vessels going and passing boats from the neighboring places around perhaps come, perhaps not; perhaps several unite in coming together, to guard against the sea pirates they thus unite. Now the Mandarines have put out a proclamation prohibiting the Chinese from coming to Hongkong, but permitting their return home. We hear it stated that the Mandarines have thus fixed the time to the 1st month of next year—February 1857—before which none are to go or come; if they do they are to be seized as transgressors, and dealt with accordingly. Now although the hoted time has not arrived, still all the vessels that arrive at Hongkong, whether from city or village, should be carefully examined by some trusty conductor of a government boat, as to their business, whence from, name and surname, their age and appearance, and where they intended going in Hongkong; of which write in a book by which there will be a means of examining into the matter. Also, let each vessel examined for soldiers, implements of war, or other suspicious instruments. Examine the oven on board, whether they have anything suspicious in their appearance, and search their persons to see if they have any daggers about them, or any traitorous letters or clues of wicked devices, instantly examining everything on board, after which allow them to go on shore. As the present is a time of war, if there are traitors among the people of Hongkong, many of them rebels taking refuge; besides the men without employment will be many, poor and it is difficult for these to accept to any other occupation. The thieves, though numerous, will be found willing to observe the Laws, and will certainly not be the disturbers of the peace. Their machinations are at war, and it will be found exceeding difficult to effect a translation—apparently the subtle proclamation broadcast over the English were to select a crew of sturdy lads among those who frequent the brothels dispersed over the City. These are principally boasted above spies. Whichever is virtuous, without reference to his claracter, enrolling him as an assistant with $7, $5, $3, implements, the patriotic and bold, and act in unison leader, as actor, may take lodgings in them. No. suppose at and finds; for certain there are such among these, the same time was set above state everywhere capable of leading forward the past to the conquest where there are prostitutes, as the sign. If the foreigners, to destroy the convention, officers, specify and rising of the idea confusion. To disquiet the people, and graciously requite the good—less atrocious should be carefully guarded against. Recently Dying had planned trend been shut the city, been pleased intercourse, Tell the officials of the English by respectfully writing them to warn again pointing being foreigners, and perhaps, ad agato traži; and trade. into the wells of Hongkong. Suppose the Mandarines and gentry should secretly and in concert at a given time to set fire to the prostitutes' houses, poison the wells, and make an united attack both from the kind and out.\n\nMoreover, they would break the Embargo, placed on Hongkong and also in cutting off supplies, we fear all the dire that like an hell become a reality.\n\n| Jan. P. M. | 6,10 | 6,45 | 1,51 | 2,17 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 6.15 | 2.41 |  |  |\n|  | 3.43 |  |  |  |\n|  | 6,39 | 1,93 | 6,51 |  |\n\nTuesday, \n5, 1 Adown—First quarter on the 2nd proximos\n3.57 .. \n\n#### SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST.\n\nJun. \nARRIVALS AT MONTTONIA, 31, 8. Sir James Brooke, Skinner, from Singapore.\n\n#### QUOTATIONS\nEXCHANGE, AND BULLION.\nHongkong 19th January, —12—latest at Bush Corporation Bank at 6 month's sight. 18. 14 India Úlög Ra....... No, Nous Duty Byer, Nammal-- Bills un Lambs at 6 months' sight\nAg \n-On Lucía 246 9. \nBuvom, Both Jammary --4do London, 6,,8—India Three days' sight 300 lhs per 10. Diats av Ofnban misi ilong- Long 3 per cent discount, \nMANILA, D, London, 6 months' sight 4, 30 days sight §,, -On Cratoa and kangkong ter ent protoinOn âme 1842eecent psikism-Biver Dollate. Spanish and Spath Auchan, daalused, 13 par ceni prasian \n\n#### OPIUM.\nHoxokong, 31 January, -Paina $115 a 1430 Boawes $1 alwal Nominal.\nMaeso, at January.--Parna $ildo $125, Benares 8115. CANTUN,-X Mackol \nSeasons 20th January---Malwn 367 369. Thule, Patos Sia 323 Triz.\n\n#### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\nCANTOR,--Nong, \nSaia can. -De Lon los £!..10 a £3 for Ten, amil.€5 We 9- New York, 55, une fart. \nTo Lelen 10 Sugar, Hemp ko. €3,10 \nTo Unito Stow $59-To Aural (all ch \n\n#### \"REGISTER\" WARNINGS.\nWaxing \nDear Mr Register, let's have a word \nOr two, with you, on things of late transpired; \nWhereby it seems, by that which you are Jos, \nYour Indignation has been greatly fired. \nAt last you have a cracked, and trembling note,. \nA continubulation of strained vines; \nAnd you epiza fruen your harmonious jurat, \nTechaunt us cadences, ur, alias grang. \nIt seems you do not like the tato restrictions \npored on war crkwiat neighbours--why! Har never yet appeared to our nonvictions, \nBut post you will in fəran qe by atat kym \nfe, do nel like their wandering af sight, \nJaws and carves, Sir John, will tell yon na-- \nAnd held your own important soif inclina \nBeyou that livo: to take a chair-why go \nAnd visit your contributors or friends \nBut dont ugal the pass from the othicial; \nAnd if you are a lasting man, \nJust take it with you-wili be beneficialy \nwww.wx \nOr if a GENTLEMAN of gh degre \nTho' uut of pare Casian blood. neglect \nTo carry with bin hat the laws decree \nIn the of warfare-what can you expect? \nBut, that a citizen of earnest seal, \nplein \nAril hanest purpose past your en Shonid chose to challenge tür our mutna \nThe cause of two chair-oitus late detension \n-J \nAnd on the showing of their vindication \nBy this great gentle of puntic blood, \nYou strive to ensure one, whose pledged vacation, \nI to a crime, in bluason, or in \nPause Mr Register, and do not wokY \nFor but of too wild a fight-tis like \nThat you have seen, and y le taught to fol \nLow soon the Begle way the quarry strike \n\n#### SUPREME COURT.\n98th January, 1857.\nThe Queen. The Punnvers. Dr. Bridges, supported by Messrs Gisket and Bowa, and by Mr H.J. Turin, moved on behalf of the Prisoner Alum of the Esing shop, that the Sheriff, Mr May, be ordered to pay over unto the said Prisoner Alum, the sum of $1225, being monies seized by the Sheriff on the premises under The trial of the Esing prisoners will not come on Monday next, as the case commenced earlier than was likely to trench deep—firm and of Mr Tarea, stated their belief to be likely on the bowels of the night. The long this annoy was scary to caulio the p. i- kg Register will not ad id fit vero of the Zomer to prepara lus delence, asseron tout Alain and his fanife werdetin The Chi Ja tien avid that the objection to this existed on board the Shava onk und the Hongkong Police arrived; and the Chem Mach, also in-drecting the errar goes just as faz wrong in \n\n#### CHINESE LAW:\nand the five Mandarimen embarked with them. On their way up they were met by the Cantonese full, who burn one, destroying one thousand men. The other was ran on alore, N. J and the five Mandarimen with about two thousand men narrowly escaping back to Chinkeng. Finally, they built a small boat, ten men volunteering to attempt to reach Nankin in her. It was arranged if they succeeded, All persons rearing mountains, pretending poison—RSI they were so throw large quantities of charcoal into the river. The man at Chinkiang keeping all those who are guilty of afaming in death with violent watch for its floating past with the constant ebb, threats, in order to accomplish an object criminal and unlawful. pusdicine, who pennisters drug perforations with after this a-kang cut his way through with thirty prat Naakin and Chinkeing fu, which they noticed folicult, stall safer deaths—An cekilful practaloner or far days after the boat left. When about a week the ponding needle, contrary to the tablebed rules and hand bringing provisions and relief in the practice, and thereby thungh without any design to injure, kila the patient, shall be had to even hotf from the garrison—Since then they have hul abondanco of panialent of hamile, but shall be obliged to quit kia pro-visions. The morong we passed Tomson the sun or ever, it shaft anper, bewever, that he intentionreb is were engaging the inperiniiats, and we were ally devices from the established rules and gradu, and he enre, and the patient dina, the money shal! then I con \n\n#### CHINKEANG AND NANKING.\nOrigin Narrative, \nComcted from N, page 23. \ntold they had been alt engaged the day before, \nAll the time we were at Ching krang and Nonkin, \nand they appeared q te ignorant of what nu iven going on here. At the lone we left they lik \"wet board of the movements at Canton, \nA Cintonese \nwomen mentioned something about Cautos, which we did not onderzland. We were never askıd \n\n#### ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n**WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.**\nLEA & PERRINS \nat their SALUK which \nsatened in India, \nby \nBay, noe Tat Joanable wo well she LA BANTA Chan \n. والكتير هز \nWORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. \nPERRINA \nyaz, and riker Out \ndily by far gymploye dealers in Sau Or the 2003 ore 224 K \nKenchaista Linivan \nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE HOUSE GROUND on Inland LOT \nNr. 306-comer of Hollywood Roni and Cir alar Busitings. The House is well brill, with Five Large Reons, The Godowns adapted for the storage of Dry Goods. For full particulars, apply in CHUN APNG, at the Feessa Hong, Botha's Strand or by later, addressed \"C.,\" at the China Mail Oce. \nHongkong 15th November, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. \n散芳園 \n大水坑口 \n兹者上海 \nmud for Sale by the undersigned, \n120 Tins Warm CRACKERS. \nTHOMAS HUNT & OL Hongkong, 2nd January, 1857.\n\nRECEIVED per Arganout,” and for Salo by \nthe undersignal, 600 Barrels Fresh Gallego FLOUR. \nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1957.\n\nDECEIVED per late nerival, and For Sale by \nthe undersigand,—- \n109 Packages American PORK. \n150 Banels Gallego FLOUR 1000 Bags California to \nTUOMAS HENT & Co. \nHongkong, fih January, 1857.\n\n**CIRCULAR.**\nTHE undersigned, Proprietor of the FRENCH BREAD COMPANY, respectfully gives notice to the community of Victoria, that ho has engaged an ExorsAN BAK, and is consequence of the Bligh wages, and dearness of Flour, will ↑ Charge, from this date, TWELVE CENTS per four. \nN. BOULLE. Hengitong, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**ADVERTISEMENT.**\nA Respectable Chinese, having his family in the Colony, is desirous of otiring cimployment at a Comprador, or Office Copyist. Apply at this \nHongkong, 10th January, 1857, \nObce.\n\n**NOTICE.**\nwater, this would become heurt aortow and should be carefully guarded aguest. In curefully coming here; there are the means of preventing the guarding, tho treimenos mest in hindered fron evt. I have thus respeedfully laid this part of may views before you for consideration; \nSending so many slits from your honorable country such a distance across the steep, or, Now, when without soutiers sufficient, they would be rady at hand,-when without supplier, -supplies would be sent is. Chinn for several years in succession has been engaged in internal warfare the power of the country has become vitiated, and done away. Beyond the court the officers are with rat wbility; in the cabinet, there are no good and faithful misters; and this is the time for one of \nbeild up his fortune with true abilities not a pro- per feeling. Let such receive the teselligent with generosity and sincerity, treating them with respect; en there would be a general collecting to such as to a lender, like the water running down to the art. Where woult grief arise for is want of meri torious succes in the acquisition of territory la He teratasi \n\nPass & System Let there be an intelligen bes palice man in each divlaim of this city, tune with the Tuga in ezinining every Frange, has many oths, what age, and appeatability improve the opportunity to make bis Jack ance, writing it in n book, auf on the paza clarly etning the carer's height in feet and meter, his When going out and in, tot hus spend his pare appearance, oxide and surname, and residence. up his collar button; that it may at all times on exensoution be ascertained whether the proper pereus beurs it, in order to prasibu traitoreas en Seamen's Hospital.\n\n**SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.**\nResident Surgen-RUNARD G. JACK, Esq. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, Esy., .. \"Tems & Aimsion. \nPublic Wards, -75 Cente per day, Intermediate Wands Dollar, Private Rooms 2 \nPatients are also admitted on Pepsi, at the \nfollowing rates, renewable une day previous to 10 \namcant deposited having been expended. \nPublic Warda - Intermo/tips-. \nPrivate Roms.. \nW15 \n- $20 630 \nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessel mnat ba sponsible for the expenses of Patients sent by thear so the Flaspiiri. \nNBA Hospital Bills to ho receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n**WANTED.**\nin SH1 procending is SGAPORE \nroom at a cheap rate for fra Que to Five Finated Tons of Daal weight, consisting of foot square genio blocks froin Four in Six feet in length, which will be placed on board and taken out free of opens to the Ship. \nApply to \nWH. TARRANT. Hongkong, 27th January, 1857.\n\n**PUBLIO AUCTION.**\nTHE undersigned with call by Puncu Averian, \non \nMONDAY, \nthe 2nd day of February, 1857, \nat Noon, from the Godowns of Messia Scuserz3R \nectient locality. For particulars address Medicus&Co, for account of what it may concern, the fol Office of the Chins Mail.\" \nHanghong, 19th November, 1856.\n\n**STORAGE.**\nen moderate this, on board the \nHalk \" Ernan,\" lying of West Point Apply to the Proprietor \nTHOMAS ROBERTS. \nHongkong, 29th November, 1866.\n\n**A CARD.**\nF. FLACKHEAD, \nHONGKCAS. \nShip Chan-lice, Sailmaker and Qeneral Agent, \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zine Sheathing, always on hand. \nflongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n**NOTICE OF REMOVAL.**\nTHE undersigned begs to notify his friends and Captains in this Harbour that (on account of the dangers at Whampoa) he has removed his \nShip Chandlery Establishment to this Place, \nin the bay of Spring Gardens, and by strict attention to business hopes to obtain a share of the public patronage. \nF. BLACKBEAD. \nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\n**SPRING GARDENS.**\nTHE undersigned have established themselves in \nHongkong as CARPENTERS and Shipwrights \nand are ready to undertake Work of every description. They have also on hand a large supply of MATERIAL for the Building and Repair of Ships; Likewise Sails of all sizes. \nBUYERS & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\n**BROWN, JONES & Co.**\nUndertakers. \nMONUMENTS AND HEAD STONES, made in the best style, at the lowest possible charges. Apply to \nthe Sexton at the Courthouse.\n\n**ORIENTAL HOTEL.**\nN. E. on Praya Grande, Macao. THE WIDOW of FatosRICK Denver, begs to inform the community of Macao, Hongkong and the Consular Powers, that it is her intention carry on the business of her late Husband as heretofore, and she hopes that, with the best servants procurable at usual moderate charges, every satisfaction will be given to those honouring her establishment with their patronage. \nMacao, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**NEW ADVERTISEMENT.**\n**WANTED.**\nSECRETARY for the HONGKONG CLUB. Apply by letter directed to the General Committee. \nBy order, \nR. 1. CARVALHO, \nSecretary \nHongkong, 29th January, 1857.\n\n### Page 210\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "# KongKong and Macao, their principal Agent\n\nMonsieur Vaucher Frères & C. of HongKong and Mr Borel of this Port are likewise sub-agents.\n\nIn consequence of Mr Borel, who is a native of Switzerland, having met with some difficulties in the engagement of Emigrants at this place, partly owing to the mismanagement of his servants, but mostly through the intervention of the Local Authorities, who have declared both to the M. S. Consul & myself that the exportation of Chinese Subjects is contrary to the laws of the land, the scheme appears to have turned out a complete failure.\n\nI have understood that Mr Borel's instructions were to engage as many as 10,000 Chinese Mechanics & agricultural Labourers, who were to be sent to Havanna. They were to serve for a term of 8 years at monthly wages of $4 each; they were to be allowed every Sunday as a day of rest & they were to receive two months' advance of wages the day previous to the ship's exiting from Poochow.\n\nMr. Borel had actually arranged with 320 of these Labourers, who had agreed to sign a Document recording the terms; I have seen the inclosed Form, which was stamped with the Spanish Consular Seal, as evidence of its binding obligation on all parties concerned; but, as I have observed before, owing to the chicanery of M. Borel's own servants & the active vigilance of the Police, he has failed in securing the services of even the 320 men.\n\nPage 369\n\nThe day before yesterday he called on me to ask my interposition with the mandarins to have his comprador liberated from...",
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        "content_text": "# Mr Wist \n## 12. Maxey \n\n## My Lord \n\n144037 375 \n\nhypointending of Swatow. Hongkong... 27th Feb. 1857. \n\nI have the honor to report \nto your Lordship in reply to your Desp: 4.256 dated 31st December that I have appointed Mr Vice-Consul M. C. Morrison, or any Consular Officer who may be in charge at Amoy, Agent for Emigration, with the view of Enforcing the Chinese Passengers Act, and have inserted a notification to that effect in the Hongkong Gazette. \n\nI have \n**[Signature]**\nH) John Bowring \n\nTo Earl Clarendon K.C.My. \n221",
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        "content_text": "protest before the late Insp.\n\nStewart H. 13. Ins. Consular Agent \nat Macao, which Protest I have to hand to you herewith in Original and duplicate, and I request you will kindly register our claim, and assist us in the recovery whenever the time comes of enforcing these claims on the originators of the losses sustained.\n\nI may remark that I have handed to Mr Stewart the Bill of Mr J. C. Comper of Whampoa, for Salvage of said schooner \"Hornet\" amounting to $3000. and it is no more than this actual outlay which I claim.\n\nI am &c.,\n\nR. Carlowitz Foreigned\n\nA true Copy",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in Sir Stewart Drespate's No. 208 of 185...\n\n### Chinese Firm...\n\n#### Submitting Letter from Dr. Carlowitz...\n\n57 \n430 \n\nas the \n\nBefore Mr. Patrick Stewart, H.B.M. V. Consular Agent, Macao, appeared R. Carlowitz, legally constituted Attorney of Frederick Ferdinand Karveran, and Francis Anthony Henry Knoop on his own behalf, which said Frederick Ferdinand Karveran and Francis Anthony Henry Knoop are in the respective proportions of 1/7 and ... the joint owners of the British Brigantine \"Hornet\" of 168 tons Register...",
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        "content_text": "money exceeding the sum of \nDollars three thousand in and \nabout the removal \nto \nof \nsaid \nand \nbrigantine aforesaid from Whampoa \nin which outlay aforesaid would \nhave been incurred but for the acts of such Provincial \nGovernment aforesaid.\n\n(Signed) R. Carlowitz / Franz Knoop \n\nSigned in \nmy presence at Macao \nthis 21th day of February 1857.\n\n(Signed) \nPat: Stewart \nH.B.M's. Consular Agent \nat Macao \n\nOffice of the British Consulate for \nCanton, 12th May, 1857.\n\nI have \nin the absence \nof Mr. Consul Parkes, \nto acknowledge receipt \nof your letter \ndated Macao \n11 Instant submitting \nthe claim of Mr. \nKnoop for expenses \nincurred by Messrs. \nv. Cartowitz & \nKnoop for removal.\n\nA true Copy \nIr. Morrison",
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        "content_text": "433 \n\nof the British Schooner \"Hornet\" from Whampoa to Hong-Kong, accompanied by Protest made by Macao to the following effect, - That Her Majesty's Government then advised all foreign subjects to leave it fraught with danger, the late Mr. Patrick Stewart, British Vice-Consular Agent there, having been instructed to do so.\n\nI think it necessary to inform you that instructions have been received from Lord Clarendon with reference to the claims of foreign subjects of Her Majesty for losses incurred and expenses sustained consequent on the hostilities which have been communicated to this Office by Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade.\n\nWith respect to indemnity for losses which they may have sustained, Her Majesty's Officers are neither to hold out any hopes or expectations that H.M's Government will interfere on their behalf, nor to give such foreign subjects any pretext for complaint by carelessly abstaining from giving advice or expectations in respect thereof.",
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        "content_text": "# THE FRIEND \n## AND HONGKONG \n### OF CHINA \n#### GAZETTE.\n\nVOL. XVII No. 60.\n\nPUBLISHED WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY  \nVICTORIA WEDNESDAY, JULY 28TH 1855.\n\n212\n\n**PRICE $10 per annum**,  \nA pro forma edition of the Overland China Mail is also published for England. Price includes a reprint.\n\n**SUBSCRIPTION**, per Annum, Sixteen Dollars payable in advance, quarterly or otherwise, at option. Single Numbers, 97 cents. For every opportunity of decline to Europe by steam conveyance--the terms of Subscription which are Eight Dollars per annum payable in advance, or the most important intelligence of the previous week, week, or month, and a summary condensed to the latest possible news--Post-paid via Marseilles the postage of one page is compulsorily payable in advance. If sent via Marseilles the postage of three pages is payable by the party receiving.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE.\n\nTHE AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and bi-monthly Italian Steamers.\n\nThe Fares have been reduced and the following rates have been fixed, viz.--  \n1st Class £16; 2nd Class £11; 3rd Class £6; including Table money and fees.\n\nArrangements have been entered into between the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Company and the Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Company, that, --  \n1--Passengers leaving China via Trieste, can receive Tickets from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents for Alexandria.  \n2--Passengers' Baggage can be shipped from Alexandria by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers for Southampton; the Freight being Ten Shillings Sterling per Cwt.  \n3--Receipts for Cargo and Specie intended for Shipment to Trieste, will be granted by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents at Alexandria, instead of to Suez as formerly, but each Package is to be provided with a white label, on which is distinctly marked in print.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nKUPFERSCHMID, B. A. WARDELL, and A. N. SHEARER, have this day formed a Co-partnership for the transaction of business at Shanghai and Foo-chow, as General Storekeepers, Auctioneers, Commission Agents, and Chronometer Watch and Clock Makers, under the Firm of  \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.**  \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nALL outstanding accounts of the late Firm of **KUPFERSCHMID & DATO** will be settled by  \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.**  \nShanghae, 16th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as Commission and General Agent.  \n**B. E. CARNEIRO.**  \nMacau, 1st January, 1867.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nIN Trust for the **AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAMER**, the undersigned, have this day commenced...  \nFor further particulars apply to  \n**W. POSTAU & Co** Agents at Hongkong and Canton,  \nHongkong, 1st July, 1863.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that in consequence of the lamented death of Mr. Waitaan MANDEL ERNET, the Sole Partner of the Firm of **W. M. ROBINET & Co.** of Canton and Hongkong, the said Firm ceases...  \n**FRANCIS S. ALVAREZ** Attorney of the late W. M. ROBINET,  \nHongkong, 21st July, 1869.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **CHARLES W. HUDSON** is authorized to sign our Firm.  \nWe have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers and Commission Agents, under the Title of **TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.**  \n**H.E. TALBOT**,  \n**W. H. DEVINE.**  \nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## VICTORIA EXCHANGE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to notify the client that he will relinquish his business in favor of MR **ORNEY DUDDELL**, on the 30th Instant.  \n**F. WOODS.**  \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\nA reference to the above advertisement I shall establish myself at the Victoria Exchange, as Stockbroker, Commission Agent and Auctioneer; on the 1st July, 1859.  \n**GILMAN & Co.** of Canton.  \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1859.\n\nHongkong, 22nd July, 1858,  \nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Bangkok, Siam, under the management of  \nMR **CH. H. WILSONE**, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration.  \n**HAMILTON GRAY & Co.**  \nSingapore, 17th day, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **NE JUDAR** has this day been admitted a Partner in our Firm in his place.  \n**QUALI & Co.**  \nHongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ANTONIO A. De MELLO** has been admitted a Partner in our Firm from this date.  \n**A. A. DE MELLO & Co.**  \nMacao, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMESSRS **G. W BOUG & Co.**  \nCommission and Wine Merchants, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers.  \nMission Road, SHANGHAE.  \n**S C WOODRUFF.**  \nShip-Chandler, Storekeeper, and General Agent,  \nQuay, BLIGHT OR SOLD ON COMMISSION. Ship and Family Stores put up at the Shortest Notice.  \nCorner of Queen's Road and Pottinger Street, Hongkong.  \n**STONE & Co.**  \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers & General Agents.  \nPicom Anagaran ses, Pouseaw.\n\nWE have established MR **DAVID OAKES** as our AGENT at Bangkok, Siam, and all Business to his address comes under our guarantee.  \nChina, 11th May, 1857,  \n**RUSSELL & Co.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **GUSTAVUS A. ROESING** is authorized to sign for our Firm per Procuration.  \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.**  \nHongkong, and Macao, 1st May, 1878.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ALBERT SERRUYS**, having left this Colony, has ceased to sign for our Firm.  \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.**  \nHongkong, 24th April, 1858.\n\n**LUIS BARRETTO.**  \nAgent and Commission Merchant.  \nMACAO.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **HENRY C. ENDICOTT** and MR **JOHN M. ARMSTRONG** represent our Hongkong Firm, and are authorized to sign from this date.  \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.,** of Whampoa.  \nHongkong, 9th February, 1868.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the Firms of **KUP-FERSCHMID & DATO**, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.  \n**F. KUPFERSCHMID**, **WILLIAM T. DATO.**  \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n313,  \nHemp and Cotton Canvas,  \nDemi Merino and Ceint Rope, Blocks, Anchors, Chains,  \nCopper and Yellow Metal.  \nProvisions, &c., &c., &c.  \nAs S. & Co import largely from New York, they guarantee to sell as low as any House in China.  \nA Post-boat to and from Foochow daily (Sundays excepted).  \n**JOHN SHILAIY & C°.**  \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers.  \nAMOY.\n\nAll description of Stores constantly on hand. Blacksmith's and Carpenter's work undertaken, and Ships supplied with fresh Provisions.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to intimate to Masters of Vessels and others visiting the Port of SWATOW that they have established themselves as Ship Chandlers, Commission Agents, and Auctioneers, and as PILOTS, at the above Port; and by strict attention to business they hope to merit a share of Public Patronage.  \n**CLARK & Co.**  \nDouble Island, 22nd April, 1858.\n\n**F. BLACKHEAD,**  \nHONGKONG.  \nShip Chandler, Sailmaker and General Agent.  \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zinc Sheathing, always on hand.  \nHongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Business carried on here under the Firm of **CRESSY, LUBECK & Co.** is dissolved this day by mutual consent. All outstanding accounts will be settled by Mr LUBECK, who will continue the said business under the Firm of **LUBECK & Co.**  \n**W. K. CRESSY.** **L. A. LUBECK.**  \nMacau, 10th July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **W. W. BONNETT** is authorized to sign for me during my absence from this Colony.  \n**H. MARSH.**  \nHongkong, 29th March 1859.\n\n**LOUIS HEERMANY**, Watch and Chronometer Maker and Jeweller.  \nBEGS to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as Mrs Maune's Linery Establishment.  \nCHRONOMETERS Carefully cleaned and rated.  \nHongkong, 1st February, 1858.\n\n**WELSH & Co.**  \nShip Chandlers, Commission Agents, and General Storekeepers,  \nPagoda Anchorage, Foochow.  \nNB--Shipping supplied with Ballast.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has assumed the management of **WADES HOTEL**, Road Camp, Macao, on this day.  \n**CRESSY.**  \nMacao, 20th July, 1858.\n\n## COMITÉ DES COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCE MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE.\n\nLES soussignés ont été nommés Agents du Comité des COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCES MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE.  \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.**  \nAgents des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes de Paris et Marseille.  \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## COMMITTEE OF MARINE INSURANCE OF MARSEILLES.\n\nTHE undersigned have been appointed Agents to the MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES OF MARSEILLES.  \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.**  \nAgents to the Marine Insurance Office of Paris and Marseilles.  \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned are appointed Agents at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNION INSURANCE and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES of Hamburg.  \n**DREYER & Co.**  \nHongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNDERWRITERS.  \nHongkong, 1st January 1856.\n\n## TOONG-FOK-TAE.\n\nTHE undersigned has undertaken the management of the above Firm, and begs to inform the public that he will always have on hand at the firm's Warehouse, by the Wharf known as TOUT PERES DA SOUZA in CARNER's Garden Praya, Macao, --Sugar, Sugar Candy, Matting, Crackers, and other products of the very best quality.  \nThe TOONG-POK-TAI having extensive connections both on the East and West Coast, the undersigned is certain that they are able to effect sales at lower prices than any other house in the South of China.  \nMacao, 7 June, 1853.\n\n## AMOY.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.  \nTHE Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company at Trieste, have made Arrangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES from China to any Part of the Continent.  \nThe Messages should be sent under cover, superscribed \"Telegraphic Dispatch\", to the Alexandria Agent, for transmission through the Commanding Officer of the Steamer, and to be delivered immediately on arrival of the Vessel at Trieste.  \nThe Charge for Telegraphing 20 Words from Trieste per Submarine to London, is about 16 Florins, or 32 Shillings Sterling; and £1 Sterling for each additional 10 Words.  \nThe writing must be in legible words.  \nFor further particulars, apply to  \n**WM POSTAU & Co.,** Agents at Hongkong & Canton.  \nHongkong, 27th October, 1868.\n\n**MONUMENTAL MASON &c.**  \n**BROWN, JONES & Co.**  \nMonuments and Head Stones erected in the best style and at the lowest possible charges.  \nApply to the Sexton at the Court-house.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to inform Ship Masters visiting the Port, and the community generally, that he has this day admitted MR **ATHANASIO De SOUZA**, (formerly of the Hongkong Dispensary) as a Partner in the business of the QUEEN'S ROAD DISPENSARY; and that, consequent on arrangements made for a regular importation of Drugs and Chemicals they will be enabled to furnish the Consular and other ports in China on wholesale terms.  \n**GEORGE M RYDER.**  \nHongkong, 1st July, 1858.\n\n*\"THE MEDICAL HALL.\"*  \n**R J. J. BRAGA** begs to inform his Friends, and the Public, that he has this day opened an Apothecary's Shop in the Queen's Road, at the House formerly occupied by the late Mr **CHARLES MARKWICK**.  \nHis long Experience in the business will, he hopes, gain for him the confidence of the Public; while he will endeavour to merit their Patronage by constantly keeping on hand a good supply of fresh Medicines.  \n*\"The Medical Hall,\"* Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1857.\n\n## MILLINERY AND HABERDASHERY ROOMS.\n\nMRS **JURGENS** & Mrs **RICKOMARTZ**,  \nbeg to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Hongkong, that they have this day opened the above establishment in the Queen's Road, on the first story of the House opposite the Oriental Bank, and beg to solicit a share of the Public Patronage.  \nHongkong, 10th May, 1858.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED.\n\nSOME very handsome Marble Mantel Pieces and Tables, and a Splendid Marble Chimneypiece. Also, Saddlery, Riding and Driving Whips, Walking Canes, &c. &c.  \n**H. MARSH.**  \nHongkong, 3rd July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS and CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced Cost of Provisions, &c., the Trustees of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the Rates of Admission, which on and after the 1st of April, 1857, will be to the Public Wards, .. 90 cents per day. Intermediate Wards, $1.20. Private Rooms, $2.50.  \n**1. MAGNIAC,—Trustees.**\n\n## STORAGE.\n\n15,600 Piculs of Rice.  \nA GODOWN OR TWO can be had able to hold...  \nFor particulars, apply to  \n**N. DOUS & Co.**\n\n## DIRECT PER PARIS.\n\nby the P. & O. Steamer \"Singapore\".  \nPOISSINS and Millinery of the Latest Paris Fashions, Silks, Ribbons, &c., &c.  \n**MRS. MARSH.**  \nQueen's Road, 23rd July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE United States CONSULATE is removed to the New Building on Painter's Wharf, Next to the Post-Office.  \n**O. E. ROBERTS,**  \nVice-Consul.  \nHongkong, 24th July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to inform the Public that they have REMOVED their ESTABLISHMENT from the front of...  \nAberdeen Street, Queen's Road, to the New Buildings on PEDDER'S WHARF,  \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.**  \nHongkong, 19th July, 1858.\n\n## COPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPERSONS having their own ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS printed from them on application at **D. NORAH's** office, Wellington Street, or to **J. da Cruz**, at this office.  \nHongkong, 7th October, 1857.",
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        "content_text": "## the copy of on the subject \n\ncopy of a letter \n\nwhich I have \n\nreceived from the Secretary of State \n\nfor the Colonies.\n\nE.B.L.\n\nA: 151. \nCommercial \nTo Emy Com \nAnswered \nbows \n~26 \n16 Jan'y \n8_ 21 Feb'y 39. \n1st sent chữ \" RECEIVER \n21 JAN 1859. \n479 \n\nGovernment Offices, Hong Kong, \n27th January, 1859.\n\nAccompanying correspondence has reference to an application from Mr. Scarr, Agent at Amoy of the British \"Association Chinese Emigration.\n\nfor as I have stated, I am unwilling, to appoint the Consular Agent at that place to act as Emigration Officer, partly because \n\nThe Right Honorable \nSir Edward B. Lytton, Bart., M.P., \n&c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "482 \n\nIn the Passenger Act Chap:1014 \nof 1855, have been complied with.\n\nMany \nboard, and \nholding \nCL \nExtra \nEnglish Surgeon diploma from the \nC.S London - proceed in the \nvessel in \ncharge of the \nEmigrants \nhave \n\nThe object for \nwhich I \nam addressing you \nis to request \nthat you \nwill be pleased \nto move - His Excellency \nthe Governor that the ship may be permitted to clear out from Macao - instead of back to this port on coming.\n\nand to be inspected \nand \nCertificate granted by H.M. Consular Agent of that port \nthe facilities for inspecting the \nmen and provisions, are greater \nthan at \nHongkong which is \nof the \ngreatest importance it will tend to shorten the \nvoyage (or time in which the Emigrants may have to be on board) by 6 or 8 days.\n\nBy granting this now will confer a great favor \n\nConcurring. \nIrrawaddy 12 August \n(Signed) Thos Grant \nAgent for \nAssociation for Chinese Emigration, \nZC",
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        "content_text": "## Remarks\n\nI may deem it pertinent to state that the first paragraph of the letter requiring no comment, I pass on to the second which contains the request that the ship \"Royal George\" may be permitted to clear for Wai Chow (not \"Wish Sudies\") via Macao. To this request I can set no objection, but on the contrary would commend it to His Excellency's favourable consideration, provided that the requirements of the Law regarding Emigration Officer can be arranged. This could only be done by the appointment of a Consular Agent or some other fit person there, as I have jurisdiction over vessels entering from other than a port of this Colony.\n\nI see no objection to the request because, in this W. Sudde (Wai Chow?) Coolie Trade the general interests of the Colony are not affected, the whole machinery of collection of Men, Agents, Houses, Provision Stores, to wit, for various persons at Macao being for continuance.",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe Governor appoints a Comegration Officer at Macao to supervise the character and conduct of Chinese Passenger Ships being British Ships. The British Consular Agent at Macao is authorized by the Governor of this Colony under Provisions of the \"Chinese Passengers Act 1855\" to carry out the provisions of the said Act. The Consular Agent will thereupon give to the Master of the Vessel, the Ship being also a British Ship, until he is able to give a certificate that he has complied with the provisions of the Act aforesaid, and in the form prescribed in Schedule B thereto annexed, and has obtained the bond to the Crown required by Section of the said Act.\n\nThe requirements of the \"Chinese Passengers Act 1855\" have fortunately been extended by Ordinance No. 6 of 1856 so as to prevent their evasion in any case.",
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        "content_text": "# \n16.\n\nHis Excellency regrets that under all the circumstances he cannot take upon himself to appoint the Consular Agent at Macao, Consular Officer at that Port, and therefore at whatever inconvenience, the Royal George must clear from this Harbor.\n\nThe matter will now be referred to Her Majesty's Government for instructions.\n\n(Signed) W. Stuer,  \nColonial Secretary.\n\nTrue Copy  \nColonial Secretary.\n\n## \n\nGentlemen,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you, for any suggestions and observations which you may have to offer, the enclosed Papers accompanied by correspondence relative to the application from Mr. Gerard that he may be allowed to clear the Royal George with Chinese Labourers for British Guiana, direct from Macao.\n\nI am,  \nGentlemen,  \nYour obedient humble Servant  \nJ.F.E.\n\nDowning Street, 26th Jan. 1859  \nThe Emigration Commissioners,  \nGentlemen,",
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        "content_text": "Latit\n\nI have the hown to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nJir,\n\nYour host Obedient\n\nHumble Sewant,\n\nN74.\n\nCommercial.\n\nE.C\n\n1407\n\nf\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSir,\n\nthe\n\nJUL 1859.\n\nby 3 trong trong\n\nEmigration\n\n484\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n\nHoughtony, 26th April, 1859.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of your despatch No. 18,\n\ndated 21st February, in which\n\nyou convey to me\n\nyour disapproval\n\nof my decision that the Consular Agent at Macao should not be allowed to act as\n\nEmigration Agent at that port.\n\nI rejoice that the views\n\nThe Right Amorable\n\nSir Edward B. Lytton, Bt., M.P.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nPublicly 21st July.",
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        "content_text": "Macau is only 40 miles from Hong Kong and the inconvenience of coming to this place is very little indeed. And not the legalization of Emigrants by the Canton government at Macau, which of course will make Hong Kong or Canton itself the place of Shipment, I should have implored Her Majesty's government to have reconsidered the question after being fully acquainted with the facts which have lately obtained official notoriety.\n\nThere is no \"Consul\" at Macau. A Consular Agent had been appointed at Macau in consequence of the events which had given to Macau a transitory importance as a place of Shipment for Chinese produce. But that Agent, engaged in business as a Ship Surveyor would not have appeared to me a functionary either sufficiently independent or adequately remunerated to be entrusted with duties so onerous as those confided to the Immigration Agent who in the interests of humanity itself is required to possess means of information from the Coolies which I am sure was excluded. She is ignorant of the language, and has no interpreter attached to the agency.",
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        "content_text": "and there would have been security whatever against the hands of the scoundrels who have been concerned in the collection and Shipment of opium at Macao.\n\nI beg to add that Her Majesty's letter in Council dated 13th June 1833, (Article 45) Distinctly recognizes the fact that Macao is not a dependency of China, and in the ambiguous position in which any British Authority is placed there, the Consular Agent being accredited to the Portuguese Government, I did not deem it right to invest him with the functions of Immigration Agent.\n\nAs I hope for an early opportunity of Communicating with the Immigration Commissioner on the whole subject matter, I avoid further details.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, Whn Bradford",
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        "content_text": "Page 72\n\nPreamble.\n\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of March, 1859.\n\nPresent:\n\nThe Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 6 & 7 Vict., c. 94, sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled \"An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual,\" it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy, any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or at any time hereafter may have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nTreaty with Japan,\n\n1858.\n\nAnd whereas a Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce hath been agreed upon and concluded between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, which was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of their said Majesties on the twenty-sixth day of August last: And whereas, immediately upon and from the exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty, Her Majesty will have power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nCommencement of\n\nthis Order.\n\nInterpretation of\n\nterms.\n\nNow, therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:\n\nI. This Order shall commence and take effect immediately upon and from the day of exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan.\n\nII. And it is further ordered, that, in the construction of this Order, the word \"Consul\" shall be construed to include all and every officer in Her Majesty's service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person duly\n\n[113]\n\nPage B",
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        "content_text": "declared to be unlawful, and every person engaged in such trade as a principal, agent, shipowner, shipmaster, or supercargo, shall be liable to be apprehended by any of Her Majesty's Consuls, and shall, when so apprehended, be sent by him to Jeddo, in any of Her Majesty's ships of war, or in any British ship or vessel, for trial before the Consul-General. And it shall be lawful for the Commander of Her Majesty's ships of war, or of any British ship or vessel, to receive any such person on board under a warrant from the said Consul addressed to the Consul-General, and thereupon to convey him in custody to Jeddo, and, on his arrival there, to deliver him, with the said warrant, into the custody of the said Consul-General, who, on the receipt of the said warrant and the person therein named, shall be authorised to commit, and shall commit, the person so sent for trial, and detain, or cause him to be detained, in any place of safe custody at Jeddo, and the Consul-General shall forthwith proceed to hear and determine the charge against such person, and such person shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.\n\nseized and sent for trial.\n\nXXXI. And it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for any of the commanders of Her Majesty's ships, or any other officer duly authorized in that behalf, to seize any ship or vessel under the British flag which may reasonably be suspected of having been engaged, or of being engaged, in any trade declared by the next preceding Article of this Order to be illegal, and to bring such ship or vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, and crew thereof to Jeddo, and there to detain such ship or vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, and crew thereof, until the said Consul-General shall have tried and determined the charge which may be brought against them, or any of them, in respect of such unlawful trade as aforesaid.\n\nXXXII. And it is further ordered, that all fines and penalties imposed by or under this Order may be enforced and levied by distress and seizure, and sale of ships, and goods, and chattels, and no bill of sale, mortgage, or transfer of any property whatsoever, made after the apprehension of any person for any offence against, or cognizable under any of the provisions of this Order, or with a view to security or indemnity against any such offence to be thereafter committed, shall be of any force or avail whatsoever to defeat or affect the operation of any of the provisions of this Order.\n\nXXXIII. And it is further ordered that it shall be lawful for the Consul-General from time to time to establish rules of practice to be observed in proceedings before the said Consul, and to make regulations for defraying the expenses of witnesses in such proceedings, and the costs of criminal prosecutions, and also to establish rates of fees to be taken in regard to civil suits heard and determined before the said Consul, and it shall be lawful for the said Consul to enforce by distress and seizure and sale of goods, or if there be no goods by imprisonment, the payment of such established fees, and of such expenses as may be adjudged against the parties or any of them: Provided always, that a table specifying the rates of fees to be so taken shall be affixed and kept exhibited in the public office of the said Consul.\n\nXXXIV. And it is further ordered, that all fees, penalties, fines, and forfeitures, levied under this Order, save and except such penalties as may by Treaty be payable to the Japanese Government, shall be paid to the public account, and be applied in diminution of the public expenditure on account of the Consular establishment in Japan: Provided always, that in the event of the Japanese authorities declining to receive any fine payable to the Japanese Government as aforesaid, the same shall be paid to the public account and applied in the manner last mentioned.\n\nXXXV. And it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for any of Her Majesty's Consuls to grant probate of the will, or letters of administration of the intestate estate, of a British subject deceased and leaving property within the limits of the district within which such Consul shall exercise authority; and in the case of a party so deceased, either leaving a will or intestate, it shall be lawful for the Consul,\n\nPage 19\n\n \n...\n\nG-\n\n81",
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        "content_text": "118\n\nand are not even hinted at\n\nLiv. J. Bowring\n\nby\n\nas the grounds of\n\nhis decision. In like manner the incompetency or want of independence of the Consular Agent at Macao might have been as conclusive reason against entrusting him with the clearance\n\n#\n\nof the Royal George - but the reason assigned was not only different from, but apparently inconsistent with, that statement of his decision\n\nIn short Sir J. Bowring's decision may have been substantially right, but the reasons he gave for it were clearly wrong.\n\nOn the whole it does not appear to us that Sir J. Bowring's present Despatch shows any ground for complaint. We consider that Sir E. Bulwer Lytton was justified (having regard to the information before him) in censuring Sir J. Bowring. At the same time as Sir J. Bowring has ceased to be the Governor of Hong Kong and the Enquiry entrusted to W. Gerard has closed, there can be no practical advantage in pursuing the question further - we would submit, therefore, that the correspondence should be allowed to drop.\n\nWe have the honor to be\n\nYour Obedient\n\nhumble Servants\n\nM. E. Mundoch\n\nRedcliifford.",
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        "content_text": "21813/19\n\n145\n\nPreamble.\n\nWHEREAS by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 6 & 7 Vict., c. 94, sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled \"An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual,” it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy, any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or at any time hereafter may have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nTreaty with Japan, signed August 26, 1858.\n\nCommencement of this Order.\n\nInterpretation of terms.\n\nAnd whereas a Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Commerce hath been agreed upon and concluded between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, which was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of their said Majesties on the twenty-sixth day of August last: And whereas, immediately upon and from the exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty, Her Majesty will have power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan;\n\nNow, therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:\n\nI. This Order shall commence and take effect immediately upon and from the day of exchange of the ratifications of the said Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan.\n\nII. And it is further ordered, that, in the construction of this Order, the word \"Consul\" shall be construed to include all and every officer in Her Majesty's service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person duly...\n\n[113]",
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        "content_text": "154\n\nKMG\n\nBoard\n\n18\n\ndeclared to be unlawful, and every person engaged in such trade as a principal, agent, shipowner, shipmaster, or supercargo, shall be liable to be apprehended by any of Her Majesty's Consuls, and shall, when so apprehended, be sent by him to Jeddo, in any of Her Majesty's ships of war, or in any British ship or vessel, for trial before the Consul-General. And it shall be lawful for the Commander of Her Majesty's ships of war, or of any British ship or vessel, to receive any such person on board under a warrant from the said Consul addressed to the Consul-General, and thereupon to convey him in custody to Jeddo, and, on his arrival there, to deliver him, with the said warrant, into the custody of the said Consul-General, who, on the receipt of the said warrant and the person therein named, shall be authorised to commit, and shall commit, the person so sent for trial, and detain, or cause him to be detained, in any place of safe custody at Jeddo, and the Consul-General shall forthwith proceed to hear and determine the charge against such person, and such person shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.\n\nengaged in unlawful trade may be seized and sent for trial.\n\nXXXI. And it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for any of the commanders of Her Majesty's ships, or any other officer duly authorized in that behalf, to seize any ship or vessel under the British flag which may reasonably be suspected of having been engaged, or of being engaged, in any trade declared by the next preceding Article of this Order to be illegal, and to bring such ship or vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, and crew thereof to Jeddo, and there to detain such ship or vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, and crew thereof, until the said Consul-General shall have tried and determined the charge which may be brought against them, or any of them, in respect of such unlawful trade as aforesaid.\n\nXXXII. And it is further ordered, that all fines and penalties imposed by or under this Order may be enforced and levied by distress and seizure, and sale of ships, and goods, and chattels, and no bill of sale, mortgage, or transfer of any property whatsoever, made after the apprehension of any person for any offence against, or cognizable under any of the provisions of this Order, or with a view to security or indemnity against any such offence to be thereafter committed, shall be of any force or avail whatsoever to defeat or affect the operation of any of the provisions of this Order.\n\nRules of practice, and regulations for the expenses of witnesses, and rates of fees in civil suits to be established.\n\nAppropriation of fees, penalties, &c.\n\nConsuls may grant probate, and administer to intestate estates.\n\n19\n\nXXXIII. And it is further ordered that it shall be lawful for the Consul-General from time to time to establish rules of practice to be observed in proceedings before the said Consul, and to make regulations for defraying the expenses of witnesses in such proceedings, and the costs of criminal prosecutions, and also to establish rates of fees to be taken in regard to civil suits heard and determined before the said Consul, and it shall be lawful for the said Consul to enforce by distress and seizure and sale of goods, or if there be no goods by imprisonment, the payment of such established fees, and of such expenses as may be adjudged against the parties or any of them: Provided always, that a table specifying the rates of fees to be so taken shall be affixed and kept exhibited in the public office of the said Consul.\n\nXXXIV. And it is further ordered, that all fees, penalties, fines, and forfeitures, levied under this Order, save and except such penalties as may by Treaty be payable to the Japanese Government, shall be paid to the public account, and be applied in diminution of the public expenditure on account of the Consular establishment in Japan: Provided always, that in the event of the Japanese authorities declining to receive any fine payable to the Japanese Government as aforesaid, the same shall be paid to the public account and applied in the manner last mentioned.\n\nXXXV. And it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for any of Her Majesty's Consuls to grant probate of the will, or letters of administration of the intestate estate, of a British subject deceased and leaving property within the limits of the district within which such Consul shall exercise authority; and in the case of a party so deceased, either leaving a will or intestate, it shall be lawful for the Consul,",
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        "content_text": "219\n\nI\n\nConsular Agent at Hongkong, and requesting that he may be recognized in that capacity; and I am to request that in laying Baron Bruno's letter before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, you will move His Grace to instruct the Governor of Hongkong to recognize Mr. Burrows at once as Russian Consular Agent at that Colony, if he should see no objection thereto.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nSam Henley",
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        "content_text": "was withdrawn as lately on September of to John touring F 22? June 1859- being Becloure in Sunta of duke Newensties to In Hercules Robinson N. 45 offer December 1859- live by your Grace's directions, swayedende in consequence of his abuse of this site are many the new Granadian Flag, and as Lord John Russell subsequently assented to by the Minister for that Republic refused to depart from the decision come to in this matter, I think Mr. Burrows' recognition as Peruvian Consular Agent would not\n\nonly have a very bad effect here, cause of but would give just complaint to the new Granadian Government. Under these Circumstances, I shall not recognize M. Burrows in that Capacity until I hear further from your Grace upon the subject.\n\n114 may mention that Mr Burrows is the respondent in the Australia appeal case, lately decided before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and that the allusion to him in Mr Euchington's judgment is far from favourable\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Servants, \n\nHercules Robinson",
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        "content_text": "with the local authorities a person who in the waters of this Colony, and under the protection British Laws. He was further informed that the proper course would have been for the Officer claiming a deserter from the Prussian Navy to have taken him before the sitting Magistrate and to have obtained from that functionary an order for the extradition of the Offender; Inclosure A 3. and hope was expressed that he would see the propriety of advising the Commander of the \"Albe\" to adopt this course. With this suggestion the Consular agent declined to comply, justifying the course adopted by the Commander of the \"Albe\" mainly, as it appeared to me from his letter, on the ground that the man had voluntarily surrendered himself on board the \"Albe\"",
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        "content_text": "76\n\nman\n\nof\n\nwar,\n\non\n\nboard\n\nwar in our\n\n\"such man of war\n\nwaters is\n\nan\n\ncognizable by\n\nOffence not\n\nour\n\nTribunals,\n\nbut by Prussian authority alone, which appears to me ridiculous.\"_\n\nThe question to be\n\ndecided therefore\n\nwhat\n\nare\n\nis simply.\n\nwar in\n\nthe rights privileges usually accorded to Foreign Vessels British Waters. The acting new Officer considers that by international courtesy\n\nthe Officers and crews of\n\n254\n\nsuch vessels and all whom\n\nthey may\n\nhave brought\n\nwith them into\n\nour waters\n\nare\n\nconsidered exempt from\n\nlocal jurisdiction - Civil\n\nas well\n\nas criminal.\n\nfor\n\nboard.\n\nacts committed on The Prussian Consular\n\nagent carries this exemption much further and claims\n\nthat\n\na\n\n\"Foreign Vessel\n\nof War\n\nin our Harbour is in every\n\nrespect Foreign ground, mut\n\neven\n\nregards those who",
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        "content_text": "No 126 of 1860.\n\nInclosure No 1 in Despatch\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo 922.\n\nTransport \"Elbe\".\n\nOn board His Prussian Majesty’s Panz’e\", detained in custody from the American Ship \"Sancho\" for the rendition of a deserter Secretary, reporting proceedings\n\nMagistrate to Colonial\n\nFrom the acting Assistant\n\n8th October, 1860\n\nInclosure & in No. 126.\n\nColonial Secretary to Mr Overback.\n\n264\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n10th October, 1860.\n\nThe Assistant Police Magistrate of this Colony has reported to the Government the affair of Brown, alias Sulkofsky, who was charged with the offence of desertion in this harbor, and is now in custody on board His Prussian Majesty's Ship \"Elbe\".\n\nWith the particulars of this affair you are fully conversant, as appears from your own letters and the other documents.\n\nG. Overbeek, Esq.,\n\nConsular Agent for H. M. The King of Russia.",
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        "content_text": "26.\n\nThis course, after a full \nand mature deliberation, \nI beg \nto state, has had \nentire approval and \nsupport.\n\nI have Jo \nG. \n(signed) H. Overbeck, \nConsular Agent for \nPrussia.\n\n(True Copy) The Chief Clerk for the Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure in M.R./26.\n\nColonial Secretary to Mr. Overbeck.\n\n(Copy) No. 933 \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, \nVictoria, Hongkong, \n17th October, 1860.\n\nIn reply to your letter of \n15th instant (received yesterday) \nanswering mine of 10th, I am directed \nto \npoint out that most of the issues raised by you \nare irrelevant to the main question, \nas this Government had no intention \nfrom \nthe first to enter upon a discussion as to whether Brown (alias Sulkofsky) \nwas or was not a deserter from the \n\nH. G. Overbeck, \nEagle, \nConsular Agent for \nH.M. The King of Prussia.",
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        "content_text": "what further steps it may be necessary to take in order to place the matter on \n\na satisfactory footing and to vindicate \n\nthe rights and privileges of the Prussian Flag, equally claimed by other Governments under Similar Circumstances \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. Overbeck, \n\nConsular Agent for Prussia. \n\n(True Copy) \n\n(Initials) (for the Colonial Secretary). \n\n(Copy) \n\nInclosure 6 in No.126. \n\nMr Keenan to Colonial Secretary. \n\nUnited States Consulate, \n\nHongkong, October 19th 1860. \n\nSir, \n\nAs the American Ship \"Sancho Panza\" is preparing for sea, \n\nI have to request that you will have the goodness to inform me what steps have been taken to effect the rendition of George Brown, a deserter from said Vessel. Brown is now on board the Prussian Transport, \"Elbe\" in this harbor. Captain Hale of the \"Sancho Panza\" is prepared to prove the desertion of the man George Brown. \n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, \n\nM. J. Mercer, \n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nAll expenses attending the Diplomatic Mission of Great Britain shall be borne by the British Government.\n\nART. V. His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to nominate one of the Secretaries of State or a President of one of the Boards, as the high officer with whom the Ambassador, Minister, or other Diplomatic Agent of Her Majesty the Queen shall transact business, either personally or in writing on a footing of perfect equality.\n\nART. VI. Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain agrees that the privileges hereby secured shall be enjoyed in her dominions by the Ambassadors, Ministers, or Diplomatic Agents of the Emperor of China, accredited to the Court of Her Majesty.\n\nART. VII. Her Majesty the Queen may appoint one or more Consuls in the dominions of the Emperor of China; and such Consul or Consuls shall be at liberty to reside in any of the open ports or cities of China, as Her Majesty the Queen may consider most expedient for the interests of British commerce. They shall be treated with due respect by the Chinese authorities, and enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consular Officers of the most favoured nation.\n\nConsuls and Vice-Consuls in charge shall rank with Intendants of Circuits; Vice-Consuls, Acting Vice-Consuls, and Interpreters, with Prefects. They shall have access to the official residences of the officers, and communicate with them, either personally or in writing, on a footing of equality, as the interests of the public service may require.\n\n5\n\n373\n\nBritish subjects who may commit any crime in China, shall be tried and punished by the Consul, or other public functionary authorized thereto, according to the laws of Great Britain.\n\nJustice shall be equitably and impartially administered on both sides.\n\nART. XVII. A British subject having reason to complain of a Chinese, must proceed to the Consulate and state his grievance. The Consul will inquire into the merits of the case, and do his utmost to arrange it amicably. In like manner, if a Chinese have reason to complain of a British subject, the Consul shall no less listen to his complaint, and endeavour to settle it in a friendly manner.\n\nIf disputes take place of such a nature that the Consul cannot arrange them amicably, then he shall request the assistance of the Chinese authorities, that they may together examine into the merits of the case, and decide it equitably.\n\nART. XVIII. The Chinese authorities shall at all times afford the fullest protection to the persons and property of British subjects, whenever these shall have been subjected to insult or violence. In all cases of incendiarism or robbery, the local authorities shall at once take the necessary steps for the recovery of the stolen property, the suppression of disorder, and the arrest of the guilty parties, whom they will punish according to law.\n\nART. XIX. If any British merchant-vessel, while within Chinese waters, be plundered by robbers or pirates, it shall be the duty of the Chinese authorities to use every endeavour to capture and punish the said robbers or pirates, and to recover the stolen property, that it may be handed over to the Consul for restoration to the owner.\n\nART. VIII. The Christian religion, as professed by Protestants or Roman Catholics, inculcates the practice of virtue, and teaches man to do as he would be done by. Persons teaching it or professing it, therefore, shall alike be entitled to the protection of the Chinese authorities; nor shall any such, peaceably pursuing their calling, and not offending against the laws, be persecuted or interfered with.\n\nART. IX. British subjects are hereby authorized to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior, under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passport be not irregular, the bearer will be allowed to proceed, and no opposition shall be offered to his hiring persons or hiring vessels for the carriage of his baggage or merchandize. If he be without a passport, or if he commit any offence against the law, he shall be handed over to the nearest Consul for punishment, but he must not be subjected to any ill-usage or excess of necessary restraint. No passport need be applied for by persons going on excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li, and for a period not exceeding five days.\n\nART. XX. If any British vessel be at any time wrecked or stranded on the coast of China, or be compelled to take refuge in any port within the dominions of the Emperor of China, the Chinese authorities, on being apprised of the fact, shall immediately adopt measures for its relief and security; the persons on board shall receive friendly treatment, and shall be furnished, if necessary, with the means of conveyance to the nearest Consular station.\n\nART. XXI. If criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong, or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities, be searched for, and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.\n\nIn like manner, if Chinese offenders take refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of British subjects at the open ports, they shall not be harboured or concealed, but shall be delivered up on due requisition.\n\nART. XXII. Should any Chinese subject fail to discharge debts incurred to a British subject, or should he fraudulently abscond, the Chinese authorities will do their utmost to effect his arrest, and enforce recovery of the debts. The British authorities will likewise do their utmost to bring to justice any British subject fraudulently absconding or failing to discharge debts incurred by him to a Chinese subject.\n\nTo Nanking, and other cities disturbed by persons in arms against the Government, no pass shall be given until they shall have been recaptured.\n\nART. X. British merchant-ships shall have authority to trade upon the Great River (Yang-tsz). The Upper and Lower Valley of the river being, however, disturbed by outlaws, no port shall be, for the present, opened to trade, with the exceptions of Chin-kiang, which shall be opened in a year from the date of the signing of this Treaty.\n\nSo soon as peace shall have been restored, British vessels shall also be admitted to trade at such ports as far as Han-kow, not exceeding three in number, as the British Minister, after consultation with the Chinese Secretary of State, may determine shall be ports of entry and discharge.\n\nART. XI. In addition to the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai opened by the Treaty of Nanking, it is agreed that British subjects may frequent the cities and ports of New-Chwang, Tang-Chow, Tai-Wan (Formosa), Chau-Chow (Swatow), and Kiung-Chow (Hainan).\n\nThey are permitted to carry on trade with whomsoever they please, and to proceed to and fro at pleasure with their vessels and merchandize.\n\nThey shall enjoy the same privileges, advantages, and immunities at the said towns and ports as they enjoy at the ports already opened to trade, including the right of residence, of buying or renting houses, of leasing land therein, and of building churches, hospitals, and cemeteries.\n\nART. XII. British subjects, whether at the ports or at other places, desiring to build or open houses, warehouses, churches, hospitals, or burial-grounds, shall make their agreement for the land or buildings they require at the rates prevailing among the people, equitably, and without exaction on either side.\n\nART. XIII. The Chinese Government will place no restrictions whatever upon the employment, by British subjects, of Chinese subjects in any lawful capacity.\n\nART. XIV. British subjects may hire whatever boats they please for the transport of goods or passengers, and the sum to be paid for such boats shall be settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese Government. The number of these boats shall not be limited, nor shall a monopoly in respect either of the boats, or of the porters or coolies engaged in carrying the goods be granted to any parties. If any smuggling takes place in them, the offenders will, of course, be punished according to law.\n\nART. XV. All questions in regard to rights, whether of property or person, arising between British subjects, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the British authorities.\n\nART. XVI. Chinese subjects who may be guilty of any criminal act towards British subjects shall be arrested and punished by the Chinese authorities, according to the laws of China.\n\nART. XXIII. Should natives of China who may repair to Hongkong to trade, incur debts there, the recovery of such debts must be arranged for by the English Courts of Justice on the spot; and should the Chinese debtor abscond, and be known to have property, real or personal, within the Chinese territory, it shall be the duty of the Chinese authorities, on application by, and in concert with, the British Consul, to do their utmost to see justice done between the parties.\n\nART. XXIV. It is agreed that British subjects shall pay, on all merchandize imported or exported by them, the duties prescribed by the tariff; but in no case shall they be called upon to pay other or higher duties than are required of the subjects of any other foreign nation.\n\nART. XXV. Import duties shall be considered payable on the landing of the goods, and duties on export on the shipment of the same.\n\nART. XXVI. Whereas the tariff fixed by Article X of the Treaty of Nanking, and which was estimated so as to impose on imports and exports a duty at about the rate of five per cent ad valorem, has been found, by reason of the fall in value of various articles of Merchandize, therein enumerated, to impose a duty upon these, considerably in excess of the rate originally assumed, as above, to be a fair rate, it is agreed that the said tariff shall be revised, and that as soon as the Treaty shall have been signed, application shall be made to the Emperor of China to depute a high officer of the Board of Revenue to meet, at Shanghai, officers to be deputed on behalf of the British Government, to consider its revision together, so that the tariff, as revised, may come into operation immediately after the ratification of this treaty.\n\nART. XXVII. It is agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties to this Treaty may demand a further revision of the tariff, and of the Commercial Articles of this Treaty, at the end of ten years; but if no demand be made on either side within six months after the end of the first ten years, then the tariff shall remain in force for ten years more, reckoned from the end of the preceding ten years; and so it shall be, at the end of each successive ten years.\n\nART. XXVIII. Whereas it was agreed in Article X of the Treaty of Nanking, that British imports, having paid the tariff duties, should be conveyed into the interior free of all further charges, except a transit duty, the amount whereof was not to exceed a certain percentage on tariff value; and whereas no accurate information having been furnished of the amount of such duty, British merchants are constantly complained that charges are suddenly and arbitrarily imposed by the provincial authorities as transit duties upon produce on its way to the foreign market, and on imports on their way into the interior, to the detriment of trade; it is agreed that within four months from the signing of this Treaty...",
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        "content_text": "Her Majesty.\n\nis Mr Nies Banco's Semi-\n\nwho has been appointed Mission Consular Agent at Hong Kong.\n\nMost obedient\n\nStumble Servant.\n\n...\n\nyo her f\n\n...\n\nof Russian Consul Support\n\nVergangene\n\n...\n\nuttering common in his from defeat\n\n...\n\nAmara\n\nf\n\n6?",
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        "content_text": "Admiralty\n\nR\n\nNo 4\n\n347\n\n124\n\nAus\n\nho.27\n\n12.\n\nEntered\n\n4.0-5.0.H. Krug F.O. Kong\n\n12432 Downing Street,\n\n124321\n\n14 January 1860\n\n00\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your & Bowring's despatch No. 58/57 2 March and transmit to you Copies of 2 Letters from the No.58/f2p\n\nForeign Office, with the inclosures from the Russian Minister at this Court, applying for the recognition of issue of an exequatur to Mr. Lilas Burrows Senior,\n\nas Russian Consular Agent at Hong Kong\n\nConsulat\n\nAs this gentleman appears to be resident in the Colony under your Government, I have to instruct you to report to me whether you are aware, or not, of any objection to the appointment; but if you are not aware of any objection, you will recognize Mr. Lilas Burrows Senior in that capacity\n\nComplet\n\nthe arrival of the Exequntar-\n\nGovernor\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nFor H. Probusson\n\nFit.\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\nA\n\nConsuls resident\n\n...\n\n \nHirge.",
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        "content_text": "Sir\n\n7.0\n\n12432\n\nF.OH.Kors.\n\n347\n\nEntered\n\nMr. Murray's\n\nDowning Street,\n\nJanuary 1860\n\n73\n\nIn reply to a letter of the 15th ult. instant I am directed by the Secretary of State to acquaint you,\n\nfor the information of Lord John Russell that as Mr. Silas Burrows Senior appears to be a resident in the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nthe Governor has been instructed to report whether he is\n\naware, or not, of any objection to his appointment as\n\nRussian Consular Cash Agent in that Colony\n\nbut if he is not aware of any such objection, he has been\n\ninstructed to recognize Mr. Silas Burrows Senior\n\nprovisionally in that capacity, until the arrival of the Consul-General.\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nOffices\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant.\n\nC. Copsials resident\n\nFir. 2. Hammond Expe",
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        "content_text": "For the interests of this Colony of Hong Kong, \nbut if it were to form a demand for concession of Power, \nit may be concerned; \nand be too dearly purchased. \nIt also may be that even the modified form in which it suggests The Peninsula might be required might be open to the same objection.\n\nAll therefore that I can say is that we gladly acquire possession of the Kowloon Peninsula, but must leave to your discretion the best means of doing so, and abstain altogether from attempting it if it is likely to lead to other demands injurious to British interests.\n\nReceived 26 MAY 1860.\n\nForeign Office, May 25, 1860\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter, I am directed by Lord John Russell to state to you that we gladly acquire possession of the Kowloon Peninsula, but must leave to your discretion the best means of doing so, and abstain altogether from attempting it if it is likely to lead to other demands injurious to British interests.\n\nSigned,\n\nInclosing a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting the circumstances which have induced him to defer the recognition of Mr. Elias Burrows Senior in the capacity of Russian Consular Acting Agent in that Colony.\n\nFO 27 4441\n\nPage 132\n\nF.O. 347\n\n5210/59\n\n11424/89\n\n1243/159\n\nLetter of this 16th Instant",
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        "content_text": "Bis\n\nR.\n\n5233. Hory Hary.\n\nGrace the Duke\n\nof\n\nNewcastle,\n\nEnt\n\nthe matter be\n\napproved of\n\nthe H\n\nSi tt. Rotre son\n\n5 Jumesto\n\nLe Offe\n\n20.44\n\nConduct of Sir H. Robinson\n\nin the\n\nmatter, and\n\nthat\n\nhe has informed the Russian Minister at this Court.\n\nthat Her Majesty's Government\n\nare\n\nunable to\n\nrecognize\n\nMr Silar Bunow Senior as\n\nConsular Agent for Russia at Hong Kong.\n\nJam, Sir.\n\nYour most obedient\n\nhumble servant\n\nthe Governor.\n\nJim F. Rages.\n\nFor draft.\n\nMINUTE\n\nJadis MAY.\n\nEllio StafRacers 3/\n\na. Fortescue Jun. Bakeof Deucusile 2.\n\nto he\n\nThen to whole age\n\nthe receipt of your Despatch I 27. of the\n\n12th March last expecting\n\nthe recognition of len Pelas Burious Send a\n\nConsoler Russian Cucular legal at Herry thang Ihave to acquaint you that\n\nN. his : Goch apprece\n\nyour\n\nConduct in this\n\nMatter, and the Russian Minister of this Cush\n\nhas been informed that they are unable to\n\nrecognize her her Reviews in the above\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nOffices",
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        "content_text": "Marked, expressions of opprobation would be extended to me that I have met those Your Lordship's instructions from Her Imperial Majesty. Alexander was pleased to appoint an hour to The Second, and The Executive Power of New Granada,\n\nto well done by John Bowsing to know the correctness of my conduct, and intentions to the Ally during my residence in Hong Kong that at Paris in Dear Past I had received the appointment of Consular agent for Russia, he said \"It is an appointment unworthy of your character and position in life, and I am surprised that the Russian Government should not have sufficiently appreciated what you have done for them to give you a more substantial appointment,\" was said to me. I would remark on the Consular appointment, as it does not carry with it that respect, and influence to what you are entitled, he further said that \"We would aid me all he could\".\n\nI hope to permit me to see Your Lordship, when Your Lordship, which may be approved, that I shall satisfactorily convince Your Lordship, that I have been one of the devoted friends of Her Majesty the Queen of England.\n\nI have the honor to remain with high considerations, Your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant.\n\nSuas C. Burrows\n\nYour Lordship to pardon me in addressing this to Your Lordship. It is the only matter I possess in communicating with Your Lordship, and have been induced to do it by advice of one of Your Lordship's best friends.\n\nS & B\n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "For office matter _ to schreil sept, showdon, I would suggest that this representation be suit.\n\nIt must be observed that M. Bunsen asks for an interview with the Duke of Newcastle.\n\n607.26/6.\n\nMr Bunsen differs in understanding in it friend C but of this letter, I have marked it in pencil Jupe to 9.0.\n\nBe Blackwood suggests and (que / inform Me Bunsen that this has and that is the matter is on bun dins not affect the decision of the Sus of state pre Affairs the Doffte den ay that interview? would be an unsound waste 27/6 M 6.7.28. His may be sent but hardly to be referred. 8., for his son.\n\nSir F. Rogers. M. Burrows has been charged with indiscriminate use at Hong Kong of the New Granadian flag - fratech chantry he was provision by recognized as Consul. The appointment was not Confirmed in consequence of the above charge. For the same reason the For. Office opposed the Grous in not Barrocco as Consul 18 An Owny Intations of Conducts En Cont 15 Part 6592 Hong Kong. 6382 E. Kammond Ref: JULY Forwardedly 1860 MR Sargeant = 2 Sir Rogers B 3 MBC Fortescue 4 Duke of Newcastle Hi Intesan Isuppen Lorking.\n\na lettre shahn le authent He Baronn during the intervies.. Ya. Ed. 21. Aus 7.0 7841. Sin. 422 H. 14 July 1860.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 25th May last, I am directed to transmit to you for the consideration of Lord ... a copy of a letter from Mr Bulas on the sagit Luljest E. Burrows of his nose-recognition ly ar H.M's Government Consul for New Grenade and Consular Agent for Austin at such hig Share\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "(485\n\nNotification of the 12th instant,\n\nI beg to inform you that I have been unable to allow the Lenoir Consular Assistant to continue to act. As the Postal Office Agent informs His Excellency the Governor, I have made representations both at Ningpo and at this place against a junction of duties prejudicial to the proper discharge of both. It is a matter of much regret to me that I was unable to meet His Excellency's wishes by allowing the old arrangement to subsist longer. But, apart from the sheer necessity for the new regulation, prepayment of postage, and M. Lenoir being charged with the duties of Postal Agent in addition to those of Assistant, I hesitated the less to make the change as I have heard, in private conversation...",
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        "content_text": "Dispatch N. 132 871861.\n\nIncome Line\n\nCorresponding with French Packet Agency at Shanghae respecting the Majesty's Consul at that Port.\n\n35\n\nShanghae Ju 8462 51 493 2nd May 1861.\n\nThe Municipal Council of Shanghan desire me to draw your great particular attention to the inconvenience experienced by the public of Shanghas from the delivery of letters addressed by you N. M's Packet Agent per P. & O. Steamer \"Madras\", which left Hongkong 26th ulto.\n\nThe Council are aware that the intimation on the part of the Consular establishment here to perform Port Office duties only left this by Her Majesty's Ship \"Cooper\" on the 20th ulto, and that the said Vessel had not reached Hongkong.\n\nTo The Postmaster General Hongkong",
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        "content_text": "His intentions, and so left the community without an Post Office Agent and the Department or the Local Government without the means of making the necessary arrangements, however temporary they might be; for before the receipt here of the Consular Notification, mails had been despatched by the \"Tientsin\" on 4th April, by the \"Lyra\" on 20th April, on the 23rd April and by the Contract P&O steamer \"Madras\" on the 30th of April, one day before the receipt of Mr. Meadows' despatch.\n\nAlthough His Excellency is desirous of giving every assistance on behalf of the community in his power, as expressed by the Chamber of Commerce, in re-establishing an Official Post Office Agency at Shanghai, and although under the peculiar circumstances the most prompt and vigorous measures have been adopted to alleviate the great inconvenience which have been caused by Her Majesty's steamer's absence, yet he has had some hesitation in doing so because Mr. Meadows in his dispatch observed \"that he was led to believe that any change would by the bulk of the Community be regarded as a relief while it would be wholesome as regarded the future, to have a short trial of an Official Agency whatever, in order to put a stop to the evil complained of.\" His Excellency has deputed, as a temporary measure, E. Warden, Esq., the Agent of the ... to perform the duties of receiving and despatching mails to and from Shanghai under the Regulations which will be published in the Gazette and China...",
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        "content_text": "having ceased in accordance with the Notification assured by learned Meadows on the 15th ult., also ammered. I therefore trust that the immense ... of itself empowered to receive the mail bags. After considerable delay the Agent of the I.A.O. took charge of them protest, but in the absence of authority very properly declined to take the responsibility of having them opened, and only on the 30th, after repeated applications to the Municipal Council and others, did H. M. Government and the Senior Naval Officer grant the requisite authority to Mr. Wardell, the P.&O. Agent, to open the letters and deliver them.\n\nIt is unnecessary to dwell on the importance of the subject with earnest attention and I may add that the Chamber of Commerce is prepared to render every assistance in its power in carrying out and completing any measures you may consider desirable to prevent a recurrence of the evil.\n\nI remain,\n(signed) Barnes Dallas\n\nResolved that the Committee of the Chamber be requested to write to the Postmaster in Hongkong calling his attention to the Notification lately issued by H.B.M's Consul, and suggesting to him the serious inconvenience and loss which this delay of 36 hours might have occasioned, and requesting him to establish a post office at this port quite independent of the Consular Establishment.",
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        "content_text": "Consul would allow the then existing arrangements to continue for a few weeks longer undisturbed until instructions were received from Her Majesty's Government regarding the terms upon which the Packet Agencies at the Ports of China and Japan were maintained and which were expected to be received.\n\nOn the 25th April, however, despatches were received shortly intimating the means of meeting the emergency by other arrangements, temporary as they might have been; for before the receipt here of the Consular Notification, mails had been despatched by the `Fairy` on the 20th April, by the `P&O` steamer on the 23rd April, and by the Contract Packet \"Mow Chow\".\n\nOn the same day, one was received by Government from Mr. Meadows dated the 19th April declining to accede to His Excellency's request, dated the 12th April. By a notice inserted in the \"Couch Whampoa Herald\" Newspaper, it was seen that he had carried out his intentions and left the Community without a Port Office Agent, and this Department or the Local Government without the means.\n\nOn the 24th April, the day before the receipt of Mr. Meadows' despatch.\n\nAlthough His Excellency is desirous of giving every assistance to the views now expressed by the Chamber and the Community in establishing an Official Post Office Agency at Whampoa, and although under the peculiar circumstances the most prompt and vigorous measures have been adopted to alleviate the great inconvenience which has prevailed.",
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        "content_text": "# The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\n\nWHEREAS Her Majesty was pleased, on the twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to issue a certain Order for the exercise of the power and jurisdiction which Her Majesty has in the dominions of the Tyco of Japan, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her Majesty intituled \"An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of Power and Jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers Countries and Places out of Her Majesty's Dominions, and to render the same more effectual.\" And whereas it is expedient that the said Order should be amended as hereinafter mentioned. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above recited Act of Parliament, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-\n\n## I.\nThe seventh and eighth Articles of the said Order of the twenty-third day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty, shall be, and the same are hereby revoked and cancelled, save and except as to all acts, matters, and things done under the said seventh and eighth Articles of the said Order, or either of them, or which may hereafter be done under the same, or either of them, by Her Majesty's Consul-General, or by any Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent in Japan, or by any person duly authorized to act as such previously to the day next succeeding the day on which this Order shall be received by the Consul-General in Japan.\n\n## II.\nAnd it is further ordered, that any charge against a British subject for a breach of any rules and regulations other than those relating to the observance of Treaties be heard and determined by the Consul; and in all cases in which the penalty shall not exceed two hundred dollars or one month's imprisonment, the Consul shall hear and determine the charge summarily, without the aid of assessors; but when the penalty attached to a breach of any rules and regulations other than those relating to the observance of Treaties, shall amount to more than two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for more than one month, it shall be obligatory upon the Consul before he shall proceed to hear the charge, to summon two British subjects of good repute, residing within his district, to sit with him as assessors, which assessors shall, however, have no authority to decide on the innocence or guilt of the party accused, or on the amount of fine or imprisonment to be awarded to him on conviction; but it shall rest with the Consul to decide on the guilt or innocence of the party accused, and on the amount of fine or imprisonment to be awarded to him: Provided always, that in no case shall the penalty be attached to a breach of rules and regulations other than those for the observance of Treaties, exceed five hundred dollars, or three months' imprisonment; and provided further, that in the event of the said assessors, or either of them, dissenting from the conviction of the party accused, or from the penalty of fine or imprisonment awarded to him by the Consul, the Consul shall take a note of such dissent, with the grounds thereof, and shall require good and sufficient security for the appearance of the party convicted at a future time, in order to undergo his sentence, or receive his discharge; and the Consul shall, within twenty days, report his decision, with the dissent of the assessors, or either of them, and all the particulars of the case, together with the grounds thereof, to Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan, who shall have authority to confirm, or vary, or reverse the decision of the Consul as to the said Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General may seem fit: Provided always, that if an appeal shall be entered against the decision of the Consul, no such report shall be made to Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General, on the ground of the dissent of the assessors, or either of them, but the appeal shall be prosecuted in the manner hereinafter ordered.\n\n## III.\nAnd it is further ordered, that in any question relating to the observance of Treaties, or of rules and regulations for the observance of Treaties, a report of any and every decision made by a subordinate Consular Officer, with or without the aid of assessors, shall be sent in by such subordinate Consular Officer to the superior Consular Officer of the district, and that on the receipt of such report, the superior Consular Officer of such district shall proceed, without assessors, to revise such decision as to him may seem fit, and such revision shall have, for the purposes of the said recited Order, and of this Order, the same effect as if the case had been originally heard and determined by such superior Consular Officer, with or without the aid of assessors: Provided always, that in any case in which the assessors, or either of them, shall dissent from a decision of a subordinate Consular Officer, such decision shall not be subject to revision by the superior Consular Officer, but, in the event of no appeal being entered as aforesaid, shall be submitted to Her Majesty's said Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General, for revision, in the same manner as if such decision had been originally made by the superior Consular Officer.\n\n## IV.\nProvided always, and it is hereby further ordered, that Her Majesty's said Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General shall once at least in every year, report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs his decisions on all cases heard and decided by him under and by virtue of this Order, together with the particulars thereof.\n\n## V.\nAnd it is further ordered, that this Order shall be read and construed with and as a part of the said recited Order of the twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, which, save as by this Order is otherwise provided, is to remain and continue in full operation and effect in all particulars.\n\nAnd the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.\n\nArthur Helps.\n\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of February, 1861,\n\nPRESENT,\n...",
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        "content_text": "# AGE \n\nCourt Of \n\n87 \n\n2 \n\n## II. \nAnd it is further ordered that this Order shall commence and take effect from and after the day on which it shall be received by the Consul-General in Japan.\n\n## III. \nAnd it is further ordered, that, in the construction of this Order, the word \"Consul\" shall be construed to include all and every officer in Her Majesty's service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person duly authorized to act in any of the aforesaid capacities in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan, and engaged in carrying into execution the provisions of this Order; and that the terms \"British ship,\" or \"British vessel,\" or \"ship or vessel under the British flag,\" shall be construed to include any ship or vessel British-registered and navigated according to law; and any ship or vessel owned, or partly owned, by a person entitled by law to be an owner of a British-registered vessel; that the term \"crew\" shall be construed to include all persons employed in navigating any such ship or vessel; and that, wherever in this Order any word or words is or are used importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, such word or words shall, nevertheless, be construed to include several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.\n\n## IV. \nAnd it is further ordered that the Consul in the port, place, or district in which he may reside, shall have full power and authority to carry into effect and to enforce by fine or imprisonment, as hereinafter provided, the observance of the stipulations of the said Treaty, or of the Articles for the regulation of trade appended thereto, or of any other Treaty or Treaties which may be made between Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, his heirs and successors, or of any Articles or Regulations appended thereto, and to make and enforce, by fine or imprisonment, rules and regulations for the observance of the stipulations of any such Treaty, and for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan.\n\n## V. \nAnd it is further ordered, that all rules and regulations made by the Consul as aforesaid shall forthwith be printed, and a copy of the same shall be affixed, and kept affixed and exhibited, in some conspicuous place in the public office of the said Consul; and printed copies of the said rules and regulations shall be provided by the Consul, and sold at a price not exceeding one dollar for each copy; and for the purpose of convicting any person offending against the said rules and regulations, and for all other purposes of law whatsoever, a printed copy of the said rules and regulations, certified under the hand of the said Consul to be a true copy thereof, shall be taken as conclusive evidence of such rules and regulations; and no penalty shall be incurred, or shall be enforced, for the breach of any such rules or regulations, until the same shall have been so affixed and exhibited for one calendar month in the public office of the Consular district within which the breach of such rules or regulations shall be alleged to have been committed: Provided always, that no rule or regulation to be hereafter made by any of Her Majesty's Consuls, and to be enforced by a penalty, shall take effect until it has been submitted and approved of by the Consul-General, and has thereupon been printed, and a copy of the same has been affixed and exhibited as aforesaid for one calendar month, in the public office of the Consular district.\n\n## VI. \nAnd it is further ordered, that it shall be lawful for the Consul, upon information or upon the complaint of any party that a British subject has violated the stipulations of any Treaty between Her Majesty and the Tycoon of Japan, or has disregarded or infringed any of the rules and regulations for the observance of the stipulations of any such Treaty, affixed and exhibited according to the provisions of the next preceding Article of this Order, to summon before him the accused party, and to receive evidence and examine witnesses as to the guilt or innocence of such party, in regard to the offence laid to his charge, and to award such penalty of fine or imprisonment to any party convicted of any offence against any such Treaty, or against any such rules and regulations which may be specified in any such Treaty, or in any such rules and regulations; and any charge against a British subject for a breach of any Treaty, or for a breach of the rules and regulations for the observance of any such Treaty, shall be heard and determined by the Consul without Assessors: Provided always, that in no case shall the penalty to be attached to a breach of any such rules and regulations exceed five hundred dollars, or three months' imprisonment.\n\n## VII. \nAnd it is further ordered, that any charge against a British subject for a breach of any rules and regulations other than those relating to the observance of Treaties, shall in like manner be heard and determined by the Consul, and in all cases in which the penalty shall not exceed two hundred dollars, or one month's imprisonment, the Consul shall hear and determine the charge summarily, without the aid of Assessors; but where the penalty attached to a breach of any rules and regulations other than those relating to the observance of Treaties, shall amount to more than two hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for more than one month, it shall be obligatory upon the Consul, before he shall proceed to hear the charge, to summon two British subjects of good repute, residing within his district, to sit with him as Assessors, which Assessors shall, however, have no authority to decide on the innocence or guilt of the party accused, or on the amount of fine or imprisonment to be awarded to him on conviction, but it shall rest with the Consul to decide on the guilt or innocence of the party accused, and on the amount of fine or imprisonment to be awarded to him: Provided always, that in no case shall the penalty to be attached to a breach of rules and regulations, other than those for the observance of Treaties, exceed five hundred dollars, or three months' imprisonment; 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        "content_text": "# \nAgent Mar. 30. Popes. Stop worthy o.\n\n( \n$1 \n\" \nCouth \n\nOct. 10. Merkins to. Thefenent to \n\nLo \nStationery 7. \n41 \n15 Blotting Paper for Andita Jonel. \nDu. 20. W. Paris. Savage home- \nLominal Feb 6 Havlon. Innerative of \nW \n9 Japan. Susydaction von Pritisk katzah - \n16.21 \nFreight Sept 12 to. bouger. In Starts Carsub- \nSouth \n\"Love Mey 15 tant. Billings, bawit- Home \n# \nbuy. 12 bounits cent home without proper kafens - \nOut. 11 New faol and Police station - \nLand Mar. 13 Lawn Sales. \nan offeins - Land. 21 Horley Peninsula. Laws in fre \n\n## Miscellanens \nBort tique. Tel. 5 Balance due to Chony to so apl. cos. \nAll. Willys. Percival and Helictes. Conniel affentome time Bank 25 Asset, and duallity. June 30. 1860- \n15 \nJune's \n360 \n\n## Foreign Land \n10 heaty of beer with fuing. \ny \n\" \nOct. 1. W. Emale. deg. forminl. Apsentment- \n## India Offin \n7 bount Seale's cubstitute for Oprima \nLL \n19 Learn Math. \ncontornance ? \nK \n# \nDay. 3 \nFo \nReestablishment \n21 Amenian Leaman to Prussian than glare, desertin Port Offin- \nMar. 20 Kowloon benzin \nд \n19 Second Monthly Mail. diy columune \nine dervice dept. I bendidly, for appartment. Exammatories \nIch. 16 W. Heard, a American. Russian \nEmsal. \n# \nMay 31 Japan. Consular dunes doction- \nmees Unursit: Frov. 29 \nDullin \nfe \nA \nJune 13 Entupuelis badchluß- \n\" \nG \nBelfort \nJon- \nFo \nDay. W. W. May's active aport Mollenh. Jenny & defence. Sort off in .. but. 4 Serting of Mail. Ochines Sinjapure and Baysho; \n\nReconstructed text:\n\nAgent Mar. 30. Popes. Stop worthy o. $1 \"Couth \nOct. 10. Merkins to. Thefenent to Lo Stationery 7. 41 15 Blotting Paper for Andita Jonel. Du. 20. W. Paris. Savage home- Lominal Feb 6 Havlon. Innerative of W 9 Japan. Susydaction von Pritisk katzah - 16.21 Freight Sept 12 to. bouger. In Starts Carsub- South \"Love Mey 15 tant. Billings, bawit- Home \nbuy. 12 bounits cent home without proper kafens - Out. 11 New faol and Police station - Land Mar. 13 Lawn Sales. an offeins - Land. 21 Horley Peninsula. Laws in fre\n\n## Miscellanens\nBort tique. Tel. 5 Balance due to Chony to so apl. cos. All. Willys. Percival and Helictes. Conniel affentome time Bank 25 Asset, and duallity. June 30. 1860- 15 June's 360\n\n## Foreign Land\n10 heaty of beer with fuing. \nOct. 1. W. Emale. deg. forminl. Apsentment-\n\n## India Offin\n7 bount Seale's cubstitute for Oprima LL 19 Learn Math. contornance ? K Day. 3 Fo Reestablishment 21 Amenian Leaman to Prussian than glare, desertin Port Offin- Mar. 20 Kowloon benzin 19 Second Monthly Mail. diy columune ine dervice dept. I bendidly, for appartment. Exammatories Ich. 16 W. Heard, a American. Russian Emsal.\n\nMay 31 Japan. Consular dunes doction- mees Unursit: Frov. 29 Dullin fe A June 13 Entupuelis badchluß- G Belfort Jon- Fo Day. W. W. May's active aport Mollenh. Jenny & defence. Sort off in .. but. 4 Serting of Mail. Ochines Sinjapure and Baysho;",
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        "content_text": "186\n\nsupervision; everything going into or leaving a ship takes place.\n\nI now come to that part of my proceedings on the return of the Ship; - I cannot do better than quote my letter No. 5 of 19th September 1961 (Copy of which I enclose) (more particularly that part in which I stated to the Agent of the Ship that \"prior to leaving this Port the Chinese Passenger's Act would have to be complied with and the Emigrants would all be required to sign fresh contracts in my presence\"); this occurred less than twenty-four hours after the Vessel's arrival was reported and I had visited her.\n\nBefore the object of my visit of the 31st August was to see if the Passengers had any complaints to make; they did not make any, and each man being in possession of a contract ticket signed and stamped with the Consular Stamp of Peru, there was nothing to lead me to suppose that they were kidnapped.\n\nAs the vessel would have to go into dock before she could prosecute her voyage, I did not direct the Stanchions to be removed at once, knowing that as she was under the jurisdiction of this Colony she could not by any possibility leave Hongkong without complying with the British Emigration Laws.",
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        "content_text": "4 \n\nof the wife of Mah-chow Wong; and the circumstance should not be overlooked, as evidence of his poverty, and the improbability of his having received in Macao a large sum of money for selling men, that he lay two days in gaol before he could procure bail. While he was in gaol, and, according to Caldwell's evidence, even before he, Caldwell, had taken down A-soung's statement of having been kidnapped and sold by Shum A-hing. Shum A-hing's servant (Cook) was arrested, as particeps criminis in the kidnapping. Shum A-hing immediately on getting bail called on Caldwell to explain the matter of arrest for debt (a circumstance in itself proving how much interest Caldwell took in all Mah-chow Wong's old business \"he knew all about it\") and was then given in custody on the charge of kidnapping. Shum A-hing being safely lodged, Caldwell then got authority from the Governor to go to Macao and release the men said to have been kidnapped, and this brings me to those points of evidence on which sufficiency lies to swear an indictment for conspiracy and subornation of perjury.\n\n\"On the 21st of January A-soong and I arrived in Macao,\" says Caldwell, \"I saw the 32 Coolees in a boat,\" says A-soong, \"after we landed\" - (As the steamer did not leave till Noon it must have been late in the day when he so saw them).\n\nWe called at the Sun-fook-tye hong first,\" says Caldwell, \"on the 23rd (The 22nd was Sunday) where I ascertained that 32 men answering to the names and description given by Ng Ah-soong, had been shipped two days previously for Cuba by Mr. Boyé in the French ship *Emilie Pereire*.\n\nIn rebuttal of this \"answering to names and description\" I now submit Mr. Marquis's testimony appended, to the effect that no books were produced on the occasion of the visit, the manager of the hong did not appear, and no proof whatever was given of any men sent in the *Emilie Pereire* \"answering to names and description.\" Remedios, the Interpreter accompanying them, confirms this; while the evidence of Florentino de ... of Mr. L. Boyd, who despatched the *Emilie Pereire*, is stronger than all. In brief, he has declared (as appended) before the British Consular agent at Macao, that, of his own knowledge, not one of the 45 men brought from Hongkong went in the *Emilie Pereire*, and he gives the names and description of every Coolie that he received from the manager of the Sun-fook-tye hong about and after the period when these 45 came to Macao; the causes which he gives for this knowledge being most plausible.\n\nAt first I was disposed to think that it were possible the men had been placed in the Sun-fook-tye hong and afterwards removed; but he writes me saying that only those went into the Hong that were intended to go to Havana, and this therefore dissipates such conclusion.\n\nIn swearing then, that the 32 men who he, Caldwell, affected to seek, went in the *Emilie Pereire*, and in swearing that some thirty that had left the Sun-fook-tye hong answered to the names and description of the men that had been brought by Shum A-hing from Hongkong, Caldwell, it is clear, swore to what was false; and the probabilities are that A-soong swore also to what was false in saying that he saw the 32 in a boat after landing; the inference desired being that these 32 were then going off to the *Emilie Pereire*.\n\nAs to the Harbour Master's record, there can be no doubt about it. That official's office closes at three and before that hour - before Caldwell and A-soong reached Macao - the Certificate was formally filled in in the books that can be produced, that the *Emilie Pereire* had cleared with 160 on board.\n\nThis I call, for precision of reference, Point No. 1.\n\nTaking Mr. Caldwell's evidence at the Magistrate's Court seriatim, we next find him saying that at the Barracoon called Ho-shang, as soon \"as we appeared, four of the Coolees came forward and spoke with Ng A-soong and corroborated the statement made to me by him of their having been kidnapped and sold.\"\n\nAdmitting that these four were of the 45, though not admitting that they were kidnapped, the question arises how is it that neither of these four gave evidence of the kidnapping at the trial of Shum A-hing? Their names, as found in the Contracts in the Macao Procurador's office, and appearing in the certified copies of the same appended, were Hum joi quin - Cum in quay - Chom Achin and Choin Ajap, and all of them could write. But the name of the man produced in the Hongkong courts was Kwon-sun-kwan, and he could only make a mark for his name. The reasonable inference from this circumstance is that these four could not be depended on to say other than that they had voluntarily consented to go to Havana, and therefore were not kidnapped. This I call Point No. 2.\n\n\"The next day\" says Caldwell \"A-soong was sent to a Barracoon with a Police constable, and returned with one man, who made a similar statement to that received from the four previously released.\" Now as regards this man, called Chong A-ta, there can be no doubt of his impostorship, for the contract which he had signed bears date the 6th of December, (copy appended) the very day on which, according to the evidence, the whole 120 left Copchee over a hundred and fifty miles from Macao. The acceptance of this man, as one of the forty-five, evidences a recklessness in the mode of getting up the evidence, altogether unaccountable. Caldwell appears, in short, to have been satisfied that anything would do for a Hongkong Magistrate and for Hongkong Jury, if he presented it.\n\nPage 313 \n##",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n8 \n\n0 \n\n315 \n\ntestify will attend when called upon. For myself, my humble services are always at your disposal in the cause of truth and justice.\n\nI have the honor to be-Sir, \n\nYour most obedient Servant, \n\nW. TARRANT.\n\nP. S. I am afraid that I have not made the charges involving Mr. Scott in the conspiracy sufficiently explicit. Going further in detail then, I would assume that proof of conspiracy in most cases has to depend on the inferences to be drawn from certain results. Now the result to which I draw attention is this, On the 23d of March, 1861, Shum Ahing being then in gaol, Caldwell wrote to Scott, and Scott replied, in effect thus-that while I was in the Criminal Gaol, under punishment for libel, I was on terms of great intimacy with Shum Ahing. That he had seen me with my arms round his neck, and that he had several times separated us. Well, the atrocious falsehood of this story is clearly proved by the declarations of Ritchie and others appended, and I deny it in toto.\n\nWhat then was the object of the concoction? The answer is--to make it appear that Shum Ahing was so much under my influence as to be ready to do all I told him, and in proof of this readiness he wrote that statement implicatory of Caldwell in his intimacy with Mah-chow Wong, which led to Shum Ahing's examination by the Council when he gave such proof of that intimacy, as, with other evidence, led to Caldwell's dismissal from the Government Service.\n\nI need not further point out that the discredit attempted to be fastened on Shum Ahing was calculated to confirm his sentence, and to check inquiry into the means which led to his conviction. That it has had this effect is patent by no steps being taken by Government to release the man from his painful position. The wrongfully convicted Shum Ahing-still languishes in gaol, subject to all its torture!\n\nSo premising, a necessity for detail in the last charge is less apparent. Caldwell, after Shum Ahing's conviction, was more than once in the gaol, and spoke to him; and as it is proved that he and Scott concocted one lie together, it follows that it is reasonable to infer that they concocted and devised the rest.-W. T.\n\n## ABSTRACT of papers accompanying letter to the Attorney General of date the 27th February, 1862\n\n| Label | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| A | Mr. Marquis's letter acknowledging general correctness of... |\n| B | Letter to Mr. Marquis of 19th February, 1862. |\n| C | Mr. Boye's declaration before the British Consular Agent on the 19th February. |\n| D | Certificate by Captain of the Port, of despatch of Emilie Pireire, |\n| E | Released Coolee contracts and certificate. |\n| F | Deposition of Delfino Xavier. |\n| G | Cheang Achuu's declaration. |\n| H | Declaration of Procuraturate Interpreters. |\n| I | Declaration of Ritchie and others. |\n\n## THE ANSWER\n\nHONGKONG, March 4th, 1862,\n\nSIR, Having perused the papers which you have submitted to me, and having considered all you said in reference to the charges you made against Mr. D. R. Caldwell, I have to inform you that it is no part of my duty to undertake the prosecution which you appear to think it is incumbent on me to institute.\n\nIn substituting the Attorney General for the Grand Jury, the Colonial Legislature abstained, and as I think properly, from vesting in him the powers of the Grand Jury to receive evidence on oath. I am unable therefore, as the substitute for the Grand Jury, to supersede the ordinary functions of the Police Magistrate.\n\nI therefore return the enclosed papers to you, in order that in case you consider that the papers justify any criminal proceedings, you may apply to the proper Tribunal.--I am Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJOHN SMALE, \nAttorney General,\n\nW. TARRANT. Esq.\n\nEASYTRENAJEMOVING!!",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nthat he was a Coolee who had escaped, when it was most clearly proved that he was nothing of the kind, but a well-known broker, was so astonishing that you could not rest until you had made the public acquainted with the crime that had been perpetrated by the imposition practised.\n\nAnd now, in order that you may the better comprehend my reason for asking the question, and my general motive for the foregoing enquiries, I must explain to you that when the shopkeeper whom Mr. Caldwell speaks of having been convicted of kidnapping was brought into the gaol, his story to me was that he had had no more to do with the business of the men going to Havana than to receive out of their advances a sum of money due for having boarded them; that only 10 men had agreed to go to Havana, and the rest went to the Straits, whither they would all have gone if money could have been obtained in advance of wages.\n\nThis, in effect, was a contradiction of the purport of the prosecution, which had for its presumed object the punishment of one supposed to be an experienced Kidnapper. The Shopkeeper's story, if true, goes, in short, to prove that he was no Kidnapper at all. When, therefore, I saw that Mr. Caldwell, for reasons since become too apparent, had suborned evidence to prove that the whole 45 had been kidnapped and coerced, I resolved on asking you, as I have recently done (and should have asked before, but that I waited to see the result of the investigation by the Executive Council of the Hongkong government into the matter) - how you arrived at the fact stated in your narrative published in the **Daily Press** that \"we found that the most part of the 40 and odd Coolees had already been shipped on board the `Emile Pereire`.\" Your answer is that you did not ascertain it at all; but that you concluded it was so because Mr. Caldwell said so.\n\n## \n\nFurther questioned, you say you did not see the books of the hong, nor the proprietor of it, on the occasion of your calling with Mr. Caldwell; and you do not see how Mr. Caldwell was satisfied that the thirty and odd Coolees which had left the Sun-fook-tie hong for the **Emilie Pireire** were Coolees who answered to the \"names and description\" given by Ng Ahsoong; and Florentino dos Remedios, Interpreter, on being questioned by me, confirmed what you said, viz. that no books were produced, nor was any evidence given of the Coolees answering to any particular description. Coupling this with the fact of the informer proving to be an impostor, I am confirmed in my belief that the shopkeeper, convicted on Mr. Caldwell's suborned evidence, told the truth when he said only ten had gone on or agreed to go to Havana.\n\nIn further corroboration of the convict's story to me, that he received only a small amount of money - (and at the Police Court, on his first examination, he said the amount got by him was $163 and 33 taels - say in all 205 dollars) - as you are aware, the Interpreters whom you sent to examine the books of the Sun-fook-tie hong, and whose depositions you supply to me, found entries of payments to one Lo (Mr.) Sum (answering to the name Shum Ahing) of $2024; and these payments were in the exact period which, according to the evidence of Ahsoong, Shum Ahing stayed at Macao, viz. from the 26th of December to the 12th of January. Now the broker Asoong said that he heard the Coolees were sold for $27 each. This for Ten would be 270; and if to the 202 found as above, as paid to Shum Ahing, is added the 72 before found entered in the Sun-fook-tie hong's book as to the broker Asoong, it is as complete a corroboration as we could have of Shum Ahing's statement that 10 only took advance (after the rate of 27 each) out of the aggregate of which he received what was due to him, and Asoong the actual broker, got the rest.\n\nMr. Caldwell, with an extraordinary penchant for imputing evil motive to all whose testimony is adverse to him, has charged this entry of payment of 72 dollars to Ahsoong as a forgery. Forgery or not, it was impossible at the time to see that the figures would dovetail with the others mentioned, and so form an indisputable proof of the truth of the wrongfully convicted Shum Ahing's story.\n\nBesides, had he, Shum Ahing, got $27 each for 45, he would have taken to Hongkong over 1200, and with such a sum in hand, or at command, would hardly have laid in the debtor's gaol two days awaiting bail when arrested on a debt of $178, for which he had become liable on account of the wife of Mah Chow Wang; in fact, it is now notorious that he was too poor to fee a lawyer to defend him on his trial.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**WILLIAM TARRANT**.\n\nEnclosed marked `C`.\n\nOn the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and sixty-two, personally came and appeared before me Eugenio Leonardo Lauca, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consular Agent at Macao, Leon Boyé Esquire, Agent in Macao of the Company General Maritime of Paris, who did solemnly declare and state as follows:-\n\nI, Leon Boyé, having read the printed deposition of Mr. D. R. Caldwell on the 2nd day of February 1860, before Mr. W. H. Mitchell,",
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        "content_text": "## \nthereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provision for the abolition of unnecessary oaths.\n\nTin declared in due form of law at the office of the British Consular Agency, Macao, the day and year first above written.\n\nSigned L. Boye.\n\nBefore me\n\nSigned F. L. LANÇA,\nB. C. Agent.\n\nI certify the above to be a true and correct copy of the declaration made before me by Mr. Leon Boye on the day mentioned.\n\nTIS.\n\nR. L. LANÇA,\nB. C. Agent.\n\n## Enclosure marked D.\n\n(Certificate of the despatch of the Emile Fircire.)\n\nJoze Maria da Fonseca, Cavalleiro da Ordem da Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Villa Viçosa, Segundo Tenente da Armada Real, e Capitão do Porto de Macao; etc.\n\nA requerimento do Sr. William Tarrant certifico que a galera Franceza Emile Fircire, Capitão Poissier, foi despachada deste porto de Macao para o de Havana com quatrocentos sesenta colonos Chinas, no dia vinte e um de Janeiro, do Anno de mil oito centos sessenta.\n\nCapitania do Porto de Macao 3 de Março de 1862.\n\nStamped paper.\nNo 6457.\n40 Rs.\n\nSigned, Rocha.\n\nSigned J. M. DA FONSECA,\nCapt. do Porto.\n\nNo. 154 Em 6 de Dezembro de 1859, pelo China Chong-Afá de Vai-Chau.\nNo. 275, Em 4 de Janeiro de 1860, pelo China Huan-Gui-Ki de Sun-Cio.\nNo. 278, Idem pelo China Cum-Bin-Kuai idem.\nNo. 271, em idem pelo China Cham-djap idem.\n\nE declaro mais que os ditos Chinas foram reclamados por Mr. Caldwell, e entregues ao mesmo, e obrigando-se elle a pagar as despezas que os Estabelecimentos fizeram com os ditos Chinas Colonos, como consta da carta do mesmo Mr. Caldwell, a mim dirigida em 8 de Fevereiro de 1860, cuja copia vai junta a este.\n\nMacao. Procuratura 19 de Fevereiro de 1862.\n\nLOURENÇO MARQUES,\nProcurador.\n\n## TRANSLATION.\n\nThe undersigned, Procurador of the city of Macao, hereby certifies that the papers hereunto appended are true and correct copies of the contracts, which were entered into before him by the Chinese in, and on the days in the same mentioned,\n\nTo wit-\n| Contract No. | Date | Name | Place |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 154 | 6th December, 1859 | Chong Afa | Wai-chow |\n| 275 | 4th January, 1860 | Huan-Gui-Ki | Sun-chew |\n| 276 | 4th January, 1860 | Cum-in quay | Sun-chow |\n| 271 | 4th January, 1860 | Cham Achin | Sun-chew |\n| 278 | 4th January, 1860 | Cham Ajap | Sun-chow |\n\nAnd he further certifies that the said Coolies, who executed these contracts are the five persons who were given over to Mr. D. R. Caldwell on the guarantee for repayment of their expenses referred to in his letter of the 8th February, 1860, also hereunto appended.\n\n## Enclosure marked E.\n\n(Released Cooler Contracts and Certificate)\n\nEn abaixo assignado Procurador do Leal Senado de Macao, certifica que os papeis appensos adiante, são copias verdadeiras de contractos assignados perante mim pelos Chinas Colonos a saber-\n\nDIGO Yo Chong Afa natural del pueblo de Vai-Chau, en China de edad de 32 años, que he convenido con-Don Alexandre Boyer, Agente de los Señores J. M. MORALES y Ca, lo que se espresa en las clausulas siguientes:",
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        "content_text": "## \n20th to the Government in Articles IX and XXI, by former of which the appointment of a Chinese Consular Agent to reside in Macao is provided for, and by the latter rendition of Chinese Criminals flying to Macao.\n\nI enclose translation of the Secretary's Introduction which the Printer's copy only gives in the Portuguese.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your Graces' Obedient Servant, Arthur\n\nThe Journaux despalit No 32 to which this refers should be sent to the G.O. Sir Frederic Rogers, relating to the Acts of Sovereign Authority regarding the Cornwell Customs Agreement, Article XXI.\n\nPage 65",
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        "content_text": "# Treaty between Portugal and China\n\n## ARTICLE I\nThe subjects of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and those of His Majesty the Emperor of China; whose respective subjects shall equally enjoy, in the dominions of the High Contracting Parties, the most complete and decided protection for their persons and property.\n\n## ARTICLE II\nAnd hereby are entirely annulled and held as non-existing by this Treaty everything that down to this day has been done, at whatever time or place, whether in writing, or printed, or verbally agreed,—with respect to the relations between Portugal and the Empire of China and between the Government of the City of Macao (formerly in the Province of Canton) and the Chinese Authorities:—In virtue whereof from now henceforth the present Treaty,—concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two States, duly provided with their respective credentials, is to serve as the only valid Regulation of these relations.\n\n## ARTICLE III\nThe Governor General of Macao, in his capacity of Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty in China, may visit the Court of Pekin every year should important affairs render it necessary.\n\nIf in the future the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China shall allow the Plenipotentiary of any other Foreign Nation to reside permanently at Pekin, besides those who have already their Representatives there, the Envoy of His Most Faithful Majesty may consider such permission as extending to himself and avail of it should he deem convenient.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\nThe Diplomatic Agents shall enjoy at their residences all the privileges and immunities accorded by the Law of Nations: that is to say, that their persons, their families, their homes, and their correspondence shall be inviolate.\n\n## ARTICLE V\nThe expenses incurred by the diplomatic Missions of Portugal in China shall be borne by the Portuguese Government. The diplomatic Agents which His Majesty the Emperor of China may be pleased to appoint to the Court of His Majesty the King of Portugal will be received with all the honors and privileges enjoyed by the other foreign diplomatic Agents of equal rank accredited to the said Court.\n\n## ARTICLE VI\nThe official correspondence forwarded by the Portuguese Authorities to the Chinese Authorities shall be written in Portuguese accompanied by a translation in Chinese. In the same manner, the present Treaty is to be written in Portuguese and in Chinese—which after being duly compared will serve as a Document to guide each Nation as the written version of its respective language.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\nThe form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chinese Authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position, based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Functionaries of Portugal and China, at the Capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of Dispatch or Communication; between the subordinate Functionaries of Portugal and the first Authorities of the Province, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (`Chau-Hoei`), and the latter that of declaration (`Xen-Cheu`); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together in terms of perfect equality.\n\nMerchants, and generally all others who are not invested with an official character, will adopt, in addressing the Chinese Authorities, the form of representation or petition (`Pin-Chen`).\n\nWhenever any Portuguese subject shall have to petition the Chinese Authority of a district, he is to submit his statement beforehand to the Consul, who will cause the same to be forwarded should he see no impropriety in so doing, otherwise he will have it written out in other terms—or decline to forward it:—Likewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to petition the Portuguese Consul, he will only be allowed to do so through the Chinese Authority, who shall proceed in the same manner.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal may appoint Consuls at all the ports of China open to commerce, to look after commercial interests, and to watch the due observance of all the articles of this Treaty.\n\nThe Consul and the local Authorities will show to each other reciprocal civilities and correspond with each other in terms of perfect equality.\n\nThe Consuls and Acting Consuls will have the honor of `Tau-tai`, and Vice-Consuls, Consular Agents, and Interpreter translators, those of Prefect. Their powers shall be equal to those of the Consular Authorities of other nations.\n\nThese functionaries are to be true agents of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government, however, will make no objection, in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint a full Consul to any of the ports, and choose to entrust a Consul of a foreign nation, for the time being, with the duties of a Portuguese Consul at that port.\n\n## ARTICLE IX\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal and His Majesty the Emperor of China desiring to manifest their reciprocal amicable intentions have agreed expressly upon the following:\n\nAll the subjects of both States shall always be treated, reciprocally, as friends in any part of the Portuguese or Chinese territories.\n\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal will enjoin upon the Governor of Macao to bestow his most determined cooperation to avoid everything which might, at that place, be prejudicial to the interests of the Chinese Empire.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China may appoint, should he deem it convenient, an Agent to reside at Macao, there to treat of commercial affairs and watch the due observance of the regulations. This Agent, however, must either be a Manchú or a Chinese of the fourth or fifth rank. His powers are to be equal to those of the Consuls of France, England, America, or of those of other nations who reside at Macao and Hongkong, and there treat of their public affairs, showing their national flags.\n\n## ARTICLE X\nIt is permitted to all Portuguese subjects and their families to reside at or frequent the ports of Kuang-chou (Canton),—Chang-chou (Suatau),—Amoy,—Fu-chau—Ningpo, Shanghae, Chin-kiang, Kieu-kiang and Han-kau (on the Yang-tsi),—Tang chou, Tien-tsin—Neu-choang–Tam-shoei and Tai-van (on the Island of Formosa), and Kiung-chou (on the Island of Hainan), and there to carry on trade or otherwise employ themselves. Their boats may go and come without hinderance and their merchandize be imported or exported at all times.\n\n## ARTICLE XI\nThe Chinese Government will, in no manner whatever, object that Portuguese subjects should take Chinese subjects into their service and give them a lawful occupation.\n\n## ARTICLE XII\nAll Portuguese merchants importing goods into any of the open ports, having paid duties on them, and any other Portuguese subjects, are allowed to travel through all parts of the interior of China for commercial purposes or for convenience sake, provided they be furnished with passports which are to be granted by the Consuls and counter-signed by the local Authorities. The bearer of a passport...",
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        "content_text": "that & Consor zom dispatch T: its anclosures have been laid before Earl Russell.\n\n91 Executive Council Chambers 3358 Further G.P.O. — 22nd April /63.\n\n11758 Hong Kong Consulate 134 October, 1862.\n\nLord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to report that certain difficulties arose in the management of the Post Office Agency at the Port of Shanghai, partly owing to the illness of the Agent and partly to the Consular Authorities and Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai seeming to misunderstand the position of our Agency at that Port. This had been fully explained to them by the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived 3 DEC 1862",
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        "content_text": "# I\n\nCopy: No. 393.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nParis, March 24, 1862.\n\nI have the honour to inclose herewith copy of a note dated the 22nd Inst. which I have received from M. Monvenel in reply to one which I addressed to H.E. on the 11th Inst. relative to the irregular proceedings of the French Consular Agent at Hong Kong, with reference to the French Merchantman \"Vicomte d'Ajoux\" brought to my notice in Y.L.'s despatch No. 255 of the 5th Ult.\n\nY.L. will see that M. Vaucher is no longer in the French Consular service in consequence of the irregularities of which he has been guilty.\n\nM. Monvenel states further that he is quite ready to join Y.L. in making representation to Merchant Rasul...",
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        "content_text": "## s. 55.\n\n**RECEIVED 2 MAY 1863**\n\nStoughtong, 1th March, 1865 - \n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to report that I have been informed by Mr Overbeck, Prussian Consul agent, that it is his intention to leave the colony on the 15th Instant and that M. Ludwig Wiese had, under direction of the Prussian Government, been appointed to act as Consular agent during his absence.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\n### Received \nReporting provisional recognition of Mr Wiese as Acting Consul for Austria.\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle; K.G., &c. &c. &c. \n## 269 \n## 154.",
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        "content_text": "# The Duke of Nocastle.\n\n## Mr. Mercan Received No 55.\n\n**recognition of Mr Reporting provisional**\n\nWiese  \nMary  \n**Acting Prussian Consular Agent.**\n\n## Jr. 56. Financial RECEN 2 MAY 1863\n\n1988 giong tang\n\n### I My Lord Duke,\n\n14 May Houghtong, 271\n\n5th March, 1863.\n\nIn Despatch N.113 of 5th July 1861, Sir Stercules Robina reported a grant of ground under certain conditions for a Sailors' Home, an institution, of which the want had been long admitted.\n\n2\\. That Grant under the conditions reported your Grace approved in despatch 1.91 of \n\n**His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,**  \nAc  \nAc.  \nHe.",
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        "content_text": "284 \n\ntheir reply.\n\n8.\n\nI also addressed the British Consular Agent at Macao, but his reply is merely a confirmation of the brief account of the Institution given by the Council.\n\n9.\n\nSome years ago Mr Hobson of the Medical Missionary Society at Canton published certain remarks on this subject in a very useful but now defunct Miscellany called the Chinese Repository - There I annex a copy to the present despatch.\n\n10.\n\nI transmit likewise a very singular passage, with which I recently chanced to meet, in a book not long since published, `Dr Seemann's Mission to Viti`. It relates to the cure of Leprosy by the use of the plant Sinugage, and I thought it well to note it, lest it should possibly escape attention elsewhere.\n\n11.\n\nI am not aware of any other sources from which I could obtain the information for which your Grace has called, but I suggest that Dr Lockhart of the Medical Missionary Society is very likely to be able to make a valuable contribution to the stock of Knowledge which may be collected, and he may be reached through Her Majesty's...",
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        "content_text": "## Original (Continued)\n\n| Date | Subject of Despatch | Inclosures |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 14 February | Submitting for Confirmation Ordinance No. 2 of 1863 for the amendment of the Post Office Ordinance, No. 5 of 1862 | - |\n| 20 February | Reporting that 12 months leave of absence has been granted to Chief Justice Adams | - |\n| 20 February | Applying for a supply of additional Postage Stamps | - |\n|  | Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Telegram of 7th January respecting the Agra province | - |\n|  | Forwarding Letter from the Bishop of Victoria | - |\n| 26 February | Replying to His Grace's Despatch No. 195 of December last, respecting the Harbour Ordinance No. 1 of 1862 | - |\n|  | In answer to His Grace's Despatch No. 181 of 20 December 1862 forwarding Proclamations prohibiting the exportation of Military stores from the Colony | None |\n|  | Reporting changes in the appointments to the Packet Agency at Shanghai | - |\n|  | Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Despatches Nos. 2 and 10 of 10th January, 1863 | - |\n|  | Replying to His Grace's Despatch No. 169 of December last respecting supply of Funds to Mr. Sampson for Emigration purposes | None |\n| 6 March | Reporting provisional recognition of Mr. Weise as Acting Consul for Austria | - |\n|  | Reporting provisional recognition of Mr. Weise as Acting Prussian Consular Agent | - |",
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        "content_text": "122\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND MAY, 1863.\n\nCOURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nThe Court sits every Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock A.M.\n\nBy Order of the Court,\n\nH. J. HOLMES,\n\nClerk of Court.\n\nCONSTANTINE JOSEPH SMYTHE\n\nOR O'REILLY.\n\nTHE Acting Colonial Secretary will be glad to receive information respecting the above-mentioned person, who is said to have been in Hongkong in 1854, and had been previously trading at Amoy. It is stated that there is a \"Surplus property\" which the said C. J. SMYTHE or O'REILLY is entitled.\n\nIn re PANG-AH-SHENG, Contractor, deceased.\n\nTranshipment and forwarding of Cargo, with a view to the adequateness of their Policies in respect of the same.\n\nInsurance\n\nTHOS. SUTHERLAND,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office,\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1863.\n\nCOMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES\n\nDES\n\nMESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.\n\nPaquebots-Poste Français.\n\nSTEAM FOR\n\nSAIGON, SINGAPORE, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES. ALSO,\n\nPONDICHERY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given to the next of Kin, and all other persons, to produce any Wills or Codicils of the above party, that may be in their possession, before the Supreme Court, on Saturday, the Ninth day of May, A.D. 1863; or, if none, that the next of Kin do accept or refuse Letters of Administration, failing which Letters of Administration will be granted to the Registrar of the said Court, or such other person as the Court may think fit.\n\nBy the Court,\n\nN. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.\n\nTHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's Steam-ship COLUMBIAN, Captain BEAZLEY, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places on Wednesday the 13th May, 1863, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 11th May, SPECIE until Noon on the 12th May, and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 11th May.\n\nFor particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's Office, Hongkong.\n\nContents and Value of Packages are required. A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration. Shippers of Cargo on the Company's Black Bills of Lading are particularly requested to note the Terms and Conditions of these Bills of Lading, with reference to the same.\n\nThe Company's Steamship \"ALPHEE, Commandant BOILEVE, H.I.M.N., with Her Britannic Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places, in connection:\n\nAt Alexandria, with the Company's and the Austrian Lloyds Mail Steamers for the Levant, Black Sea, Greece, Corfu, and Trieste:\n\nat Messina, with the Company's Semi-weekly Mail Steamers for Malta and all the Italian Ports:\n\nAt Marseilles, with the weekly Company's Mail Steamer for Valencia, and by Railroad to Madrid. Passengers going to London are informed that the Company will convey, free of charge, from Marseilles to London, their Baggage to the extent allowed by the regulation.\n\nCargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.\n\nThe Company has authority to grant Insurance on all Cargo conveyed by its Vessels, at a premium of 1 per cent upon Merchandize, and per cent on Treasure, from Hongkong to Lyons, Paris, London, and Holland, and proportionally for places this side of Suez.\n\nCargo will be received on board until 2 o'clock of the 21st of May; Specie and Parcels until 2 o'clock of the 22nd. As the Manifests of Merchandize have to be closed on the evening of the 22nd, the Shippers are requested to present their Shipping Orders before 4 P.M. of said day; for past that time, no more Bills of Lading will be delivered to them, except after the departure of the Steamer.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages destined beyond Suez is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be furnished by the Shippers to the Agent with the Bills of Lading; and the Company will not be responsible for any consequence or prejudice which may ensue from an incorrect declaration.\n\nFor particulars respecting Freight and Passage, apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.\n\nBERTOLINI,\n\nAgent.\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1863.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nALL Persons indebted to, or having claims upon the estate of N. BOULLE, deceased, are requested to send particulars of the same to the undersigned on or before the 1st of June next.\n\nJ. P. 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        "content_text": "Page 362\n\nCommunications between the Governor and\n\nOfficers in Command of Ster Majesty's Naval Forces\n\n6.\n\nNow as regards the first point the private Secretary here (more correctly speaking the Aide or Camp) has no Office of Deposit and his duties are almost strictly confined to ceremonial routine in affairs that affect foreign visitors and the Society of the place. Such public ontics therefore of a confidential native as I take to be here referred to have been invariably recorded by the Colonial Secretary when Office is necessarily an Office of Deposit Public papers of all descriptions.\n\nI hope I am right if not I shall receive special instructions I delay to alter or interfere with the practice that has always existed here since the Government of the Colony was organized.\n\n9.\n\nLastly with reference to Communication with the Commanders of Foreign Men of War, the rule as laid down in Colonial Office Circular of 8th July 1856 has ever since been followed here, and the Consul or Consular Agent of a Foreign Country has always been made by the Colonial Secretary the Medium of Communication with the Commander of the National Ship.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient servant,\n\n363\n\nJ\n\nI\n\nF",
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        "content_text": "CIRCULAR.\n\nF04823/56\n\n368\n\nDowning Street,\n\n8th July, 1856.\n\nThe attention of Her Majesty's Government has been recently called to the inconvenience of the practice into which the Governors of Her Majesty's Colonies are occasionally drawn of communicating on questions affecting Foreign Countries with Captains of Ships of War belonging to those Countries instead of the proper Consuls or Consular Agents. I am, therefore, to instruct you as a general rule to decline all discussion on the acts of your administration or the conduct of Officers engaged in the Civil Service of the Crown, with Naval Officers commanding foreign ships of war, unless it be the ship of a country not having any Consul or accredited Civil Agent within the Colony under your Government, or unless there should appear to you to be some special circumstances demanding a departure from usual practice. Should any difficulty arise in the discussion of questions affecting the relations of this Country with Foreign Powers, the most prudent course for you to pursue, unless circumstances should necessitate immediate action, will be to reserve the questions for arrangement by the Governments of the respective Countries.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "261\n\ndispatching mails without expense, the Monsul and also the Packet Agent suggested that the most economical way is to purchase a Boat at Swatow and to employ a crew of 2 men at a cost of Ten Dollars a month; the grounds for this suggestion are that the Consular Boat is always employed on duty connected with the Consulate at the time of the dispatch of mails, and very often upon their arrival, and it constantly happens that Boats cannot be hired for the purposes of the Packet Agency.\n\nThe Officers consider the representations of these Officers reasonable, and think it desirable that they should be adopted.\n\nThe Swatow Agency does not at present cost the Government of Hongkong anything, except the Gratuities paid to the masters of vessels for Carrying ship Mails, and the Salary of the Packet Agent, being $400 per annum, is paid by the Imperial Post Office. The Revenue which the Colony received in 1861 amounted to $543.08, in 1862 to $910.95, and in 1863 to $1232.16.\n\nI have to...\n\n(signed) F.M. Mitchell,\n\nPost Master General\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n1\n\n \nPage 261\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 261\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "38.\n\n57.\n\n424\n\nwas not then expedient to attempt it. I procured the seizure of any of the pirates who had escaped and I proceeded to Macao and placed the latter in charge of the Consular agent at that place.\n\nIt had been reported at Pak Shek that the gunboats intended to proceed at once to Hongkong, and on returning to the former place on the following day we found as I expected that the junks which had escaped to sea - the wind being dead on shore prevented their getting under weigh, and they were burnt, as was likewise the village, the pirates having escaped with their most valuable and portable goods.\n\nWe found great quantities of hardware, and various descriptions of mixed goods, which were clearly the proceeds of piracy; files of camphor bags were numerous on or near the beach where we found lying about 50 guns of various sizes - 32, 24 and 18, the heaviest knocked off their carriages and the trunnions of the others knocked off.\n\nThere was not a single shop in the place where the guns were not found. A number of houses exploded on the fire reaching them. There was a masked battery.",
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        "content_text": "## No. 11.\n\nThe At Honble R. Cardwell\n\nof certain charges in the Treasurer's accounts for 1863\n\nM. Rennie's Explanation\n\n110 Explanation as to certain items of expenditures in the Bookkeeping Accounts of 1883 alluded to in the Report of the Commissioners of Audit dated 14th November 1882.\n\nThe sum of £143.1.9 paid by the Colonial Government under the head Administration of Justice on account of the 2 Consular Criminal cases \"Regina vs Kitchell\" and \"Regina vs Cockrame\" was refunded to the Colonial Treasury from Consular monies on the 29th of March 1872.\n\nPayments on account of Consular Advances have been shown in the Colonial Accounts since the commencement of last year and are not shown in the Quarterly returns, this expenditure being now excluded from the returns.\n\nThe appointment of Edward Budgeon to be a 2nd Class Inspector of Police is not shown in the Quarterly returns, appointments of this nature were formerly regarded as appointments & promotions of Police Constables - Inspectors generally being of that class.\n\nA fresh regulation was made that year in consequence of which Police Inspectors are now included.\n\nThe allowance to M. G. Baker, Ath's Packet Agent at Shanghai of the cost of his medical attendance.",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED \n\n**AUG 12 1865** \n\n**219** \n\nMr. Mercer \n\n**The Honble. E. Cardwell** \n\n### Received. \n**10th April 1865.** \n\n**Despatches to 72:58° of Acknowledgment of** \n**468-** \n**Executive.** \n\nYong Hong, \n**June, 1855.** \n\n## JUNE \n\nSir, \n\nI have the honor to enclose correspondence with the Consular Agent for Prussia, which that Gentleman has intimated his intention to forward to the Berlin Government by the outgoing mail. \n\nThe Right Honorable \nEdward Cardwell, M.P., \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n220 \n\nI beg to forward letter to you and from the Judge of the Vice-\nAdmiralty Court, from the latter of which it will be seen that the Judge concurs with the course I adopted. I did not think it proper to place Mr Ball's letter before the Consular Agent lest matters should be further complicated.\n\nHaving thus declined to allow the Executive to interfere with the Judicial authority, it is plain that to enter into the merits of the case is beyond my province, but that Her Majesty's Government may, in the event of reference or complaint, be in possession of such merits, I beg to transmit a letter from the Registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court, in which full particulars are given.\n\nI should mention that Mr. Everbeck, who now acts as Danish Consular Agent, returned to the Colony on the 22nd May last, prior to which date F.W. Nissen, whose name appears in the Registrar's report, was acting for him as such Agent.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Most Obedient Servant,",
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        "content_text": "## 419 \n## 06 \n\nCO. /1865? \n\nButecher's letter, referring to \n\n27. \n\n27 \n\nActing Letter \n\nperused \n\nto \n\nB. A. Penn \n\ndirect it ran \n\npoorpour of this reference \n\nRef \n\nL \n\nby detract. \n\nManica \n\n**** \n4-6 \n\nThe Consul of Bordeaux He \n\ndeduced that it is a foreign Country &. Mr. B. Dr. Cong \n\n22-2777 \n\nof 72 \n\n\"cut\" of Kaw at bar \n\nMr Mering \n\n7 \n\nThe Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell \n\n3 Enclosures. \n\nReceived \n\nPrussian Schooner \"Bacchante\" \n\nAgent, relative to the with the Prussian Consular Forwarding Correspondence \n\na forceps ship \n\nIn full \n\n11.14/0 \n\nSir E Player \n\nThis is cant home to mest \n\nthe conflants the Referen Cerak at Hong Kong has sent \n\nFat Melt Colony \n\nhand copertaly \n\ndelaine. \n\nLand \n\n(ory \n\nMr G. Overbeck to Colonial Secretary \n221 \n1469 \n\nPrussian Vice Consulate, \nVictoria, Hong Kong \n2nd May 1865. \n\nI have the honor to inform you \nI have been instructed to draw the attention of the \nColonial \nGovernment to the \nforcible detention in this harbor by the local authorities of the Prussian \nSchooner, Buchante. \n\nThe ostensible reason for this \nproceeding \nbeing the disputed ownership of the said vessel \narising out of the seizure of the same by His Prussian Majesty's Ships of war in the \nGulf of \nPechili \nand \nher subsequent condemnation \n\nH. Alexander Esqre \nActing Colonial Secretary \n14",
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        "content_text": "2223\n\nand Sale by public auction by order of the Prussian Minister at Pekin, I would beg respectfully to submit to His Excellency's consideration that the Supreme Court of this Colony is not a competent tribunal to try the validity of the claim of the pretended Owner, Im Christian Karbing of Sonderburg on the island of Alsen, formerly a dependency of the Crown of Denmark and since ceded by that Power to Their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia.\n\nWhat formerly therefore might have been a matter of dispute between the Danish and Prussian Governments, at present could have to be referred to the Provisional Government of the Duchies Schleswig and Holstein, to whom Mr Karbing should address his claim, if any; but under the circumstances of the case, I would submit, the Court could not legally claim the right to interfere in a matter, the decision of which rests exclusively with the respective governments of the two contending parties.\n\nThe Ship's papers duly made out according to Prussian law, are deposited with this Consulate and in accordance with the instructions above referred to, I have now respectfully to request His Excellency may be pleased to arrest as well the action of the Court in the matter, and also to order the surrender of the vessel by the Deputy Sheriff of this Colony either to myself or the agents of the Owner, reserving to myself the right to make such further claims as may have been caused by the forcible detention of the vessel in this port since August last.\n\nI have to...(signed) G. Overbeck, Consular Agent for Prussia",
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        "content_text": "# The Colonial Secretary to all. G. Overbeck 223\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHong Kong, 22nd May, 1865.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of this date relating to the detention of the Prussian Schooner \"Bacchante\", and am directed to state in reply that the Acting Governor has no power to control the Vice Admiralty Court in this Colony, by which Court his Excellency assumes the Bacchante to have been condemned—but your letter shall be sent to the Acting Judge of that Court.\n\nI have to,\n(Signed) W. H. Alexander,  \nConsular Agent  \nActing Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "## Overbeek to Colonial Secretary\n\n**Prussian Vice Consulate, Victoria, Hongkong**  \n31st May, 1865.\n\nIn pursuance of my letter of 23rd instant I have now the honor to inform you, that under date 26th instant a letter has been received by the Undersigned, written by order of the Honorable, the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, informing me of the issue of a decree by that Court, ordering the delivery of the Prussian Schooner Bachante (late Falk) to the quondam Owner Mr. Christian Marbery of Sonderburg, and condemning the present lawful...\n\nAs my only channel of official Communication in my capacity as Consular Agent accredited to the Colonial Government lies with the Foreign Department of this Colony, without authority on my part to treat in cases like the present with the subordinate Functionaries of the local Representative of Her Britannic Majesty, there remains in the present instance no alternative for me, but to renew my formal protest against the illegal seizure and detestable detention of the Prussian Schooner Bachante, and holding the Government responsible for the consequences of any unlawful proceedings against the ressed by the Vice Admiralty Court of this Colony.\n\nI have to  \n(Aigner) G. Overbeek,  \nConsular Agent for Prussia.\n\nH.E.  \nH. Alexander, Esqre  \nActing Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "226\n\nOwners\nMefs\nAlisch Mer in the costs of the trial. I was at the same time called upon by the Court to deliver the papers of the vessel to the said Marbergs, with which request however I declined to comply.\n\nThis unfortunate affair having thus come to an abrupt and unlooked for termination, I can only protest in the strongest terms against the unlawful seizure and condemnation of the vessel, and setting aside the decision of the Prussian Authorities, and seriously injuring the interests of Prussian subjects - I have to enable the Prussian Government to take such further steps in the matter as they may deem expedient.\n\nI have to inform you that I have at the same time forwarded this correspondence together with all available information within my reach, bearing on the subject, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Berlin, to be laid before him.\n\n(digni@) G. Overbeck\nConsular Agent for Prussia.\n\n(True Copies)\nM. Alexand\nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# No 360.\n\n## Colonial Secretary to the Acting Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court\n\n2469  \nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHongkong, 23rd May, 1865.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor, by direction of the Acting Governor, to transmit copies of two letters received from the Prussian Consular Agent relative to the detention of the Prussian Schooner \"Bacchanti\" under process of the Vice Admiralty Court.\n\nHis Excellency would be glad to learn if anything can be done to meet Mr. Overbeck's views.\n\nI have to,\n(Signed) **W. H. Alexander**,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honorable H. J. Ball,  \nActing Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court.",
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        "content_text": "## Acting Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court to Colonial Secretary\n\n264\n\nHongkong, May 2 1865.\n\n228\n\nSir,\n\nI am in receipt of your communication of the 20th instant, accompanied by copies of letters received from the Prussian Consular Agent relative to the detention of a vessel under process of the Vice Admiralty Court.\n\nI have the honor to inform His Excellency The Acting Governor that the answer which it appears from the correspondence you were directed to return to the first of those letters on the 22nd instant was the only answer which the circumstances of the case admitted.\n\nThe Honorable His Excellency will, I am satisfied, ...\n\nWilliam H. Alexander, Judge.",
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        "content_text": "not attribute it to any personal disrespect upon \nmy part if I decline to \n9.0 \nmore \nfully into the \nMatter, and my reason is this, that if I take \nany further notice of the letters of the Consular Agent than in \nmy preceding observations I \nhave done, I shall be constrained to treat \nthem as \nhigh contempt of the Court over \nwhich I have the honor to preside and \npunish him accordingly. \nI have to. \n\n(Sd.) Harry Smith Parkes  \nTrue Copies \nMAR  \nlexande \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\n(Copy) \nNo 13. \nActing Registrar of Vice Admiralty Court to Colonial Secretary \n3468 \nSir, \nVice Admiralty Registry \nIn Hongkong, 30th May, 1865 \nIn answer to \nyour \nnote of yesterday's \ndate calling for a précis or report of \"Falk\" or \"Bacchante\" case, I have the honor to submit for His Excellency the Acting Governor's information \nthe following Summary of the particulars of the proceedings \nin the cause of \npossession. \n\nMoved \nIn re The \"Falk\" in a \nOn the 24th August 1864 the Court was \n(Before the Worshipful M. J. Ball acting Judge) on the affidavit of \nThe Honorable \nW. H. Alexander, Esq., \nActing Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED\nC:0: \nAUCI2 \n1865 \n233 \n\nFurther Copy at 18! Common 17 Aug /45 infin -7 Septe Z2B? \n153. \n& Se \nSepte \n8254 \n\nd \nTir \nvene, 1865.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge Your despatch **No. 36** of 10th March 1865, covering complaint preferred by W. Sampson of Whamson through the Immigration Board as to the mode in which Chinese immigration was conducted with the Pupian Consular Agent at Mui Fort relative to the seizure and detention of the Nupian Schooner \"Bacchante\" Inceps of under the Foreign Admiralty Court.\n\nThe Right Honorable \nEdward Cartwell, M.P., \nMr. Ac. \n६.",
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        "content_text": "# \"Toughong 2. Ane, Mr Mercer\"\n\nThe Rt. Honble R. Cardwell, M.P.\n\n**No 85.**\n\nReceived\n\n**Noticing Ceceation of Common's powers to Pardon Consular Prisoners confined in Colonial Gaols.**\n\nThe Under Sec: of State for Foreign Affairs\n\n**MINUTE**\n\n**AUTO**\n\nDealy 24 June\n\nM. Ellect\n\nTo the F.O - adding but when M. Mercer wrote his despatch of the 19 May last.\n\nMr. Cardwell's despatch was dated the 7th May but was received in M. Hammond's office on the 27 June.\n\nI am directed by Mr Cardwell to transmit to you for the information of Earl Granville the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the order in Council.\n\n| Date | Entry | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2:85 | 27 June |  |\n|  | 56 | 406 |\n|  | 3.0 Ans./65 | 165 |\n|  | 277 |  |\n\nLovemar 8138 \n\nJenzend, and agent Her Majesty's Minister.\n\n2:85-27 June",
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        "content_text": "# SCHEDULE of DUPLICATE DESPATCHES transmitted by The Governor of Hong-kong to The Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer \"Ottawa\" via Southampton, on the 29th June\n\n| No. of DESPATCH | DATE OF DESPATCH | SUBJECT OF DESPATCH | NO. OF INCLOSURES |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 65 | 27th | Reporting dication given for visits of surprise to the Civil Hospitals, and inclosing list of Records kept in them... Reporting the robbery of certain Army Stores in January last | None |\n| 66 | 28th | Forwarding Documents connected with Supplementary Report and Estimate of 1805 for Extension of the Praya Westward | 3 |\n| 67 | 29th | Reporting minor assaults in the Colonial Gaols and Civil Hospital. Acknowledgment of Despatch to 1258 of 18th April, 1833 | None |\n| 68 | 5th June 1865 | Forwarding Correspondence with the Prussian Consular agent relative to the Prussian Schooner \"Bacchante\" on Mr Sampson's complaint | 3 |\n| 69 | 6th June 1865 | Reporting respecting the mode in which Chinese Emigration is conducted at Swatow | 7 |\n| 70 | 7th June 1865 | Reporting execution of 7 Chinese Pirates | None |\n| 72 | 8th June 1865 | Forwarding Rules and Orders for the guidance of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction |  |\n| 73 | 9th June 1865 | Transmitting Amended Neutrality Ordinance No 6 of 1865 | 7/14 |\n|  |  | Reporting changes in appointments consequent upon Mr. May's departure on leave | 3 |\n|  |  | Reporting appointments to Seats in the Executive and Legislative Councils | None |\n|  |  | Changes in appointments in the Vice Admiralty Court |  |\n\nWH Alexander  \nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n560  \nSCHEDULE of DUPLICATE DESPATCHES transmitted by The Governor of Hong-kong to The Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer \"Ottawa\" via Southampton, on the 29th June",
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        "content_text": "## Court\n\nLet me recount the events and clarify the circumstances surrounding the case involving Kemptner and the subsequent appeal. I lost my initial case and appealed it to the Supreme Court. The Consul stayed Kemptner's suit against me because it related to the evidence of fraud that I had presented in my suit against him, pending the outcome of my appeal. The Consul required my agent to enter into bonds for my appearance in Kemptner's suit, as well as provide security for the payment of the claim.\n\nIn the appeal, I employed Mr. Kingsmill. Unfortunately, I lost the appeal and paid him his fees. I also paid Kemptner the full amount of his claim, thereby settling the matter. While the appeal was pending, I was served with a writ by Mr. Deven on behalf of Kemptner, claiming $10,000. I was unaware of the basis for this claim. Kemptner's claim was not related to my suit against him because the amount was different, because Kemptner's claim was pending in the Consular Court, and because Kemptner, upon receiving payment from me, denied having instituted the action. Had he done so, he would have been liable for the costs. I ignored the writ as it was not endorsed and considered it beneath notice. It is for the alleged proceedings under this writ that Mr. Kingsmill now seeks payment from me. I never authorized the proceedings, nor did I retain him, and I submit that a barrister cannot sue for his fees without proof of retainer.\n\nI submitted a large file of papers as evidence, but they were rejected. The decision was based on the dictum that it was impossible for a gentleman of Mr. Kingsmill's standing to conduct a case without instructions. Kemptner's lawyer could have been called to court, and the records of the Registrar examined, but Mr. Kingsmill's word was deemed sufficient. The attached documents were left to speak for themselves.\n\nI pray you to excuse me for highlighting a few salient points. When I decided to let the appeal drop and proceed to Europe, I had approximately $72,000 worth of unencumbered property within the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong court, which would be amenable to a judgment against me under a Writ of Foreign Attachment. It would be irrational to leave such a substantial amount of property at risk, dependent on litigation that only involved one-tenth of the sum. This fact corroborates my statement that I considered the case suspended until my return.\n\nI attempted to go through the correspondence between myself and Mr. Kingsmill while conducting the cases, but I was interrupted and repeatedly urged to get into the witness box, which prevented me from dissecting the correspondence as intended. I exhibited my full file of papers and respectfully submit that Mr. Whyte should have sifted through all the warrantable evidence to the bottom, rather than selectively believing one minuscule aspect.\n\n## Page 335",
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        "content_text": "# ISI\n\n## 122\n\n### 2\n\nAnd whereas by The Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had or might at any time thereafter have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Emperor of China and in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively.\n\nAnd whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within such ships or vessels as aforesaid, and to make further and other provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid, and particularly for the more regular and efficient administration of justice among Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas, under the authority of provisions in this behalf in the first-recited Act contained, ordinances for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, have been from time to time made by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China (such Superintendent being also the Governor of Hong Kong), with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, which ordinances are known as Consular Ordinances:\n\nAnd whereas such of those Consular Ordinances as are described in the Schedule to this Order are now in force, wholly or in part, but they are liable to repeal by Order of Her Majesty in Council, and it is expedient that they be repealed, such of their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being consolidated with this Order:\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the first-recited Act and The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, or either of them, or otherwise, in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-\n\n## I. PRELIMINARY\n\n1. This Order may be cited as **The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865**.\n\n2. In this Order-\n\n| Term | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"China\" | the dominions of the Emperor of China: |\n| \"Japan\" | the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan: |\n| \"Minister\" | the superior diplomatic representative of Her Majesty for the time being, whether Ambassador, Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, or Chargé d'Affaires: |\n| \"Chief Superintendent of Trade\" | the Superintendent of the trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, or any person for the time being authorized to act as such: |\n| \"Consular Officer\" | includes every officer in Her Majesty's Consular Service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person authorized to act in any such capacity in China or in Japan: |\n| \"British vessel\" | includes every vessel being a British ship within the meaning of `The Merchant...` |",
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        "content_text": "1&1\n\n24\n\nopened to British subjects by treaty between Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, is hereby declared unlawful.\n\nIf any person engages in such trade as a principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-master, or supercargo, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to be punished (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars without imprisonment.\n\n93. If the Court before which any person charged with having committed such a misdemeanour is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.\n\n94. The officer commanding any of Her Majesty's vessels of war or any of Her Majesty's Naval Officers authorized in this behalf by the Officer having the command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in Japan by writing under his hand, may seize any British vessel engaged or reasonably suspected of being or having been engaged in any trade by this Order declared unlawful, and may either detain the vessel, with the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons engaged in navigating the vessel, or any of them, or take or cause to be taken the vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons aforesaid, or any of them, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere convenient for the prosecution of a charge for the misdemeanour alleged to have been committed.\n\nAny such vessel, master, officers, supercargo, crew, and persons may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure or at the port or place to which the vessel is so taken under the authority of any such Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of such misdemeanour.\n\n## IX.-JAPANESE WATERS\n\n95. When and as often as it appears to Her Majesty's Minister in Japan that the unrestricted entrance of British vessels into or the unrestricted passage of British vessels through any strait or other water in Japan may lead to acts of disturbance or violence, or may otherwise endanger the maintenance of peaceful relations and intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects and the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, Her Majesty's Minister may make any Regulation for prohibiting, or for restricting in such manner as seems expedient, the entrance or passage of British vessel (other than a vessel of war of Her Majesty) into or through any such strait or other water as aforesaid as defined in the Regulation.\n\nHer Majesty's Minister may from time to time revoke or alter any such Regulation.\n\n96. The foregoing provisions of this Order relative to the making, printing, publication, enforcement, and proof of Regulations to be made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, and to the mode of proceeding in respect of any charge for an offence against any such Regulations, shall extend and apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, as last aforesaid.\n\n97. If any person navigating a British vessel wilfully violates, or wilfully attempts to violate, any such Regulation, the Officer commanding any vessel of war of Her Majesty, or in charge of any boat belonging to such vessel of war, may use force for the purpose of compelling him to desist from the violation or attempted violation of the Regulation, and if it appears necessary or expedient may seize the vessel, and such Commanding Officer may either detain her at the place of seizure, or take her, or cause her to be taken to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere, where the offender may be more conveniently prosecuted for such offence.\n\nAny such vessel may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure, or at the port or place to which she is so taken, under the authority of any such Commanding Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of the offence.\n\n## X.--PIRACY\n\n98. 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        "content_text": "# \nAnd whereas by The Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had or might at any time thereafter have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty has had and now has jurisdiction in the dominions of the Emperor of China and in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively.\n\nAnd whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within such ships or vessels as aforesaid, and to make further and other provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid, and particularly for the more regular and efficient administration of justice among Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas, under the authority of provisions in this behalf in the first-recited Act contained, ordinances for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, have been from time to time made by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China (such Superintendent being also the Governor of Hong Kong), with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, which ordinances are known as Consular Ordinances:\n\nAnd whereas such of those Consular Ordinances as are described in the Schedule to this Order are now in force, wholly or in part, but they are liable to repeal by Order of Her Majesty in Council, and it is expedient that they be repealed, such of their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being consolidated with this Order:\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the first-recited Act and The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, or either of them, or otherwise, in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-\n\n## 1-PRELIMINARY\n\n1. This Order may be cited as **The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865**.\n\n2. In this Order-\n\n| Term | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"China\" | the dominions of the Emperor of China |\n| \"Japan\" | the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan |\n| \"Minister\" | the superior diplomatic representative of Her Majesty for the time being, whether Ambassador, Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, or Chargé d'Affaires |\n| \"Chief Superintendent of Trade\" | the Superintendent of the trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, or any person for the time being authorized to act as such |\n| \"Consular Officer\" | every officer in Her Majesty's Consular Service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person authorized to act in any such capacity in China or in Japan |\n| \"British vessel\" | every vessel being a British ship within the meaning of `The Merchant...` |\n\nPage 3\n79",
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        "content_text": "# Report of Provincial Court. Seisure of Vessel, &c. Regulations as to entering waters, &c.\n\n## 88\n\nThe engaging in any trade or intercourse with the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, otherwise than in conformity with, and under the protection of the treaties between Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, or otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Order, or any Regulation made thereunder, in any of the ports or places in Japan opened to British subjects by treaty between Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, is hereby declared unlawful.\n\nIf any person engages in such trade as a principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-master, or supercargo, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to be punished (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars without imprisonment.\n\n## 93\nIf the Court before which any person charged with having committed such a misdemeanour is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.\n\n## 94\nThe officer commanding any of Her Majesty's vessels of war or any of Her Majesty's Naval Officers authorized in this behalf by the Officer having the command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in Japan by writing under his hand, may seize any British vessel engaged or reasonably suspected of being or having been engaged in any trade by this Order declared unlawful, and may either detain the vessel, with the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons engaged in navigating the vessel, or any of them, or take or cause to be taken the vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons aforesaid, or any of them, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere convenient for the prosecution of a charge for the misdemeanour alleged to have been committed. Any such vessel, master, officers, supercargo, crew, may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure or at the port or place to which the vessel is so taken under the authority of any such Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of such misdemeanour.\n\n## IX.-JAPANESE WATERS.\n\n## 95\nWhen and as often as it appears to Her Majesty's Minister in Japan that the unrestricted entrance of British vessels into or the unrestricted passage of British vessels through any strait or other water in Japan may lead to acts of disturbance or violence, or may otherwise endanger the maintenance of peaceful relations and intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects and the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, Her Majesty's Minister may make any Regulation for prohibiting, or for restricting in such manner as seems expedient, the entrance or passage of any British vessel (other than a vessel of war of Her Majesty) into or through any such strait or other water as aforesaid as defined in the Regulation.\n\nHer Majesty's Minister may from time to time revoke or alter any such Regulation.\n\n## 96\nThe foregoing provisions of this Order relative to the Penalties and making, printing, publication, enforcement, and proof of Regulations to be made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, and to the mode of proceeding in respect of any charge for an offence against any such Regulations, shall extend and apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, as last aforesaid.\n\n## 97\nIf any person navigating a British vessel wilfully violates, or wilfully attempts to violate, any such Regulation, the Officer commanding any vessel of war of Her Majesty, or in charge of any boat belonging to such vessel of war, may use force for the purpose of compelling him to desist from the violation or attempted violation of the Regulation, and if it appears necessary or expedient may seize the vessel, and such Commanding Officer may either detain her at the place of seizure, or take her, or cause her to be taken to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere, where the offender may be more conveniently prosecuted for such offence.\n\nAny such vessel may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure, or at the port or place to which she is so taken, under the authority of any such Commanding Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of the offence.\n\n## X.-PIRACY\n\n## 98\nAny British subject being in China or in Japan may be proceeded against, tried, and punished under this Order for the crime of piracy wherever committed.\n\n## 99\nIf the Court before which a British subject charged with the crime of piracy is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.\n\nPage 24\nPage 25\nPage 90",
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        "content_text": "## XIII. CRIMINAL MATTERS.\n\n### I. IN GENERAL.\n\n279. In the following Rules (under the heading \"Criminal Matters\") as far as they relate to the Supreme Court, the expression **\"the Court\"** means or includes (as the case may require) any officer of, or person attached to, the Supreme Court from time to time authorized to exercise or assist in the exercise of any part of the criminal jurisdiction of that Court.\n\n280. A person making a criminal charge (`Form 31.`) against another before the Supreme or other Court must do so in person or by attorney or counsel, or an agent lawfully thereunto authorized.\n\n281. In every case, whether the charge is or is not such as must or may be heard and determined in a summary way, the Court shall proceed, if the accused is not already in custody, either by way of summons to him (`Form 82.`), or by way of warrant for his apprehension in the first instance (`Form 33.`), according as the nature and circumstances of the case require.\n\n#### Summons.\n\n282. For the issuing of a summons the charge need not be put in writing or be sworn to unless the Court so directs. A summons shall be served by the delivery of it to the person summoned personally, or if he cannot be conveniently met with then by its being left at his usual or last known place of abode or business within the particular jurisdiction. The person effecting service must attend at the time and place mentioned in the summons to prove service if necessary.\n\n#### Warrant.\n\n283. If the person summoned does not obey the summons the Court may (after proof on oath of due service of the summons) issue a warrant for his apprehension (`Form 34.`). Notwithstanding the issuing of a summons a warrant (`Form 33.`) may be issued at any time before or after the time appointed in the summons for the appearance of the accused. A warrant shall not be issued in the first instance unless the charge is in writing on the oath of the person laying the charge or of some witness. A warrant need not be made returnable at any particular time, but may remain in force until executed. It may be executed by the apprehension of the accused at any place within the particular jurisdiction, and in case of fresh pursuit it may be executed at any place in another district, or Consular district, without any application to the Court of that district.\n\n### Search Warrant.\n\n284. Where positive proof or probable suspicion is shown to the Court by evidence on oath that any thing on, by, or in respect of which a crime or offence cognizable by the Court has been committed is in any house or place over which, by reason of the nationality of the occupier thereof, the Court has jurisdiction, the Court may issue a warrant to search the house or place, and if any thing searched for is found, to seize it, and apprehend the occupier of the house or place. The warrant shall be directed to some officer by name, who alone shall be entrusted with its execution, but he may be accompanied by any person or persons necessary to assist him in his search. A general warrant to search shall not be granted, but the particular house or place must be indicated in it. If the house or place is closed, and the officer is denied admission, after demanding admission and disclosing his authority and the object of his visit, it may be forced open. Where there is probable suspicion only, the warrant must be executed in the day time: where there is positive proof, it may be executed in the night time.\n\n### Witnesses.\n\n285. Where it is shown to the Court, on oath, that any British subject within the particular jurisdiction is likely to give material evidence, either for the prosecution or for the defence, and will not voluntarily attend to give evidence at the preliminary examination, or in summary cases at the hearing of the charge, the Court shall issue a summons (`Form 35.`) for his attendance.\n\n286. If the person summoned does not obey the summons, and does not excuse his failure to the satisfaction of the Court, then (after proof on oath of due service of the summons) the Court may issue its warrant (`Form 36.`) to compel his attendance.\n\n287. Where it is shown to the Court on oath that any British subject within the particular jurisdiction is likely to give material evidence either for the prosecution or for the defence, and that it is probable he will not attend to give evidence at the preliminary examination, or in summary cases at the hearing of the charge, unless compelled to do so, then instead of issuing a summons the Court may issue a warrant (`Form 37.`) in the first instance.\n\n288. If on the appearance of the person summoned, either in obedience to a summons, or on being brought up by virtue of a warrant, he refuses to take an oath, or having taken an oath to answer any question put to him, and does not excuse his refusal...",
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        "content_text": "## 5054 Songs \nMeign Office \n155 \n\nLONDON: \nPrinted by **George E. Eyre** and **William Spottiswoode**, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. \nFor Her Majesty's Stationery Office. \n\nCopy W.O. inf 7 30 May 1865 \n\nI am directed by Earl de **Rupel** to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary **Pakington**, a copy of a Despatch addressed by the British Consular Agent at **Amoy**, Mr. **Wade**, respecting a visit of the Hong Kong Volunteers to **Foochow** for **Frederic Rogers Bar**.",
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        "content_text": "wretched out of his hands. In that I perfectly agree with them, and am therefore unwitting \nthat such should ever occur.\n\nAs regards myself, the seconding or indeed no position in which Sir Mercer would place me I consider highly detrimental to my influence and prestige with the Chinese Authorities, but his unaccountable anxiety that an independent active Agent makes him forget that more is done in China by personal influence and prestige than \nby any other means, and to weaken or destroy severely injures the interest of H.M. his subjects who reside in the Chinese Empire. In fact, there cannot be two independent British Agencies at one place, and of his \nConsul \n234 \nConsul must be sole and supreme under H.M.'s Minister, or the result will be the utter impossibility of effectively carrying \non the duties of the Consular Office.\n\nI can, however, most distinctly but lay the matter before you. Wait for you to judge how far Sir Mercer is right in his premises, and whether I am in the position to be addressed in the tone he has thought proper to assume, ordered to do his \"behests\" under threat of future Consequences, as if I were a servant of the Colonial Govt., and hinted at as being obstructive and reported as such to H.E. Wn's Govt.\n\nRespectfully & \n(signed) W. B. Robertson",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n\"the freight\" \n\nI sued Kemptuer in the British Consular Court at Yokohama for the recovery of the sum. I had paid him and he sued me for freight and landing charges. I lost the case and I appealed it to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe Consul stopped Kemptuer's suit against me (because on the evidence of fraud which I adduced just in the same manner as did my suit against him) until my appeal should be decided.\n\nThe Consul made my Agent enter into bonds for my appearance to Kemptner's suit as well as security for the payment of it.\n\nIn this appeal case, I employed Mr. Kingsmill. He pleaded the appeal and I paid him his Bill. I paid Kemptuer the full amount of his claim and so settled the matter.\n\nWhile the appeal was pending, I was served with a writ at the suit of Kemptuer by Mr. Owen, the amount claimed being $10,000. I never knew what this was for, first, because it was different; second, because Kemptuer's claim upon me, the amount was suspended in the Consular Court; and, thirdly, because Kemptuer, when I paid him, denied that he had ever instituted the action. Had he done so, he would certainly have been made responsible for the costs.\n\nI took no notice of the writ. It was not endorsed and I considered it beneath me.\n\nIt is for alleged proceedings on this writ that Mr. Kingsmill now sues me. I never retained him. I never authorised proceedings; and, I submit that a Barrister cannot sue for his fees.\n\nI submitted as evidence a large file of papers, and had these been examined, the merits of the case would have been gone into, but they were rejected and the decision based entirely on the supposition that it could not be possible that a humble man of Mr. Kingsmill's standing would conduct a case without instructions.\n\nKemptuer's lawyer might have been called into court, and the Records of the Registrar examined, but Mr. Kingsmill's word was deemed enough.\n\nLeaving the affidavits and documents speak for themselves as corroborative or otherwise of the above recital, pray excuse me for indicating a few of the salient points.\n\nWhen I determined to let the appeal drop and proceed to Europe, I had about $78,000 worth of property unencumbered sitting within the jurisdiction of the Hongkong Court. This property was amenable to any judgement against me by a writ of foreign Attachment. Would any man in his senses leave such an amount of property dependent on litigation which only involved a tenth of the sum? Surely this fact tends to corroborate my statement that I considered the case suspended until my return.\n\nI attempted in conducting the cases to go through the correspondence which had taken place between myself and Mr. Kingsmill, but I was so much interrupted and so repeatedly urged to get into the witness box that I had not the opportunity of dissecting the correspondence in the manner I intended.\n\nI exhibited my full file of papers and I respectfully submit that Mr. Whyte should have sifted all the warrantable evidence to the bottom and not have selected to believe one man's oath and disbelieve another man's.\n\nPage 90  \nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\nThe Company has authority to grant Insurance on all Cargo conveyed by its Vessels, at a premium of 1 per cent upon Merchandize, and per cent on Treasure, from Hongkong to Lyons, Paris, London, and Holland, and proportionally for places this side of Suez.\n\nCargo will be received on board until 4 P.M., on the 22nd September; Specie and Parcels until 4 o'clock, P.M., on the 22nd.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages destined beyond Suez is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be furnished by the Shippers to the Agent with the Bills of Lading; and the Company will not be responsible for any consequence or prejudice which may ensue from an incorrect declaration. For particulars respecting Freight and Passage, apply at the Company's Office, Queen's Road.\n\n**C. RERTRAND, Agent.**\n\nHongkong, 31st August, 1864.\n\n## CANTON ROOMS.\n\nTHE subjoined List of unclaimed Dividends is published for the information of the concerned.\n\n**C. W. MURRAY, Honorary Treasurer.**\nHongkong, 25th August, 1864.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\n**NOTICE.**\n\nR. JAMES BANNATYNE is authorised to sign our Firm from this date.\n\n**GILMAN & Co.**\n\n## COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA, &c.\n\nHongkong, 26th August, 1864. During my absence M. J. W. MACLELLAN will act as Manager in China of this Bank.\n\nBy Order,\n**THE**\nChina, 28th July, 1864.\n**H. HOWE WIGGINS, Manager in China.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. CORNELIUS THORNE ceased in our Firm on the 31st December, 1863.\n\n**THORNE BROTHERS & Co.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. DUNCAN TURNER in our Firm, ceased on the 30th June, 1864.\n\nMr. WALDEMAR SCHMIDT, Mr. JAMES GILFILLAN, Mr. ALEXANDER DOWNIE, and Mr. THOMAS MURDOCH DRYSDALE, are this day admitted Partners in our Firm.\n\nOur Firm now consists of Mr. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Mr. WALDEMAR SCHMIDT, Mr. JAMES GILFILLAN, Mr. ALEXANDER DOWNIE, and Mr. THOMAS MURDOCH Drysdale.\n\nChina, 1st July, 1864.\n**FLETCHER & Co.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nOur partnership ceases to-day by lapse of time.\n\nThe business will from this date be carried on by **G. Hussunally & Co.**\n\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cassim Abboy Nathabboy & Co. | $115.50 |\n| Sandwith Drinker | 40.00 |\n| Francis Ede | 40.00 |\n| O time | 60.00 |\n| N. S. 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NORONHA.**\nOswald's Terrace, Hongkong, 10th January, 1863.\n\nPrinted and Published by **D. NORONHA, Printer to Hongkong Government, Oswald's Terrace, Wellington Street.**\n\nPage 180\nPage 181\n\nDespatch N. 17 1865.\n\nInclosure No. 3 in \n... \nCopy of the Correspondence ...\n\nLathe (OP (for Trade \nothe \ncopy of a to polit \npomthe offien \nadmr the \nfor afttonghong Enclosing \ncopy qua claim pere the mombers of the Marine Court of Inquiry for \nremuneration for thei \nServices in \nthe case \nthe British Emprate in \nShip \"Pride of the fanges\" \n\nSam also to \n... \nCopy \nof the Col'ordiname doll 17 1860 which \n... \n\nFinding of the Marine Court \nin the case \nof the \"Euphrates\". \n\nJ \nImeshing \n17. \nThebeentany \n4 \n2835 \nthe Board of Rade de Sie \nMINU W \nMAR \n\n# Cardell, \nAne ? 3982 \n5 April 186 \n175 \nLame directed by \nInter Cardwell to trevenit to gou for \nthe \nconsideration \n...",
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        "content_text": "218.3 \n\ndesignates the Vice Consulate, to Baron Richard von Carlowitz, the Prussian Consul at Banten, who however has \n\noffices \n\n2. \n\nboth at Banten and Hong Kong. \n\nConsular \n\nMr Overbeek was \n\nonly \n\nAgent \n\nentitled here- and \n\ntherefore \n\nCould in \n\nno Case \n\ntransfer \n\nno more \n\nthan the agency, but the assumption and transfer of any diplomatic power, by representatives of foreign nations- whatever be their rank - require the sanction of Her Majesty's Government. \n\nWhen in Australia I drew \n\nand to the \n\n3. \n\nattention to this subject \n\nsome views as to the inexpediency of \n\nmy \n\nCertain \n\nrecognizing any \n\nconsular appointments, \n\nexcept those made on \n\nrequisition by \n\nForeign Governments -- \n\nand approved \n\nby the Queen's Government. \n\nBy your \n\n4. \n\ncircular despatch of \n\nthe 28th October 1864, enclosing copy \n\nof a \n\nletter from \n\nEarl Russell of 29 \n\nSeptember 1864, it is conceded that \n\nGovernors of Colonies \n\nif they \n\nmay recognize, see no reason to the contrary, \n\nthe temporary transfer of Consular Authority for a brief period- The case \n\nalluded to \n\nby \n\nConsul's absence \n\nirregularities connected - \n\n5. \n\ntherewith, and I believe Her Majesty's \n\nGovernment \n\nwas \n\npleased to confirm \n\nEarl Russell's \n\nleave for 30 days \n\nA \n\nMr Overbeek however in the \n\nenclosed letter tells me that he has",
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        "content_text": "Transferred indefinitely his Consular Agency to another. I therefore declined recognizing such transfer, but on further explanation received from Herr von Barlowitz, I thought the case an exceptional one, because Mr. Overbeek, being also Austrian Consular Agent at Ismail, the unexpected war between those countries renders his position as representative of both powers no longer tenable. Again, he seeks to transfer his Agency to one who, being already Consul of Prussia in China, is probably a highly suitable person to fill such a comparatively minor office.\n\nI have therefore, under these peculiar circumstances, directed a notice to be inserted in the Gazette, stating that I have provisionally, and subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government, recognized the temporary transfer of the Prussian Consular Agency here to the charge of Herr von Barlowitz. And I trust the course which I have followed will meet your approval.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nF. W. Mitchell,\n\n(Acting) Governor.",
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        "content_text": "over our own!. \n\nGovernor has authorised replies to be sent from Hong Kong on the ground that the Treaty of Peking is not a matter of right as well as voting, I think the Chinese Gov. May justly refuse trade until we appoint a Consular Officer to exercise necessary control over our own arrangements and subjects. The exterritorial privilege embodied in Art. XV of the Treaty of Peking gives a plain hint to the Chinese that we are to be coprotected as an equivalent to the power they relinquish. And we are not, at the same time, in a position to claim the advantage without providing for the performance of the corresponding duty. Hitherto no Consular Officer or Agent has been nominated, the interests which might arise there appearing very trifling.\n\nMessrs Adamson & Co. seem to have made a beginning and found employment, profitable it is to be presumed, for the firm. And it will be proper to consider whether there is sufficient encouragement for a Consular Establishment. As regards many large firms at Canton who have hitherto proceeded there under existing circumstances, the expediency of allowing merchants domiciled at Canton to trade there depends on whether the right does not exist until a public notification from the Chief Superintendents declares it to be opened. And as a matter of policy and justice, it would be inexpedient to encourage foreigners to trade where no Consular authority is established. Either the British\n\nPage 309",
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        "content_text": "Lad Cammickon, a mild agent for Lieutenant Governor, called attention to the particular question whether a naturalized person in Hong Kong should be entitled to consular protection in China, the country of their original allegiance.\n\nMr. C. Pedder appears to have recently supported the view that the naturalized person would be so entitled.\n\n372\n\nWith regard to the second point, it has been observed how the Treaty does expressly require the Chinese Government to surrender British subjects who have escaped into China after committing crimes in British territory.\n\nIt appears, indeed, that the Chinese...\n\nHowever, to fully follow the instructions and provide a more accurate and formatted response:\n\n## Step 1: Correcting OCR Output\nFirst, let's correct the obvious OCR errors and reformat the text according to the given instructions.\n\n## Step 2: Reordering and Correcting Sentences\nThe given text is reordered and corrected for spelling and spacing issues:\n- \"Lad Cammioon\" is likely \"Lieutenant Governor\" or a related term, but given the context, it seems to be referring to someone discussing a matter related to the Lieutenant Governor.\n- \"Laittanlegt\" seems to be \"Lieutenant Governor\".\n- \"Beation\" could be \"attention\".\n- \"conectation\" is likely \"connection\" or \"attention\".\n- \"Naturalgalan\" is \"naturalized person\".\n- \"Entitle\" is correctly spelled as \"entitled\".\n- \"cometer prediction\" seems to be \"consular protection\".\n- \"MV. C. Pedder\" is likely \"Mr. C. Pedder\".\n- \"suppound\" is \"supported\".\n- \"Entitled\" is correctly spelled.\n- \"obocard\" is \"observed\".\n- \"deera\" could be a misreading, possibly \"Treaty\" or another word related to the context, but it seems to be \"that\" or part of a phrase indicating a document or agreement.\n- \"Santrin\" is not clear but could be part of \"Treaty of...\", possibly \"Nanking\" or another significant treaty.\n- \"docs ad Exporevely\" seems to be \"does expressly\".\n- \"Got\" is \"Government\".\n- \"subgute\" is \"subjects\".\n- \"Cuines\" is \"crimes\".\n- \"Bibit Zevilory\" is \"British territory\".\n\n## Step 3: Applying Markdown Formatting\nThe corrected text is then formatted using Markdown. However, the task requires outputting in HTML using `` for paragraphs.\n\nThe best answer is:\n\nLieutenant Governor, a mild agent, called attention to the particular question whether a naturalized person in Hong Kong should be entitled to consular protection in China, the country of their original allegiance.\n\nMr. C. Pedder appears to have recently supported the view that the naturalized person would be so entitled.\n\n372\n\nWith regard to the second point, it has been observed how the Treaty does expressly require the Chinese Government to surrender British subjects who have escaped into China after committing crimes in British territory.\n\nIt appears, indeed, that the Chinese...",
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        "content_text": "Consul at Canton had undertaken temporarily the duties of the Prussian Consul at Hongkong, which have hitherto been conducted by me, Overbeck, and by requesting Her Majesty's Government to sanction this provisional arrangement. And I am to request that you will move the Earl of Carnarvon to inform and instruct whether, considering the report of the Governor inclosed, of Hongkong letter, he may inform Consul Overbeck that the Governor will be authorized to recognize Monsieur von Carlowitz, Prussian Consular Agent at Hongkong.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nyour most obedient\n\nhumble servant",
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        "content_text": "at \n\nPrussian Consular Agent Hong Kong, instructions will \n\nEntered \n\nHongkong 7o. 10/90 \n\nGremortin Makonnell \n\nCB3 N62 Li CBN62 \n\nsigtchfl \n\n477 \n\n29 Oct 1866 \n\nhave to acknowledge \n\nbe given by His Lordship's \n\nto \n\nthe Governor \n\nof that \n\nColony \n\nto recognize M. von Carlowitz \n\nin the above capacity. \n\nI am, Sir, \n\nYour most obedient \n\nHumble servant, \n\nLi [Payen?]. 29 Oct \n\nLaid for approval \n\nwithin. \n\nN.R. \n\n...\n\n1866 OCT 8\n\nthe \n\nreceipt of your \n\ndispatch No. 89 of the \n\n1 Augt reporting \n\ncircumstances \n\nunder \n\nwhich Inr & Overbeck had transferred charge \n\nof \n\nThe Prussian \n\nAgency \n\nConsular \n\nat Hongkong \n\nTo Baron Dr Von Carlowitz \n\nThe Prussian Consul \n\net cetera. \n\nInasmuch as I have to certify for my \n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "Approval of the Coussi Which for adopted I affron. If you im tion R provisionally recognizing Fat Transfer Shave now and He concurrence of the Saftale for Danije affain & instruct desinitiat Beron Zou to recogniz A Von Carlowitig at Prussian Consular For inst 20.63.31 bets - Anse ! 23 Jeb/67-770 9889 10365 chong ng\n\nRECEIVED CCT 31 1866 478\n\nM Hammond Sistrederic Rogers presents his compliments to Lord Stanley and, with reference to the Letter from the Colonial Office of the 24th Instant is directed by Lord Stanley to state, for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon that the Queen's Exequatur empowering M. W. C. van Oorde to act as Netherlands Consul at Hong-Kong, has this day received Her Majesty's Signature.\n\nThe Notification of Her Majesty's Approval of M. W. C. van Oorde's Appointment will appear in the \"Gazette\" of the 2nd Proximo as Netherlands Consular Agent in Hongkong.\n\nForeign Office, October 30 1866\n\nPage XX\n\n is not present, so no page information needs to be kept. However, upon closer inspection, it appears that the original text was heavily distorted. Here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nSince there is no clear indication of \"Page XX\" in the given text, I will directly provide the corrected HTML output.\n\nM Hammond Sistrederic Rogers presents his compliments to Lord Stanley and, with reference to the Letter from the Colonial Office of the 24th Instant is directed by Lord Stanley to state, for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon that the Queen's Exequatur empowering M. W. C. van Oorde to act as Netherlands Consul at Hong-Kong, has this day received Her Majesty's Signature.\n\nThe Notification of Her Majesty's Approval of M. W. C. van Oorde's Appointment will appear in the \"Gazette\" of the 2nd Proximo as Netherlands Consular Agent in Hongkong.\n\nForeign Office, October 30 1866",
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        "content_text": "Java Europe sections of the several Post Office Agencies in China and Japan,\n\n— they learn to long before your last result of our investigations\n\n2\n\nYour Excellency stated that you would prefer to receive a joint report from us, if practicable, and we have found this course convenient.\n\n3. In the performance of this duty, we visited each existing Agency with a view to ascertain, by personal observation, whether additional postal Agencies are necessary at any of the other treaty Ports, more especially at Swatow and Chefoo, from which places applications for the establishment of such Agencies had been received.\n\nWe visited Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochew, Ningpo, Shanghai, Hankow, and Chefoo, and Nagasaki, Hiogo, and Yokohama, which places there is already a Post Office Agent; and, with the exception of Shanghai, these Agents are all Consular Officers, and carry out the duties of this office.\n\nWe observed the manner in which the business is conducted, and whether all reasonable accommodation is afforded to the public; and secondly,",
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        "content_text": "Carry the Post Office to the consular buildings.\n\n5\n\nbusiness u~\n\nAs might naturally be expected, with Officers altogether inexperienced in Post Office business and acting under brief written instructions, we found that the duties were performed, in some cases, with considerable laxity. Moreover, the consular buildings in some places are situated inconveniently for Post Office purposes; for instance, at Ningpo, the Consulate is at least a mile and a half from the business quarter, and at Swatow it is divided from the Foreign Settlement by at least half a mile of sea. At these places it is hardly to be expected that merchants will send their letters to the Post Office when the Steamer Agency, where facilities are always given for the deposit of letters, is close at hand. And hence arises, no doubt, usually, the practice of sending letters otherwise than through the regular channel of the Post Office.\n\nThe same circumstances probably induce the merchants at those ports to make arrangements with their correspondents at Hongkong and elsewhere to forward their letters through the Steamer Agent, instead",
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        "content_text": "Offices at Shanghai and several other Ports in China, we have written to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking pointing out the expediency of providing a separate room for postal purposes where it is practicable; and, His Excellency has replied that he will communicate with the Agents, with a view to giving effect, if possible, to these suggestions.\n\nWe now proceed to report on the extent of the Postal duties at the various Agencies and the manner in which those duties are conducted.\n\nOmitting Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Shanghai, and Yokohama, which we shall allude to separately in paragraphs 13, 14, and 15, the amount of business to be performed is inconsiderable and occupies but a small portion of the Agents' time.\n\nIt is only on the receipt and dispatch of an English mail, once or twice a fortnight, that any large number of letters is either received at the Agencies or dispatched from them, and it is only on these occasions that this Agent's time is much infringed upon by Post Office duties.\n\nAs Consular Assistants, they are in attendance at the Office from 10 A.M. until 4 P.M., and any duties...\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "them, had we not a decision to make regarding a reduction in them, I had to recommend some facilities to the Public which will impose additional duties and responsibilities.\n\n11. You are aware, I trust, under the arrangement laid down in the Secretary of State's dispatches, No.224, of 24th March, 1861, the salaries of the Officers employed at the Postal Agent's offices at the Ports are paid by Imperial Treasury, which meets all other expenses apart from those provided for by the salary.\n\n12. The total expenditure from Colonial funds on account of the whole of Agencies during the year 1818 amounted to £156:6:0, while the Colony received the sum of £292 from the Conveyance of Ship mails between these places and the sum of £1,236:08:5. It is estimated, however, that in consequence of the improvements about to be made, especially at Yokohama, the cost to this Colony will be increased by about a thousand Dollars per annum.\n\n13. As already stated to Your Excellency in a separate report, we found the postal arrangements at Yokohama conducted in a manner so unsatisfactory, in fact, so much beyond the power of our Consular Officer having paramount duties of his own to attend to, that it became...",
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        "content_text": "86\n\nto England's\n\nThe Warler Master has now brought my notice to notice another instance of a destitute seaman, J. Cunningham, failing to get shipped by a British Consular Agent, though this seaman had been specially forwarded for that purpose, in accordance with the instructions issued from the Foreign Office in October 1865.\n\nI have the honor to enclose the Harbor Master's Report on the case, and a letter from Mr. sques, the Consular Agent at thacar, explaining that he had no alternative but to send back J. Cummingham in conformity with instructions received\n\nMy Lord Dersee,\n\nAfan Graw's most obedient humble servant,\n\nRated Runner, Mundosmell Governor\n\nfrom Wer Majesty's Consul at Canton.\n\nI have the honor to be",
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        "content_text": "HongKong No 383.\n\n29th October, 1867.\n\nGovernor\n\nFor Richard Graves MacDonnell.\n\nHis Grace\n\nto\n\nThe Duke of Buckingham & Chandos,\n\nDistressed British Seaman). Calls attention to another instance when a Consular Agent failed to ship) -\n\nwhen sent from this Colony-\n\nWorshing 383.17479\n\nDonnell\n\nSovemartin Mar\n\nNo.165.\n\nDECR\n\nInterea\n\n86\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nThe receipt of Your despatch\n\nNo 383 of the 29th\n\ncalling attention\n\nto another instance in which a\n\nConsular agent failed to\n\nship a Distressed British\n\nSeaman when sent to him from the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nSin J. Roper\n\nXXX\n\ndesperate Exchequer\n\nChardonnell & the Duke of Buckingham's default. 2:157 tending lean the 18. 57/rade 11582 for his perdone. Aust\n\nc88-7 mph w\n\nich isonst\n\n23/12\n\ninforma\n\n1124/12\n\nHough any.\n\nJue applaus only recessary in eshte by my despatch, I refer you to No 159 &\n\nthe 13th, I am sending for your guidance, a letter upon the general subject from the Board...\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "I enclose copy of the letter from the Consular Agent and wish to point out to this Government the extreme inconvenience which arises from such directly contrary orders being issued.\n\nJ. Cunningham, the seaman sent to Macao, and returned, has incurred Hospital and Boarding House expenses to the amount of $45; he is not likely to ...\n\n(Copy)\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consular Agent, Macao, 12th October, 1867.\n\nHaving received instructions from Mr Consul Robertson to send back any distressed seamen when sent from Hongkong, I have no alternative but to comply with the instructions; therefore please receive the bearer J. Cunningham.\n\nThe Master Master of Hongkong.\n\nI ... be readily shipped, although well in health, he will remain here for an indefinite period at the expense of the Board of Trade, unless Mr Consul Robertson be induced to cancel the order which Mr Kelso gave to Mr Marques.\n\nI have ...\n\n(signed) R. ...\n\n... appears to have arrived at Macao the 13 inst.\n\n(signed) N. G. P.\n\n... out by ... Warder Master ... he has ...\n\n(signed) Pio Marques, Acting Consular Agent.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nN. G. Thomsell, Harbor Master, N.\n\n(True Copies)\n\nHai (South ...)\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nHongkong, 12th October 1867.\n\nTo the Master Master,\n\n(N. G. Thomsell).\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n(C. C. Smith).\n\nDestitute Seaman).\n\nRelative to the case of J. Cunningham returned from Macao by the British Consular Agent.\n\nEnclosure in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 383 of 29th ... 1867.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "# Opening of the port of Kiungchow\n\nRight of residence at other places than Treaty ports. Rendition of absconding debtors. Reduction of Tariff on Imports.\n\n(13.)\n\nAt Kiungchow a growing trade with this Colony has been blighted by an almost prohibitory regulation of the Maritime Customs, limiting vessels bound to Hainan to clearance at Canton under pain of confiscation. The Chamber does not presume to question the reason of the action of Her Majesty's Government in not taking advantage of the Treaty right of resort to the port; they would, however, suggest that from among the Merchants desirous of residing at the port, a British Consular Agent be chosen who would, under the supervision of the Consul at Canton, be able to perform all necessary acts connected with the opening of the port. The protection of a Gun-boat would, for a time, be requisite. The West Coast or seaboard of the Canton Province, extending from Macao to Hainan, affords promise of being connected with the Colony of Hongkong by a traffic which, if fostered, may in course of time attain to considerable proportions. The first step towards securing this would be the opening of a port and the encouragement of trade under British auspices.\n\n(14.)\n\n## ARTICLE XII\n\nAlthough Her Majesty's Government have not admitted that the insertion of the words \"at other places\" gives right of residence at places distant from the Treaty ports, it is hoped that the present text will remain intact, though partially in abeyance, so as to be availed of, if needs be, during the period intervening between the present time and the year 1878, before which date difficulties attending residence at places remote from the open ports will probably be lessened.\n\n(15.)\n\n## ARTICLES XIX and LIII\n\nare inoperative, or nearly so, as on the part of the Chinese Government there has been little or no provision made to carry out their obligations, and the duty of capturing robbers and pirates has been left to be performed by Her Majesty's Navy.\n\n(16.)\n\n## ARTICLE XXIII\n\nhas often been the subject of comment, as escape of Chinese criminals from Hongkong has been of frequent occurrence. In the instance of the absconding person being a debtor, application for his arrest has to be made by the Merchants to the Consuls at Canton, who can only represent the case, and demand, but not always obtain, the appearance of the delinquent. In the event of his surrendering, the prosecuting creditor resident in this Colony has to send, from this place to Canton, Counsel and evidence to prove the debt. Nothing could be more inconvenient.\n\n(17.)\n\nThe mutual surrender of criminals is, primarily, a matter for the Executive of this Colony. The rendition of absconding debtors escaping from Hongkong to the mainland is, however, unquestionably a clause which should be added to the article for the protection of the interests of the Mercantile Community; an authoritative demand, proceeding from the Government of this Colony, might receive more immediate attention than the request of the British Consul that a charge preferred be investigated.\n\n(18.)\n\n## ARTICLE XXVII\n\nspecially provides for a revision of the Tariff. It has been said that in review of the past and in consideration of the present, England cannot justly require material alterations in the existing Tariff, and the Chinese Government will doubtless demur, in the first instance, to any reductions; but the object of Her Majesty's Government should be to convince them that, by lowering their Tariff rates, they will be gainers in actual revenue. The immense expansion of trade since the introduction of the present Tariff (which is more liberal than the previous one) leads to the conclusion that fresh reductions would lead to further expansion and to an extent that would actually give more revenue than was collected under the higher scale of Duties. A comparative statement of the value of Imports from Great Britain at the commencement and termination of Ten Years is concisely given in the following table:",
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        "content_text": "With reference to my letter of the 15th of October last, I do myself the honour to acquaint you that here the Probst Merchant established at Ting the firm of Pustan has been appointed royal forsal at that place, instead of the former Consular Agent Overbech.\n\nI enclose herewith the Royal Exequatur and the same effect and Stanley respectfully.\n\n## Possible original formatting:\nThe original text appears to be a letter. The first line \"With reference t\" was likely the start of a sentence that continued from a previous page or section, but based on the available text, it has been reconstructed.\n\n### OCR Errors Corrected:\n- \"my letter of the 15 of October\" corrected to \"my letter of the 15th of October\"\n- \"do myself the homon\" corrected to \"do myself the honour\"\n- \"acquaint y\" corrected to \"acquaint you\"\n- \"Kony\" appears to be an error, but without context, it has been left as is; however, it seems likely that it should be \"you\"\n- \"Probst Merchan\" corrected to \"Probst Merchant\"\n- \"ting\" likely should be \"Ting\"; capitalization preserved as original\n- \"the firm of Pustan\" — \"Pustan\" could be a misrecognition; the correct firm name should be verified\n- \"royal forsal\" likely should be \"Royal Consul\" or similar; however, it has been preserved as \"royal forsal\" due to the rule to preserve original content\n- \"Voyal appet\" corrected to \"Royal Exequatur\"\n- \"th alme effect\" likely contains OCR errors; the correct phrase is unclear, but it may be \"the same effect\"\n\n### Other Changes:\n- \"Sie T. Rozen\", \"In Doabak refined\", \"town 9910. L. P. be for\", \"F.O.\", \"17\", \"Anace &\", \"alen\", \"Y/1⁄2 M\", \"4872\", \"Copy\", \"In 113011\", \"Jan\", \"Lunder 50\", \"My and\", \"258\", \"66\", \"ti a\", \"42.\" were not incorporated into the reconstructed text as they did not form coherent sentences or paragraphs with the rest of the provided text.\n- \"ে\" is a Bengali character and was not incorporated due to lack of context.",
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        "content_text": "discharged men come at least all those who apply for relief at this Port. But not only does the Colonial Government refuse to allow such men to be landed and thus leaves them for weeks and months at heavy charge to the Imperial Government, but it actually sends on to Macao those it has on hand under the pretension, for it can be called nothing else, of being able to find them employment among the busy Emigrant Ships and those men landing.\n\n439 totally destitute men are arrested by the Portuguese Authorities and handed over to the British Consular Agent, Mr. Sanee, who has them in his hands until they can be got rid of.\n\nI confess I read with great surprise the Action of the Hong Kong Colonial Government in this matter. I always thought it was the duty of one Department of the State to assist another, and thus, in a general way, to aid in lightening the burdens imposed for charitable or other consideration.\n\nI know perfectly well that the time and labour of this establishment is occupied to a large extent with the",
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        "content_text": "# Copy\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, June 4th, 1865.\n\n292\n\nIn reply to Your Lordship's Despatch No 47 of the 20th March, I have the honour to enclose Copy of a Circular I have addressed to Her Majesty's five Consulates. – where a Consular Officer acts Post Office Agent in accordance with Your Lordship's instructions. Prior to the receipt of the Despatch now under acknowledgement, there had been an exchange of letters on the subject with the Governor.\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nThe Good Stanby, M. P.",
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        "content_text": "by received direct from the Governor of Hong Kong or from the Post Master General of that Colony, \nthe subordinate of the said Governor, and you will instruct you will the said P. C. Agent to act upon them as heretofore when received from the Postmaster General.\n\nI gather from your Conswvey to my Circular that hitherto the instructions under which they have been called upon to act have not been of a kind materially to interfere with the discharge of the duties proper to their office as Consular Assistants; and so long as this should continue, I am unwilling to make any change in existing arrangements which might entail some inconvenience either on the Community or the Postal service - but I think it right to advise you that a Consular Officer can only be allowed to retain a Post Office Agency so long as this continues, and the orders from the Government of Hong Kong, and the services required of such Agent do not in any way interfere with the discharge of his own proper duties.\n\nIn the event of any conflict of duties arising, you will. \n\n## Page 296",
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        "content_text": "## \n300 \n\nThe Driver of Montrase requests you will move Ford Stanley to make such a Communication to the Consuls at Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Nagasaki, at much of which places the Fast Office Agency is held by one of the Consular Assistants.\n\n(Signed) John F. Davis.\n\n(Copy) \n\n**British Vice Consulate**  \n\"Chefoo, April 16th, 1848. \n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's Circular Despatch No. 5, inquiring whether any Officer of this Consulate holds the office of Packet Agent at this port, I have the honor to inform you that although the Mails are received and distributed by this Consulate, no Officer receives remuneration for his services. This is so manifestly unfair that I can scarcely understand the unjust economy of the Home Government.\n\nSir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B.  \n...  \nyo",
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        "content_text": "303 \n\n**AREMAZ** \n\nIf arrangement anything so informal can be called, but I have decided objections either to undertaking the full duties, the labours and responsibilities of a paid Post Office Agent, or of permitting any Officer in the establishment to do so. Those objections arise from doubt as to its interfering seriously with the efficient discharge of Consular duties proper. When in charge of Her Majesty's Consulate at Shanghai, I, with the previously obtained full accord and sanction of the late Sir Frederick Bruce, entirely disconnected that establishment from the Assistant in charge of the Post Office business, who had had charge of it, being promoted or removed. Thus, I had never been able to tell when I could count on the services of that Assistant for the transaction of Consular work; practically, indeed, I had to arrange for the performance of that work by the other Subordinates without his aid; and, I may add, had been constantly assailed by complaints of the Merchants as to the very inefficient way in which the Post Office duties were discharged. Here, where there is only one Assistant, it frequently happens that his services",
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        "content_text": "## Article 15\nThe Superintendency of Emigration shall be established in a Building capable of containing for four days the total number of Emigrants, who may have agreed to be shipped in any one Vessel.\n\n## Article 16\nOn report from the Agent that Emigrants are ready for embarkation, they shall be conveyed to the Superintendency, and there in Public hearing they shall be examined by the Superintendent, who shall order the Contract to be read over and explained to them, a printed copy of the same handed to each. (1) In addition to the Officers of the Superintendency, there shall be present during the examination, the Procurador for Chinese Affairs, or his deputy, the Interpreters of the Chinese language appointed for this service, the Commandant of the Police, and some Chinese Residents of acknowledged probity, whilst there be no Consular Authority for China in Macao.\n\n## Article 17\nThe Chinese, who after examination shall state their willingness to...",
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        "content_text": "488\n\nArt XXI. Emigrants who are ready to embark, according to the notice given by Superintendent, the Agent, shall be taken to the Court where, in open Court, they shall be examined by the Superintendent, & the contracts shall be read & explained to them, a printed copy of the contract being delivered to each individual. At this transaction, in addition to the persons employed in the Superintendency, there shall be present the Procurador of Chinese Affairs, or his deputy, the interpreters of Chinese appointed for this service, the Chief of Police, & two Chinese residents of the most acknowledged probity, during Consular authority of that nation at such time as there shall be no ... at places.\n\nArt. XXII. Such Chinese as, on being examined, declare their readiness to emigrate & their acceptance of the terms of the contract, shall be collected in the lodgings provided in the Superintendency; & during the period of four days, until the signing of the contracts, they shall not be allowed to communicate with the agents, manager, or contractors, or with the brokers.\n\nArt. XXIII. On the following day, the emigrants shall be summoned publicly & at the hour appointed for the purpose to the Office of the Superintendent, there, in the presence of the persons mentioned in the paragraph annexed to Art. 16, the contract shall again be read over to them, & questions shall be put to them, all who reply in the affirmative being thereupon sent back to their lodging place.\n\nArt. XIX. The same proceeding shall be repeated on the third day.\n\nArt. XX. On the fourth day, in a similarly public manner, after a fresh reading & examination, the contract shall be signed by each emigrant in turn. The duplicate contracts shall be in accordance to the established rule, one being delivered to the agent & the other to the emigrant.\n\nArt. XXI.",
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        "content_text": "service, the Commandant of Police, and two Chinese residents of the most acknowledged probity, during such time as there shall be no Consular authority of that nation at Macao.\n\ncording to the method laid down in this Decree, and the last.\n\nIn view of the near approach of the ensuing North East monsoon the above period is extended to twenty days and the number of successive shipments to three, in the case of vessels having a larger number of emigrants to take on board.\n\nART. XVII—Such Chinese as, on being examined, declare their readiness to emigrate and their acceptance of the terms of the contract, shall be collected in the lodgings provided for the purpose in the Superintendency; and during the period of four days, until the signing of the contracts, they shall not be allowed to communicate with the agents, managers, or contractors, or with the brokers.\n\nART. XVIII—On the following day the emigrants shall publicly and at the hour appointed for the purpose be summoned to the office of the Superintendency, and there, in the presence of the persons mentioned in the paragraph annexed to Art. 16, the contract shall again be read over to them, and the same questions shall be put to them, all who reply in the affirmative being thereupon sent back to their lodging place.\n\nART. XIX—The same proceeding shall be repeated on the third day.\n\nART. XX.—On the 4th day, in a similarly public manner, after a fresh reading and examination, the contract shall be signed by each emigrant in turn. The contracts shall be in duplicate, according to the established rule, one being delivered to the agent and the other to the emigrant.\n\nART. XXI.—All Chinese who have signed the contract shall proceed forthwith to the place where they are to be at the agent's disposal, and here they shall receive the advance and clothing, and shall thereupon be at once taken on board the ship that is to convey them on their voyage.\n\nART. XXII.—Any Chinese who at the time of signing the contracts or in the preceding examinations in the Superintendency shall declare themselves unwilling to emigrate shall be taken to a separate place, in order that they may be sent back to their homes, at the expense of the agent, to whom they shall be bound to reimburse the expense of their maintenance received and half the cost of their passage money, in conformity with article XXVII.\n\nART. XXIII.—So long as the Superintendency shall not be established in a building capable of accommodating the total number of emigrants to be shipped by any vessel, it shall be lawful to send them on board in two batches, no longer interval than ten days being allowed to elapse between the first embarkation, conducted according to the method laid down in this Decree, and the last.\n\nIn view of the near approach of the ensuing North East monsoon the above period is extended to twenty days and the number of successive shipments to three, in the case of vessels having a larger number of emigrants to take on board.\n\nART. XXIV.—Vessels about to carry emigrants must be in readiness to sail at the latest within forty-eight hours after the last embarkation has taken place.\n\nART. XXV.—The medical men of the establishments must inspect the emigrants at the Superintendency, on the days during which the said emigrants are lodged there.\n\nART. XXVI.—To meet the expenses of the Superintendency and of the maintenance of the emigrants, while lodged there, each agent respectively shall pay the sum of one dollar and a half for each emigrant so lodged.\n\nART. XXVII.—Any emigrant who shall have been for ten days in an Emigration establishment, in the enjoyment of full liberty there allowed him, and who only withdraws after the lapse of the above interval, shall constitute himself debtor to the agent concerned in the amount of half the cost of his passage, and of his maintenance, at the rate of 100 cash per diem.\n\nART. XXVIII.—Every breach of the Emigration Regulations shall be reported by the Superintendent to the Government, with minute particulars and evidence as to the fact. It shall be the duty of the Government to transmit the offenders, when Chinese, to the Procurature of Chinese affairs, and in other cases to the Judicial Tribunal, in conformity with the laws.\n\nART. XXIX.—All fines arising from the Emigration Regulations, whether imposed by the Judicial Tribunal or by the Procurature of Chinese affairs shall be forwarded to the Treasury in the shape of a warrant, in order to their recovery.\n\nART. XXX.—All provisions of previous Regulations contrary to the present Decree are revoked, and this Decree shall be considered as annexed to the existing Regulations.\n\nThe authorities to whom appertain the cognizance and execution hereof, shall carry it into effect, accordingly take note of the same and\n\nMACAO, August 24th, 1868.\n\n(Signed) ANTONIO SERGIO DE SOUZA,\n\nGovernor.\n\n725",
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        "content_text": "# CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of Hong Kong, for the Quarter ended 31 December, 1868\n\nOFFICE\n\nName of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n\nName of the Officer who is now holding the appointment and annual Salary.\n\nIf appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n\nIf newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n\nIf promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n\nDate of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n\nColumn for Remarks.\n\nCost Office Agent.\nG. P. Thomson (resigned)\n$192.\n13. Brenan\n$192.\n\nAssistant Postmaster\nJ. M. C. Machado (promoted)\n$1200\nG. S. da Silva\n\nStamp Office Shroff\nYi (resigned)\n$720.\nSit a Wong\n$216.\n\nAttorney General\nH. J. Bull.\n$2400.\nJ. Dannerfste Acting.\n\nPolice Force Inspector (of Nuisances)\nA. Albert (resigned)\n$600.\nA. Herglett.\n$600.\n\n$4000\n\nN:3085 4th Dec.\n\nN:3068. 4th Dec.\n\nC.S.O. W:3044\n\nYou Notif N738 of 21. Dec. 1868\n\n13th October C.S.O. No2667.\n\nThese are both Assistants in the Consular Service, who receive a small Salary for acting. Post Office Agents.\n\nhas been made on the Estimates of 1869, for this appointment.\n\nNo 625 On the return of Mr Pauncefote from leave of absence on 25. Dec. 1868\n\nPage 98T\n\n \n...\n\nPage 99",
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        "content_text": "41. The Agency of the Local Post Office at Shanghae is the medium by which almost all other letters are conveyed and delivered.\n\n42. I found the duty generally well performed, but as in all cases, except where there are Officers independent of the Consular service, I made many minor alterations and improvements in the system of carrying on the work, but I do not consider them worthy of notice here. I may, however, mention that I induced the Consul, as Official Administrator of the estate of the late Post Office Agent, who was drowned on the 3rd April last, to admit the amount of that Officer's indebtedness to the Post Office as a specialty claim upon his estate and to pay the same.\n\n43. The salary of the Agent is £60 per annum paid by the Imperial Post Office and the Colonial Government maintains a Coolie at $6 per month. The annual loss from this Agency to the Colonial Government is estimated at $44.76, and the actual receipts in 1868 amounted to $356.46.\n\n44. Ningpo contains about 128 foreign inhabitants.\n\n45. At Nagasaki, Post Office Agent Adolphus Arthur Annesley, Esq., the Consulate is situate at such a distance from the business quarter, which is so much nearer to where the Steamers lay than the Consulate, that but few letters pass through the Post Office except those received and sent by the English Mail Packets.\n\n46. The trade of Nagasaki is, however, gradually drifting to the recently opened adjacent Ports of Hiogo, Kobe and Osaca, and some of the Merchants and others have already left the place, in one or two instances after having incurred large outlays in building houses as residences and Offices.\n\n47. I have made arrangements with the Agents for and part-owners of the Steamers running regularly between Nagasaki and Shanghai to convey gratuitously the small English Mails. I also endeavoured to obtain the sanction of the United States' Consul General and Postal Agent to permit the small packets of English Mails for and from Hiogo, Kobe and Osaca to be carried by the United States' Mail Packets running between Shanghai and Yokohama, through the Inland Sea, which vessels touch at the two first named places, offering to reciprocate the advantage sought by any feasible means at my command, but this Officer although apparently willing to make the concession, received a letter (which he permitted me to peruse), during my presence in Shanghae, from the Post Office at Washington taking from him the power.\n\n48. The Mails for Hiogo, Kobe and Osaca, however, were sent on this occasion, by the Steamer Costa Rica in charge of the Purser. I transmitted instructions to this Office to send these Mails, in future, to Yokohama, to be forwarded to their destination from thence by the numerous private steamers running from that place to Hiogo.\n\n49. In view of the reduction in the business of the Nagasaki Agency, and of the fact that the Agent's salary was increased from £60 to £100 under the authority of His Excellency's minute on my letter of 18th April, 1868, No. 25, on account of the Port being made a place of call for the Contract Packets under the Mail Contract of 19th November, 1867, which was, shortly afterwards, discontinued, and also because the revenue of the Agency falls far short of what is sufficient for the payment of the salary of the Agent and wages of the Coolie, I would advise that it be reduced to £40 per annum; the present Agent, I observe, has been appointed Vice-Consul at Hiogo and Osaka and, possibly, therefore, His Excellency may consider this a fitting opportunity for making the reduction.\n\nHongkong\n\n801-19808\n\nb. the\n\n!\n\nThe Secretary\n\nPost Office\n\nMinut 26.11.69\n\nJin Manson 18.\n\nali & Sandford 24 Sij\n\n276\n\n30 Nov? 1869\n\nI am directed by\n\n& transmit\n\n号\n\ng\n\nPaul Grauwwith\n\nthe\n\n&& you for the favour\n\nof consideration Postmaster\n\nfout a copy\n\n1405\n\nIf a despatch from Sir Richard MacDonnell shelving\n\na\n\nсероз\n\na\n\n801.\n\n29 bere\n\nof\n\nau Extension\n\nCommunication\n\nChamber\n\nfrom the Hongkong\n\nCommerce recommending\n\n9\n\nSteam\n\nPostal arrangement between\n\nFoochow and Colony",
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        "content_text": "6981\n\npapua jazavni) of a NOH\n\nto su u uẸ SINAKINIOJIY puu\n\nSTOIGNE JO SUL 2 W SHONYHO\n\n# CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th September 1859. (Continued)\n\n  \n    OFFICE.\n    Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed in England, date\n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n    If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Past Office. Alec: Fruiter.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Agent at Canton\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Agent.\n    af Swatow\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Registrar General's Office\n    $ 288.\n    B. Baxter\n    $288.\n    6.30\n    No21345 20th May 1869.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    6. sa B.\n    B. C. Scott.\n    No 13273\n    #192.\n    $192.\n    \n  \n  \n    Junior Registration Clerk.\n    Thing Ying Chun (resigned)\n    \n    \n    $40.\n    Chinese Writer Im, Chring (deceased)\n    $144.\n    \n  \n  \n    Harbor Master's Office\n    R. Collins.\n    Engineer of the \"Blanche.\" (resigned)\n    \n    4. boo.\n    Ho\n    а 라 4.720\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Aming\n    $450\n    15th May 1869.\n    E sa N: 2061 1869.\n    6.30\n    No 1672 25th June 1869.\n  \n\nThe Assistants to the Consular Service being also Post Office Agents; any transfer in one service involves a corresponding change in the other.\n\nA very competent Chinese having applied for employment, it was deemed expedient to secure his services for both of these offices, raising the united Salary from $384 to $720 per annum.\n\nThe fireman, having been reported competent, his services have been engaged; Engineer Lovry of $180",
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        "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]",
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        "content_text": "Government to pay for expenses incurred in \n\nthe detention of witnesses to murder, on the \n\nWright \n\nin CE \n\nEleven sent for \n\ntrial in the Supreme Court of \n\nthe \n\nColony by Her Majesty's Acting \n\nConsul at Managawa.\n\nI also enclose the copy of a \n\nletter addressed by Sir J. Hornby, \n\nThe Chief Judge of The Supreme Consular \n\nCourt \n\nfor China and Japan to Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, by which Your Lordship will perceive that in the opinion of the former this Colony \n\n30 Sept. 1889 \n\nis entitled to claim reimbursement \n\nof the expenses incurred rather from The Home Government than from the Legation in Japan \n\nas \n\nproposed by M. Austin in his capacity \n\nof Acting \n\nConsular Auditor.\n\nUnder the circumstances I \n\ntrust that Your Lordship will take \n\nthe necessary steps to cause \n\npayment \n\nin reimbursement of the advance \n\nmade \n\nby \n\nthe \n\nColony.\n\nto be paid to the Crown \n\nAgent's by the Department properly \n\nchargeable.\n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's most obedient \n\nhumble servant, \n\nWilliam Des Vœux\n\nGovernor",
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        "content_text": "# adoption of this route has been urged by the Italian government on the grounds that accelerations have taken place in the Italian Railroad services, and that improvements have been made in the harbor of Brindisi. The public nevertheless do not appear to have sufficient confidence in the facilities afforded and only 308 letters and 71 papers have been sent in the 8 Mails despatched up to this date, and about an equal number have been received since the inauguration of the new route in London in September.\n\n13. The Postmaster General of the United States has discontinued the employment of the Postal Agents heretofore in charge of the Mails conveyed by the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's steamers on the line between Hongkong and San Francisco, and their duties have been assigned to the Pursers of these vessels; the French Post Office has also withdrawn the Post Office Agents on the line between Hongkong and Shanghae; the Mails by French Packets are now exchanged between this Office and the British Post Office at Shanghae instead of as formerly, with the Post Office Agents on board those Packets.\n\n14. A reciprocal exchange of books, pamphlets and patterns, in the Mails transmitted between Hongkong, Yokohama, San Francisco and the United States generally, by the United States' Packets has been carried into operation.\n\n15. The whole of the postal Agencies in China and Japan have been thoroughly inspected during the past year, and the result of the examination thereof was submitted in my letter of the 23rd September last, No. 57.\n\n16. The advantages derivable from occasional personal inspections of these Agencies are manifold, both to the public and to the members of the postal service generally. Opportunities are thereby afforded to the Postmaster General of seeing with his own eyes that adequate facilities are at all times afforded to the Public in the receipt, transmission and delivery of their letters, and of effecting such improvements, as circumstances may require. I therefore embody in this Report such portions of the Report of the tour of inspection as may be useful.\n\n17. At all the Ports, except Shanghae and Yokohama, the Post Office duties are performed by Consular Officers, (who are, in some cases, the junior Officers of the service;) and, on this account, it is not to be expected that the work can be so thoroughly done as it would be by experienced Officers of this Department; at the same time, I observed that they took some interest in the effective fulfilment of the postal labor imposed upon them. A complete code of instructions for their use has been printed and forwarded for their guidance.\n\n18. Arrangements have been made for the continuance of the amalgamation of the British and Local Post Offices at Shanghae.\n\n19. Communication between Shanghae and Hongkong by the British and French Mail Packets and the numerous other vessels now running is constant, and under the new agreement the Local Post Office of Shanghae has undertaken to land to the Agent of this Department all loose letters received from Hongkong. The British Office at Shanghae is largely availed of and the duties are performed satisfactorily to the public, who, among other advantages, reap the full benefit of the system of sorting their letters at sea, without any charge whatever. The system of sorting the Mails at sea between Hongkong and Singapore, and between Hongkong and Shanghae has been successfully carried on.\n\n20. The building occupied conjointly by the British and Local Post Offices is not well situated.\n\n21. A new Post Office has been erected at Yokohama on a plot of ground obtained from the Government of Japan, and it is now occupied. This building being near the Hatoba and centrally situated, is found convenient and equal to the requirements of the public. The present prospects of this Agency are however by no means brilliant, and I feel sure that so soon as the public have full confidence in the regular and speedy transmission of Mails to the United Kingdom via San Francisco and New York much of the correspondence will be sent and received by that route.\n\n22. In paragraph 12 of the Report of 19th July, 1867, it was estimated that some additional expenditure would be necessary at Yokohama, and since then a Clerk at $720 per annum and a Shroff at $216 per annum have been appointed to the Agency there.\n\n23. Yokohama was not at that time, however, a place of call for the Contract Packets, as it is now, and therefore all the revenue collected on Local letters sent and received accrued to the Colony; as these letters are now carried by the Contract Packets, almost exclusively, the revenue goes to the Imperial Post Office; in fact since the British Packets commenced running under Contract, the business of the Yokohama Post Office has been, with but little or no exception, for the benefit of the Imperial Post Office; at the same time, like the other Agencies, it collects and delivers letters the postage on which swells the general Colonial revenue of the Department.\n\n24. The completion of the Pacific Railway from San Francisco to New York has necessarily diverted most of the letters for the United States from their former course of transmission by the English Packets, viâ Marseilles and via Southampton, to the more direct and quicker route now afforded by the United States' Packets running from Yokohama via San Francisco.\n\n25. The discontinuance of the British Mail Contract line between Shanghae and Yokohama has had an injurious effect upon the revenue of the Yokohama Post Office, whilst the French Post Office also deprives it of some of its business.\n\nPage 338\n\n26. At Nagasaki the opportunities of sending and receiving Mails have considerably diminished. At present the United States' Mail Packets to and from Shanghae afford the only regular means of communication, but as I mentioned in the Report of my tour, I was unsuccessful in the attempt I made to get these vessels to carry the small English Mails between Shanghae and Nagasaki; arrangements have been made however under which some of the merchants at Nagasaki have their correspondence sent to firms at Shanghae who repost it at the American Post Office there to be forwarded in the United States' Mails to Nagasaki; and therefore some of the inconvenience which might otherwise have been experienced at Nagasaki has been averted; but much inconvenience, which I regret I am unable to remedy, is still felt from the non-receipt of home Mails at regular intervals; as it often occurs that two or three Mails from home reach Nagasaki at the same time, owing to their having been delayed at Shanghae for want of an opportunity to send them across.\n\n27. In view of the reduction in the business of the Post Office Agency at Nagasaki, the salary of the Agent has been reduced from £100 to £40 per annum; the Expenses of that Agency have recently been in excess of the revenue.\n\n28. At Hiogo the Post Office Agency has been in existence so short a time that it is unnecessary to say more than, that from the representations made to me and from information gained on the spot, its establishment will, I feel sure, be a boon to the inhabitants of Hiogo and the adjacent Ports of Kobe and Osaka.\n\n29. At the ports of Swatow, Foochow, Ningpo and Nagasaki, the Consulates are so much more distant from the anchorage of the steamers than are the merchants' quarters, that very few letters, except those to be forwarded by the Mail Packets from Hongkong, are put into the Post Offices, therefore most of the letters for Hongkong are placed loosely on board, and, in many cases, I fear, are handed to the steamers' Agents here, who distribute them without the agency of the Post Office, a practice which I regret to say all efforts to put an end to have failed; it is, however, right to say that the Agents of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, of the Messageries Impériales and of the Pacific Mail Company are exceptions.\n\n30. At Canton and Amoy, although the Consulates are conveniently situated, the number of letters for Hongkong which are posted is very inconsiderable, in fact at all the places mentioned in this and the previous paragraphs, the Post Offices are used chiefly for the receipt and delivery of letters to and from home, the sale of Postage Stamps, and, in exceptional cases, for the registration of letters. I am satisfied that no possible alteration that could be made would induce the merchants to send their letters through the Post Office while the steamers are closer at hand, and while they offer the advantage of a later receipt of letters than the Post Office can possibly give.\n\n31. Under the provisions of Clause 3 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1862 correspondence sent between Canton and Hongkong is exempt from the exclusive privilege of the Post Office, and it is therefore not to be expected that the public will pass their letters through the Post when they can lawfully send and receive them otherwise free of charge.\n\n32. The number of Chinese letters daily sent between Hongkong and Canton is very large. Various Offices for their receipt exist at both places, and on the passage they are taken charge of by `ja mau` who travels for the purpose, or by some one connected with the steamer who has a share in the enterprise; on arrival they are delivered and a fee of about 30 cash or three cents each is collected; no system of prepayment of postage exists.\n\n33. It is not, in my opinion, desirable to interfere with the practice, as every means would of course be taken by the Chinese to evade the law if it were made incumbent upon them to send their letters through this Office, so long as the rate of postage exceeded that charged by private Offices, and were it reduced to the same level, the Revenue would probably be more than swamped by the additional expenditure incurred. As regards the correspondence of foreigners it is very doubtful whether or not they would avail themselves to any extent of the security the Post Office affords if the postage was considerably reduced.\n\n34. The Money Order system is much used at Amoy. There is no office there however, the place not containing inhabitants enough to justify the establishment of a Money Order Office yet, even if there were no difficulties in the way of doing so; but the Post Office Agent procures Money Orders from this Office for all who apply to him, remitting with his requisition the probable amount required to pay for them, and receiving back any excess in such remittances in Postage Stamps.\n\n35. It was suggested in the Chamber of Commerce here on the 9th August last, that, on account of the vast importance of the trade of Foochow and the great revenue which the Imperial Government derives from the duties on Tea exported therefrom, and also because it sometimes occurs that the Foochow steamer reaches Hongkong just after the homeward Mail has departed, or in too short a time before her departure, to enable the merchants to do their business and save the Mail, that steamers should be subsidized for carrying the Mails to and from Hongkong at the cost of the Imperial Post Office.\n\n36. Whatever the claims of the Foochow Community or those of their agents here may be to such an advantage, I look upon the matter as one of some importance to this Colony, and I feel satisfied that unless some step is taken to improve the Mail service, much of the business which now comes to Hongkong, will with the frequent and regular communication afforded by the four steamers running to Shanghae, diverge to that place.",
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        "content_text": "## OFFICE\n### Surveyor General\n127 Clerm and Clerk.\n\n**RETURNS OF OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended**\n\n| Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary. | Name of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary. | If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State. | If appointed by the Governor, date of authority. | If newly appointed or promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment. | Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment. | Column for Remarks. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| B. Chagas (Acting) $1200 | G. J. Cotton $2400 | £200 |  |  | Governmt. Notif. A3 No. 123 of 2274 |  |\n| M. Gutierrez (Acting) $720 | B. Chagas $2130 |  |  |  | Argent. No. 4976 |  |\n|  | R. Mitchell $630 |  | b. s. O No. 1886 |  |  |  |\n| European Clerk (charged) $4420 |  $7920 £100 | £100 |  |  |  |  |\n| Overseer $480 | Thomas Stoves $480 | £100 | N3 9032 | (promoted) |  |  |\n| Post Office Agent G. J. Handges $288 £66 (resigned) | Enslie $258 B60 |  | No. 1776 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | Overseer of 27 July 1872. | No. 141 29 | Mr. Tomlin returned from his leave to England and resumed the duties of his office. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | Mr. Chagas returned to his original post, and the temporary appointment of Mr. Gutierrez ceased. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | As this is but a temporary appointment. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | Certain alterations in the Consular service by H.M.'s Minister have involved this exchange. |\n\nPage ... \n...",
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        "content_text": "## of Commerce\n\n190\n\n**Admiral** · **Agent**\n\nBill prefers to make Can their port. It may be worth adding that the objection lately raised to the appointment of a Chinese Consul at Hong Kong, does not apply to the Establishment of a Customs Office. Had the Chinese chosen to appoint some foreigner, no one would have objected to this; but the Consul would have been a perfectly useless Official. But if they had sent, as they would have wished to send, a mandarin of the Regular Service, he would have been deprived of his Exequatur in a given number of weeks for proceeding as if he were in a territorialized country.\n\nThe Customs Service employed down to the tide waiters would be composed of foreigners only.\n\nOur Communities at the ports, when they hear that new ports are to be opened, will, at first, take alarm; for to them new ports mean new concessions, new communities, infusions of competition. The ports I propose to open, however, even if China would consent to open every port into which a steamer can turn, would not, for some years to come, at all events, be \"ports of permanent residence\", but open only to steamers carrying cargoes and passengers from the ports now open, and which, for distinction's sake, I shall here call \"Consular ports\". There would be no new settlements to rival the old, and the old towns would immediately feel...",
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        "content_text": "# of Commerce\n\n(194 Admiral Agent lin port fld be dwelling then stay deposited with the Eussions. Foreigners ved reside for the present under passport only. If eventually the port were found worth the change, it could be made a Consular port; in which case, of course, a resident Community would be formed. Here, as long as we exterritorialise the great lakes, Poyang and Fang, calling for steam Engs, and perhaps a port upon the Grand Canal.\n\nThe Stuned not clude the likui We collectorate save by one expedient, which I will mention elsewhere: but like Ken we should deliver price. Good markets are to be found at Kalfa, Koper, & More, to which only over land our ships and subjects owe precautions to the Chinese Gr. against irregularity. Under these conditions, I would open at least Winchow, dui-Chew, Jun-pall or Hoihow, and Kiang-chow along the coast; a post up the Trang-Si noër; and I-chang up Yang-Eze, a port upon one of the great lakes, how access is to be had, and to which, it is to be presumed, would not be without increasing the consumption of the surrounding districts. The Chinese vroiting the Consular ports would be practically the Colporteurs of our trade, as at this moment they are between Shanghai & Sam Mar...\n\n| Location        | Description                                      |\n| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |\n| Shanghai        |                                                  |\n| Fintain         |                                                  |\n| Damlior         | Foreign Communities                              |\n| E               |                                                  |\n\nIf the organisation, it is due, of the foreign Communities of Damlior and E...",
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        "content_text": "## of Cove \nAdmin \nAgent \n\nFler \n5. \nJune 1871.0. \n141 \n11390 \n3435 trong trong \n\n### ECRIVEL \nJUNE 3 1871 \n224 \n\n**Foreign Office.** \nJune 2. 1871. \n\nEarl Granville \nby \nJam directed \n**Acknowledgment** \nthe receipt of your \nLetter \nof the 26th ultimo, inclosing the Copy of an Ordinance to be promulgated by \nthe Governor of Hong Kong, with a view to modify the existing Regulations of \nthe Chinese Passenger Act of 1855, and \nrequesting \nto be informed whether Lord Granville \nsees any objection to the appointment of Her Majesty's Consular Officers \nin Chinese Parts to act as Immigration Officers in order to avoid \n\n**Under Secretary of State.** \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "Correspondence in the Foreign Office.\n\nJuly 26, 1871.\n\nEarl Granville to ...\n\n... reduction to a proposed ... the postal rates between Hongkong and ... of this the Philippine Islands, ...\n\nJune 10/71\n\n... do. do. ...\n\nJune 21/71\n\nEdo do to 14 May 12, H ...\n\n... a reduction ...\n\nHer Majesty's Consul at Manila recommends should if possible ... be extended to the tariff of postage with ...\n\nColonial Office, Singapore\n\nPage ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions and formatting guidelines provided, the corrected and formatted text in HTML as requested is:\n\nof Comme\n\nAdmira\n\nAgent\n\n10. July 1871\n\nrecognition of\n\nConsular app! - for In Picass\n\nQui at Hong Kong.\n\nBelgian Consul\n\nketts. Our 23.\n\nFans in 1870.\n\nM: 24 Aug 20. 1870.\n\nEst Office 29. 1070,\n\nAnckelte Werz Jov. 3. 1870.\n\ndo. Lo Her 35.\n\nBee 27. 18.70.\n\nPost Office Feb 22./71.\n\nine Reckitty tes! The 28/71\n\nt offici Pray 31. 31/71\n\npril 19/71 ful\n\nREN JULY 1871 bong hong\n\nShark Settinh Strait No 174 16llagart 1871297 left\". 1871 (flect returned).\n\nas 231 Foreign Office.\n\nJeely 26. 1071. Earl Grauville to\n\nCorrespondence in the Foreign Office.\n\nJuly 26, 1871.\n\nEarl Granville to ... the masque reduction to a prepoved ... the portal rates beturen Hongtrong and Dot of thin the Philippine Solands, ...\n\nJune 10/71 do. do. 14 at thicketto hos\n\nJune 21/71 Edo do to 14 May 12, H Whiche a reduction\n\nHer Majesty's Conoal at Marula recommends should if possible populle be Extended to the tariff of portage witte\n\nder Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office Singapore",
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        "content_text": "334\n\n4.\n\nMaster of the \n\n2 \n\nPetitions that \n\nM \n\nthe repel and \n\nSteam Ship \n\n\"Arration Apour\" 20 February... \n\nPassengers \n\nwere inspected, prior \n\nto \n\nto Gnemo. \n\nstarting, by the proper \n\nConsular officer and Immigration \n\nGovernment \n\nAgent at Swatow, he believes \n\nthat \n\nwas \n\na breach of the Law \n\nbeing committed. States \n\nhis willingness to submit \n\nto any reasonable penalty fixed \n\nand prays.\n\nby the Governor, and \n\nthe proceedings may be stayed. \n\nCalls for opinion of the Acting Colonial Secretary \n\nActing Attorney General as to \n\nthe advisability of accepting payment of a fine of £100 and costs in lieu of pursuing the legal proceedings",
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        "content_text": "The \"Ava\" was carrying mails to Shanghai, but was so much injured that she had to put into the port of Amoy for repairs. Temporary repairs were there executed, sufficient at any rate to allow her to proceed to Shanghai, where legal proceedings might, had the owners of the \"Roma\" so elected, have been instituted against her in the Consular Court. This course, however, they declined to adopt, and they determined to arrest the \"Ava\" here on her return journey and to make the Nice Admiralty Court here try their case.\n\nAs soon as this decision became known to M. Conil, the principal Agent for the Messageries Maritimes here, he retained my services as Counsel for the \"Ava\" and telegraphed to his directors in France for instructions as to the course to be adopted. Their reply advised him not to consent to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court in Hong Kong, unless he was compelled to do so, but to leave the matter, if possible, to be tried in France.\n\nMy opinion was taken upon the point, and I advised M. Conil that although the \"Ava\"",
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        "content_text": "DESPATCH.\n\nSuriant.\n\nI have to\n\nSignca)\n\nTheo-Sampson, Emigration Agent..\n\n(True Copy.) Jeni 1. Shatt.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nRID\n\nHong Kong\n\nNo. 21 No 7052\n\nGovernor No.\n\nDate\n\n1872\n\n21\n\nMay 29\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nCopy 28. 16 July 1872\n\n(Subject.)\n\n617\n\nExpense for Prisoners in Victoria Gaol, from China and Japan. Consular Court Repayment through Control on account of course for ditto.\n\nChina reported and similar\n\nSuggested\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Meade\n\nTo F.O. at once with reference to our previous letter of the 10th\n\nPM 23/7\n\nLT\n\n13.\n\nN",
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        "content_text": "that\n\nхвору\n\nfor 28.\n\nof\n\nhine\n\nhis case\n\nin the Post Office,\n\nworthy of the\n\nis u\n\nconsideration of the Government. -\n\nMr Darradas states\n\n231\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong,\n\n20th June, 1873.\n\nthat he also served as\n\nClerk\n\nat Fifty Dollars\n\nper month in the\n\nOffice of the British Consular Agent\n\n(My Reketts) at Macao\n\nfor\n\nthree\n\nyears from the beginning of 1864,\n\nand that he was afterwards\n\nemployed in the Macao Office,\n\nwhich was then and is still under the Portuguese Government,\n\nuntil his appointment to the Hongkong Post Office\n\nin 1853.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E W Mitchell,\n\nPostmaster General.\n\nWith reference to\n\nmy letter\n\nof the 4th Instant N. 25, G.5.0.\n\nSir,\n\nN:1689,\n\nI have the honor\n\nconformally with paragraphs\n\nSeven and eight of the Hongkong\n\nthe 5th May,\n\nPension Minute\n\n1862, to certify:\n\nFirstly. That Mr Somingos.\n\nThe Honorable\n\nbuit le Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong-",
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        "content_text": "353\n\napprehend it would be far easier for an Emigration scheme to be conducted from Head Quarters, where the Agent, through Her Majesty's Consul, can readily appeal to the Chinese Authorities when disputes arise, than from a Port distant from a Consular representative, to which place reference might from time to time have to be made when delays would occur, and difficulties arise in dealing with questions promoted by obstructive Officials.\n\nIn cases where the discussion of questions takes place at a distance from the seat of action, this is invariably the result. If, therefore, Emigration to the West Indies is to be resumed, it would be advisable, in my opinion, that it should recommence at Swatow, where a very good class of labourer can be readily obtained. For I consider that further enquiries as to how far more can be made satisfactorily after Canton has been re-opened, when it will be found advantageous to begin with a Sub-Agency first established at the former place.\n\n6. Though not advising, therefore, that Mr. Sampson should, pending further instructions, move from Canton to Swatow, I shall transmit to him...",
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        "content_text": "14 \n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG. \n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED. \n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG. \n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED. \n\n117 \n\n15 \n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS. \n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY, \n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, \n\nCIVIL LIST. \n\nFIRED ESTABLISHMENTS. \n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY. \n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED. \n\nCIVIL LIST. \n\nSALARIES:- \n\nPOSTMASTER GENERAL. \n\nPostmaster General,.. \n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL. \n\n£ s. d.$C.\n£ s. d.$C.\n4. દે.$$$$C.\n100 00!480.00\nAssistant Postmaster General,.£ s. d.$C.\n800008,840.00500 0 02,400.00800 0 0\nan£ s. d.$¿\n£ s. d.$C.\n£8. d.$C.\nSALARIES:--\nRegistrar General,100 0 0480.00\nFirst Clerk...100 00480.001,440.00\nAccountant,12 10 0\n2 at $1,440,60.00600 002,880.00\nSecond do.,60 0 0\n700 0 03,360.00900 0 01,440.0025000\n1,200.00\nChinese Clerk and Interpreter,.150 0 0720.00\n2 at $1,200,500 002,400.00\nFirst Chinese Clerk,6000288.00\n7 Sorters <1 at $ 840.175 00840.00\nSecond do..60 0 0288.001 at $730,\n150 00720.00\nRegistration Clerk,300 0 01,440,001 at $ 600,\n125 00600.00\n2 Senior Chinese P'tration Clerks, at $600,250 001,200.00\nFirst Marine Sorter,.325 001,500,00\nSecond do.,300 001,440.00\n2.Junior do. do., at $240 each,...100 00480.00\n3 Chinese Writers, at $144 each,9000432.00\n2 Marine Stampers, at $90 ea.,.]40 001\nComprador at Hongkong,192.00\n2 Notice Servers, al$ 7230 0 0144.002}\n70 00360.00\nPrinting Coolie,150072.00\nShroff do.,45 00216.00\nMessenger,150079.001\n14 Coolies do., Average\nOffice Coolie,1500173.00\n1997 10 01,092.00\npay $73 each,\n4 Boatmen, at $72 each,60 0 0288.00\n5 Boatmen do., at $72 en.,75 00360.00\nInspector of Markets,150 0 0720.00\n16 Market Scavengers, at $60 ea.,200 0 0980.00\nAT THE CONSULAR PORTS.2,750 00/13,200.00\n600 002,880.00\n2,750 00.15,200.00!\n1,745 008,376.00|\n1,745 008,376.00!\nSALARIES:--\nPostmaster, Shanghae,\nClerk,200 00960.00\ndo.,\nPostmaster, Yokohama,400 001,920 00\nClerk,150 00720.00\ndo..\nPost Office Agent, Amoy,100 00480.00\nDo. do., Foochow,100 00480.00\nDo. do., Canton,100 00480.00\nDo.do., Ningpo,60 00288.00\nDo.do., Swatow,60 00988.00\nDo.do., Hankow,50 00940.00\nDo.do., Diogo,60 00288.00\nDo. do., Nagasaki,40 00192.00\nShroff at Yokohama,45.00210.00\nDo. at Shanghai,45 00216.00\n2,010009,648,00\nFor\nALLOWANCES:-\nFor Assistance at Hongkong,.\ndo. at the Ports,31 50150.00\n2,010009,648.00\n4,760 0022,848.00\n371 13 4\nFor Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,100 00\n1,784.00480.00\n502 1842,414.00\nCONTINGENCIES :---\nIncidental Expenses, Hongkong,\nCost of Adhesive Stamps,182 18 4\n175 00638.00840.00\nDo.,at the Ports,.208 68\n1,000.00\n43 15 0\nESTABLISHMENT,\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS :----\nGratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails,.\nRENT:-\nPost Office at Shanghae,...\nGround Rent of Post Office at Yokohama,210.00560 00| 2,688.00\n5,822 184| 27,950.001,000 0 0|7,680.00|\n937 10 04,500,00\n416 13 42,000,00\n20 16 8100.00\n437 1002,100.00\n7,197 18 434,550.00|\nTOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,-\n£8,797 184$42,230.00\n\nALLOWANCES:-- \n\nTo Registrar General for Chair hire... \n\n60 0 01 \n\nTo Inspector of Markets for do., \n\n30 0 0 \n\n288.00144.00\nFor Collection of Statistics, &c., \n83 681 400.00\n17368832.00\nCONTINGENCIES:-- \nFurniture, Incidental Expenses, &c., \nExpenses under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867, \n41184 200.00\n20 10 S 100.00\n62 10 0 300.00\nESTABLISHMENT, \n1,980 16 89,508.00\n1,250 00!6,000.00\nREVENUE SERVICE,-EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT \nPetty Expenses of Collecting Revenue at the Villages, \n108450.00\n1,991 509,558.00\nTOTAL REGISTRAR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,.. \n\nHARBOR MASTER. \n\n£ s. d.$C.\n£ s. d.$C.\n£ s. d.\nSALARIES:--- \nHarbor Master, \n100 0 0 480.00\nAssistant Harbor Master, \n250001,200.00\nFirst Clerk, \n\nSecond do., \nThird do., \n300 001,440.00\nFourth do., \n200 0 0 960.00\nFifth do., \n150 0 0 720.00\nCarried forward, - - \n1,000 004,800.00\n$\n. £ 8,241 5 015,558.00\n£ s. d.\n£ s. d.$C.\n700 0 03,360,00\n400 0 01,020.00\n300 0 0 1,440,00\n1,400 006,720.00",
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        "content_text": "3\n\n213\n\nAnd whereas by The Foreign Jurisdiction Act it was enacted (among other things) that it was and should be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then had or might at any time thereafter have within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty has had and now has power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Emperor of China and in the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas Her Majesty was pleased from time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, by Orders in Council of the several dates in the Schedule to this Order specified, to ordain laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, and to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid in the dominions of the Emperor of China and of the Tycoon of Japan respectively.\n\nAnd whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to be expedient at the present time to revise the provisions of the said Orders, and to ordain further and other laws and ordinances for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within such ships or vessels as aforesaid, and to make further and other provision for the due exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction aforesaid, and particularly for the more regular and efficient administration of justice among Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to the dominions of the Emperor of China or of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nAnd whereas, under the authority of provisions in this behalf in the first-recited Act contained, ordinances for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within certain ships or vessels at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China, have been from time to time made by the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China (such Superintendent being also the Governor of Hong Kong), with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, which ordinances are known as Consular Ordinances:\n\nAnd whereas such of those Consular Ordinances as are described in the Schedule to this Order are now in force, wholly or in part, but they are liable to repeal by Order of Her Majesty in Council, and it is expedient that they be repealed, such of their provisions as are not intended to be abrogated being consolidated with this Order:\n\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the first-recited Act and The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, or either of them, or otherwise, in Her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:\n\nI.-PRELIMINARY.\n\n1. This Order may be cited as The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865.\n\n2. In this Order-\n\nThe term \"China\" means the dominions of the Emperor of China:\n\nThe term \"Japan\" means the dominions of the Tycoon of Japan:\n\nThe term \"Minister\" means the superior diplomatic representative of Her Majesty for the time being, whether Ambassador, Envoy, Minister Plenipotentiary, or Chargé d'Affaires:\n\nThe term \"Chief Superintendent of Trade\" means the Superintendent of the trade of Her Majesty's subjects in China for the time being, or any person for the time being authorized to act as such:\n\nThe term \"Consular Officer\" includes every officer in Her Majesty's Consular Service, whether Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent, or person authorized to act in any such capacity in China or in Japan:\n\nThe term \"British vessel\" includes every vessel being a British ship within the meaning of The Merchant...\n\nA 3",
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        "content_text": "Report of Pro-vincial Court.\n\nSeisure of vessel, &c.\n\nRegulations as to entering waters, &c.\n\n24\n\nHer opened to British subjects by treaty between Her Majesty, heirs or successors, and the Tycoon of Japan, is hereby declared unlawful.\n\nIf any person engages in such trade as a principal, agent, ship-owner, ship-master, or supercargo, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to be punished (in the discretion of the Court before which he is convicted) by imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars, or by a fine not exceeding 10,000 dollars without imprisonment.\n\n93. If the Court before which any person charged with having committed such a misdemeanour is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.\n\n94. The officer commanding any of Her Majesty's vessels of war or any of Her Majesty's Naval Officers authorized in this behalf by the Officer having the command of Her Majesty's Naval Forces in Japan by writing under his hand, may seize any British vessel engaged or reasonably suspected of being or having been engaged in any trade by this Order declared unlawful, and may either detain the vessel, with the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons engaged in navigating the vessel, or any of them, or take or cause to be taken the vessel, and the master, officers, supercargo, crew, and other persons aforesaid, or any of them, to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere convenient for the prosecution of a charge for the misdemeanour alleged to have been committed.\n\nAny such vessel, master, officers, supercargo, crew, and persons may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure or at the port or place to which the vessel is so taken under the authority of any such Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in China or Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of such misdemeanour.\n\nIX.-JAPANESE WATERS.\n\n95. When and as often as it appears to Her Majesty's Minister in Japan that the unrestricted entrance of British vessels into or the unrestricted passage of British vessels through any strait or other water in Japan may lead to acts of disturbance or violence, or may otherwise endanger the maintenance of peaceful\n\n25\n\nrelations and intercourse between Her Majesty's subjects and the subjects of the Tycoon of Japan, Her Majesty's Minister may make any Regulation for prohibiting, or for restricting in such manner as seems expedient, the entrance or passage of any British vessel (other than a vessel of war of Her Majesty) into or through any such strait or other water as aforesaid as defined in the Regulation.\n\nHer Majesty's Minister may from time to time revoke or alter any such Regulation.\n\n224\n\n96. The foregoing provisions of this Order relative to the Penalties and making, printing, publication, enforcement, and proof of Regulations to be made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, and to the mode of proceeding in respect of any charge for an offence against any such Regulations, shall extend and apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Regulation made by Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, as last aforesaid.\n\n97. If any person navigating a British vessel wilfully violates, or wilfully attempts to violate, any such Regulation, the Officer commanding any vessel of war of Her Majesty, or in charge of any boat belonging to such vessel of war, may use force for the purpose of compelling him to desist from the violation or attempted violation of the Regulation, and if it appears necessary or expedient may seize the vessel, and such Commanding Officer may either detain her at the place of seizure, or take her, or cause her to be taken to any port or place in Japan or elsewhere, where the offender may be more conveniently prosecuted for such offence.\n\nAny such vessel may lawfully be detained at the place of seizure, or at the port or place to which she is so taken, under the authority of any such Commanding Officer, or of any of Her Majesty's Consular Officers in Japan, until the conclusion of any proceedings taken in respect of the offence.\n\nX- PIRACY.\n\n98. Any British subject being in China or in Japan may be proceeded against, tried, and punished under this Order for the crime of piracy wherever committed.\n\n99. If the Court before which a British subject charged with the crime of piracy is brought is a Provincial Court, the Court shall report to the Judge of the Supreme Court the pendency of the case.\n\nThe Judge of the Supreme Court shall thereupon direct in what mode and where the case shall be heard and determined, and (notwithstanding anything in this Order) the case shall be so heard and determined accordingly.",
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        "content_text": "CHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended\n\nOFFICE.\n\nName of the Officer who formerly held Name of the Officer who is now the appointment, and annual Salary.\n\ned and annual Salary.\n\nIf appointed by Her Majesty's Govern- appointment in England, date\n\nof authority of the Secretary of State.\n\nIf newly appointed by the Governor, date\n\nof authority.\n\nIf promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, descrip- tion of former appointment.\n\n80\n\nSeptember\n\nDate of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or ap- pointment, or the new appointment.\n\n1872.\n\nColumn for Remarks.\n\n  \n    4190\n    8748\n    試\n    129365\n    Mr Matters\n    Consular Assistant at Pooch.\n  \n  \n    Survey Depart\n    Overseer of Work Mater Mort\n    (resigned)\n    0920\n    £100\n    General Port Office D. J. Barradas Accountant\n  \n  \n    رام\n    21\n    Dr. Molley\n    0720 £160\n    J. G. Rocha\n    $1500. £312,10\n  \n  \n    ne 1996\n    18972\n    Police\n    Constable\n    81920\n    £400\n  \n  \n    Porter\n    J Gr. Rocha\n    (promoted)\n    Am. Place\n    N\n    2000\n  \n  \n    Jugno 1842\n    Sorter\n    20th June 1872\n    1892\n    مرحة\n    Do\n  \n  \n    Sorter\n    Do\n    0840.\n    £175\n    $1200.\n    £230\n  \n  \n    -Porter\n    A. M. Place\n    (promoted)\n    Z. M. Barrad.\n    01/0\n    Do\n  \n  \n    boo.\n    £120\n    $720.\n    4150\n    Post Office Agent at Forchov.\n    t Allen Thes. Watters\n  \n  \n    Jiguad\n    cso\n    появит\n    $480.\n    4100\n    Brd Jime\n  \n  \n    3480.\n    2100\n    1892\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 80",
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        "content_text": "ARTICLE I.\n\nThe Netherland Government shall be at liberty to recruit and engage labourers for the Netherland Colony of Surinam in the Indian territories belonging to Great Britain, and to embark emigrants from the ports of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, or any other ports in British India which shall hereafter be appointed by the Government of India for that purpose, under the conditions hereinafter stipulated.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\nThe Netherland Government shall intrust the direction of its operations in every centre of recruitment to an Agent chosen by itself.\n\nThose Agents must be approved by the British Government.\n\nSuch approval is assimilated, with regard to the right of granting and withdrawal, to the exequatur given to Consular Agents.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nThis recruitment shall be effected conformably to the regulations which now exist, or may hereafter be established, for the recruitment of labourers for British Colonies; and it is distinctly understood that the effect of the present Convention is not to give to the Netherland Government, at any time or place, any privilege whatever in respect of emigration, which is not at the same time and place enjoyed by the British Colonies.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nThe Netherland Agent shall, with regard to the operations of recruitment which are intrusted to him, enjoy for himself and for the persons whom he may employ, all the facilities and advantages afforded to the recruiting agents for British Colonies.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nThe Government of Her Britannic Majesty shall appoint in those ports where emigrants may be embarked, an Agent who shall be specially charged with the care of their interests.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nNo emigrant shall be embarked unless the Agent described in the preceding Article shall have been enabled to satisfy himself that his engagement is voluntary, that he has a perfect knowledge of the nature of his contract, or the place of his destination, of the probable length of his voyage, and of the different obligations and advantages connected with his engagement.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nThe contracts of service, with the exception provided for by section 4 of Article IX, and by section 2 of Article X, shall be made in India, and shall either bind the emigrant to serve a person designated by name, or to serve a person to whom he shall be allotted by the proper authority, on his arrival in the Colony.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nThe contracts shall, moreover, make stipulation for-\n\n1. The duration of the engagement, at the expiration of which the emigrant shall receive a return passage to India at the expense of the Netherland Government, and the terms on which it will be competent to him to renounce his right to a free return-passage.\n\n2. The number of days and hours of work.\n\n3. The wages, and rations (in case rations are given), as well as the rate of payment for extra work, and all the advantages promised to the emigrant.\n\n4. Gratuitous medical treatment for the emigrant, except in cases where, in the opinion of the proper Government officer, his illness shall have arisen from his own misconduct.\n\nIn every contract of engagement there shall be inserted an exact copy of Articles IX, X, XIX, and XX, of the present Convention.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\n1. The duration of the immigrant's engagement shall not be more than five years. In case, however, he shall be duly proved to have absented himself from work, he shall be bound to serve a number of days equal to the time of his absence.\n\n2. At the expiration of that period, every Indian who shall have attained the age of ten years at the time of his departure from India shall be entitled to a return passage at the expense of the Netherland Government.\n\n3. If he can show that his conduct has been regular, and that he has the means of subsistence, he may be allowed to reside in the Colony without any engagement; but from that time he will lose his right to a free return-passage.\n\nARTIKEL 1.\n\nDe Nederlandsche Regering zal de bevoegdheid hebben werklieden voor de Nederlandsche kolonie Suriname te werven en aantenemen in de Indische gewesten, die aan Groot-Brittannië toebehooren en de emigranten in te schepen in de havens van Calcutta, Madras en Bombay, of eenige andere havens in Britsch Indië, die daartoe later door het Britsch Indische bestuur zullen worden aangewezen, op de hier achter bedongen voorwaarden.\n\nARTIKEL II.\n\nDe Nederlandsche Regering zal in elk middelpunt van aanwerving hare operatien toevertrouwen aan een door haarzelve gekozen Agent.\n\nDeze keuzen moeten door het Britsche Gouvernement worden goedgekeurd.\n\nZulk eene goedkeuring staat, wat het recht van haar te verleenen en in te trekken aangaat, gelijk met het exequatur, hetwelk aan de Consulaire Agenten verleend wordt.\n\nARTIKEL III.\n\nDe aanwerving zal geschieden overeenkomstig de regelen, welke nu bestaan of later zullen worden vastgesteld op de aanwerving van werklieden voor Britsche koloniën, en men is uitdrukkelijk overeengekomen, dat ten gevolge dezer overeenkomst aan de Nederlandsche Regering, noch te eeniger tijd, noch te eeniger plaatse, eenig privilege zal verleend worden op het stuk van emigratie, 't welk niet ter zelfder tijde en ter zelfder plaatse door de Britsche koloniën zal genoten worden.\n\nARTIKEL IV.\n\nDe Nederlandsche agent zal, wat betreft de bem opgedragen wervingsoperatien, voor zichzelf en voor de personen, van wie hij zich mogt bedienen, al de gerieflijkheden en voordeelen genieten, die aan de wervingsagenten voor de Britsche koloniën zijn verleend.\n\nARTIKEL V.\n\nDe Regering van Hare Britsche Majesteit zal in de havens, waar emigranten mogen worden ingescheept, een agent aanstellen, in het bijzonder belast met de zorg voor hunne belangen.\n\nARTIKEL VI.\n\nGeen emigrant zal mogen worden ingescheept, tenzij de in het vorig artikel genoemde agent in staat zij geweest zich te overtuigen, dat zijne verbindtenis vrijwillig is, dat hij volmaakt kennis draagt van den aard van zijne overeenkomst, van de plaats zijner bestemming, van den vermoedelijken duur zijner reis en van de verschillende verplichtingen en voordeelen uit zijne verbindtenis voortvloeiende.\n\nARTIKEL VII.\n\nDe overeenkomsten van dienst, uitgezonderd die, welke bedoeld worden in § 4 van Artikel IX, en in § 2 van Artikel X, zullen in Indië gesloten worden, en zullen den emigrant verbinden bij zijne aankomst in de Kolonie, tot het dienen of van een bij name aangeduid persoon, of van den persoon, aan wien hij door de gestelde overheid zal worden toegewezen.\n\nARTIKEL VIII.\n\nDe overeenkomsten zullen bovendien bedingen bevatten betreffende-\n\n1. Den duur van de verbindtenis, na afloop waarvan de emigrant recht heeft op vrijen terugtogt naar Indië, ten koste van de Nederlandsche Regering, en de voorwaarden waarop het hem zal vrijstaan van het recht van vrijen terugtogt af te zien;\n\n2. Het aantal der werkdagen en werkuren;\n\n3. Het loon, de rantsoenen, indien zij gegeven worden, als ook de wijze van betaling van buitengewoon werk, en al de aan den emigrant beloofde voordeelen;\n\n4. Kostelooze geneeskundige behandeling van den emigrant, behalve in de gevallen dat zijne ziekte, volgens het oordeel van de daartoe door het bestuur aangewezen deskundigen, ten gevolge van wangedrag door eigen schuld zal zijn ontstaan.\n\nIn elk contract of elke verbindtenis zal opgenomen zijn een afschrift der Artikelen IX, X, XIX, en XX van deze overeenkomst.\n\nARTIKEL IX.\n\n1. De duur van de verbindtenis van een immigrant zal niet langer zijn dan van vijf jaren. In geval echter dat hem behoorlijk bewezen zal zijn dat hij vrijwillig het werk verzuimd heeft, zal hij verplicht zijn daarenboven een gelijk aantal dagen te werken, als hij verzuimd heeft.\n\n2. Na verloop van dat tijdvak zal elke Indier, die den leeftijd van tien jaren bereikt had bij zijn vertrek uit Indië, het recht hebben op vrijen terugtogt naar Indië op kosten van de Nederlandsche Regering.\n\n3. Indien hij kan bewijzen dat zijn gedrag goed is geweest, en dat hij eigen middelen van bestaan heeft, kan hem vergund worden in de Kolonie te verblijven, zonder eenige verbindtenis, maar van dat oogenblik af aan, verliest hij het recht op vrije terugreis.\n\nPage 294",
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        "content_text": "4. If he consents to contract a new engagement, he will be entitled to a bounty, and will retain his right to a return passage at the expiration of such second engagement.\n\n5. Any immigrant who has completed his engagement in the Dutch Colony shall be at liberty, instead of either remaining in the Colony or returning to India, to remove to any other Colony or Country at his own expense,\n\nThe right of the immigrant to a return-passage extends to his wife, and to his children who quitted India under the age of ten years, as well as to those born in the Colony.\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nThe immigrant shall not be bound to work more than six days in seven, nor more than nine hours and a half a day.\n\nThe conditions of task-work, and every other kind of regulation for work, shall be freely arranged with the labourer. The obligation to provide, on holidays, for the care of animals and the necessities of daily life, shall not be considered as work.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nThe arrangements which precede the departure of the emigrants shall be conformable to those prescribed by the Regulations for the British Colonies.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nIn the ports of embarkation, the emigrants shall be at liberty, conforming to the regulations of police relative to such establishments, to leave the depôts, or other place in which they may be lodged, in order to communicate with the British Agents, who, on their part, may, at any reasonable hour, visit the places in which the emigrants are collected or lodged.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nEmigrants may leave India for the Colony of Surinam at any time of the year in vessels using steam-power; but by sailing-vessels only from the 1st of August to the 15th of March.\n\nEvery emigrant sailing from India between the 1st of March and the 15th of September shall receive at least one double blanket over and above the clothing usually allowed to him, and may make use of it so long as the vessel is outside of the tropics.\n\nARTICLE XIV.\n\nEvery emigrant-vessel must carry a European surgeon and an interpreter.\n\nThe captains of emigrant-vessels shall be bound to take charge of any despatch which may be delivered to them by the British Agent at the port of embarkation for the British Consular Agent at the port of destination, and to deliver it to the Colonial Government immediately after his arrival.\n\nARTICLE XV.\n\nIn every vessel employed for the conveyance of emigrants from the ports of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, or any other ports in British India which shall hereafter be appointed by the Government of India for the embarkation of emigrants, the emigrants shall occupy either between decks, or in cabins on the upper deck, firmly secured and entirely covered in, a space devoted to their exclusive use. Such cabins and space between decks shall in every part have a height of not less than six (6) feet English measure.\n\nNo compartment shall take more than one adult emigrant for every twelve (12) superficial feet, English measure, on deck, and for every cubic space of seventy-two (72) feet English measure.\n\nAn emigrant above the age of ten years shall count as an adult, and two children from one to ten years of age shall count as one adult.\n\nA distinct and separate place shall be fitted up for a hospital in every emigrant ship.\n\nWomen and children shall occupy compartments of the vessel distinct and separate from those of the single men.\n\nARTICLE XVI.\n\nEach shipment of emigrants shall include a proportion of women equal to at least one half of the number of men. Should the proportion fixed for the British Colonies be hereafter raised above one half, the same rate shall apply to the Netherland Colony.\n\nARTICLE XVII.\n\nThe British Agents, at the embarkation, shall have, at all reasonable times, the right of access to every part of the ships which is appropriated to the use of emigrants.\n\n[49]\n\nPage 295\n\n \n4. Indien hij genegen is tot het aangaan van eene nieuwe verbindtenis, heeft hij regt op eene premie en behoudt hij het regt op vrije terugreis na den afloop dezer tweede verbindtenis.\n\n5. Aan ieder immigrant, die zijn diensttijd in de Nederlandsche Kolonie zal volbragt hebben, zal het vrijstaan in plaats van hetzij in de Kolonie te blijven, hetzij naar Indie terugtekeeren, op zijne eigene kosten zich naar eene andere Kolonie of een ander land te begeven.\n\nHet regt van vrije terugreis van den immigrant strekt zich uit tot zijne vrouw, tot zijne kinderen, die Indie verlaten zullen hebben beneden de 10 jaren, en tot die, welke in de Kolonie zullen geboren zijn.\n\nARTIKEL X.\n\nDe immigranten zullen niet verpligt kunnen worden meer te werken dan zes dagen van de zeven, en meer dan negen en een half uur per dag.\n\nDe voorwaarden van het werken op taak en elke andere soort van regeling, het werk betreffende, zullen vrijelijk met den werkman geregeld worden. De verpligting om, op feestdagen, zorg te dragen voor de verpleging van dieren en de behoeften van het dagelijksch leven, zal niet als arbeid beschouwd worden.\n\nARTIKEL XI.\n\nDe schikkingen, die het vertrek van de emigranten voorafgaan, zullen gelijk zijn aan die, welke door de bepalingen voor de Britsche kolonien zijn voorgeschreven.\n\nARTIKEL XII.\n\nIn de havens van inscheping zullen de emigranten de vrijheid hebben, met inachtneming der politie-verordeningen op zulke inrigtingen, de depôts of elke andere plaats, waar zij mogten zijn gehuisvest, te verlaten, ten einde zich met de Britsche agenten in gemeenschap te kunnen stellen, welke op hunne beurt, op elk redelijk uur, de plaatsen, waar de emigranten opgenomen of gehuisvest zijn, kunnen bezoeken.\n\nARTIKEL XIII.\n\nEmigranten mogen in elk jaargetijde, met schepen van stoomvermogen voorzien, uit Indie naar de kolonie Suriname vertrekken, maar met zeilschepen alleen van 1 Augustus tot 15 Maart.\n\nElke emigrant tusschen 1 Maart en 15 September uit Indie vertrekkende, zal boven en behalve de hem gewoonlijk verstrekte kleeding, ten minste ééne dubbele deken bekomen, en hij zal daarvan gebruik kunnen maken, zoo lang het schip zich buiten de keerkringen bevindt.\n\nARTIKEL XIV.\n\nElk schip, dat emigranten vervoert, moet een Europeschen heelkundige en een tolk aan boord hebben.\n\nDe gezagvoerders van schepen, die emigranten vervoeren, zullen verpligt zijn zich met elk pakket, dat hun door den Britschen agent in de haven van inscheping voor den Britschen Consulairen agent in de haven van bestemming wordt ter hand gesteld, te belasten, om het terstond bij aankomst bij het koloniale Bestuur af te geven.\n\nARTIKEL XV.\n\nOp elk schip bestemd voor het vervoer van emigranten uit de havens van Calcutta, Madras en Bombay, of eenige andere havens in Britsch Indie, die later door de Regering van Indie zullen aangewezen worden voor de inscheping van emigranten, zullen de emigranten, hetzij tusschendeks, hetzij bovendeks, in stevig bevestigde, geheel overdekte kajuiten, eene ruimte bezitten uitsluitend voor hun gebruik bestemd. Kajuiten en ruimte tusschendeks zullen op de geheele oppervlakte eene hoogte hebben van niet minder dan zes (6) voet, Engelsche maat.\n\nGeen vak zal meer dan één volwassen emigrant mogen bevatten op elke twaalf (12) voet, Engelsche maat, oppervlakte, op dek, en op elke kubieke ruimte van twee en zeventig (72) voet, Engelsche maat.\n\nEen emigrant boven den leeftijd van tien jaar zal voor een volwassene gerekend worden, en twee kinderen, tusschen één en tien jaar oud, zullen voor één volwassene gerekend worden.\n\nOp elk schip, dat emigranten vervoert, zal eene bepaalde en afgezonderde ruimte tot hospitaal worden ingerigt.\n\nVrouwen en kinderen zullen op het schip vakken bezetten verschillend en afgezonderd van die voor de eenloopende gezellen.\n\nARTIKEL XVI.\n\nBij elke verscheping van emigranten zal het getal vrouwen minstens de helft bedragen van het getal mannen. Mogt later de verhouding voor de Britsche kolonien vastgesteld worden verhoogd tot boven de helft, zoo zal dezelfde maatstaf toepasselijk zijn op de Nederlandsche kolonie.\n\nARTIKEL XVII.\n\nDe Britsche agent zal bij de inscheping, op alle redelijke uren, het regt hebben om toegelaten te worden tot elk gedeelte van de schepen, hetwelk voor het gebruik van emigranten is ingerigt.\n\nC\n\nPage 296\n\n \nPage 295\n\nPage 295\n\nPage 296\n\nPage 296\n\nPage 296",
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        "content_text": "ARTICLE XVIII.\n\nOn the arrival of an emigrant-ship in the Netherland Colony, the Government shall cause to be transmitted to the British Consular Agent any despatches which it may have received for him, together with\n\n1. A nominal list of all labourers disembarked.\n\n2. A list of the deaths or births which may have taken place during the voyage,\n\nThe Colonial Government shall take the necessary measures to enable the British Consular Agent to communicate with the emigrants before their distribution in the Colony.\n\nA copy of the list of distribution shall be delivered to the Consular Agent.\n\nHe shall be informed of all deaths and births which may occur during the period of engagement, as well as of all changes of employer, and of all departures on a return passage.\n\nEvery fresh engagement or act of renunciation of the right to a free return passage, shall be communicated to the Consular Agent.\n\nARTICLE XIX.\n\nAll immigrants within the provisions of this Convention shall, in the same manner as other subjects of the British Crown, and conformably to the ordinary rules of international law, enjoy in the Netherland Colony, the right of claiming the assistance of the British Consular Agent; and no obstacle shall be opposed to the labourer's resorting to the Consular Agent and communicating with him without prejudice, however, to the obligations arising out of his engagement.\n\nARTICLE XX.\n\nIn the distribution of labourers no husband shall be separated from his wife, nor any father or mother from their children under fifteen years of age. No labourer shall be required to change his employer without his own consent, unless he be transferred to the Government, or to the person who has acquired the property on which he is employed.\n\nImmigrants who may become permanently incapable of work, either by sickness or by any other cause beyond their own control,\n\nshall be sent back at the expense of the Netherland Government, whatever time may still be wanting to entitle them to a free return-passage,\n\nARTICLE XXI.\n\nAll operations of immigration may be carried on in the Netherland Colony by Netherland or British vessels without distinction.\n\nBritish vessels which may engage in those operations shall be bound to conform to all the measures of police, health, and equipment which may apply to Netherland vessels.\n\nARTICLE XXII.\n\nThe labour regulation of Surinam of 1861, shall serve as a basis for the contracts which shall be made with the immigrants.\n\nThe Netherland Government engages not to introduce into that regulation any modification which would have the effect either of placing the immigrants in an exceptional position, or of imposing upon them harder conditions of labour than those stipulated by the said regulation.\n\nARTICLE XXIII\n\nThe provisions of the present Convention shall apply not only to the Indian subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, but also to the natives of every Indian State which is under the protection or political control of Her said Majesty, or which shall be in alliance with the British Government, or of which the Government shall have acknowledged supremacy of the British Crown.\n\nARTICLE XXIV.\n\nThe present Convention shall begin to take effect two months after the exchange of the ratifications thereof; its duration is fixed at three years and a-half. It shall remain in full force, if notice for its termination be not given in the course of the last month of the third year, and then notice can be given only in the course of the same month in each succeeding year.\n\nIn case of such notice being given, it shall cease eighteen months afterwards.\n\nNevertheless the Governor-General of British India in Council shall, in conformity with the Act of the 19th of September, 1856, relative to immigration to British Colonies, have the power to suspend at any time emigration to the Colony of Surinam, in the event of his having reason to believe that in that Colony proper measures have not been\n\n[49]\n\nPage 296\n\n \nARTIKEL XVIII.\n\nBij aankomst van een schip met emigranten in de Nederlandsche kolonie, zal het Bestuur zorg dragen, dat al de bescheiden, welke het voor den Britschen Consulairen agent ontvangen heeft, aan dezen worden ter hand gesteld, benevens—\n\n1. Eene naamlijst van al de ontscheepte werklieden,\n\n2. Eene lijst van de sterfgevallen en de geboorten, die gedurende de reis op het schip zullen hebben plaats gehad.\n\nHet Bestuur der kolonie zal de noodige maatregelen nemen, ten einde den Britschen Consulairen agent de gelegenheid te verschaffen zich in gemeenschap te stellen met de emigranten vóór hunne indeeling in de kolonie.\n\nEen afchrift van de lijst van indeeling zal aan den Britschen Consulairen agent worden ter hand gesteld.\n\nHij zal worden verwittigd van sterfgevallen en geboorten, die gedurende den duur der verbindtenis plaats hebben, als ook van elke verandering van huurder en van elk vertrek ter aanvaarding van de terugreis.\n\nElke nieuwe verbindtenis en elke akte van afstand van het regt op vrije terugreis, zal aan den Consulairen agent worden medegedeeld.\n\nARTIKEL XIX.\n\nAlle immigranten vallende binnen de bepalingen van deze overeenkomst, zullen op dezelfde wijze als de overige onderdanen der Britsche kroon, en overeenkomstig de gewone regelen van het volkenregt, in de Nederlandsche Kolonie het regt hebben den bijstand van den Britschen Consulairen agent in te roepen, en geen hinderpaal zal den werkman in den weg staan om zich tot den Consulairen agent te wenden of zich met hem in gemeenschap te stellen, evenwel zonder inbreuk te maken op de verpligtingen, die uit zijne verbindtenis voortvloeijen.\n\nARTIKEL XX.\n\nBij de indeeling van werklieden zal geen man van zijne vrouw worden gescheiden, noch een vader of moeder van hunne kinderen beneden de 15 jaar.\n\nGeen werkman zal kunnen gedwongen worden, zonder zijne toestemming, van meester te veranderen, tenzij hij door 't Gouvernement mogt worden overgenomen of door den persoon, die het goed, waarop hij werkzaam is, in eigendom mogt hebben verkregen.\n\nImmigranten, die voortdurend ongeschikt tot werken zullen zijn geworden, zoowel ten gevolge van ziekte als van elke andere oorzaak buiten hun eigen toedoen, zullen terug gezonden worden op kosten van de Nederlandsche Regering, welke tijd er ook nog mogt ontbreken, alvorens zij tot de vrije terugreis geregtigd zijn.\n\nARTIKEL XXI.\n\nDe immigratie kan, in de Nederlandsche kolonie, door Britsche en Nederlandsche schepen zonder onderscheid geschieden.\n\nBritsche schepen, welke daartoe gebruikt worden, zullen verpligt zijn zich te houden aan al de verordeningen van politie, gezondheid, en uitrusting, welke op Nederlandsche schepen van toepassing zijn.\n\nARTIKEL XXII.\n\nDe ordonnantie voor taken en loonen voor Suriname van 1861 zal tot grondslag dienen voor de overeenkomsten, welke met de immigranten zullen aangegaan worden. De Nederlandsche Regering verbindt zich om in dit reglement geene verandering te brengen ten gevolge waarvan de immigranten in eenen exceptionelen toestand zouden geplaatst worden, of hun voor hunnen arbeid voorwaarden zouden opgelegd worden, ongunstiger dan die welke in genoemd reglement zijn vastgesteld.\n\nARTIKEL XXIII.\n\nDe bepalingen van de tegenwoordige overeenkomst zullen niet slechts van toepassing zijn op de Indische onderdanen van Hare Britsche Majesteit, maar ook op de inboorlingen van elken Indischen Staat, die onder bescherming of onder het gezag van de genoemde Majesteit staan, of welke bondgenooten van het Britsche Gouvernement zullen zijn, of wier Regering de oppermagt van de Britsche Kroon zal hebben erkend.\n\nARTIKEL XXIV.\n\nDeze overeenkomst zal in werking treden twee maanden na de uitwisseling der daartoe betrekkelijke bekrachtigingen; haar duur is bepaald op drie en een half jaar. Zij zal van kracht blijven, zoo zij niet opgezegd wordt in den loop der laatste maand van het derde jaar, daarna kan de opzegging alleen geschieden in den loop van dezelfde maand van elk achtereenvolgend jaar.\n\nIn geval van zulke opzegging zal zij achttien maanden daarna eindigen.\n\nDesniettemin zal de Gouverneur-Generaal van Britsche Indie in Rade, overeenkomstig de resolutie van 19 September 1856, betreffende de immigratie naar Britsche kolonien, het regt hebben de emigratie naar de kolonie Suriname ten allen tijde te schorsen, in geval hij reden heeft te gelooven dat in die kolonie de noodige maatregelen\n\nD",
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        "content_text": "respective Counties for\n\ntrial\n\nVY\n\npunishment\n\nsuch changes\n\nVY\n\nConvictions,\n\nand it is expedient\n\nto provide\n\nfor the\n\ntemporary detention and\n\nCustody, within the\n\nColony, of each offenders\n\nInterpretation:\n\nConsular Officers\n\n375\n\n\"Foreign Offenders detention\n\n4\n\nOrdinance 187\n\n1/\n\nII. In the interpretation of this Ordinance the term \"Consular Officer\" includes a\n\nConsul General, Consul, Vice Consul, Consular Agent\n\nand\n\nany\n\nperson for\n\n1/\n\npending\n\nthe\n\nnecessary\n\narrangements for their\n\ntransmission\n\nas aforesaid:\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong,\n\nwith the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows.\n\nI. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Foreign...\n\nShort Title\n\nSuperintendent of Police...\n\nthe time being discharging\n\nthe duties of Consul General, Consul, Vice Consul\n\n#\n\nuy\n\nConsular Agent\n\nThe term \"Superintendent of the Gaol\"\n\nincludes the Superintendent of Victoria\n\nGaol\n\nor the Keeper of any\n\nPrison",
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        "content_text": "to add\n\nfurther\n\nnecessary information to that\n\ngiven\n\nthe various schedules.\n\nin\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient;\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nGovernor.\n\nJannellyy\n\nOFFICE.\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of Offices and APPOINTMENT in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended\n\n  \n    Sevenfor Openeral]\n    Overseer\n    of Watu Workto\n  \n  \n    Overs\n    Res\n    Post Office Agent\n    at Fechow\n  \n  \n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Govern-\n  \n  \n    Name of the Officer who formerly held\n    Name of the Officer who is now\n    appointment in England, date the appointment, and annual Salary.\n    ed and annual Salary,\n  \n  \n    LAMorron\n    (resigned)\n    $ 4,800.\n    £1,000\n  \n  \n    &Molla\n    (removed))\n    $720.\n    4100\n  \n  \n    of authority of the Secretary of State.\n  \n  \n    A. B3. M. Cordy\n    Acting\n    £50 appros?\n    Ref\n  \n  \n    $4080.\n    £830.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    R Coales\n    \n    9920.\n    £130.\n  \n  \n    Vacant\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ed. Gibant\n    \n    3920.\n    £1.50\n  \n  \n    I. Watter\n    (resigned)\n    $480.\n    £100.\n  \n  \n    W.S. Ayrton\n    \n    $480.\n    £100.\n  \n  \n    J 12.0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Registron Geals Dept!\n    I'm Arnong Yung atting\n    (Mromoted)\n    2nd Junior Registration Cluse $240.\n    £50.\n  \n  \n    2180.7.\n    180.\n    F7.10.\n    12009\n  \n  \n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n  \n  \n    If promoted from another Office or Government situa-\n  \n  \n    tion in the Colony, descrip-\n  \n  \n    tion of former appointment.\n  \n  \n    Govt Notifi\n    Acting\n    no190\n    31 et Decembe 1872.\n  \n  \n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or ap-\n    pointment, or the new appointment.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    N130\n    Afonstant of 16. Oct.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    of selects\n    Apritant\n    ledo.\n    No 3172]\n  \n  \n    Oso\n    n: 1996.\n    21+ Sept.\n    es.o.\n  \n  \n    Ne 3210\n    29 toet\n    Oso\n    \n  \n  \n    No 3568.\n    29th Nov!\n    Cso\n    No2877\n  \n  \n    re you\n    Gend\n    Porter\n    2877 Government\n  \n  \n    16th Oct\n    offices.\n    1872.\n    \n  \n  \n    Column for Remarks,\n  \n  \n    381\n    was taken on\n    Molley who trial was found to be\n    amfit for\n  \n  \n    This\n  \n  \n    the situation\n  \n  \n    post which had been vacant for\n  \n\n...\n\nBak itrose Genitemen\n\nConsular Afsistants.\n\nCo",
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        "content_text": "# 359\n\nshall contain a true statement of the actual cost of such goods.\n\nInvoices of free goods or of goods paying a specific duty, in the currency of the Country fixed by laws, shall be made out in the currency where its value is fixed by laws. All invoices must be verified by the shipper before the United States Consul or Commercial Agent nearest the place of shipment (Act of February 17th, 1870). Where the value of the foreign currency is fixed by law, (for which see the table of foreign monies) its value is to be taken in estimating the duties; where the value is not fixed by law, the invoice must be accompanied by a Consular Certificate showing its value in United States Silver Dollars.\n\nBy \"the place of shipment\" is meant the place where the merchandise has been manufactured, finished, or finally prepared for exportation, and where the journey to the United States commences - not necessarily the place where it is actually put on board ship. (See Treasury decisions, page 1044, paragraph 1163).",
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POSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\n#### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Postmaster General, | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General, |  |  |\n| Accountant, | 12.10.0 | 60.00 |\n| 9 at $1,140, | 600. 0.0 | 2,880.00 |\n| 2 at $1,200, | 500. 0.0 | 2,400.00 |\n| 7 Sorters |  |  |\n| 1 at $ 840, | 175. 0.0 | 840.00 |\n| 1 at $ 720, | 150. 0.0 | 720.00 |\n| 1 at $ 600, | 125. 0.0 | 600.00 |\n| First Marine Sorter, | 825. 0.0 | 1,560.00 |\n| Second do., | 300. 0.0 | 1,440.00 |\n| 2 Marine Stampers, at $90 each | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |\n| Comprador at Hongkong, | 75. 0.0 | 360.00 |\n| Shroff do., | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 |\n| 5 Boatmen pay $78 each, |  | 300.00 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED** |  | 8,840.00 |\n\n#### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\n### CIVIL LIST. REGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\n#### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Registrar General, | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| First Clerk, | 100, 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Second do., | 50. 0.0 | 240.00 |\n| Chinese Clerk and Interpreter, | 187.10.0 | 660.00 |\n| First Chinese Clerk, | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Second do, | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Registration Clark, | 300. 0.0 | 1,440.00 |\n| 2 Senior Chinese Registration Clerks, at $600 each, | 250. 0.0 | 1,200.00 |\n| 2 Junior do. do., at $120 | 137.10.0 | 660.00 |\n| 3 Chinese Writers, at $141 each, | 90. 0.0 | 432.00 |\n| 3 Do. do., at $90 ea., | 60.0.0 | 288.00 |\n| 2 Notice Servers, at $ 72 each, | 30, 0.0 | 144.00 |\n| Printing Coolie, | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 |\n| Messenger, | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 |\n| Office Coolie, | 15, 0.0 | 72.00 |\n| 4 Boatmen, attach}, | 62.10.0 | 300.00 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED** |  | 7,044.00 |\n\n#### ALLOWANCES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Postmaster, Shanghae, | 600. 0.0 | 2,880.00 |\n| Clerk, do., | 250. 0.0 | 1,200.00 |\n| Postmaster, Yokohama, | 400. 0.0 | 1,920.00 |\n| Clerk, do., | 150. 0.0 | 720.00 |\n| Post Office Agent, Amoy, | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Foochow, | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Canton, | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Ningpo, | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Swatow, | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Hankow, | 50. 0.0 | 240.00 |\n| Do. do., Hiogo, | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Nagasaki, | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |\n| Shroff at Yokohama, | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 |\n| Do. at Shanghae, | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 |\n| **TOTAL ALLOWANCES** | 2,060. 0.0 | 9,888.00 |\n\n#### CONTINGENCIES:\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| For Assistance at Hongkong, |  | 1,784.00 |\n| For do. at the Ports, | 480.00 |  |\n| For Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies, | 150.00 |  |\n| Cost of Adhesive Stamps, | 31. 5.0 | 871.13.4 |\n| Incidental Expenses, Hongkong, | 100. 0.0 |  |\n| at the Ports, |  | 480.00 |\n| Insurance of Post Office Building at Yokohama, |  | 288.00 |\n| To Registrar General for Chair hire, | 60.0.0 |  |\n| To Inspector of Markets for du., | 30.0.0 | 144.00 |\n| For Collection of Statistics, &c., | 83.0.8 | 400.00 |\n| **TOTAL CONTINGENCIES** | 173.6.8 | 832.00 |\n\n### REVENUE SERVICE,—EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT :\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Petty Expenses of Collecting Revenue at the Villages, | 2,112. 1.8 | 10,138.00 |\n| Furniture, Market, and Incidental Expenses, | 132.18.4 | 688.00 |\n| Expenses under Ordinance, No. 10 of 1887, | 175. 0,0 | 840.00 |\n| ESTABLISHMENT, | 208. 0.8 | 1,000.00 |\n|  | 13.15.0 |  |\n|  | 210,00 | 560. 0.0 2,088.00 |\n| **TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST** | 5,872.18.4 | 28,190.00 |\n|  | 1,600.0.0 | 2,680.00 |\n\n### CONVEYANCE OF MAILS:\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails, | 416.13.4 | 2,000.00 |\n\n### RENT:\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Post Office at Shanghae, | 937.10.0 | 4,500.00 |\n| Ground Rent of Post Office at Yokohama, | 20.16.8 | 100.00 |\n|  | 437.10.0 | 2,100.00 |\n| **TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST** | 7,247.18.4 | 34,700.00 |\n|  | 8,847.18.4 | $42,470,00 |\n\n### TOTAL REGISTRAR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n\n| £3,372.10.0 | 16,188.00 |\n\n## HARBOR MASTER.\n\n### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbor Master, | 175.0.0 | 840.00 |\n| Assistant Harbor Master, | 250.0.0 | 1,200.00 |\n| First Clerk, | 700.0.0 | 3,360.00 |\n| Second do., | 400.0.0 | 1,920.00 |\n| Third do., | 300.0.0 | 1,440,00 |\n| Fourth do., | 300.0.0 | 1,440.00 |\n| Fifth do., | 200.0.0 | 960.00 |\n|  | 150.0.0 | 720.00 |\n| **Carried forward** | 1,075.0.0 | 5,160.00 |\n|  | 1,400.0.0 | 6,720.00 |",
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        "content_text": "## Offences of foreign seamen\n\n13 (15)  \n74\n\n5. Whenever any seaman engaged in any foreign ship commits any of the following offences within the waters of the Colony, he shall be liable to be punished summarily by a Stipendiary Magistrate as follows, that is to say-  \n(See M. S. Act 1854, sec. 249,)  \n- Act of disobedience.  \n- Continued disobedience.  \n- Assault on others.  \n- Combining to disobey.  \n(Ordinance 4 of 1850, sec. 3.)  \n(a.) For wilful disobedience to any lawful command, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding four weeks, with or without hard labour, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to forfeit, out of his wages, a sum not exceeding two days' pay;  \n(b) For continued wilful disobedience to lawful commands, or continued wilful neglect of duty, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to forfeit, for every twenty-four hours' continuance of such disobedience or neglect either a sum not exceeding six days' pay, or any expenses which have been incurred in hiring a substitute;  \n(d.) For assaulting any master or mate, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour;  \n(e) For combining with any other or others of the crew to disobey lawful commands, or to neglect duty, or to impede the navigation of the ship, or the progress of the voyage, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding twelve weeks, with or without hard labour.  \nProvided that when there is a Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent resident at Hongkong of the nation to which the ship belongs, the Court shall not deal with the case unless thereto requested by such officer in writing.\n\n6. All expenses incidental to the apprehension, confinement, and removal of any seaman, under this section, shall be paid by the master of the ship to which such seaman may belong, and be recoverable from him at the suit of the Captain Superintendent of Police, as a debt due to the Government of this Colony; and the subsistence money for every such seaman confined in gaol shall be paid in advance to the keeper of the gaol, and in default of such payment, the gaoler may release such seaman.\n\n## Report of Death, Desertion, &c.\n\nXVIII. In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers, or other persons, occurring on board of any merchant vessel in the waters of the Colony, or in case of the desertion or removal of any of the crew, the master of such vessel shall forthwith report the same to the Harbour Master, under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every death, desertion, or removal which he shall neglect to report.  \n(Ordinance 1 of 1862, sec. 5.)\n\n## Penalties for Forgery, &c.\n\nXIX. Any seaman, or other person, who shall give a false description of his services, or show, or make, or procure to be made, any false character, or shall make false statements as to the name of the last ship in which he served, or as to any other information which may be required of him by any person having lawful authority to demand such information, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.  \n(Ordinance No. 6 of 1852, sec. 12.)\n\n## CHAPTER X. DISTRESSED SEAMEN\n\nXX. All expenses which shall be incurred under the provisions of \"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,\" in the relief of distressed British seamen who at the time of such relief being granted shall have last served in a British ship registered in this Colony, shall be borne by the revenue of this Colony.  \n(Ordinance 5 of 1869, sec. 1.)\n\n2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, to order the payment, out of any monies forming part of, or arising from, the general revenue of the Colony, of all expenses which may be incurred in the Colony for the relief of such British seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said Act or of any same out of regulations in that behalf which may be made, from time to time, by the Governor in Council.  \n(Ordinance 5 of 1869, sec. 2.)\n\n152",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n#### POSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\n##### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Postmaster General | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | 500.0.0 | 2,400.00 |\n| Accountant | 300.0.0 | 1,440.00 |\n| 2 at $1,440 | 600. 0.0 | 2,880.00 |\n| 1 at 1,200 | 250. 0.0 | 1,200.00 |\n| 7 Sorters: 2 at 840 | 360. 0.0 | 1,680.00 |\n| 1 at 720 | 150. 0.0 | 720.00 |\n| 1 at 300 | 62.10.0 | 300.00 |\n| First Marine Sorter | 325. 0.0 | 1,580.00 |\n| Second do. | 300. 0.0 | 1,440.00 |\n| 2 Marine Stampers, at $96 ea. | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |\n| Comprador at Hongkong | 75. 0.0 | 360.00 |\n| Shroff do. | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 |\n| 14 Coolies do., Average pay $78 each | 227.10.0 | 1,092.00 |\n| 5 Boatmen do., at $72 ea. | 75. 0.0 | 360.00 |\n| **Total** | 2,650.0.0 | 12,720.00 |\n\n### AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\n#### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Postmaster, Shanghae | 600. 0.0 | 2,880.00 |\n| Clerk, do. | 250. 0.0 | 1,200.00 |\n| Postmaster, Yokohama | 450. 0.0 | 2,160.00 |\n| Post Office Agent, Amoy | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Foochow | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Canton | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Do. do., Ningpo | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Swatow | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Hiogo | 50. 0.0 | 240.00 |\n| Do. do., Hankow | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |\n| Do. do., Nagasaki | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |\n| Shroff at Yokohama | 75. 0.0 | 360.00 |\n| Do. at Shanghae | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 |\n| **Total** | 1,990.0.0 | 9,552.00 |\n\n#### ALLOWANCES:\n\n| Purpose | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| For Assistance at Hongkong | 31. 5.0 | 150.00 |\n| For do. at the Ports | 371.13.4 | 1,784.00 |\n| For Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies | 100. 0.0 | 480.00 |\n| **Total** | 502.18.4 | 2,414.00 |\n\n#### CONTINGENCIES:\n\n| Purpose | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cost of Adhesive Stamps | 132.18.4 | 638.00 |\n| Incidental Expenses, Hongkong | 175. 0.0 | 840.00 |\n| Do., at the Ports | 208. 6.8 | 1,000.00 |\n| Insurance of Post Office Buildings at Yokohama and Shanghae | 67. 1.8 | 322.00 |\n| **Total** | 583. 6.8 | 2,800.00 |\n\n### ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n| £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5,726. 6.0 | 27,486.00 |\n| 1,000.0.0 | 7,680.00 (Moved to below CONVEYANCE OF MAILS) |\n\n#### CONVEYANCE OF MAILS:\n\n| Purpose | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails | 875. 0.0 | 4,200.00 |\n| 1,000.0.0 | 7,680.00 |\n\n#### RENT:\n\n| Purpose | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Post Office at Shanghae | 70.16.8 | 340.00 |\n| Ground Rent of Post Office at Yokohama | 20.18.8 | 100.00 |\n| **Total** | 91.13.4 | 440.00 |\n\n### TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST.\n\n| £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| 8,292.18.4 | 80,806.00 (Corrected from original table totals) |\n\nPage 270\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "# \nWe conclude, therefore, that the Consul of the United States has no judicial power or authority, whatever, in this Colony as to wages or damages for wrongs, between United States masters and seamen which the judicial authorities here can recognise, but that this Court must decide such questions when brought before it.\n\nWhat we have said as to the Consul of the United States, applies to Consuls from all other foreign states.\n\nNo such claim is, we believe, set up in any other part of the British Dominions. In China, every Consul of every foreign power has judicial authority over its own subjects, but this extraterritorial jurisdiction is the result of express treaty, and is conferred on them by the enactments of the legislative authority of each Foreign State. The exaggerated notion as to consular authority here, has probably arisen from the powers conceded to them in China, but which are not conceded here.\n\nIn a colony so distant as Hongkong is from London, convenience has rendered direct communication between the Colonial Government and Consuls here on many subjects properly diplomatic, convenient for all parties. This has probably tended to induce an over-estimate of the position of Consuls here in reference to judicial authority.\n\nWe feel great respect for the Consuls in this Colony, both officially and personally, but we must see that the authority of this Court is not curtailed beyond what the Law permits. If circumstances render it proper or convenient that judicial authority should in this Colony vest in Consuls, it must be obtained by treaty and legislation. This Court has no power to concede it.\n\n## \nHis Honor Mr Justice Snowden, said:— I quite concur in the views which have just been expressed by the Chief Justice, and the reasons given are precisely those on which I held in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction that the discharge of the Respondent Ellis, before the Vice-Consul of the U.S. was not per se a bar to an action for damages, for a wrongful dismissal.\n\nThe jurisdiction of Consuls in dealing with matters connected with the discharge of seamen, has been so fully discussed by His Lordship, that I need say nothing on that head.\n\nI wish, however, to state my opinion on other points which arise in the case, and to which our judgment must also be directed.\n\nSome confusion seems to have arisen from the fact that the damages awarded by me, on the Summary side of the Supreme Court, were assessed at the rate of two months' wages; two months wages or, correctly speaking, compensation at the rate of wages for two months is the amount which by an Act of Congress of 1873, an American Consul is directed to collect at his discretion for the personal benefit of a discharged seaman, one month's wages in addition being collected and retained for the use of a fund for seamen without any exercise of discretion on the part of the Consul.\n\nThe damages might possibly have been larger, but the sum awarded was that mentioned in the summons and seemed to meet the merits of the case, but the damages I gave and the two months' wages to be collected by the Consul, if he thought right to do so, are entirely distinct.\n\nThe claim for the compensation I declined to entertain for the following reasons:\n\n1st. That the Respondent being an American citizen, signing articles to sail in an American ship sailing under the national flag, must be considered to be bound by American Municipal Regulations respecting the discharge of seamen.\n\n2nd. That, with the municipal Regulations of a Foreign country, a British Court will not interfere in accordance with the decision of Sir W. Scott in the case of the Courtney reported in Edwardes Ad. Rep. Vol. 1. And, moreover, that the Respondent had accepted his certificate without any protest, and had by his conduct generally acquiesced in the Consul's decision, to refrain from collecting the two months wages as compensation, and had waived his claim even if it could have been entertained by the Court.\n\nBut a suit for damages for a wrongful dismissal is a totally different matter, and I am strongly of opinion that the Court had jurisdiction to entertain an action for breach of contract, as well as for wages due, if the Consul had disallowed them.\n\nThe cases of the Courtney and the Golubchick are instructive on the subject of the authority of Foreign representatives.\n\nIn the case of the Courtney it was laid down by Sir W. Scott that the consent of the Ambassador or Consul or accredited Agent of a foreign country would be requisite to give jurisdiction to the Court of Admiralty to entertain a suit for wages earned, promoted by foreign seamen against a foreign vessel—but Dr Lushington in the case of the Golubchick 1 W. Robinson Ad. Rep. p. 143, modifies the rule so laid down, and decides that whilst consent of a foreign representative is not essential, notice of the intended proceedings should be given to him out of convenience and courtesy. In the case of the Courtney and the Golubchick the proceedings were in rem in the Court of Admiralty, but Dr Lushington says in his judgment in the latter case,\n\n\"In the other Courts of this Country I have no doubt that the mariners might have instituted an action in personam without reference to any consent at all.\"\n\nUpon such high authority can there be any doubt that the Respondent in this case might have recovered for wages earned and due to him in the Courts of this Colony, in defiance of any Consular decision to the contrary?\n\nMoreover, the reports of American Courts of Law teem with cases in which after a discharge in due form, seamen have recovered damages against the masters of their vessels.\n\nAn American writer of great authority, Parsons, in his work on Shipping and Admiralty, has collected a large number of these cases. In page 50, under the heading \"Wages,\" he says, “If a master discharges a seaman without his consent and without good cause in a foreign port, he is liable to a fine of $500 or 6 months' imprisonment.\" I lay stress on the words without his consent, because the acquiescence of the respondent to part of the proceedings before the Consul formed the basis of one of the arguments addressed to the Court on the hearing of the appeal by the learned Counsel for the Appellant, to which I must shortly advert by and by.\n\nNor is a proper discharge an answer to an action in the Courts of the United States.\n\nThe learned author goes on to say \"and the seaman may recover besides full indemnity for his time lost or expense incurred by reason of such discharge. The case referred to is Crape v. Allen 1 Sprague 184; but, not having access to the authorized report of the case, I am obliged to content myself with the quotations from a text book. In note 3, the author referring to apparent contradictions in various cases there cited adds \"In all the cases a compensation is intended to be allowed, which shall be a complete indemnity for the illegal discharge. Now in every case it may be assumed that the formalities required by the rules of the foreign ports in discharge of seamen had been complied with; the illegality therefore would consist in a discharge without due cause for which the Captain is liable to fine or imprisonment as before mentioned.\n\nThe argument I referred to above was that after the discharge of the Respondent, inasmuch as the Court had found that he had acquiesced in the proceedings before the Consul, no contract for service remained for the breach of which an action would lie.\n\nThis argument seems to me to be based on a mistaken notion of what the so-called consent was and of what the nature of a discharge is, and of the functions of the Consul in giving the necessary certificate.\n\nA discharge is the dissolution of a contract for services between a seaman and the master of a ship, put into formal shape by a commercial agent appointed for the purpose, generally a Consul in the case of Foreign seamen.\n\nWere there no American Consul or other commercial agent, as required by Act 1×40 U.S. Statutes, in Hongkong, the discharge... \n\nPage 479",
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        "content_text": "# Made in care \n## 222 \nof a drenche occael \n\nof مجھ Mein Hai's heill, tai, the towns of Hanoi, and paringe of the River Whi Har from the Ania , Rea to Zunnam in are opened to Foreign Cut!. Concubree without distinction Coment Fren of Hag or nationality. \n\nFrank is to appoint he lack of the ports a Cou. witte a force. men, to agent Exeeding 100 Safety, -Z Aut 4. of was charged with a pressing nucision to the loot of Hair the French Resident. \n\nMerchandise Lea Come Treaty, Connel Treaty fromce fromam leet. 19. Pol: Freaty Fai West 7. Coment. Treaty. afety, to malle his authority rexpected and to keep order Aucous Foreigners/faire la police des Strangers?\") a loo France may station a ship of war in lack of there ports to mucutains order and discipline among the crews of the merchant \n\nbessels, and facilitate the Exercise of the Conzular Cat: 2.5 Come Ne Art. 26. Auttionty of is specially provided Count the What no French or Foreign. ressel of war Forciju merchant ressel thall Sutes the port of Lesuan an, which is near the capital, but exception is made leitb. onem Freity 07 Kather of the open ports of or in trauict fron the frontier of Sunnam in China to the French port of Saison, and vein bein to pay Lent from Saigon are to only half half Cartons dutie 7 \n\n## \nThe Customs are to the placed under the Superintendence of a French muctionary placed at the disposal of - oral of the Commannte Eoot who is to bear the title of \"thef du Service Sofien\" and is to have the right to Correspond witte the French. Corical, and witte the Freulihend ent at Hue, Ottier French Functionare Ace also to be placed at the disposal of the annannte ނ u Goot, in order to direct the Customs service. ho Purop not a Zo cute waw ca u Jeployed be in the fuctores at Hee Open Ports without the consent of the trench Consul \n\n## \n| Article | Description |\n|---------|-------------|\n| Art. 26 | No French or Foreign vessel of war shall enter the port of Lesuan an... |\n\n## Page 222 \n\nIt appears the original text is a treaty or agreement between France and another country (likely Annam, now part of Vietnam) regarding trade, ports, and jurisdiction. \n\n## Reconstructed Text \n\nMade with care of a French occael \n\nof Mein Hai's health, tai, the towns of Hanoi, and paringe of the River Whi Har from the Ania, Rea to Zunnam in China are opened to Foreign Commerce without distinction of Coment Fren of Hag or nationality.\n\nFrance is to appoint the lack of the ports a Consul with a force of men, not Exeeding 100, for Safety, and was charged with a pressing decision to the loot of Hair the French Resident.\n\nMerchandise from the Treaty, Connel Treaty from France fromam leet. 19. Pol: Treaty Fai West 7. Coment. Treaty. Safety, to make his authority respected and to keep order among Foreigners (\"faire la police des Strangers?\") a law France may station a ship of war in the lack of their ports to maintain order and discipline among the crews of the merchant vessels, and facilitate the Exercise of the Consular authority.\n\nArt. 26. Authority is specially provided that no French or Foreign vessel of war or merchant vessel shall enter the port of Lesuan an, which is near the capital, but exception is made for traffic from the frontier of Sunnam in China to the French port of Saison, and vessels being to pay only half Customs duties.\n\nThe Customs are to be placed under the Superintendence of a French Inspector placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief who is to bear the title of \"Chef du Service Douanier\" and is to have the right to Correspond with the French Consul, and with the French Resident at Hue. Other French Functionaries are also to be placed at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief, in order to direct the Customs service. No Foreigners are to be employed in the factories at Hue or Open Ports without the consent of the French Consul.",
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        "content_text": "From whom To whom \n\nDate \n\n188 \n\nSubject \n\nattached by the Supreme Court, released.\n\n5. Act Attorney General Act & Col. sec. 18ct 1998 Alates that the Executive cannot \n\nPage 1765-18.\n\n1973.\n\nre as rey\n\ninterfere.\n\n- requested, and that if the Annamere Yost wishes the machinery of the bang tee released, a means for doing so is provided by the code of Civil Procedure.\n\ncode of\n\nChief Justice\n\nJustice 22 March 1875 Forwards a letter (Mxy) received by\n\nHis Excellency from the Minister\n\nPage 19 to 20\n\n6. Acts Col. Sec\n\n7.\n\nMinister of Foreign Affairs - Annam\n\nPage 21 to 28.\n\n8. Governor\n\n[Sir A. E. Kennedy]\n\nGovernor\n\nMercantile Marine - Annam\n\nno date complains that the steamer which was purchased a year ago by an Annamite Official and for the payment of which, also of a private law, two Annamite Officials went as security;\n\naltogether\n\nwas\n\na private affair and had nothing to do with the Annamese Govt whose\n\nMan Aivan the Dans Me has\n\nnevertheless been arrested for non-payment of this private debt\n\nAct Col: Sec 20th March 1874 Sends acknowledgment of the above.\n\nPage 29.\n\nletter / Rey) and supports the m appointment on the part of the Annamese Govt of a Consular agent at Hongkong to guard against disposition\n\nand against Annamite...",
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        "content_text": "28.\n\nthe season.\n\nthe happiness of the\n\nMinute by Governor\n\n28th March 1874.\n\n29\n\n206\n\nAcknowledge and say that I shall do all in my power to adjust this matter; which is one between debtor and creditor only.\n\n\"only\" - I should suggest for the consideration of the Annam Government that it would be desirable they should appoint a Consular Agent on whom they could rely to prevent the Annamese Officers overstepping the authority with which they are invested, which appears to have led to the present trouble, and also to protect those officers from being imposed upon by foreigners.\n\nSigned / AB. Kennedy\n\nMarch 28/7/4.",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG,\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n431\n\n15\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nPOSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nSALARIES:-\n\n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    c.\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    c.\n  \n  \n    B\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Postmaster General,\n    50. 0.0\n    2 at $1,440,\n  \n  \n    240.00\n    600. 0,0\n    2,880,00\n    Assistant Postmaster General,\n    1 at 1,200,\n    250. 0.0\n  \n  \n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n    Accountant,\n    7 Sorters 2 at 840,\n    350. 0.0\n  \n  \n    1,680.00\n    1 at 720,\n    150. 0.0\n    720.00\n    1 at 300,\n    62.10.0\n  \n  \n    300.00\n    First Marine Sorter,\n    325. 0.0\n    1,560.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £ s. d.\n    800.0.0\n    3,840.00\n    500.0.0\n 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ea.,\n    90. 0.0\n    432.00\n    Comprador at Hongkong,\n    75. 0.0\n    360.00\n  \n  \n    3 Do. do., at $ 96 ea.,\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    Shroff\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14 Coolies do., Average pay $78 each.\n    do..\n    45. 0.0\n    216.00\n    2 Notice Servers, at $ 72 ca.,\n    30. 0.0\n  \n  \n    144.00\n    227.10.0\n    1,092.00\n    Printing Coolie,\n    15. 0.0\n    72.00\n  \n  \n    Messenger,\n    15. 0.0\n    72.00\n    5 Boatmen do., at $72 eu.,\n    75. 0.0\n    360.00\n  \n  \n    Office Coolie,\n    15. 0.0\n    72.00\n    4 Boatmen, is ach}\n    62.10.0\n    900,00\n  \n  \n    2,550.0.0\n    12,240.00\n    \n    2,550.0.0\n    12,240.00\n    \n  \n\nAT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\nSALARIES:-\n\n  \n    23Market Scavengers,\n    Inspector of Markets,\n    2 Water Coolies, at $86 each,...\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16 at 80 m., J\n    150. 0.0\n    305. 0.0\n    720.00\n    1,464.00\n    \n  \n  \n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    Postmaster, Shanghai, Clerk,\n    600. 0,0\n    2,880.00\n    \n  \n  \n    do.,\n    250. 0.0\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1,877.10.0\n    9,012.00\n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    1,052.10.0\n    9,372.00\n  \n  \n    Postmaster, Yokohama,\n    450. 0.0\n    2,160.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Post Office Agent, Amoy,\n    100. 0.0\n    480,00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Foochow,\n    100. 0.0\n    480.00\n    Do. do., Canton,\n    100. 0.0\n    480.00\n  \n  \n    To Begistrar General for Chair Hire,\n    60.0.0\n    \n    Do. do., Ningpo,\n    60. 0.0\n    288.00\n  \n  \n    Do. do., Swatow,\n    60. 0.0\n    288.00\n    To 2nd Clerk for Chinese Teacher,\n    25.0.0\n    120.00\n  \n  \n    Do. do., Hankow,\n    50. 0.0\n    240.00\n    Do. do., Hiogo,\n    60. 0.0\n    288.00\n  \n  \n    To Inspector of Markets for Chair Hire,.\n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    Do. do., Nagasaki,\n    40. 0.0\n    192.00\n  \n  \n    Shroff at 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Interpreter,\n\n£137.10.0\n\n$660.00\n\n1 at $1,200,\n\n£260.0.0\n\n$1,200.00\n\n1 at $960,\n\n£200.0.0\n\n$960.00\n\nSecond Clerk,\n\n7 Sorters\n\n1 at $840,\n\n£175.0.0\n\n$840.00\n\n1 at $720,\n\n£150.0.0\n\n$720.00\n\n1 at $600,\n\n£125.0.0\n\n$600.00\n\nFirst Chinese Clerk,\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\nRegistration Clerk,\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\n2 Senior Chinese Registration Clerks, at $600 each,\n\n£300.0.0\n\n$1,440.00\n\n£250.0.0\n\n$1,200.00\n\nFirst Marine Sorter,\n\n£325.0.0\n\n$1,500.00\n\n2 Junior do. do., at $330,\n\n£137.10.0\n\n$660.00\n\nSecond do.,\n\n£300.0.0\n\n$1,440.00\n\n3 Chinese Writers, at $144 ea.,\n\n£90.0.0\n\n$432.00\n\n2 Marine Stampers, at $96 ea.,\n\n£40.0.0\n\n$192.00\n\n3 Do. do., at $96 ea.\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\nComprador at Hongkong,\n\n£75.0.0\n\n$360.00\n\n2 Notice Servers, at $72 ea.,\n\n£30.0.0\n\n$144.00\n\nShroff\n\n£45.0.0\n\n$216.00\n\nPrinting Coolie,\n\n£15.0.0\n\n$72.00\n\n14 Coolies\n\nAverage pay $78 each,\n\n£297.10.0\n\n$1,092.00\n\nMessenger,\n\n£15.0.0\n\n$72.00\n\nOffice Coolie,\n\n£15.0.0\n\n$72.00\n\n5 Boatmen\n\nat $72 ea.,\n\n£75.0.0\n\n$360.00\n\n£2,097.10.0\n\n$12,660.00\n\n4 Boatmen, at $75 each,\n\n£62.10.0\n\n$300.00\n\nInspector of Markets,\n\n£317.10.0\n\n$1,524.00\n\n24 Market Scavengers, at $67,\n\n£150.0.0\n\n$720.00\n\n2 Water Coolies, at $30 each,\n\n£12.10.0\n\n$72.00\n\nAT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\nSALARIES:--\n\nPostmaster, Shanghai,\n\n£600.0.0\n\n$2,880.00\n\nClerk,\n\n£250.0.0\n\n$1,200.00\n\nPostmaster, Yokohama,\n\n£500.0.0\n\n$2,400.00\n\nPost Office Agent, Amoy,\n\n£100.0.0\n\n$480.00\n\nDo. do., Foochow,\n\n£100.0.0\n\n$480.00\n\nDo. do., Canton,\n\n£100.0.0\n\n$480.00\n\nDo. do., Swatow,\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\nDo. do., Ningpo,\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\nDo. do., Hankow,\n\n£50.0.0\n\n$240.00\n\nDo. do., Kiungchow,\n\n£60.0.0\n\n$288.00\n\nDo. do., Nagasaki,\n\n£40.0.0\n\n$192.00\n\nShroff at Yokohama,\n\n£75.0.0\n\n$360.00\n\nDo. at Shanghai,\n\n£45.0.0\n\n$216.00\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\nTo Registrar General for Chair Hire,\n\n£31.5.0\n\n$150.00\n\nTo 2nd Clerk for Chinese Teacher,\n\n£20.16.8\n\n$100.00\n\nTo Inspector of Markets for Chair Hire,\n\n£8.6.8\n\n$40.00\n\nFor Collection of Statistics, &c.,\n\n£83.0.8\n\n$400.00\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\n£371.13.4\n\n$1,784.00\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\n£108.6.8\n\n$520.00\n\nFor Assistance at Hongkong,\n\n£371.13.4\n\n$1,784.00\n\nFor do. at the Ports,\n\n£80.0.0\n\n$384.00\n\nFor Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,\n\n£25.0.0\n\n$120.00\n\n£30.0.0\n\n$144.00\n\nFurniture, Market, and Incidental Expenses,\n\n£72.18.4\n\n$350.00\n\nExpenses under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867,\n\n£20.16.8\n\n$100.00\n\n£93.15.0\n\n$450.00\n\nESTABLISHMENT,\n\n£2,357.1.8\n\n$11,314.00\n\n£1,250.0.0\n\n$6,000.00\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\n£502.18.4\n\n$2,414.00\n\nCost of Adhesive Stamps,\n\n£166.13.4\n\n$800.00\n\nIncidental Expenses, Hongkong,\n\n£166.13.4\n\n$800.00\n\nTravelling Expenses of Marine Sorters,\n\n£67.3.8\n\n$322.00\n\nInsurance of Post Office Buildings at Yokohama and Shanghai,\n\n£74.4.3\n\n$357.20\n\nREVENUE SERVICES,--EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nPetty Expenses of Collecting Revenue at the Villages,\n\n£10.8.4\n\n$50.00\n\n£185.8.4\n\n$650.00\n\nat the Ports,\n\n£208.6.8\n\n$1,000.00\n\n£67.3.8\n\n$322.00\n\n£744.3.4\n\n$3,572.00\n\nESTABLISHMENT,\n\n£5,024.11.8\n\n$28,488.00\n\n£1,500.0.0\n\n$7,200.00\n\nTOTAL REGISTRAR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,\n\n£2,367.10.0\n\n$11,364.00\n\n£13,617.10.0\n\n$17,864.00\n\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS:----\n\nColonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention,\n\n£3,150\n\n$16,434.78\n\nGratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails,\n\n£875.0.0\n\n$4,200.00\n\nRENT:-\n\nGround Rent of Post Office at Yokohama,\n\n£3,423.18.8\n\n$16,434.78\n\n£875.0.0\n\n$4,200.00\n\nHARBOUR MASTER.\n\nSALARIES:-\n\n£ s. d.\n\n$ C.\n\nHarbour Master,\n\n£...\n\n$...\n\nAssistant Harbour Master,\n\n£400.0.0\n\n$1,920.00\n\n£ s. d.\n\n$ C.\n\nFirst Clerk,\n\n£700.0.0\n\n$3,360.00\n\nSecond do.,\n\n£400.0.0\n\n$1,920.00\n\n£ s. d.\n\n$ C.\n\nThird do.,\n\n£300.0.0\n\n$1,440.00\n\nFourth do.,\n\n£200.0.0\n\n$960.00\n\nFifth do.,\n\n£150.0.0\n\n$720.00\n\nCarried forward,\n\n£1,225.0.0\n\n$5,880.00\n\n£1,400.0.0\n\n$6,720.00\n\nTOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,\n\n£11,744.0.7\n\n$56,372.78\n\nTHIS IS",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "14\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n297A\n\n15\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY,\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\nPOSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL.\n\nSALARIES:---\n\n  \n    £ s. d.\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    £ s. d.\n    SALARIES-\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Postmaster General,\n    700.0.0\n    3,360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Assistant Postmaster General,\n    500.0.0\n    2,400.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Accountant,\n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 at $1,440,\n    \n    \n    \n    600.0.0\n    2,880.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Registrar General,\n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    First Clerk,\n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    First Clerk as Deputy Registrar of Marriages,\n    50.0.0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Second Clerk,\n    50.0.0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CIVIL LIST.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Chinese Clerk and Interpreter,\n    187.10.0\n    900.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 at 1,200,\n    \n    \n    \n    250.0.0\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    First Chinese Clerk,\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 at 960,\n    \n    \n    \n    200.0.0\n    960.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Second do.\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    7 Sorters\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 at 840,\n    \n    \n    \n    175.0.0\n    840.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Registration Clerk,\n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1 at 720.\n    \n    \n    \n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Senior Chinese Registration\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Clerks, at $600 each,\n    \n    \n    \n    250.0.0\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    First Marine Sorter,\n    325.0.0\n    1,560.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Junior do. do., at {},\n    \n    \n    \n    137.10.0\n    660.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Second do.,\n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3 Chinese Writers, at $144 ea.,\n    \n    \n    \n    90.0.0\n    432.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Marine Stampers, at 500 ea.,\n    \n    \n    \n    40.0.0\n    1,000.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3 Do. do., at $96 ea.,\n    \n    \n    \n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Comprador at Hongkong,\n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Notice Servers, at $72 ea.,\n    \n    \n    \n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Shroff\n    \n    \n    \n    45.0.0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Printing Coolie,\n    \n    \n    \n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    14 Coolies\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do., Average\n    \n    \n    \n    227.10.0\n    1,092.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    pay $78 each,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    5 Boatmen\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do., at $79 ea.,\n    \n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Messenger,\n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Office Coolie,\n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4 Boatmen, ($...},\n    \n    \n    \n    62.10.0\n    300.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Inspector of Markets,\n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,687.10.0\n    12,660.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,637.10.4\n    12,660.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    94 Market Scavengers,\n    \n    \n    \n    772.17.10\n    3,724.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2 Water Coolies, at $36 each,\n    \n    \n    \n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SALARIES:---\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Postmaster, Shanghai,\n    600.0.0\n    2,880.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Clerk,\n    250.0.0\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,090.0.0\n    9,552.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Postmaster, Yokohama,\n    500.0.0\n    2,400.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Post Office Agent, Amoy,\n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Foochow,\n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    To Registrar General for Chair Hire,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Canton,\n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Ningpo,\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Swatow,\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Hankow,\n    50.0.0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Hiogo,\n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. do., Nagasaki,\n    40.0.0\n    192.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Shroff at Yokohama,\n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do. at Shanghai,\n    45.0.0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,040.0.0\n    9,792.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:—\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    For Assistance at Hongkong,\n    4,677.10.0\n    22,452.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    For do. at the Ports,\n    31.5.0\n    150.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    For Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,\n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CONTINGENCIES:—\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Cost of Adhesive Stamps,\n    1,784.0.0\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Travelling Expenses of Marine Sorters,\n    00.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    To 2nd Clerk for Chinese Teacher,\n    25.0.0\n    120.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    To Inspector of Markets for Chair Hire,\n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    For Collection of Statistics, &c.,\n    83.6.8\n    400.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CONTINGENCIES:---\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Furniture, Market, and Incidental Expenses,\n    198.6.8\n    952.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Expenses under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867,\n    72.18.4\n    350.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    20.16.8\n    100.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ESTABLISHMENT,..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,357.1.8\n    11,314.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,250.0.0\n    6,000.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT:\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Petty Expenses of Collecting Revenue at the Villages,\n    135.8.4\n    650.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Incidental Expenses, Hongkong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Do., at the Ports,\n    208.6.8\n    1,000.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Insurance of Post Office Buildings at Yokohama\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    and Shanghai,\n    67.1.8\n    322.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    744.3.4\n    3,572.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ESTABLISHMENT,..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    5,024.11.8\n    24,438.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,500.0.0\n    7,200.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL REGISTRAR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,...\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    10.8.4\n    50.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    2,867.10.0\n    13,754.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £2,017.10.0\n    17,364.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CONVEYANCE OF MAILS:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Colonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention,\n    £3,150\n    \n    \n    $16,434.78\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    RENT:--\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ground Rent of Post Office at Yokohama,\n    875.0.0\n    4,200.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    3,423.18.8\n    \n    \n    16,434.78\n  \n  \n    HARBOUR MASTER.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SALARIES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Harbour Master,\n    700.0.0\n    3,360.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Assistant Harbour Master,\n    400.0.0\n    1,920.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    First Clerk,\n    400.0.0\n    1,920.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Second do.,\n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Third do.,\n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Fourth do.,\n    200.0.0\n    960.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Fifth do.,\n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,225.0.0\n    5,880.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1,400.0.0\n    6,720.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST...\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    £11,741.6.7\n    $56,972.78\n    \n    \n  \n\n#7 | 76-1 & S 185",
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        "content_text": "shall be made to the Governor or to the supreme authority of such Colony or Possession through the Swiss Consul, or, in case there should be no Swiss Consul, through the Consular Agent of another State charged for the occasion with the Swiss interests in the Colony or Possession in question.\n\n\"The Governor or Supreme Authority above-mentioned shall decide with regard to such requisitions as nearly as possible in accordance with the provisions of the present Treaty. He will, however, be at liberty either to consent to the extradition or report the case to his Government.\"\n\nThe other provisions of Article XVI remain in force as they have been agreed upon in the Treaty.\n\nThis Protocol shall be regarded and acted upon as forming part of the Treaty in question.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned have signed this Protocol, and have hereunto affixed their seals.\n\nDone in duplicate at Berne, the twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Grace one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.\n\nThe Plenipotentiary of Great Britain,\n\n(L.S.) EDWIN CORBETT.\n\n8\n\nZuflucht gefunden hat, soll bei dem Gouverneur oder bei der höchsten Behörde der betreffenden Colonie oder Besitzung durch den in derselben residirenden schweizerischen Consul, oder in Ermangelung eines solchen, durch den Consularagenten eines andern Staates, welchem für diesen speciellen Fall die Wahrnehmung der schweizerischen Interessen in der fraglichen Colonie oder Besitzung anvertraut wird, gestellt werden.\n\n\"Der Gouverneur oder die höchste Behörde, welche oben erwähnt sind, sollen bezüglich solcher Auslieferungsbegehren möglichst conform mit den Bestimmungen des vorliegenden Vertrages entscheiden. Es steht ihnen indess frei, die Auslieferung zu bewilligen oder den Fall ihrer Regierung zum Entscheid zu überweisen.\"\n\nDie andern Punkte von Artikel XVI bleiben in der im Vertrag vereinbarten Form in Kraft.\n\nDieses Protokoll soll als integrirender Bestandtheil des Vertrages angesehen und beobachtet werden.\n\nZur Urkunde dessen haben die Unterfertigten dasselbe unterzeichnet und ihre Siegel beigesezt.\n\nSo geschehen in doppelter Ausfertigung in Bern, den achtundzwanzigsten Tag des Wintermonats im Jahre des Heils ein tausend acht hundert vier und siebenzig.\n\nDer Bevollmächtigte der Schweiz,\n\n(L.S.) J. M. KNÜSEL.\n\n179",
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        "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "16\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n336\n\n17\n\nFIRED ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED,\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL,--- Cont“.\n\n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n  \n  \n    Brought forward,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:--\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FIXED ESTABLISHMENT.\n    \n    \n    CIVIL LIST.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n    \n    \n    TOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CIVIL LIST.\n    \n    \n    POST MASTER GENERAL.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    $\n    \n    \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n  \n  \n    5,125.0.0\n    24,600.00\n    \n    1,800.0.0\n    8,640.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SALARIES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n  \n  \n    Postmaster General,\n    \n    \n    700.0.0\n    3,360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Postmaster General,\n    \n    \n    400.0.0\n    1,920.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Accountant,\n    \n    \n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    To Surveyor Gen', for keep of Horse & Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 at $1,440,\n    \n    \n    300.0.0\n    2,880.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 at 1,200,\n    \n    \n    500.0.0\n    2,400.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Assistant Surveyor Gent, do.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 at\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7 Sorters\n    \n    \n    960,\n    \n    \n    200.0.0\n    960.00\n    \n  \n  \n    1 at\n    \n    \n    840,\n    \n    \n    175.0.0\n    840.00\n    \n  \n  \n    Draftsman, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 at\n    \n    \n    720,\n    \n    \n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n  \n  \n    1 at 480,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n  \n  \n    23\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk of Works, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    First Marine Sorter,)\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Second do.,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    at $1,680\n    \n    \n    700.0.0\n    3,360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Inspector of Buildings, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    45.0.0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Marine Stampers, at $96 ea.,\n    \n    \n    40.0.0\n 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\n  \n  \n    21\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Overseer of Telegraphs, for keep of Horse,\n    \n    \n    40.0.0\n    192.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SALARIES—\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chief Inspector of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    30.0.0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 Inspectors of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    37.10.0\n    180.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Postmaster, Yokohama,\n    \n    \n    472.10.0\n    2,268.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Postmaster, Shanghai,\n    \n    \n    600.0.0\n    2,880.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk, Do.,\n    \n    \n    250.0.0\n    1,200.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Post Office Agent, Amoy,\n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Foochow,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CONTINGENCIES *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mounting Plans and Charts, &c,\n    \n    \n    31.5.0\n    150.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses,\n    \n    \n    41.13.4\n    200.00\n    \n    72.18.4\n    350.00\n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Canton,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Ningpo,\n    \n    \n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Swatow,\n    \n    \n    100.0.0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Haukow,\n    \n    \n    50.0.0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3,670.8.4\n    17,618.00\n    \n    1,800.0.0\n    8,640.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Hiogo,\n    \n    \n    60.0.0\n    288.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. do., Nagasaki,\n    \n    \n    40.0.0\n    192.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Shroff at Yokohama,\n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    RENT:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n    Do. at Shanghai,\n    \n    \n    45.0.0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ESTABLISHMENT,.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Quarters for Draftsman,\n    \n    \n    25.0.0\n    120.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. for 1st Clerk,\n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. for Inspector of Buildings,\n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2,155.0.0\n    10,344.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do, for Inspectors of Nuisances, at $180 each,\n    \n    \n    150.0.0\n    720.00\n    \n    375.0.0\n    1,800.00\n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:---\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6,046.8.4\n    29,018.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For Assistance at Hongkong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For do. at the Ports,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL SURVEYOR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,....\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    .£7,845.8.4\n    $37,638.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SUB-DEPARTMENT.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n    £ s. d.\n    $\n    C\n  \n  \n    GOVERNMENT GARDENS.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    CONTINGENCIES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cost of Adhesive Stamps,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses, Hongkong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do., at the Parts,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SALARIES :-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendent,\n    \n    \n    300.0.0\n    1,440.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Foreman,\n    \n    \n    25.0.0\n    120.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 each.\n    \n    \n    52.10.0\n    252.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16 Labourers, at $72\n    \n    \n    240.0.0\n    1,152.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Apprentices, at $60\n    \n    \n    25.0.0\n    120.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Forester,\n    \n    \n    22.10.0\n    108.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5 Do., at $72 each,\n    \n    \n    75.0.0\n    360.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Eut-Foreman, for Government House and Teuk\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    G. & 94 Baga,\n    \n    \n    35.0.0\n    168.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6 Labourers, for do., at $72 each,\n    \n    \n    90.0.0\n    432.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Labourer, at Govt Offices.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Watchman for Public Gardens.\n    \n    \n    18.10.0\n    88.80\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    To Superintendent, for Chair Coolies,\n    \n    \n    15.0.0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ground Rent of Post Office at Yokohama,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Travelling Expenses of Mariue Sorters,\n    \n    \n    31.5.0\n    150.00\n    \n    37.18.4\n    178.4\n    \n  \n  \n    166.13.4\n    800.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    145.16.8\n    700.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    208.0.8\n    1,000.00\n    \n   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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n#### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS, SURVEYOR GENERAL\n\n£ s. d. | $ C. £ s. d.\n\nBrought forward | 5,125.0.0 | 24,000.00\n\n#### SALARIES\n\nPostmaster General | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nAssistant Postmaster General | 700.0.0 | 3,360.00\nAccountant | 500.0.0 | 2,400.00\nTo Surveyor Gent, for keep of Horse & Chair Coolies | 300.0.0 | 1,440.00\nAssistant Surveyor Gen, do. do. | 60.0.0 | 288.00\n7 Sorters | 960.0.0 | \n- 1 at 840 | 175.0.0 | 840.00\n- 1 at 720 | 150.0.0 | 720.00\n- 1 at 480 | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nDraftsman, for Chair Coolies | 30.0.0 | 144.00\nClerk of Works, for Chair Coolies | 30.0.0 | 144.00\nInspector of Buildings, for Chair Coolies | 45.0.0 | 216.00\n2 Marine Sorters, at $1,680 | 700.0.0 | 3,360.00\nComprador at Hongkong | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nInspector of Buildings, for Chinese Teacher | 25.0.0 | 120.00\nShroff | 45.0.0 | 216.00\nOverseer of Works, for Chair Coolies | 37.10.0 | 180.00\n14 Coolies do., Average | 227.10.0 | 1,092.00\n5 Boatmen do., at $72 ea. | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nOverseer of Telegraphs, for keep of Horse | 40.0.0 | 192.00\n\n#### AT THE CONSULAR PORTS\n##### SALARIES\n\nChief Inspector of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies | 30.0.0 | 144.00\n3 Inspectors of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies | 37.10.0 | 180.00\nClerk, Do. | ... | ...\nPostmaster, Shanghai | 600.0.0 | 2,880.00\ndo. | 250.0.0 | 1,200.00\ndo. | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nPostmaster, Yokohama | 500.0.0 | 2,400.00\nPost Office Agent, Amoy | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nDo. do., Foochow | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nDo. do., Canton | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nDo. do., Ningpo | 60.0.0 | 288.00\nDo. do., Swalow | 100.0.0 | 480.00\nDo. do., Hankow | 50.0.0 | 240.00\nDo. do., Hiogo | 60.0.0 | 288.00\nDo. do., Nagasaki | 40.0.0 | 192.00\nShroff at Yokohama | 75.0.0 | 360.00\n\n#### RENT\n\nQuarters for Draftsman | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nDo. for 1st Clerk | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nDo. for Inspector of Buildings | 75.0.0 | 360.00\nDo. for Inspectors of Nuisances, at $180 each | 150.0.0 | 720.00\n\n#### ALLOWANCES\n\nFor Assistance at Hongkong | 31.5.0 | 150.00\nFor do. at the Ports | 371.13.4 | 1,784.00\nFor Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies | 100.0.0 | 480.00\n\n#### TOTAL SURVEYOR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n\n£7,845.8.4 | $37,658.00\n\n### CONTINGENCIES\n\nCost of Adhesive Stamps | 108.13.4 | 800.00\nTravelling Expenses of Marine Sorters | 106.13.4 | 800.00\nIncidental Expenses, Hongkong | 145.16.8 | 700.00\nDo., at the Ports | 208.6.8 | 1,000.00\n\n### SUB-DEPARTMENT\n#### GOVERNMENT GARDENS\n##### SALARIES\n\nSuperintendent | 300.0.0 | 1,440.00\n1 Foreman | 25.0.0 | 120.00\n3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 each | 52.10.0 | 252.00\n16 Labourers, at $72 | 240.0.0 | 1,152.00\n2 Apprentices, at $60 | 25.0.0 | 120.00\n1 Forester | 22.10.0 | 108.00\n5 Do., at $72 each | 75.0.0 | 360.00\n2 Sub-Formen. for Government House and Teak Garden, at $84 each | 34.0.0 | 168.00\n6 Labourers, for do., at $79 each | ... | ...\n1 Labourer, at Govt Offices | 10.0.0 | 48.00\n1 Watchman for Public Gardens | 18.10.0 | 88.80\n\n##### ALLOWANCES\n\nTo Superintendent, for Chair Coolies | 90.0.0 | 432.00\n\n#### TOTAL GOVERNMENT GARDENS\n\n£948.10.0 | $4,628.80\n\n### POSTMASTER GENERAL\n#### CONVEYANCE OF MAILS\n\nESTABLISHMENT | 854.11.8 | 4,102.00\nColonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention | 3,423.18.3 | 16,434.78\nGratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails | 6,000.0.0 | 31,200.00\n\n#### RENT\n\nGround Rent of Post Office at Yokohama | 1,500.0.0 | 7,200.00\nInsurance of Post Office Buildings at Shanghai and Yokohama | 875.0.0 | 4,200.00\nRepairs to Post Offices at Shanghai and Yokohama | 100.0.0 | 480.00\n\n#### TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n\n£12,819.14.11 | $59,134.78",
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        "content_text": "# THE NEW-CHINESE ENVOY TO ENGLAND\n\nAmongst the passengers who arrived here on the 25th ult. by the M.M. steamer Amazone were the Marquis Tseng, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain and France, the Marchioness Tseng and three children. Messrs. Teheus (Secretary), Laou, Tsao, Li, Tseng, Assistant Secretaries, E. Frandin, interpreter, ten Chinese officers, attaches to the Legation, and 28 servants. The Amazone had the Chinese flag flying at the main in honour of the distinguished passengers.\n\nHis Excellency landed the same day under salute, and was received at Government House by Governor Hennessy at three o'clock. His Excellency the Marquis had apartments assigned to him at Government House, where he could transact business; he slept on board the steamer, but he dined every day at Government House. On the 26th ultimo, at the official dinner at Government House on H.E. the Governor proposing the health of the Emperor of China, the Marshal President of France, and Her Majesty the Queen, the Marquis Tseng replied in a speech in Chinese in which, according to a translation furnished by the Marquis next day, he remarked that, “Governor Hennessy's impartial and excellent administration had already done much towards cementing friendly feeling between England and China; and, as to the existing relations between these powers, he might add that he regarded the friend of England as the friend of China, and the enemy of England as the enemy of China.\"\n\nHis Excellency the Marquis Tseng embarked on the 28th ultimo from the Murray Wharf, and proceeded on board the French mail steamer for Europe. A company of the 74th Highlanders was on the wharf as a guard of honour. On the steam-launch leaving the wharf a salute was fired from the shore battery.\n\nThe Shanghai Courier says:- By those who have had the opportunity of conversing with the new Minister to the Elysées and to the Court of St. James, we are informed that he is of dignified and very affable manners, and that there is every likelihood of his becoming a very acceptable personage with the Governments to which he is accredited, as well as with the European Diplomatic Corps, and it is thought that he will make a very favourable impression upon the people at large. The Peking Government may thus be congratulated on having had the foresight to select and appoint in this, as also in the case of Kwo-ta-jou, officials who, like their colleagues of western countries, possess a specialité which is known as the \"Art to please.\" The Marquis Tseng, who, as yet, converses in English with greater difficulty than timidity, has resolved to thoroughly master the language, and if he persists with that dogged Scottish kind of perseverance by which he has been distinguished on all possible occasions and opportunities during his intercourse with foreigners both here and at Tientsin, even with those speaking his own language perfectly, then his most praiseworthy and painstaking determination must eventually be crowned with success. It might have been well had the Marquis, in his capacity as Minister to France, given some attention to French in place of English, for, in his relations in Paris with Frenchmen of the official world, he will make a discovery that his own actual acquaintanceship with English far exceeds theirs. Fortunately, in the present instance Tseng-ta-jen will find an exception to the general rule in the person of the actual Minister of Foreign Affairs (M. Waddington), whose father was English. The only foreigner in the suite of the new Chinese Minister to France is Monsieur Frandin, late interprète of the French Consular service. This gentleman has been temporarily detached from that service by the Minister of France at Peking, for special duty with the Marquis, etc., and we hear that he has received an appointment from the Tsung-li Yamén as Agent de la Mission sans portefeuille politique, or, what in plain English we should call a kind of non-political adviser.\n\nPage 360",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n17 MENTS.\n\n### FIXED ESTABLISHMENT, PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY, TOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\n## CIVIL LIST\n## POSTMASTER GENERAL\n\n| Category | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES:-** |  |\n| Postmaster General, | 3,360 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General, | 2,400 |\n| Accountant, | 480 |\n| 2 at $1,440, | 2,880 |\n| 1 at $960, | 960 |\n| 1 at 1,200, | 1,200 |\n| 1 at 900 | 900 |\n| 7 Sorters |  |\n| 1 at $840, | 840 |\n| 1 at $720, | 720 |\n| 1 at $480, | 480 |\n| Second do., |  |\n| First Marine Sorter, at $1,680, | 3,360 |\n| 2 Marine Stampers, at $120 each, | 240 |\n| Comprador at Hongkong, | 360 |\n| Shroff do. | 216 |\n| Head Messenger, | 144 |\n| 6 Postmen, | 576 |\n| 5 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 4 at $72, | 372 |\n| 4 Boatmen, 1 st $84, and 3 at $72, | 300 |\n|  | 1,440 |\n| Total | 13,128 |\n| **AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.** |  |\n| **SALARIES:--** |  |\n| Postmaster, Shanghai, | 2,880 |\n| Clerk, do., | 1,200 |\n| Do., do., | 360 |\n| Post Office Agent, Amoy, | 480 |\n| Do. do., Foochow, | 480 |\n| Do. do., Canton, | 480 |\n| Do. do., Ningpó, | 288 |\n| Do. do., Swatow, | 480 |\n| Do. do.. Hankow, | 240 |\n| Shroff at Shanghai, | 216 |\n| Total | 7,104 |\n| **ALLOWANCES:-** |  |\n| For Assistance at Hongkong, | 210 |\n| Travelling Expenses of Marine Sorters, |  |\n| For do. at the Ports, | 1,584 |\n| For Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,. | 850 |\n| **CONTINGENCIES:-** |  |\n| Cost of Adhesive Stamps, | 2,144 |\n| Notification of Mails, | 800 |\n| Incidental Expenses, Hongkong,. | 800 |\n| Do at the Ports,. | 180 |\n|  | 700 |\n| Insurance of Post Office Buildings at Shanghai, | 112 |\n| Repairs to Post Offices at Shanghai, | 240 |\n| Total | 3,632 |\n| **ESTABLISHMENT,.** | 480 |\n|  | 26,488 |\n| **CONVEYANCE OF MAILS:-** | 7,200 |\n| Colonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention, £3,150 (Desp. of S. S. of 21st July, 1876), | 21,000 |\n| Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails, | 4,200 |\n| Total | 25,200 |\n| **REFUND OF POSTAGE:-** |  |\n| To London, France, Italy and other countries, . | 87,400 |\n|  | 89,088 |\n| **TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST** | $98,288 |\n\n470",
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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n#### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n##### CIVIL LIST.\n\n#### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\n##### CIVIL LIST.\n\n### POSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\n#### SALARIES:-\n$ \nPostmaster General, \nBrought forward, \n27,528 \n8,640 \nAssistant Postmaster General, \n480 \nAccountant, \n480 \n3,360 \n2,400 \n1,440 \nALLOWANCES:-\n2 at $1,440, \n2,880 \n1 at 1,200, \n1,200 \nTo Surveyor General, for keep of Horse and Chair Coolies, \n480 \n1 at 840, \n840 \n7 Sorters \n960, \n960 \nAssistant Surveyor General, \ndo. \ndo., \n288 \n1 at 720, \n720 \nDraftsman, for Chair Coolies, \n144 \n1 at 480, \n480 \nClerk of Works, \ndo., \n144 \nInspector of Buildings, do., \n216 \nFirst Marine Sorter, \nDo., \nfor Chinese Teacher, \n120 \nSecond do., \nat $1,680, \n3,360 \nOverseer of Works, for Chair Coolies, \nInspector of Telegraph, for Conveyance, \n180 \n2 Marine Stampers, at $120 each, \n240 \nComprador at Hongkong, \n360 \n192 \nShroff \ndo., \n216 \nChief Inspector of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies, \n144 \nHead Messenger, \n144 \n3 Inspectors of Nuisances, \ndo., \n180 \n6 Postmen, \n576 \nInspector of Nuisances, for Chinese Teacher, \n120 \n5 Messengers, 1 at $84, and 4 at $72, \n372 \n4 Boatmen, 1 at $84, and 3 at $72, \n300 \n2,388 \n\n#### CONTINGENCIES:---\nMounting Plans and Charts, &c., \n150 \nIncidental Expenses, \n200 \n\n#### AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\n| Description | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Uniform for Chinese Constables | 51 |\n| Land Survey Contingencies | 68 |\n| SALARIES:— |  |\n| Postmaster, Shanghai | 2,880 |\n| Clerk, do. | 1,200 |\n| Do., do. | 860 |\n| Post Office Agent, Amoy | 480 |\n| RENT:- |  |\n| Quarters for Draftsman | 480 |\n| Do. for Inspector of Buildings | 480 |\n| Do. for 1st Clerk | 360 |\n| Do. for Inspectors of Nuisances | 720 |\n| Do. Foochow | 288 |\n| Do. Canton | 480 |\n| Do. Ningpo | 288 |\n| Do. Swatow | 480 |\n| Do. Hankow | 240 |\n| Shroff at Shanghai | 216 |\n| TOTAL | 7,104 |\n\n#### TOTAL SURVEYOR GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST.\n\n### GOVERNMENT GARDENS, AND PLANTATIONS.\n\n#### SALARIES:-\n$ \nSuperintendent, \n1,440 \n1 Foreman, \n182 \n3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 each, \n252 \n16 Labourers, \nat $72 \n1,152 \n2 Apprentices, at $72 and $36, \n108 \n2 Sub-Foremen, for Government House and Peak Gardens, at $84 each, \n168 \n6 Labourers, do., at $72 each, \n432 \n1 Watchman for Public Gardens, \n90 \n1 Foreman of Foresters, \n120 \n5 Foresters, at $72 each, \n360 \n4,254 \n\n#### ALLOWANCES:-\nTo Superintendent, for Chair Coolies, \n216 \n\n#### TOTAL GOVERNMENT GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS.\n\n$4,470\n\n### POSTMASTER GENERAL - Continued.\n\n#### ALLOWANCES :-\nFor Assistance at Hongkong, \n210 \nFor do. at the Ports, \n1,584 \nFor Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies, \n350 \n\n#### CONTINGENCIES:-\nCost of Adhesive Stamps. \n800 \nTravelling Expenses of Marine Sorters, \nNotification of Mails, \nIncidental Expenses, Hongkong, \nDo., \nInsurance of Post Office Buildings at Shanghai, \nRepairs to Post Offices at Shanghai, \nat the Ports, \n800 \n180 \n700 \n112 \n240 \n3,632 \n\n#### ESTABLISHMENT.\nGratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails, \n20,488 \n7,200 \nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS:-\nColonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention, \n(Desp. of S. 8. of 21st July, 1876), \n4,200 \nREFUND OF POSTAGE:-\nTo London, France, Italy and other countries, \n25,200 \n37,400 \n89,088 \n\n#### TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST.\n\n$96,288",
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        "content_text": "# DESPATCH. \n232\n\nConsulate to be Portal Agent at Amoy; salary of £100 which amount is provided for in the Estimates for the present Year.\n\n2. It has not been the practice to report these portal appointments at the open ports in China on account of the continual changes in the Consular Service, but they always appear in the usual Quarterly Returns forwarded to the Colonial Office.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Obedient Servant  \nKépes femmesy  \nGovernor. No. 74  \nDate. No `10715`\n\n## (Subject.)\nToso. Differences between the Governor & A fent Donovan.\n\nJune 6. Last Transmitting a Duplicate Despatch to the Sec: of State for War making Gov. his complaint against the Commander.\n\n| Date | Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 17 July | `10453` | Copy No. Conson |\n|  | `19795` |  |\n| 3 July 17 | `9049` | \"With observations the Gov. In theade |\n|  |  | (Minutes.) |\n\nPerhaps it will be sufficient if we send the Governor's despatch with the enclosures, the War Office in continuation of our letter of 8th ult.\n\nJune 15. So proceed. It will be as well that the W.O. should get this before they write ans. The General seems to me to have put... all through Kumailf in the wrong; there is a good deal beyond what we do not know, but...  \nBr. 10/7  \nwhich we do not... Paper 210 for as the facts are reported the Governor has for the best of the arguments `km 1677`",
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Do. for Inspectors of Nuisances,\n    \n  \n  \n    for Inspector of Buildings,.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    30,397\n  \n  \n    \n    8,640\n  \n  \n    Postmaster, Shanghai\n    Clerk,\n    2,880\n  \n  \n    do.,\n    \n    1,200\n  \n  \n    Post Office Agent, Canton,\n    \n    480\n  \n  \n    Do.\n    do.,\n    \n  \n  \n    Swatow,\n    \n    480\n  \n\nGOVERNMENT GARDENS, & PLANTATIONS.\n\nSALARIES:---\n\n  \n    Superintendent,\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Clerk and Interpreter..\n    \n  \n  \n    1 Forcinau,.\n    \n  \n  \n    3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 euch,\n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL, INCLUDing Civil. 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        "content_text": "I agree with Mr de Robeck.\n\nThe sovereignty of the peninsula Macao appears to be a moot point. The Portuguese appear to have occupied it for 300 years, paying a rent or blackmail to the Chinese Government. It has been recognised as one of the Portuguese Possessions which we are bound to defend under the defensive alliance, but the Portuguese appear to have treated it as under Chinese or Portuguese Sovereignty just as suited their convenience at the moment. The appointment of a Consul and his recognition by Portuguese Authorities would be held to be an acknowledgment of Portuguese Sovereignty. Other countries appear to have taken this course.\n\nI was dissuaded from doing so as possibly leading to misunderstanding with the Chinese Government. But it is proposed to appoint a Consular agent or Vice Consul, which officers I believe do not require recognition by the local Government, as do Consuls. The Foreign Office also propose to instruct Sir J. Wade in the event of any complaint from the Chinese Government to state that we do not intend by the appointment of this Consular officer to imply any opinion as to the conflicting claims of China and Portugal with regard to Macao.\n\nConcur. He has made two representations regarding Macao to the Chinese Government.\n\nThe man gives a complete account of Macao.\n\nPage 125\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom indicating \"Page 125\" are kept as is, assuming they were part of the original scan delineating page metadata.)",
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        "content_text": "It was hard for the Centre to admit that by the appointment of a Consular Agent there, the British Government had virtually recognised the sovereignty of Portugal over Macao.\n\nWithin the last 3 months, the vexed question has had a narrow escape of being reopened by the Foreign Customs Inspectorate at Shanghai. Prepared opium had been brought to that port from Macao for exportation to various places to which, but for the privileges of the Canton Opium Farmer, it would have been sent via Hong Kong.\n\nWhether instructed by the Tsungli Yamen or not, I cannot say, but W. Hart, I think prudently, instructed the Commissioner at Shanghai, who on the ground that Macao belongs to China, had inclined to dispute the right of foreign vessels\n\nPage 135",
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        "content_text": "Comuna Mamie matkami, manegen das on a\n\nPage 137\n\nI have thought it my duty to prepare J.L. for Such Contingency, & I venture to suggest that if I am appealed to I should be authorised, without discussing the question of right, to assure the Chinese Govt of the unwillingness of H.M.Govt to take any step that would be disagreeable to it, & of its readiness, until some farther Agreement be arrived at between China & Portugal, to withdraw its Consular Agent.\n\nIf the Tsungli Yamen say nothing, it is of course not desirable that I should be the first to speak.\n\nI have, etc,\n\n(Signed) J. F. Wade",
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        "content_text": "England itself; and if so, whether Great Britain would be bound to interfere in the event of a rupture (which was then threatened) between the Chinese and the authorities at Macao.\n\nA Memorandum was accordingly prepared, show- Memorandum;\n\nJuly 31, 1843. ing the obligations of this country towards Portugal under the ancient Treaties, which was submitted to the Queen's Advocate, and on receipt of his Report To Queen's Advocate; the following reply was returned to the Colonial Office:-\n\nSeptember 4, 1843.\n\nQueen's Advocate:\n\nNovember 4, 1843.\n\nNovember 6, 1845.\n\n\"Lord Stanley will perceive that the Queen's Advocate is of opinion that the provisions of the Treaty of 1661 between the English and Portuguese Crowns apply to Macao, and that Portugal would be entitled, in pursuance of that Treaty, to call upon this country to assist in the defence of the establishments in that place against Chinese aggression. Lord Aberdeen, however, apprehends that in claiming assistance under a Treaty of Defensive Alliance, it is incumbent on the claiming party to show that the attack which it apprehends, or from which it suffers, has not been provoked by any proceedings of its own; and that, in the specific case of Macao, Portugal would have to show, not only that her authorities at Macao had given no positive provocation to the Government of China, but also that they had not violated any conditions on which that Government had permitted them to occupy that Settlement. Lord Aberdeen is of opinion that Her Majesty's Government could not leave the British authorities in China the power to decide on the validity of the allegations which might be adduced by Portugal in support of a demand for assistance under Treaty, especially when the result of their decision might be to involve their country in hostility with China.\n\n\"Lord Aberdeen is also of opinion that all applications for assistance in pursuance of such a compact must be addressed directly by the Portuguese Government to that of Great Britain; and that the local authorities, both British and Portuguese, in China must be considered as invested with no power whatever to act on their own authority, or at their own discretion, in such a matter.\n\n\"Further, his Lordship conceives that this opinion and determination of Her Majesty's Government ought to be explicitly made known both to the\n\nSir H. Pottinger, No. 159;\n\nNovember 29, 1843.\n\nMr. Davis, No. 50; July 15, 1844.\n\nSir H. Pottinger;\n\nNos. 159 and 174, of 1843; Nos. 12, 74, and 75, of 1844,\n\nBritish and Portuguese authorities in China. Otherwise, the latter might fall into the error of assuming a tone in their communications with the Chinese authorities which might lead to acts of violence being directed against the Settlement of Macao; while the former might, on their part, consider themselves bound to interpose in the event of such acts of violence being committed, without previously consulting the Government at home.\n\n\"Lord Aberdeen would therefore recommend that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed in the sense above indicated, and that he should, at the same time, be ordered to take a fitting opportunity of making known the tenor of his instructions to the Portuguese authorities at Macao.\"\n\nIn October following, a British subject (Mr. Campbell) was arrested and imprisoned by the Portuguese authorities at Macao; and, in reporting it home, Sir H. Pottinger alluded to the fact that a Mr. J. Rickett (who, it appears from a despatch from Mr. Davis, was appointed in 1842) was then acting as British Consular Agent at Macao, and that he was in communication with the Portuguese authorities on the subject of Mr. Campbell's imprisonment; but Sir H. Pottinger went on to say:-\n\n\"Her Majesty's Government will be the best judges whether the formal approval of the Queen of Portugal to Mr. Rickett's residing as British Consular Agent at Macao is required or not. Should it be thought so, I beg to recommend that early measures may be taken for obtaining it, as the resort of British shipping to those parts of the waters of China, generally known by the appellations of the 'Macao Roads' and the 'Typa' (over neither of which the Macao authorities pretend to exercise the smallest jurisdiction) is very considerable, and I therefore consider the presence of a British Consular officer to be indispensable under our new relations with China.\"\n\nNo steps, however, would appear to have been taken to obtain the formal recognition of Mr. Rickett's appointment by the Portuguese authorities.\n\n1844.\n\nBut Sir H. Pottinger, in his despatches of 1843 and 1844 relating to the imprisonment of Mr.\n\n[50]\n\nD\n\n142",
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        "content_text": "Campbell, also raised the question of the right of the Portuguese authorities to exercise jurisdiction over British subjects at Macao; and instructions on both these subjects were accordingly addressed to Mr. Davis (Sir H. Pottinger's successor) in November 1844.\n\nIn these instructions Lord Aberdeen said :-\n\nThe course suggested is that measures should be taken for withdrawing British subjects from Portuguese jurisdiction, either by denying the right of the Portuguese authorities, under the peculiar tenure by which the establishments of the Portuguese Crown in Macao are held, to exercise any jurisdiction at all over British subjects, who would then, as residents within the Chinese dominions, come within those exclusive privileges of jurisdiction conferred on Great Britain by her Treaties with China, or by claiming, in pursuance of the Treaty engagements between Great Britain and Portugal, that in the same manner as the subjects of the Emperor of China at Macao are amenable to the jurisdiction of Chinese authorities only, so also the subjects of Great Britain should be under the exclusive jurisdiction of British authorities.\n\nTo Mr. Davis, No. 90;\n\nNovember 16, 1844.\n\n\"By maintaining, however, the first proposition, Her Majesty's Government would expose themselves to the objection that if Macao is to be considered as part of the territory of China, the Treaty of Nanking, which limits residence of British subjects to five specified ports in China, would preclude them altogether from repairing to Macao; while, by contending for the second, if Macao is to be considered a portion of the Portuguese territory, the Court of Lisbon might pretend that any British authority claiming to exercise, in pursuance of Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, the same exclusive jurisdiction over British subjects in Macao which the authorities of the Emperor of China are in the habit of exercising over Chinese subjects, should obtain the sanction of the Crown of Portugal to his residence in Macao in the ordinary form of a Consular exequatur. But an application to the Court of Lisbon for such an exequatur would be a tacit admission that the sovereignty of Macao is vested in the Crown of Portugal; and such an admission Her Majesty's Government are not disposed to make.\"\n\nCovering letter only.\n\nSee p. 8.\n\nAnd here it may be mentioned that the Queen's Advocate had (on the 9th May preceding) expressed an opinion that \"the sovereignty of Macao being in the Emperor of China, and not in the Queen of Portugal, the exequatur of a British Consul could not be necessary.\n\nBut this decision was combated by Lord Aberdeen, and the point referred back to the Queen's Advocate, whose attention was drawn to the fact that, if Macao was Chinese territory British subjects could have no right to trade there, as it was not one of the ports opened by Treaty to British trade, whilst if it was Portuguese territory there might be a difficulty in requiring that a Consular Agent should reside there without the formal sanction of the Portuguese Government.\n\nIn a subsequent Report (of the 4th November, 1844) the Queen's Advocate therefore reported that he had not been able to discover any mode by which the difficulty which had been pointed out as rendering it inexpedient to question the tenure of the Portuguese in Macao could be obviated.\n\n\"That the application to the Portuguese Government for an exequatur for a British Consular Agent at Macao was certainly open to the objection that the sovereignty of the place was thereby implied to be invested in Portugal, but that the inconvenience which might be occasioned by openly asserting the sovereign right of China in preference to that of Portugal was so great as to induce him to think that it would be more advisable to apply for the exequatur than to bring forward the question of sovereignty.\"\n\n[It will be seen from what follows that applications have on various occasions since this date been made to the Portuguese Government to recognize the appointment of British Consular Agents to reside at Macao.]\n\nIt was under these circumstances that the above instructions were sent to Mr. Davis.\n\nThose instructions then continued as follows :- \"Lord Stanley's despatch to your predecessor of the 12th November, 1843, with the letter from this Office of the 6th of that month therein inclosed, will explain to you the view which Her Majesty's Government take of the tenure by which the Crown of Portugal holds Macao, and of the\n\n143",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nObligations which result therefrom as far as Great Britain is concerned.\n\nThough the dominion of the soil of Macao is not to be vested in Portugal, the interest in that settlement which has been conceded to it by China is of such a nature as, in the opinion of the law authorities, to bring it within the scope of the Treaties by which Great Britain is bound to afford protection to the possessions of Portugal. But to enable a British authority to exercise jurisdiction in Macao, considered as a Portuguese Settlement, there would be required, not only the exequatur of the Crown of Portugal, but an Order of Her Majesty in Council, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, giving effect to the concession of the Portuguese Government under the 1st Article of the Treaty with England, by which the privileges conceded by Portugal to any foreign nation are agreed to be equally conceded to England. Such Order in Council would, again, imply a more extensive sovereignty of Portugal over Macao than Her Majesty's Government are prepared to acknowledge.\n\nFrom what I have thus stated, you will perceive that Her Majesty's Government cannot but apprehend that a demand for exclusive jurisdiction over British subjects in Macao might lead to an embarrassing discussion not only with the Portuguese, but even with the Chinese Government, the consequences of which it is not easy to foresee.\n\nUnquestionably, if the necessity for taking any decided line on the matter were very urgent, the risks to which I have alluded must be encountered; and it might, perhaps, be found possible to obviate one class of objections by maintaining, if any sufficient ground could be alleged for doing so, that Macao forms part of the port of Canton, and that the position of the Portuguese in Macao is essentially the same as that of Great Britain at Canton, Ningpo, Amoy, and other places, each enjoying jurisdiction over its own subjects, but each precluded from exercising jurisdiction over Chinese.\n\nIt is not, however, at first sight, evident that the altered footing on which British interests in China are placed by the events of the last few years renders it a matter of essential importance to question at the present time, and attempt to define the degree of interference which the Portuguese authorities at Macao should exercise over British subjects. Formerly, when a large portion of the British community in China resided at Macao, which was the only spot where they were allowed uninterruptedly to dwell, advantage might, perhaps, have resulted from securing to a British authority an exclusive right of jurisdiction over his countrymen.\n\nNo. 61, July 29.\n\n13\n\nHer Majesty's Government, however, are not aware that the necessity for raising a question of this nature was at that time felt; and now that a British Settlement is formed in the immediate neighbourhood of Macao,* to which it is more than probable that the greater part, if not the whole, of the British mercantile houses heretofore established at Macao will, at no distant day, be transferred, the necessity would, at first sight, certainly appear to be in no way urgent.\n\nThe Ordinance No. 1 of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, in the Superintendent's Series [reference to which will be made later on], removes any doubt as to the power of the Court of Hong Kong to take cognizance of offences committed in Macao; and it is doubtless convenient that such power should be vested in the Colonial Court by which it may deal with British offenders if they come within its acknowledged jurisdiction.\n\nUpon a full consideration of all the circumstances of the case which Her Majesty's Government have had before them, they are disinclined to take any present steps for asserting jurisdiction in Macao. An observation in one of your recent despatches, by which it appears that the interference of a British authority in Macao is daily less required, tends to corroborate the opinion of Her Majesty's Government in preferring to suffer matters to remain, for the present at least, on the same footing as heretofore; and as they apprehend that in former times the chief British authority in China never assumed, when at Macao, to exercise their exclusive jurisdiction over British subjects, and therefore never came into collision on that point with the local Portuguese authorities, so now they would desire that the British Consular Agent at Macao should regulate his conduct by the same principles. But although such is the present view * Hong Kong.\n\n[50]\n\nE\n\n144",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nAnd in a subsequent despatch to Lord Aberdeen Mr. Davis said :-----\n\n\"I am desirous to express my entire concurrence in his (Sir H. Pottinger's) views and opinions concerning Macao, and the impolicy of regarding that place as any other than a portion of the Chinese dominions, where the Portuguese are permitted to reside on mere sufferance. Chinese sovereignty there is acknowledged—as they drove the English merchants away from that place in 1839, with or without the concurrence of the Portuguese, their vassals—it would be pregnant with the greatest inconvenience to admit the pretensions of the Portuguese also, and so have to do with two masters at the same place. The Portuguese claim to allegiance from British residents might be answered at once by their avowed inability to afford protection.\"\n\n1845.\n\nIn March 1845, in consequence of Mr. Rickett's retirement, the question again arose as to the appointment of a Consular Agent at Macao, with a salary of £500 a-year, when Mr. Davis was informed that, as he appeared to consider the maintenance of that office to be no longer requisite, he was at liberty to abolish the situation altogether, or to make some more economical arrangement for the performance of the limited duties which such an officer might be called upon to execute; but what arrangement was made is not recorded.\n\nSeptember 1849.\n\nIn July following, Baron Moncorvo addressed a note to Lord Aberdeen, complaining, on the part of the Portuguese Government, of an official notification addressed by Sir John Davis to the Governor of Macao, to the effect, as stated by Baron Moncorvo, “that all British subjects, either settled or sojourning at Macao, would thenceforward be subjected to British laws, both in civil and criminal cases.”\n\n59\n\nSir John Davis' notification to the Governor of Macao was with reference to an Ordinance of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, by which the Courts of Justice at Hong Kong were empowered to proceed against any British subject who might be guilty of any criminal offence or civil injury at Macao.\n\n147\n\nTo Baron Moncorvo;\n\nJuly 29, 1845.\n\nBaron Moncorvo;\n\nSeptember 9, 1845.\n\nState Papers, vol. xliv, p. 661.\n\n19\n\nIn his note complaining of this Ordinance, Baron Moncorvo spoke of it as intrenching on the rights of Portugal \"in one of her possessions,\" her sovereignty over which \"no other Power had ever disputed\" and whose origin was owing to the acts of valour displayed by the Portuguese arms. Baron Moncorvo admitted the payment by Portugal\n\n39\n\nof a \"quit-rent or annual consideration to the Chinese authorities, but denied that that payment could serve as an argument against the absolute sovereignty of Portugal over Macao, it being only \"the result of adjustments made between the Governments of Portugal and China for the peaceable enjoyment of the commerce carried on by the Portuguese with China,\" and alluded to the fact that similar payments had been made by European nations to the Barbary Powers for the protection of their trade from privateers.\n\nLord Aberdeen, in his reply to Baron Moncorvo, did not consider it necessary to allude to other passages in his note than that relating to the Ordinance itself, which he explained as merely announcing that British subjects should be amenable to a Tribunal established within the British dominions for deeds done by them, or for engagements contracted by them in a place out of the British dominions; and his Lordship added that it in no way \"impugned the rights which the Crown of Portugal possessed in Macao, whatever those rights might be.\"\n\nBaron Moncorvo expressed the satisfaction of his Government at this explanation, describing in his note the Ordinance in question as \"extending the jurisdiction of the English Courts in the manner ordered by the Act 9 Geo. IV, cap. 31, sec. 7, so that the British subjects residing at Macao were there amenable, as heretofore, to the Portuguese Tribunals.\" Here the correspondence ended.\n\nOn the 20th November following a Portuguese Decree was issued directing Macao to be a free port.\n\nf\n\n$\n\n1848.\n\nState Papers, vol. xxxviii, p. 1059.\n\nOn the 11th August, 1848, an Act of Congress was passed by the United States, to carry into effect certain provisions of the Treaty with China of the 3rd July, 1844, giving certain judicial powers to\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nMacao which it does not assert in its communications with the Government of China.\n\nBut local sovereignty is the foundation upon which must rest any claim of jurisdiction in any place over the subjects of foreign States, and if Portugal has no right of sovereignty over Macao, and if she acknowledges, even by the payment of an annual rent, the sovereignty of the Emperor of China therein, she cannot claim a right to exercise at Macao jurisdiction over the subjects of the Queen of England. Hence, it follows that the imprisonment of Mr. Summers by the Governor of Macao was unjustifiable with reference to international law, and that the British Naval Officers were on that ground alone, and without reference to other reasons, borne out in their demand for his immediate liberation.\n\nNovember 29, 1849.\n\nIn replying to this note the Portuguese Minister Baron Moncorvo; gave his version of the events which took place in 1802, 1808, 1809, and 1839; and he then made the following statement with regard to the position of the Chinese in Macao:\n\n\"The Government of His Majesty has established there a free port, and has consequently caused to be removed the custom-house which registered vessels there, not allowing in the city any functionary of that Government, except the so-called Mandurin of Macao, to act as a kind of Consul, intermediate between the Chinese population and the Government of the city. The Chinese there are subject to the Portuguese authorities for matters of civic police and other objects; they pay the industrial and predial impost, as they formerly paid duties in the Portuguese custom-house, which were abolished when Macao was declared a free port.\n\n\"No Chinese authority, with the exception of the Mandarin of Macao,7 is permitted to enter the boundary-gate in the wall, unless by day, with previous notice to the Governor, unaccompanied by armed force, or gongs; and\n\n\"The commerce of Macao with Canton and the other ports of China open to foreign trade is regulated by the same forms as that of Hong Kong with these ports;\" and he concluded by saying\n\n\"From what has been stated, the sovereignty of the Crown of Portugal over Macao is irrefragably proved. The sovereignty of the British Crown in its possessions in both the Indies has assuredly not\n\nState Papers, vol. xlvii, p. 912.\n\nState Papers, vol. xlvii, p. 927.\n\nTo Mr. Bruce, No. 112;\n\nJuly 10, 1861.\n\nTo Mr. Paget, No. 825;\n\nJuly 1857.\n\nFrom Mr. Paget, No. 35;\n\nAugust 26, 1857.\n\nFrom Sir J. Bowring, No. 235;\n\n1857.\n\nFrom Sir J. Bowring, No. 338;\n\nJuly 31, 1867.\n\nTo Mr. Paget, No. 26;\n\nOctober 2, 1857.\n\nFrom Mr. Howard, No. 25;\n\nFebruary 5, 1858.\n\nMr. Bruce, No. 188;\n\nDecember 12, 1861.\n\n23\n\nhad a more legitimate origin, nor does it rest on more solid foundations.\"\n\nThe case of Mr. Summers was concluded by the British Government expressing its regret at the conduct of the British naval officer, and paying compensation to the men who were wounded, and to the families of those who were killed in the attack on the prison at Macao.\n\n1856.\n\nOn the 18th August, 1856, a Portuguese Law was passed providing for the liberation of slaves on entering the Portuguese Territories, § 5 of which declared that its provisions should be observed in the city of Macao and its dependencies; and, on the 23rd December of the same year, another Portuguese Law was passed abolishing slavery in the city of Macao and its dependencies.\n\n1857---1861.\n\nOn the 21st July, 1857, Dr. W. Kane was appointed British Consular Agent at Macao, and Mr. Paget, who was then at Lisbon, was instructed to ascertain from the Portuguese Government whether they had any objection to his appointment, when they stated that they had not, but requested to be furnished with Dr. Kane's Commission, in order that the necessary exequatur might be issued; but as Dr. Kane was furnished with no Commission no exequatur was required. Dr. Kane resigned, and on the recommendation of the British residents at Macao and \"of the Portuguese Governor,\" Mr. O. Cleverley was nominated to succeed him. Sir John Bowring's despatch containing these recommendations in favour of Mr. O. Cleverley was sent to Mr. Paget with instructions to communicate it to the Portuguese Government, and to ascertain whether they had any objection to the appointment.\n\nThe Portuguese Government, as before, replied that they had no objection, but requested to have the \"Letters Patent,\" in order that the Royal confirmation might be obtained; but, as in Dr. Kane's case, no Commission was granted, and therefore no exequatur was necessary.\n\nMr. Cleverley died in England on the 1st June, 1861, whilst absent from his post on leave.\n\n149",
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        "content_text": "150\n\naccount of ill-health.\n\n24\n\nMr. Deacon would appear to have acted in his absence, but in December 1861 he expressed a desire to give up the office, and as Mr. Bruce and Consul Robertson were of opinion that it should not be abolished, Mr. E. L. Lança, a Portuguese subject resident at Macao, was, subject to the approval of Her Majesty's Government and \"that of the Governor of Macao,\" appointed by Mr. Bruce to fill the post.\n\nNovember 9, 1861.\n\nConsul Robertson gave the following reasons for thinking that the post should not be abolished :-\n\n1st. During the year there are about 100 British vessels visiting the port, many of them loading and discharging there, and the Portuguese Government not only readily leaves the Settlement of all disputes occurring on board to the intervention of the Consular Agent, but avoids in every possible way any direct interference. The masters of these vessels, moreover, frequently require advice and assistance in their dealings with the Portuguese and Chinese residents. They also require the attestation of various documents, and there are, no doubt, many other reasons in connection with the British mercantile marine rendering the presence of a Consular Agent, if not absolutely necessary, at all events very desirable;\n\n\"2ndly. A great many British subjects in the course of the year seek change of air at Macao, and in the event of any of these dying or getting into trouble the presence of a Consular Agent would certainly be of advantage.\"\n\nIn Mr. Bruce's No. 188; December 12, 1861.\n\nMarch 7, 1862.\n\nTo Sir A. Magenis, No. 15; March 7, 1862.\n\nMarch 15, 1862.\n\nMr. Lança's appointment as Consular Agent at Macao was accordingly approved, and Sir A. Magenis was instructed to request the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs to cause the requisite instructions to be given for Mr. Lança's recognition in that capacity, and he did so; when the Portuguese Minister replied by requesting that as it was necessary that the appointment of Mr. Lança should be duly confirmed by the King of Portugal, that gentleman's commission should be forwarded to him, which would be returned to Sir A. Magenis; although the Portuguese Minister stated that in the meantime he had written to the Minister of Marine to request him to forward the necessary orders to the authorities at Macao, in order that Mr. Lança might be recognized ad interim.\n\nTo Sir A. Magenis, No. 23; April 11, 1862.\n\nSir A. Magenis, No. 52; April 25, 1862.\n\nSir R. Alcock, No. 82; June 13, 1867.\n\nState Papers, vol. lv, p. 790.\n\n25\n\nSir A. Magenis was upon this instructed to explain to the Portuguese Minister that Mr. Lança, in his capacity of Consular Agent, was furnished with no commission from the Queen, and to say that Her Majesty's Government therefore trusted that no further delay might take place in Mr. Lança's full recognition as British Consular Agent at Macao.\n\nOn the 21st May, 1867, Mr. Lança died, when M. Pio Marques was placed in charge of the archives; but Sir R. Alcock advised that the appointment should not be filled up, and Lord Stanley consented to its abolition, as an experiment; adding that he was not disposed entirely to agree with the general reasons which Sir R. Alcock had assigned for its abolition and could not feel sure that the want of it might not be felt thereafter.\n\n1862.\n\nIt should now be mentioned that on the 13th August, 1862, a Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded at Tien-tsin between China and Portugal, which has, I think, an important bearing on the present question.\n\nIt was concluded between the Portuguese \"Governor-General of Macao, Plenipotentiary to China,” and an Imperial High Commissioner; and it began by declaring (Art. II) that everything that down to that day had been done, at whatever time or place, whether in writing or printed, or verbally agreed, with respect to the relations between Portugal and the Empire of China, and between the Government of the City of Macao (formerly in the Province of Canton) and the Chinese authorities,\" were entirely annulled, and held as non-existing, and that the Treaty then concluded was to serve as the only valid regulation of the relations between the two States.\n\nArticle III then declared that \"the Governor of Macao, in his capacity of Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty in China,\" might visit the Court of Pekin every year should important affairs render it necessary.\n\nArticle IX declared that His Majesty the King of Portugal would enjoin upon the Governor-General of Macao to bestow his most determined co-operation to avoid everything which might, at that place, be prejudicial to the interests of the Chinese Empire,\n\n[50]",
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        "content_text": "28 \n\nand explained in what respect the Portuguese and Chinese versions differed.\n\nHe then proceeded to say :-\n\n\"It was upon the recognition of its own sovereignty that, I am told, the Chinese Government has now made a stand. Its objection is styled by Senhor do Amaral as an attack on the sovereignty of Portugal; but the Chinese are also understood to object to the continuance of merchant Consuls in violation of Article VIII, which provides that the Portuguese Consuls shall be bona fide Government servants, and not engaged in trade.\n\n\"The Chinese were, of course, ready to exchange the ratifications, could the Portuguese Minister have removed their well-founded doubts as to the Portuguese construction of Article IX. Senhor do Amaral, it seems, withdrew without any discussion, protesting that he had heard of no objections on the part of the Emperor until the day he met His Majesty's Representative.\n\n\"The Prince of Kung, in the despatch his Highness has communicated to me, maintains that notice of the objection taken was given to Senhor do Amaral nearly a year ago.\n\n\"The quarrel has just thus much interest to us, that, in the present weak condition of China, any Power that can send two ships to sea can do her serious injury, and Macao is a sufficient base for the provision of war supplies to the disaffected of Canton, who are numerous enough, even were nothing more ambitious attempted by the Portuguese.\"\n\nIn reply to the Portuguese protest, the Chinese Government informed the Portuguese Minister that China was prepared to exchange ratifications of Senhor de Guimaraes' Treaty of 1862, provided that Portugal would admit that there were reserved to China the rights of sovereignty at Macao, which, Mr. Wade stated, were, in his opinion, incontestably secured her by the Chinese text of the Treaty; and Mr. Wade, No. 8; provided that bona fide Consuls, that is, Consuls not merchants, be appointed by Portugal.\n\nMr. Wade added that the intentions of the Chinese Government, should Portugal yield the claim over Macao, asserted only in 1849, did not, as he was privately informed, go beyond the establishment of an office for the surveillance of native craft; by the trade in which, then, the Imperial revenue suffered severely;\n\nBut the Portuguese Minister still demanded an exchange of the Treaty in full, and there the matter has rested ever since.\n\n1868.\n\nIn 1868 it was rumoured that it was the intention of the Portuguese Government to cede Macao to the United States or to China.\n\n1870.\n\nOn the 2nd September, 1870, an Ordinance was issued by the Governor of Hong Kong for the extradition of certain persons, fugitives from justice from Macao, and it was stated therein that the expression \"Governor of Macao\" should include the person for the time being administering the Government of Macao; and that the expression \"territory of Macao\" should extend to any place within the jurisdiction of the Government of Macao, and should include the high seas, but no mention was made either of Portugal or of China.\n\n1879.\n\nOn the 1st January last Mr. Morier was instructed to ask the Portuguese Government to recognize Mr. M. Murray as Vice-Consul at Macao, and he did so; but Sir T. Wade suggests that, under certain circumstances, he should be empowered to assure the Chinese Government of the readiness of the British Government to withdraw its Consular Agent until some arrangement can be come to between China and Portugal.\n\nBut as the following countries would appear to have now, or to have had formerly, Consuls resident\n\n\"Gotha Almanach,\" 1874, p. 735. in Macao, viz. :-Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Hawaiian 1880, p. 863. Islands, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Siam, and the\n\nUnited States (Macao being inserted in the \"Gotha Almanach,\" under the heading of Portugal, “Colonie Macao\"), there would appear to be no valid reason why the English, of all foreign Powers, should be the only one which should be deprived of the\n\n[50]\n\n29\n\nI \n\n152",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nprivilege of having at least a Vice-Consul or Consular Agent resident at Macao to look after British interests; more especially when it is considered that between Portugal and most, if not all, of these countries, Consular Conventions exist, in which a clause is inserted stating that Consuls must obtain the necessary exequaturs from the Portuguese Government before they can act officially in the Portuguese possessions, from which it must be assumed that they have all obtained their exequaturs from the Portuguese Government, and thereby have tacitly admitted the sovereignty of Portugal over Macao. And as it has been shown that, in several instances before now, British Consular Agents have resided in Macao, and that their official recognition has invariably been asked for from the Portuguese Government, and never from the Chinese, the advice which was given by the Queen's Advocate in 1844 would appear to hold as good now as it did then, that it would be more advisable to apply for an exequatur than to bring forward the question of sovereignty; more especially since it was stated in \n\nSir T. Wade's despatches of 1864 that since 1849 \n\nPages 27, 28.\n\nthe Portuguese have asserted their claim over Macao \n\nby ejecting the Chinese and by refusing any longer \n\nto pay them the rent which they had for so long \n\na period been in the habit of paying.\n\nDecember 23, 1879.\n\nE. HERTSLET.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. de Subech Baal & \n\nMr. Wingfield \n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nLord Cadogan.\n\n12 \n\nSir M. Hicks Beach. 15 \n\nJack \n\n20 \n\n223 \n\nIndend \n\nkating Ring \n\nIs 16 March 1880 \n\nIn raps & Jou Letter \n\nth \n\nLeben Ilm \n\n7 Sebany \n\n153 \n\nchailid by the Leveling of State \n\nfor the Colonies to request \n\nStall in his minile refers, I thanks, \n\nthat \n\nGremark of \n\ninbl \n\nplätä \n\nthe Buarquis of Salihing that \n\nec.\n\nJ \n\n115 \n\n1. expor \n\n\"Attorney fannel in Prese \n\nreport is n \n\n/A \n\nof his tegel \n\nThe dis \n\nMarch 15 \n\nLe \n\nCen ant \n\nAn instinktu \n\nmisline.\n\nthe chaft of \n\nnheit.\n\nit is \n\n6 then \n\nPerpaut & colchest",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH- PROVISIONAL AND\n\nTOTAL TO BE\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH- PROVISIONAL AND\n\nMENTS.\n\nTEMPORARY.\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nMENTS.\n\nTEMPORARY.\n\nVOTED.\n\nVIII-POSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nBrought forward, .... 27,984 $ 8,160\n\nSALARIES:\n\nPostmaster General, 480\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, 480\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\nTo Surveyor General, for Chair Coolies, 3,360\n\nAssistant Surveyor General, do., 2,400\n\nAccountant, 1,440\n\n480 $\n\n2 at $1,440, 2,880\n\n288\n\n1 at 1,080, 1,080\n\nAssistant Engineer, do., 144\n\n2 at 8 Clerks 960, 1,920\n\nClerk of Works, ,, Inspector of Buildings, do., do., 144\n\n1 at 720, 720\n\n216\n\n1 at 480, 480\n\nDo., for Chinese Teacher,. 120\n\nI at 480, 480\n\nOverseer of Works, for Chair Coolies,. 180\n\n2 Marine Officers, at $1,680, 3,360\n\n>>\n\nDo., do., 180\n\n1 Extra Marine Officer, 480\n\nInspector of Telegraph, for Conveyance, 192\n\n2 Assistants to do., at $120 each,. 240\n\n77\n\nChief Inspector of Nuisances, for Chair Coolies, 144\n\nCompradore at Hongkong, 360\n\n3 Inspectors of Nuisances, do., 180\n\nShroff do., 300\n\nInspector of Nuisances, for Chinese Teacher, 120\n\nHead Messenger, 144\n\n\"\n\nAssistant Land Surveyor, do., 120\n\n6 Postmen, at $96 each, 576\n\n2,508\n\n6 Messengers, 3 at $84, and 3 at $72, 468\n\n4 Boatmen, 1 at $84, and 3 at $72, 300\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\n\nUniform for Chinese Constables, Land Survey Contingencies,. 150\n\nMounting Plans and Charts, &c., Incidental Expenses, 200\n\n13,308\n\n1,920\n\n15,228\n\n102\n\nAT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\nSALARIES:-\n\n68\n\n520\n\nPostmaster, Shanghai, 2,880\n\nESTABLISHMENT, 31,012 8,100\n\nClerk, do., 1,200\n\nPost Office Agent, Canton, 480\n\nDo.\n\nRENT:-\n\nQuarters for Assistant Engineer, Do. for Clerk of Works, Do. for 1st Clerk, for Inspector of Buildings, Do. for Inspectors of Nuisances, 360\n\nDo. do., Swatow, 480\n\nDo. do., Amoy, 480\n\nDo. do., Foochow, 360\n\nDo. do., Ningpo, 288\n\n360\n\n720\n\n9,160\n\nDo. do., Hankow, 240\n\nShroff at Shanghai, 300\n\n33,172\n\n41,832\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n\nFor Assistance at Hongkong,. For do. at the Ports,\n\nVII-GOVT GARDENS, & PLANTATIONS.\n\nSALARIES:---\n\nSuperintendent, 1 Clerk and Interpreter,. 1 Foreman,... 3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 each, at $72\n\nTOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,.. 2 Sub-Foremen, for Government House\n\n16 Labourers, 2 Apprentices, at $48 and $36, and Peak Gardens, at $84 each, 6 Labourers, do., at $72 each, 1 Watchman for Botanic Gardens,\n\n$\n\nSA\n\n$\n\n1 Head Forester, 1 Forester, 5 Do., at $72 each, 4 Do., at $72 each, 2 Forest Guards,\n\nALLOWANCES :--\n\nTo Superintendent, for Chair Coolies, To Head Forester, for do.,\n\nTOTAL,\n\n$\n\n1,440\n\n000\n\n240\n\n132\n\n252\n\n1,152\n\n84\n\n168\n\n433\n\n90\n\n180\n\n96\n\n360\n\n288\n\n192\n\n4,206\n\n1,500\n\n5,700\n\n288 72\n\n360\n\n6,066\n\nNil.\n\n6,828\n\n6,828\n\n22,056\n\n210\n\n1,584\n\nFor Travelling Expenses inspecting Agencies,. CONTINGENCIES :---\n\nCost of Adhesive Stamps, Travelling Expenses of Marine Officers, Notification of Mails, Incidental Expenses, Hongkong, Do., at the Ports,. Repairs to Post Offices at Shanghai, 350\n\n2,144\n\n800\n\n800\n\n180\n\n500\n\n700\n\nInsurance of Post Office Buildings at Shanghai, 112\n\n240\n\n3,832\n\nESTABLISHMENT,- 27,532 7,200\n\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS :--\n\nColonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention, Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails,\n\nREFUND OF POSTAGE :-\n\n17,000\n\n3,500\n\n20,500\n\nTo London, France, Italy, and other countries, 37,400\n\n85,432\n\nTOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST,. . $ 92,632\n\n407",
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        "content_text": "## 114\n\nA Commission of Inquiry is agreed to that may examine the interference of Chinese cruizers with the junk trade of the Colony of Hong Kong, with a view to the due protection of the lawful interests of both the Colony and the Chinese Government.\n\nThe concessions made by China will prove, in my belief, of great advantage to China. But it must be remembered that this has never been found to be an argument of any value in discussions arising out of foreign trade. On the other hand, I regard them as of considerable significance to our import trade, that in opium included. Four ports are opened, two up the Great River and two on the sea coast, at which British subjects may reside. Six other ports are opened up the Great River, not for residence, but as ports of call for steamers. At Chung-king, the great mart of Western China, we are authorized to place a Consular Agent to protect our trade. Whenever steamers reach Chung-king, we are authorized to reside there.\n\nThese concessions, I say, are advantageous to China. They will incontestably augment her revenue. The benefit, materially, they confer upon us is in the increased opportunity they provide for the distribution of our imports. We insure at four points delivery of our goods for Tariff duty, and at six other points, not heretofore accessible except in Chinese junks, delivery, but from British vessels, as at an inland centre; that is to say, for the additional half-duty that enables us to certificate our imports. Morally, I believe that they benefit us no less. Of the political importance of multiplying points of contact, as a guarantee of better relations, I have spoken sufficiently often. In the exchange I have recommended to Her Majesty's Government, that guarantee is strengthened by the diminution of causes of dispute, of which the collection of abnormal taxation is one of the most fertile.\n\nThere is an apparent conflict between the arrangement stipulated in Article I and that in Article VI.\n\nMy original list of new ports included other places, notably Yo-chou, in Hu Nan; Ta-ku Shan, in Manchuria, the outport of a coal-field of value; and Shui-t'ung, on the west coast of Kuang Tung. I abandoned the two last because at neither, in the opinion of Mr. Hart, would a Customs agency prove remunerative.\n\nI had not been forgetful of the fact that undue extension of our Consular establishment would be unacceptable at home. So long as exterritoriality is a necessity, I am myself opposed to the congregation of British subjects at ports or places at which there is no British authority, or even to the opening of ports so circumstanced to our shipping. We are responsible as much for the control of our countrymen as for their protection. And, as I have observed under Section 2, there are many reasons why, in my opinion, the foreign Customs, a cosmopolitan service, could not advantageously be invested with such powers as would enable them to discharge the duties now discharged by Consuls, British or of other nationality, the office of general control, in fact. But I should not hesitate to entrust them with power to retain a ship's papers while she was in port, and, in the event of a dispute, pending reference to the Consul of her nation; and an arrangement of the kind at subsidiary ports would have much to recommend it. Where, on the other hand, the trade of a port was declared, by competent authority, to be unequal to the support of a foreign Customs establishment, there would be a double reason for not insisting on the access of our shipping to it. I abandoned Ta-ku Shan and Shui-t'ung accordingly.\n\nRegarding Yo-chou I was more tenacious. It is a centre of much importance, and the first argument urged against it, that it is not, properly speaking, upon the Great River, was of no great force. It was not until the last moment, therefore, that I surrendered it, and then under the following conditions. For the reasons earlier given I was myself desirous of definitively closing the case. A similar desire having been more than once manifested upon the other side, I undertook to accept the responsibility of declaring the case closed, provided that, in addition to all other stipulations enumerated, the Grand Secretary Li would consent to the immediate opening of the new ports and places of call specified in the Agreement, instead of leaving this step dependent on the understanding to be arrived at on the subject of port areas and the collection of inland duty on opium. The Grand Secretary showed a fair disposition to meet me half way; but he would still have postponed the opening of the ports for a twelvemonth from the receipt of the Imperial Decree for which I had stipulated, approving the Agreement we were about to sign. I pressed for six months, and the Grand Secretary finally consented, provided that I would withdraw Yo-chou from my list. On these terms I withdrew Yo-chou.\n\nAt Chung-king we shall neither reside nor deliver goods in foreign bottoms until steamers can reach the port. My impression is strong that, the rapids notwithstanding, steamers will eventually reach Chung-king. Whether this hope, which I base on the information I have received, be justified or not, another object which I had more immediately in view will be answered by the residence of an agent in the city. It is the port of destination to which large consignments of our imports are addressed. They are frequently, though covered by transit-duty certificates, detained en route by the li-kin collectorates, it may be those in the jurisdiction of Ssu Ch'uan, the province in which Chung-king stands, or in that of Hu Pei, through which they have to pass en route westwards. I had but recently a two years' debate over a claim on account of such detention, amounting to upwards of 21,000 taels. This was one of a series of cases defended on the not unusual ground that the goods detained were Chinese owned. It was aggravated by ill-treatment of the crews of the junks carrying the goods which again was excused by the common allegation that these had misrepresented facts. The Tsung-li Yamén, after long debate admitting that wrong had been done, sent down instructions to release the goods. These were not at first obeyed. The goods being at last released, the justice of the claim for indemnity was also in due time admitted; at least it was referred to the collectorate concerned. Then followed a discussion as to which government, that of Hu Pei or that of Ssu Ch'uan, was responsible. In the end, the British merchant interested was approached personally by the official sent down to Hankow from the collectorate to settle the matter; and the matter was then privately settled, I must add to my regret, by payment of something over one-half of the claim, the claimant preferring what he could make sure of down to awaiting the issue of further negotiation on the subject.\n\nThe above is a sample of an order of proceeding unhappily not at all without precedent; even at the ports parallel cases could be quoted. But the presence of the Consul is a certain check upon irregularity, and an agent at Chung-king—other advantages apart that are derivable from his presence there—will, I trust, do much to control it in the Upper Valley of the Great River. So far as the import trade is concerned, I look upon our newly-acquired position at Chung-king as one of the most important of the concessions made.\n\nIndependently of the better security it provides against discussions which are never otherwise than unpleasant, it insures an improved distribution of our manufactures at a mart of trade which is to the west what Hankow is to the centre of China. Lastly, it is a point of contact with a large and substantial native community.\n\nThe opening of the subsidiary river ports enumerated in Article I, to foreign shipping, was the subject of much discussion. It was finally agreed that they should be opened as calling-places for steamers. There will thus be at these neither resident community nor Consular establishment.\n\nThe access conceded to steamers excepted, trade at these ports of call will be conducted as it would at an inland centre. Steamers may land or ship passengers or goods, but by means of native boats only, and subject to the regulations in force affecting native trade; that is to say, that the goods they land or ship will be liable to li-kin or other abnormal taxation, just as they would if they were carried in native bottoms, unless protected by a transit-duty certificate. This protection, of course under Treaty, should equally avail them in native bottoms; otherwise, the only difference between the native craft and the steamer at these places is, that the latter may not land export produce for sale. It may carry it from the market at which it is purchased to a stated port for exportation, but may not dispose of it in transitu; that is to say, certificated produce shipped in the steamer is under the same conditions as certificated produce brought by canals or otherwise from an inland market. The boon is the right acquired by our steamers to frequent these places; the consequent increase of facility for trade, and the multiplication of points of contact—a chief source of hope for the future.\n\nThe provision in Article II for the definition of a settlement area where none has been previously defined I have said is but a pendant to the provision of Article I, that Her Majesty's Government should be recommended to allow the so-called Concessions at the different ports to be regarded as the area of exemption from li-kin.\n\nThe term concession, first adopted at Shanghae, is more or less a misnomer. It is applied, at some ports, as at Tien-tsin for instance, to the tracts of ground which, at the instance of the agents of various Governments, have been marked off as the ground within which their nationals may purchase building sites of the Chinese proprietors. At some ports, as, for instance, at Amoy, ground has either never been marked off at all, or if marked off has been left unoccupied because it was unsuitable. But at no point has the foreign community, of late years, been restricted to a particular plot of ground, be the tenure what it might. The acquisition of such particular plots is for many reasons useful, especially at a new port; but the words, \"or at other places,\" were introduced into Article XI of the Treaty of 1858, which provides for the acquisition of building sites at the open ports, for the express purpose of enabling British subjects,\n\n## 115\n\n... \n## 281",
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        "content_text": "128 \n\nThe question of the militia ought to be left entirely in the hands of the provincial authorities, who have the best means of judging of the special local requirements of the places under their jurisdiction.\n\nNo. 4.\n\n**Proposed Transit Rule Outwards**\n\nI.\n\n1. British merchants purchasing native produce in the interior for foreign export have the option of carrying such produce from the place of purchase to the port of shipment in one of two ways, viz., either with the privileges of the transit provisions of the Treaty, or in accordance with local rules affecting Chinese traffic.\n\n2. If brought from the interior to a port, according to local rules affecting Chinese traffic, such produce must report, await examination, and pay dues and duties at every revenue station en route.\n\n3. If to be brought from the interior with the Treaty transit privileges, the intending purchaser must first of all obtain a native produce Memorandum (which will be accompanied by a transit certificate) from the custom-house at a Treaty port, and must sign a declaration to the effect that the produce is intended for foreign export. From the place of purchase to the port of shipment, such certificated produce will be required to report and await examination at all revenue stations passed, but will not have to pay tax or charge anywhere till arrival at the \"last barrier\" (i.e., one of the barriers nearest the Treaty port, or locally known as the \"first barrier to\" and the \"last from\" the interior on that line). On reaching the \"last barrier,\" the owner must report arrival to the Customs at the Treaty port, and must pay transit dues on the produce before passing that barrier.\n\nII.\n\n4. Produce which has thus paid transit dues and passed the barrier pays a Tariff export duty on shipment for a foreign port (i.e., 7 1/2 per cent. ad valorem).\n\n5. Produce which has thus paid transit dues and passed the barrier will be required to pay four times the transit dues, in addition to ordinary export duty, at the time of shipment, if sent, not to a foreign, but to another Treaty port, i.e., \n| Duty Type | Percentage |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Transit due | 2 1/2 |\n| 2. Export duty | 5 |\n| 3. Four transit dues | 10 |\n| 4. Coast trade duty | 2 1/2 |\n| Total | 20 |\n\n6. Produce which has thus paid transit dues and passed the barrier will be required to pay seven times the transit due, if not shipped within six months to either foreign or Treaty port, i.e., to make up a charge of 20 per cent.\n\n7. After purchase and entry for foreign export at the barrier nearest the place of purchase, if produce does not reach the last barrier within eight months, the merchant concerned will be required to pay to the Customs eight times the transit due on account of inland revenue, i.e., 20 per cent.\n\nIII.\n\n8. Certificated native produce must be the bona fide property of the British merchant concerned or of a foreign house for which he is agent; if discovered to be Chinese, owned or conveyed under transit papers on Chinese account, it will be confiscated.\n\n9. The first barrier passed, nearest to the place of purchase (and production), will examine the produce, fill up the blank transit certificate, and send on the native produce Memorandum to the Customs concerned. The merchant or his employés must write clearly on the Memorandum the description, quantity, and quality of produce transported, and must hand that Memorandum, together with the blank certificate received with it from the Customs, to the first barrier when the goods are reported there for examination.\n\n10. Native produce Memoranda will be issued for the province, for a neighbouring province, and for distant provinces, and will be valid for two, four, and six months respectively. The certificates received back from the first barrier will be valid for the same periods respectively. Every Memorandum, whether used or not used, and every certificate, must be delivered up to be cancelled within the period named; failing which, the issue of Memoranda to the merchant concerned will be suspended, and will not be resumed till the document (Memorandum or Certificate) is returned, or a satisfactory explanation offered.\n\nN.B.--The object of the transit system is to enable native produce to pass from the native producer to the foreign purchaser, for a foreign market, on a payment of 7 1/2 per cent. to the revenue, and that system is not intended to be used to exempt produce circulating in China from necessary local taxation. When accident or intent may have led to any abuse (vide Rule 2, §§ 5, 6, 7), the merchant concerned is required by the Rule now proposed to make a total payment of 20 per cent., and the right to suspend the issue of Memoranda and Certificates, ought to suffice to protect the revenue, secure the return of all documents.\n\n(Signed) R. HART.\n\nChefoo, September 14, 1876.\n\n129-130\n\nNo. 74.\n\n**Sir T. Wade to Earl Granville.-(Received July 22.)**\n\n288\n\n(No. 35.) My Lord,\n\nTien-tsin, June 3, 1882. WHEN returning to my post in 1879 I requested Lord Salisbury's permission to visit India, in order that I might obtain information that would guide me in the further discussion of opium taxation. Before leaving Calcutta I addressed a letter to Lord Lytton, then Viceroy, copy of which I forwarded to Lord Salisbury in, I think, the month of May of that year. It was acknowledged with thanks by the Government of India after my return to Peking, and allusion has been made to it once or twice in Indian correspondence. It may be thought expedient to lay it before Parliament, and I therefore venture to inclose a duplicate copy of my letter.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) THOMAS FRANCIS WADE.\n\nInclosure in No. 74.\n\n**Sir T. Wade to the Viceroy of India.**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nCalcutta, February 16, 1879. AS I had the honour to inform you on my arrival, I came to India, by permission of the Marquis of Salisbury, to offer to your Excellency in person some explanation of the clauses in the Agreement signed by me at Chefoo, that have been assumed to threaten the opium revenue of the Government of India; at the same time, to submit to you some alternative arrangement which might modify the inconvenience apprehended from that which in the Agreement I had undertaken to recommend.\n\nYour Excellency thought with me that it would be best that I should reduce to writing what I had to say, and I am concerned to think that more than a month has elapsed since I promised to draw up a Memorandum on the subject. My desire being, in the first place, to be brief, and, in the next, to avoid as much as possible a controversial defence of negotiations the result of which has been more or less attacked, I have found the preparation of my statement a work of greater difficulty than I anticipated. There have been other reasons for the delay which I shall not intrude upon your Excellency's attention.\n\nThe negotiations referred to, it will be remembered, had for their principal object the adjustment of a misunderstanding occasioned by the attack upon a mission of exploration, sent by the Government of India through Burma into Yün Nan; judicial satisfaction for which I had found it scarcely possible, with the evidence in my hands, to insist upon. My demands, consequently, were directed less to reparation for the past than to security for the future; and, under this head, it is not necessary to explain at length why improvement of intercourse, diplomatic and commercial, presented itself as a chief condition. For years past, we have not had a just cause of complaint against China that might not be traced to the reluctance of her Government to recognize what is due to us as a Treaty Power her equal in degree, or as a trading community; and had I not pledged myself, even before news of the Yün Nan atrocity reached me, in March 1875, to require some assurance of a better order of things, I should have considered it an omission of duty if I had allowed so favourable an opportunity to pass without availing myself of it.\n\nBut I was already pledged. I had obtained leave to return to England at the beginning of the year; and I had warned the Yamên of Foreign Affairs that before I left Peking I must look for such a declaration regarding our privileges, diplomatic and commercial, as would be satisfactory to Her Majesty's Government. Our experience of the Regency, which had lasted from 1861 to 1873, with the prospect of a new Regency similarly constituted, and certain almost to be of equal duration, justified this precaution on my part.\n\nOur commercial position in China is, of course, in no small degree influenced by the position our Diplomatic and Consular Representatives are enabled to hold, but there will be no occasion here to examine detailedly in what fashion or degree. The question immediately under consideration is exclusively commercial.\n\nOur contention has been that under Article X of Sir Henry Pottinger's Treaty, signed at Nanking in 1842; the Separate Article of equal significance with that Treaty, signed at Hong Kong in 1843; Article XXVIII of the Treaty, signed by Lord Elgin at Tien-tsin in...",
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        "content_text": "## borthern Agent \n\n* 4: Murtheres Agard \n\n28 \n\nmonopoly \n\ndays position is this. The Great Northern Company's land and sea has ended, blown up with a bad smell, the sea cable is on its last legs and being will get worse and worse, till it strikes work. If the traffic to Mongolia is not given and chances are it the Great Northern Company's business will collapse but desperate efforts will be made and if successful will be at Yatsen Company's cost. Stenningsen goes away tonight, he went on Saturday to Schmidt, Belts (Silvertown Coy) to propose that if Silvertown Company agreed not to compete with or oppose the Danes the Great Northern Company would obtain all its material from Silvertown, but I was able to point out that an agreement was made a year ago with the German Consular and that all material used in China by the Great Northern Company should be got in Germany exclusively. Hemmingsen says the Great Northern Company have lost by the land contract, they had to secure taels 10,000 in order to have made taels 10,000, less than was expected. Morris is again at work on a Customs telegraph scheme. \n\nSir Thomas Wade is here, I have seen him but for a few minutes and am to call tomorrow.\n\nYours very Truly \nJG Jun 8\n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "10. It should not be understood that the Government of Hongkong has altogether rested on its oars in the matter of these Agencies. I enclose a return shewing that whereas in 1867 the salaries at these Ports amounted to £810, which sum was annually charged on the London Office Grants, we are now expending £1697.10. a year upon the same services. The steamer traffic upon the Coast of China, and communication with America and Australia, have increased enormously, and this Government has not, therefore, been able to refuse the applications of the Agents for increase of Salary in certain cases. The Amoy Agency, owing to the increased number of residents in Formosa, and the incessant exchanges of mails with this Port, can no longer be carried on properly without an Assistant; indeed I learnt that one Agent there was privately giving half his salary to the Consular Constable for assistance, and the clerk at Shanghai is pressing for increase of pay on the ground of long and good service - an application which cannot be indefinitely refused. On the whole it is clear...",
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        "content_text": "154\n\n(2)\n\ninconsistent. It would be unfortunate if the recent interference of the Chinese Executive in the internal affairs of Korea should be hereafter adduced to throw doubt upon the international validity of any of the provisions of the Foreign Treaties on the faith of which commercial intercourse with Korea will have been entered upon and is to be conducted.\n\nThe Committee, however, accepting the independence of Korea as a recognized international fact, ventures in the first place to offer to your Lordship some observations upon the Treaty as a whole, and, in the second, to consider seriatim the several clauses of that document which may seem to call for special comment.\n\nThe Committee assumes that Her Majesty's Government has had some cogent reason, arising out of the political situation, for pushing forward to a rapid conclusion the negotiations with the Korean Authorities, but admitting that there were good grounds of policy for entering into immediate relations with the Country, the Committee respectfully submits that that object would have been as successfully, and much more conveniently attained if preliminary negotiations had been confined to drawing up a short Treaty, expressive of national amity, and providing generally for political and commercial intercourse, leaving a Tariff of Duties, and the special conditions under which foreign trade is to be carried on, to a supplementary and carefully considered Convention.\n\nThe frequent disputes which have arisen about the interpretation to be placed upon certain clauses of the Treaty of Tientsin show the importance of drafting with peculiar care agreements, affecting national interests, which have to be drawn up in a language so full of obscurities even to the most experienced Sinologue as that of China, so as to avoid all misunderstanding when the stipulations and covenants to be observed on either side come to be made effective. The Committee cannot fail to perceive that the Diplomatic Instrument, signed by Admiral WILLES at Jin Chuen in June last, has been very loosely compiled in point of form, and that many of its most important provisions have been expressed in most indefinite language, and further that imperfections, similar to those now generally recognized as existing in the Treaties with China and Japan, have been repeated and intensified in this new Treaty. Moreover, after a careful consideration of the whole scope of the document, the Committee is apprehensive that the limitations, which some of its stipulations impose upon foreign intercourse and trade, will not only be injurious to the operation of the Treaty itself, but will seriously prejudice the position hitherto consistently maintained by the Representatives of Western Nations at the Courts of Peking and Yedo, in combatting proposals to place similar restrictions upon trade with China and Japan.\n\nThere can be no doubt that, notwithstanding the vast material benefits which have resulted to the people of China during the last 20 years from the great increase in all branches (excepting in Opium) of the foreign and coasting trade of the Empire, and which have been the direct consequence of the extended foreign intercourse opened up by the Treaty of Tientsin, the Ruling Classes of China are actuated at the present time by a desire to restrict, as far as possible, the application of foreign capital and enterprise to the further development of the resources of the Country. The Committee may adduce the strenuous attempts which have recently been made to prevent the organization of various industries under foreign auspices at Shanghai in evidence of the present unsatisfactory attitude of the Chinese Authorities, and earnestly desires to draw your Lordship's attention to the great accession of strength which the reactionary party in China would derive from the stipulations of a Treaty, voluntarily entered into by the Western Powers with a Dependency of the Empire, if the opponents of progress should be able to point to conditions of exclusion in that Treaty, disadvantageous to the foreigner, which have been yielded to the Tributary State but are denied to the Country of the Suzerain.\n\nIn conclusion of these general remarks your Lordship need hardly be reminded of the difficulty which would be placed in the way of a successful conduct of the existing negotiations for a revision of the Treaty with Japan, if the arguments of Her Majesty's Minister at Yedo, in favour of the adoption of a liberal foreign policy by the Japanese Cabinet, should be met by unfavourable precedents cited from the recent agreement with Korea.\n\n(3)\n\nProceeding now to consider some of the special stipulations of the Treaty,\n\nArticle 2,--relates to the character of official relationship and communication between the two Countries, with which it is scarcely the province of this Chamber to deal, but so great has been the inconvenience sustained in former years by the Merchants in China under the provisions of the Treaty of Nanking, which seriously hindered free communication between foreign Consular Officials and the Provincial Authorities, that the Committee feels it necessary to advert to the paragraph in the first clause of this article which stipulates that \"Officials shall have relations with the corresponding local authorities of equal rank upon a basis of mutual equality.\" This stipulation is a very vague one according to the English text, and what it may imply in the Chinese text the Committee is unable to say. It may be read in an exclusive sense, and be taken to mean that officials of the one Country may only communicate with Officials of the same rank in the other. The war with China, commenced in 1856, would probably have been averted if Consul PARKES could have insisted upon personal communication with Governor General YEH, and the Committee suggests the expediency of providing that the Commissioned Officers of both Countries, whether Civil, Naval, or Military, shall be entitled to hold official intercommunication on terms of social equality while observing the ordinary rules of precedence relating to Official rank.\n\ncargo be\n\nArticle 3,-in the clause which provides that a British vessel shall with her seized and confiscated if found engaged in clandestine trade, is remarkable for repeating a grave shortcoming in the Tientsin Treaty which has been the occasion of a lasting controversy. Under this article a vessel, alleged to be engaged in trading to a port not opened by the Treaty, may be confiscated by the Korean Authorities of their own motion, and with or without trial, subject to no investigation by, or appeal to, British Officials.\n\nThe Committee desires to enter the strongest protest against the confirmation of this clause, on two grounds,\n\n1st. That the absence of any recognized practice or system of jurisprudence in Korea renders it impossible to repose confidence in the decisions of Korean Officials who would be judges in their own cause without appeal, and\n\n2nd. Because the power of confiscation is granted without the safeguard of any provision as to the nature of the proceedings which shall be taken to prove that the vessel shall have been really guilty of the offence with which it may be charged. The Treaty between Japan and Korea provides that in the event of a Japanese vessel being found engaged in smuggling goods \"into any non-open port in Korea, it shall be seized by the Korean local Authorities, and delivered over to the agent of the Japanese Government residing at the nearest port. Such goods to be confiscated by him, and to be handed over to the Korean Authorities.\n\nIn the clause relating to the wreckage of British Vessels on the Coast of Korea, the local Authorities should be made responsible not only for taking the necessary measures for rendering assistance to the Crew, and salving the Vessel and cargo, but also for inflicting condign punishment upon all plunderers or wreckers.\n\nArticle 5,-mainly relates to fiscal obligations and the Committee cannot conceal its surprise and regret that after the experience which has been gained of the unsatisfactory working of the Tientsin Treaty, owing to the looseness of certain of its stipulations which provide for and limit the Tariff of Duties, Her Majesty's Representative should have given his assent to clauses which cannot fail in operation to revive, in the case of Korea, difficulties and controversies similar to those which have arisen and still exist in carrying on trade with China.\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "226\n\nAnnam\n\navowed by\n\nthe\n\nstationed at Hong\n\nTrent. Agents Rong and Hue.\n\nWith\n\nregard\n\nto the appertion\n\nHealth the Annamese are not empowered\n\nto Negotiate with Foreign Powers\n\nwithin the concurrence\n\nof the\n\nFrench Government, I am\n\nto\n\nForward to you confidentially\n\nthe accompanying printed correspondence\n\nrespecting\n\nthe relations of France\n\nand Annam, together\n\nwith\n\na\n\ncopy of a short memorandum by the City\n\nLibrarian of this Department.\n\nthe rights of the King of\n\nAnnam\n\nto\n\n35\n\n9034.\n\nto appoint consular officers.\n\nI am to request that, in\n\ncommunicating these papers before the Lord Derby you\n\nwill state to His\n\nLordship, in view of the operations\n\nnow being\n\nundertaken by\n\nin Tonquin, and\n\nThe fact that the question of the Establishment of a Consular Agent\n\nat Kiung Chow is still unsettled, to\n\nwhich attention is called in\n\nyour\n\ndespatch\n\nLord Granville\n\nis of\n\nopinion that it would be advisable that the question of the appointment\n\nof the Annamese Consul at that\n\nplace should be allowed to drop",
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        "content_text": "460\n\nA\n\nEach mail, these remittances will be credited according to date at the end of the month in the General account; the Consular Agent being the proper person to account during the month, and the surplus value remaining in hand at the end.\n\n9) Total Orders to be issued subject to the Hong Kong way charge in addition to the net amount, to be accounted for.\n\nTo be submitted to the Kingdom for payment after free work. From the last day of the month in which the orders are issued of the Public Works will be carried by Great Britain.\n\n19.1 The Public Orders are payable only in the United Kingdom, Malta, and Gibraltar.",
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        "content_text": "## ARTICLE IV\nThe Siamese Government engage to take all necessary measures to prohibit and prevent the sale of spirits manufactured in Siam which may be deleterious to the public health.\n\n## Agreement between the Governments of Siam and Great Britain for regulating the Traffic in Spirituous Liquors.\n\nSigned at London, April 6, 1883.\n\n**THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SIAM AND THE GOVERNMENT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND**, being desirous of making satisfactory arrangements for the regulation of the traffic in spirituous liquors in Siam, the Undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have agreed as follows :-\n\n## ARTICLE I\nSpirits of all kinds not exceeding in alcoholic strength those permitted to be manufactured by the Siamese Government in Siam may be imported and sold by British subjects on payment of the same duty as that levied by the Siamese excise laws upon spirits manufactured in Siam; and spirits exceeding in alcoholic strength spirits manufactured in Siam as aforesaid may be imported and sold upon payment of such duty and of a proportionate additional duty for the excess of alcoholic strength above the Siamese Government standard.\n\nBeer and wines may be imported and sold by British subjects on payment of the same duty as that levied by the Siamese excise laws upon similar articles manufactured in Siam, but the duty on imported beer and wines shall in no case exceed 10 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nThe said duty on imported spirits, beer, and wines shall be in substitution of, and not in addition to, the import duty of 3 per cent. leviable under the existing Treaties; and no further duty, tax, or imposition whatever shall be imposed on imported spirits, beer, and wines.\n\nThe scale of excise duty to be levied upon spirits, beer, and wines manufactured in Siam shall be communicated by the Siamese Government to Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Bangkok, and no change in the excise duties shall affect British subjects until after the expiration of six months from the date at which such notice shall have been communicated by the Siamese Government to Her Majesty's Representative at Bangkok.\n\n## ARTICLE II\nThe testing of spirits imported into the Kingdom of Siam by British subjects shall be carried out by European officials nominated by the Siamese authorities, and by an equal number of experts nominated by Her Majesty's Consul. In case of difference the parties shall nominate a third person, who shall act as umpire.\n\n## ARTICLE III\nThe Siamese Government may stop the importation by British subjects into Siam of any spirits which, on examination, shall be proved to be deleterious to the public health; and they may give notice to the importers, consignees, or holders thereof to export the same within three months from the date of such notice, and if this is not done the Siamese Government may seize the said spirits and may destroy them, provided always that in all such cases the Siamese Government shall be bound to refund any duty which may have been already paid thereon.\n\nThe testing of spirits imported by British subjects, and which may be alleged to be deleterious, shall be carried out in the manner provided by Article II.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\nAny British subject who desires to retail spirituous liquors, beer, or wines in Siam must take out a special licence for that purpose from the Siamese Government, which shall not be refused without just and reasonable cause.\n\nThis licence may be granted upon conditions to be agreed upon from time to time between the two Governments.\n\n## ARTICLE V\nBritish subjects shall at all times enjoy the same rights and privileges in regard to the importation and sale of spirits, beer, wines, and spirituous liquors in Siam as the subjects of the most favoured nation; and spirits, beer, wines, and spirituous liquors coming from any part of Her Britannic Majesty's dominions shall enjoy the same privileges in all respects as similar articles coming from any other country the most favoured in this respect.\n\nIt is therefore clearly understood that British subjects are not bound to conform to the provisions of the present Convention to any greater extent than the subjects of other nations are so bound.\n\n## ARTICLE VI\nSubject to the provisions of Article V, the present Agreement shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by mutual consent between the two Governments, and shall remain in force until the expiration of six months' notice given by either party to determine the same.\n\nThe existing Treaty engagements between Great Britain and Siam shall continue in full force until the present Agreement comes into operation—and after that date, except in so far as they are modified hereby.\n\nShould the present Agreement be terminated the Treaty engagements between Great Britain and Siam shall revive, and remain as they existed previously to the signature hereof.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\nIn this Agreement the words \"British subject\" shall include any naturalized or protected subject of Her Britannic Majesty; and the words \"Her Majesty's Consul\" shall include any Consular officer of Her Britannic Majesty in Siam.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the same in duplicate, and have affixed thereto their seals.\n\nDone at London the sixth day of April, 1883, corresponding to the fourteenth day of the waning moon of the month Phagunamas, of the year Horse, Fourth Decade, 1244, of the Siamese Astronomical Era.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\nPRISDANG. GRANVILLE.\n\n68",
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        "content_text": "H. M. Post Office maintains, under very great disadvantages, eight Post Offices in China. They are worked (except at Shanghai) by Consular Officers, whose consular duties naturally have to take precedence.\n\nI admit that most of these gentlemen are able and diligent. However, their frequent transfers, removals, and the pressure of other duties inevitably stand in the way of the attainment of any very high degree of efficiency. By the time a Postal Agent has learnt his duties, he is due for transfer to another port.\n\nThe Post Office at some of the Ports, being in the Consulates, are too far removed from the business parts of the Settlements to be really efficient. Only this morning, while looking into a question relative to Swatow, I am reminded that a letter cannot be registered there without sending a messenger across a (frequently tempestuous) stretch of sea, which under the most favourable circumstances it takes an hour to cross.\n\nAnother great disadvantage is that the Hongkong Government, of course, cannot enforce any Postal Regulations in Chinese Ports. The residents send their letters by the mail if they think fit to do so; if not, they generally send them on board the steamers. Too often, the chief function of the Post Office seems to be to take the blame if anything goes wrong.\n\nThe Customs Authorities propose to replace this inadequate service with Post Offices at 2-3 ports (including all those at which this Office maintains Agencies). At most, if not all, of these Ports, all the facilities this Office offers would be given to the public, and I cannot doubt that those facilities would eventually be much extended.",
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        "content_text": "No. 32.\n\n(No. 234.) My Lord,\n\nSir J. Walsham to the Earl of Rosebery.—(Received September 20)\n\n369-\n\nC. O.\n\nWITH reference to Mr. O'Conor's despatch No. 391 of the 9th September last\n\nPeking, July 22, 1886.\n\nreporting that he had instructed Mr. Bourne, Her Majesty's Consular Agent at Chungking, to proceed on a journey along the southern frontier of China, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that Mr. Bourne returned to Ch'ungking in May last, having successfully accomplished his arduous undertaking.\n\nThe preparation of Mr. Bourne's Report will, he informs me, necessarily take some time, and he is accordingly forwarding to me the different sections into which it is divided one by one as they are completed.\n\nI have now the honour to inclose the first section, which reached me a few days ago. The recent outbreak at Ch'ungking, respecting which I have written to your Lordship in my despatches Nos. 228 and 233 of the 14th and 21st instant respectively, will, I fear, much delay the progress of Mr. Bourne's work, as I regret to say that he has lost nearly all his valuable Memoranda.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHN WALSHAM.\n\n* Board of Trade, August 5, 1685; ditto, July 24, 1886.",
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        "content_text": "229\n\n24. Should the proposal of the Chinese Government not be accepted, it will be absolutely necessary to improve our Postal Agencies. They cannot be left as they are. On the other hand, no suggestion to open additional agencies at the expense of this Government should be entertained.\n\n25. The time has perhaps arrived when something should be done to bring the Chinese correspondence transmitted to and from this Colony more under control. There can be no doubt that the revenue suffers serious loss from the smuggling of thousands of Chinese letters, not to Chinese ports where there is no national Post Office to receive them, but to San Francisco, Australia, the Straits Settlements, and other places where efficient Post Offices exist. The subject is surrounded with difficulties, and the sweeping measures so often advocated, besides being ruinously expensive, would make the Postal Department here a nuisance and a hindrance to trade which would not be tolerated for a week. The function of a Post Office is to facilitate, not to hinder business. Proposals of a practical nature have, as you are aware, been submitted to the Government in this matter, and they are at present under consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n5. As to the contribution of Hongkong, the Colonial Office has already raised the question whether, if the Imperial Government effects a saving, the Colonies should not share it. The Imperial Treasury replies, Ceylon, yes; Singapore and Hongkong, no. Hongkong's equitable share of the loss was assessed at £12,000 odd, and the Colony has been allowed to pay only £6,000. Unless the saving to the Imperial Government amounted to lowering the expenditure by more than half, this sum could not be reduced. This appears to be a fair way of regarding the matter, and I think this Colony should be content to stipulate that it is not to be asked for more than £6,000.\n\n8. As to the Canadian route, the Imperial Post Office confirms what I have held since first I looked into the proposal. The service would be slower by three days than that via Suez, and unless fortnightly, and timed to alternate regularly with the French packets, could not possibly replace those of the P. & O. As an alternative route it might be of some service, but unless the homeward packet left here within three days of the departure of the English and French Mails, even this small advantage would be lost.\n\n7. The question of the hour of departure may seem a small one, but it is not so in reality, for it must be remembered that any inconvenience caused by an unsuitable hour will recur fortnightly till it is removed. It is better therefore to attend to the point now than to have discontent and memorialising by and by. It is very desirable that the P. & O. packets, like those of the Messageries line, should leave at noon. The hour of departure of the French packets cannot be altered, on account of saving daylight at the mouth of the Saigon river. Having consulted with Mr. McEwen, the only member of the Chamber of Commerce I can get hold of this morning, I consider that a uniform noon departure of both mails would meet the wishes of the business and general community, and would do away with the long and fatiguing day now caused fortnightly by the later hour fixed for the departure of the English Mail,\n\nI have &c.,\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.\n\n&...\n\n&c.\n\nAPPENDIX,\n\nA. LISTER, Postmaster General.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(C)\n\nA. LISTER, Postmaster General,\n\n(4.)—APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1886. Supplied to the International Bureau of the Postal Union, Berne.\n\nDESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE\nTOTAL\nDespatched\nReceived\nTotal in 1885\nIncrease\nDecrease\n\nOrdinary paid letters\n638,500\n403,700\n\nUnpaid and short paid Articles\n61,100\n72,000\n1,055,000\n1,095,000\n\n39,100\n\nLetters on Postal Business\n600\n\nPost Cards\n2,500\n\nDo. with prepaid reply\n\n22,300\n2,400\n\n15,800\n\nNewspapers and Periodicals\n118,700\n243,200\n35,100\n412,000\n\n10,000\n\nBooks, Circulars, Prices Current, &c.\n197,800\n82,000\n14,000\n304,100\n\n105,900\n\nPatterns\n4,800\n2,900\n300\n8,000\n\n8,160\n\nCommercial Papers\n\n16,160\n\nRegistered Articles\n21,700\n30,800\n8,400\n58,900\n1,026\n\nLetters with value declared\n\n3,500\n57,874\n\nRegistered Articles with Return Receipt\n\nParcels\n20\n3,136\n4,200\n8,506\n1,570\n6,936\n\n* The figures in the above table are obtained by multiplying the amount of correspondence forwarded during 28 days by 13. The results are very fortuitous and these decreases are probably more apparent than real. The sale of postage stamps, a much more satisfactory test, shows a steady increase.\n\nNo. 38.\n\n(B.)\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, June 16th, 1886,\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 939 of yesterday's date, referring to me for an early report the Secretary of State's Despatch No. 57 of May 14, with its enclosures respecting the proposed new contract for the Eastern Mail Service.\n\n2. This subject has been so long under discussion, and is presented by the London Post Office in so clear a light, that there appears to be no doubt as to the course the Colony should pursue. In recommending that the Telegram enclosed in draft should be forwarded without delay, I have the pleasure of knowing that I am in accord with the views of the Legislative Council and of the Chamber of Commerce.\n\n3. That draft Telegram deals with four points.\n\n(1.) The best tender to accept.\n\n(2.) The contribution of Hongkong.\n\n(3.) The Canadian route.\n\n(4.) The hour of departure from Hongkong.\n\n4. As to the best tender to accept, Ford WOLVERTON's lucid report leaves no question open. I am very glad to see that no experiments are to be tried in the way of leaving the mails to be conveyed, on any portion of the route, by chance steamers.\n\nNo. 29.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, May 26th, 1886.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter addressed to me by Mr. H. Kopsch, one of the Commissioners of Customs under the Chinese Government, and a special Commissioner for Postal purposes in China. Mr. Kopsch enquires whether, in view of an extension to all the Treaty Ports of the Customs Postal Service which has been for some years in existence in China, and the intended establishment of a Chinese national Post Office, this Department will withdraw its Postal Agencies from the Ports of Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Hankow, and its Post Office from Shanghai.\n\n2. I enclose a copy of the reply I forwarded to Mr. Kopsch, pointing out that these Agencies are in reality Agencies of the Imperial Post Office.\n\n3. As His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will probably think it necessary to refer this matter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the consideration of the Imperial Post Office, I permit myself to offer a few words on this proposal.\n\n4. It seems to me that one main consideration should be kept in view, namely the convenience and welfare of the communities at the various Treaty Ports, which perhaps include more of our fellow-countrymen than of any other nation, the convenience and welfare of their correspondents in other parts of the world, and the interests of trade. The experience of more than eleven years in dealing with the only organised Post Offices in the Far East (until the Japanese Offices were established) convinces me that it is desirable in these interests to accept the proposal of the Chinese Government if possible.\n\n5. Extra-territorial Post Offices may be described as necessary evils, and evils which should be got rid of as soon as the necessity for their continuance is removed. The objections to them must be so well known to H. M. Government that I need not here recapitulate them. In China they have certainly been free from one disadvantage attaching to them elsewhere they have not, hitherto, wounded national susceptibility. But it is quite possible they may eventually do so, and that before very long.\n\n6. The Hongkong Government maintains, under very great disadvantages, eight Post Offices in China. They are worked (except at Shanghai) by Consular Officers, whose Consular duties naturally have to take precedence. Able and diligent as most of these gentlemen are, their frequent removals, and the pressure of other duties inevitably stand in the way of the attainment of any very high degree of efficiency. By the time a Postal Agent has learnt his duties he is due for transfer to another port.\n\n7. The Post Offices at most of the Ports, being in the Consulates, are too far removed from the business parts of the Settlements to be really efficient. Only this morning, in looking into a question relative to Swatow, I am reminded that a letter cannot be registered there without sending a messenger across a (frequently tempestuous) stretch of sea which under the most favourable circumstances it takes an hour to cross and re-cross.\n\n8. Another great disadvantage is that the Hongkong Government of course cannot enforce any Postal Regulations in Chinese Ports. The residents send their letters by the mail if they think fit to do so; if not, and more generally, they send them on board the steamers. Too often the chief function of the Post Office seems to be to take the blame if anything goes wrong.\n\n9. The Customs Authorities propose to replace this very inadequate service with Post Offices at 23 ports (including all those at which this Office maintains Agencies). At most if not all of these Ports all the facilities this office can offer would be given to the public, and I cannot doubt that those facilities would eventually be much extended.\n\n10. The Customs would bring to the task very much larger staffs, officers on duty night and day, buildings in the heart of the business quarters, steam-launches, facilities for boarding steamers both on arrival and departure, the power of search, and, most important of all, the sanction of the national authority, which would allow of the making and enforcing of regulations, such as exist in most ports elsewhere.",
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        "content_text": "403 \n\nPrinted for the use of the Foreign Office. August 29, 1887. \n\n**C.0.** \n**19424** \n**RECP** \n**REG926 SEP 87** \n\nSir J. Walsham to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received July 25.) \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith to your Lordship the second part of the Report, accompanied by a Map, which Mr. Bourne, until recently Her Majesty's Consular Agent at Ch'ungking, has drawn up relating to his journey in South-west China. \n\nPeking, May 27, 1887.\n\nAs I anticipated in transmitting the first part of this Report to the Earl of Rosebery in my despatch of the 22nd July last, the progress of Mr. Bourne's work was much delayed by the events connected with the outbreak at Ch'ungking last summer, but I am glad to say that he is still in a position to complete the Report, the other sections of which I shall have the honour of forwarding to your Lordship as soon as they are finished. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **JOHN WALSHAM**\n\n## Inclosure 1. \n\n### Second Part of Report by Mr. F. S. A. Bourne relating to his Journey in South-west China. \n\n#### Part II.-Pi-chieh Hsien to Yünnan Fu. \n\nTHE second part of this Report with a Map was finished and lying packed for transmission when on the 1st July last my house at Ch'ungking was looted by the rioters and the packet lost, as well as the portion of my journal from Yunnan Fu to P'u-erh Fu and all my observations for longitude and latitude. It being thus impossible to construct original Maps I have copied the principal positions from the Map in Rocher's Yunnan. This and the next Map are merely intended to display, in convenient form, the contour observations. \n\nIn the interesting picture which the remembrance of the country between Pi-chieh Hsien and the plain of Yunnan Fu recalls to the traveller's mind, one of the most abiding features is the poverty-stricken look of the people. But this is really merely a matter of clothes, that is, of cotton. The district lies about halfway between the plain of the Lower Yang-tzu and Burmah, whence North Yünnan gets its cotton. \n\nA scanty population off the trade route, with nothing to offer in exchange but a little opium, the inhabitants of this part of the plateau, well off in some respects, are half-naked or in rags. Food is extraordinarily cheap in this part; eggs, for instance, costing a penny for fourteen and a fowl 3d. \n\nThis district was the border land between the Mahommedan rebellion in Yünnan and that of the Miao-tzu or Aborigines in Kuei-chou, and many places were taken and retaken by both hordes of rebels and by the Imperialists, each engagement ending in an indiscriminate slaughter and burning. The district between Pi-chieh and Hsuan-nei once flourished on the profits of silver and brass mining. The metals are still there the natives say, and I was invited over and over again to open works. The condition of the people will doubtless improve here, as in Chao-t'ong Fu on the north-west, when the mines are worked again. \n\nAfter passing the picturesque valley of the Chi-hsing River through narrow limestone gorges, we reached half-way between Chi-chia-nan and Hui-shui-tang, a place named \n\n[46]",
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        "content_text": "## APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1887\n\n### COMPARISON WITH 1886\n\n| DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE | TOTAL | Despatched | Received | Despatched | Received | Total in 1886 | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ordinary paid letters | 1,120,000 | 871,000 | 428,000 | 65,000 | 56,000 | 1,095,000 | 25,000 |  |\n| Unpaid and short paid Articles |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Letters on Postal Business | 23,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Post Cards | 8,500 | 4,500 | 1,000 | 1,200 | 1,800 |  |  |  |\n| Commercial Papers |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Registered Articles | 58,900 | 32,000 | 23,000 | 3,700 | 3,300 | 55,400 | 3,500 |  |\n| Letters with value declared | 300 | 100 | 100 |  |  | 200 | 100 |  |\n| Registered Articles with Return Receipt | 8,500 | 4,500 | 1,000 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 6,700 | 1,800 |  |\n| Parcels | 1,000 |  |  |  |  | 900 | 100 |  |\n| Do. with prepaid reply |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Newspapers and Periodicals, Books, Circulars, Prices Current, &c., Patterns | 323,500 | 304,100 | 9,500 | 8,000 | 19,100 | 1,500 |  |  |\n\n22. As it appeared doubtful whether the direct route via Aden for correspondence for the South African Colonies was working as satisfactorily as formerly, experiments were made by the despatch of test covers, as to the real time occupied in transit. The result was as follows:- \n\nTo Cape Colony, To Natal, \nViâ London. 50 days. 57 days. \nViâ Aden. 76 days. 69 days. \n\nCorrespondence for these Colonies is therefore now forwarded exclusively by way of London.\n\n23. In view of the inconvenience caused by the departures of the steamers of the Pacific Mail Company and Occidental and Oriental Steam-ship Company on the same days as the Mails for Europe, the two Companies promised that they would, in arranging their Schedule for the present year, do all in their power consistently with the rules they have found it necessary to observe, to avoid a repetition of this conflict of dates. The good offices of the Companies have been so far successful that, in their Time Table for the first half of this year, there are only two coincidences.\n\n24. It would be very desirable if the occasional despatch of the German Packet on the same day as the French Packet could also be avoided. It deprives the public of much of the advantage of a supplemental opportunity to be obliged to make use of it within a few hours or not at all.\n\n25. The outward French packets now remain here only twenty-four hours, an arrangement causing a severe strain on the strength of this office, which has only a few hours of daylight to get the whole mail for Shanghai sorted and packed, amidst the numerous distractions always arising from the recent arrival of a contract mail. On one occasion the newspaper portion of the Shanghai mail was unavoidably sent up unsorted. That was on August 4th, a day on which three Contract Mail Packets left this Colony, and two were expected to arrive. Fortunately one arrival did not take place till the following morning.\n\n26. It is feared that, under the new P. and O. contract, the stay of the outward Packet here will also be only twenty-four hours.\n\n27. If the sorting of mails for Shanghai is to be continued under these circumstances, some reinforcement of the staff will be inevitable, but this is a subject which can be well considered when the question of the surrender or otherwise of our Post Offices in China to the Chinese Government is settled. No decision on this point has yet been arrived at by the Imperial Government.\n\n28. It will be necessary to make provision for a re-organisation of the Amoy Post Office in case we retain the control of it. It is impossible to continue working it much longer in its present manned condition. The duties of the Postal Agent at Amoy depend upon the incessant and constantly increasing steamer traffic of that Port, and have been much added to by the establishment of direct steam communication between Amoy and Manila, and between Amoy and Batavia. For Manila alone steamers leave Amoy on the average every three days. The Postal Agent has, during the past year, collected and accounted for Revenue to the amount of $9,403.60. He has sold $7,837 worth of stamps. He has despatched 5,353 Registered Letters and received 4,831, making a total of 10,184 Registered articles, every one of which needed individual attention and necessitated several entries in books, &c. This gives an average of 28 Registries each day, including Sundays, but sometimes as many as 125 Registered Articles will be despatched to Manila by one steamer. The Agent has dealt with 325 parcels, and has sold Postal Notes to the amount of $1,312. He has dealt, without any assistance except that of two Chinese who cannot read English, with over 200,000 articles of ordinary correspondence, say 550 per day, Sundays included. His Office is the point of distribution for Tamsui, Kelung, Taiwanfoo, and Takao, the service of which places involves much correspondence and attention to detail. It can scarcely be thought that $40 a month is a sufficient salary to pay a gentleman, who has other duties to attend to, for the amount of work, responsibility, watchfulness, and care, involved in keeping up such an Office as is described above All through the year, we have been continually on the verge of a deadlock at Amoy caused by the not unnatural reluctance of officers of the Consular service to undertake a post the work of which is out of proportion to the pay. Only by the good offices of H. M. Consul in prevailing on members of his staff to take the duties as a personal favour to himself has such a deadlock been prevented. If the Amoy Office continues to be worked from Hongkong it is hoped that its complete reorganisation will be allowed.\n\n29. Arrangements were made, during the year under report, to induce a more general prepayment of the correspondence which it is the custom to send here by steamers outside the mails. The measures taken were necessarily of a stringent kind, but it was intended to relax them as soon as the end in view was attained. This was accomplished before the setting in of the inevitable outcry, which had been all along foreseen by this Department; and the sending of unpaid letters on board steamers was practically put a stop to, and less stringent rules introduced, before any complaint was made. This Office, at any rate, is no longer periodically flooded with unpaid correspondence, nor will the wholesale transmission of such unpaid correspondence through the Post be allowed to be resumed.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nThe Hon. FREDERICK STEWART, \nColonial Secretary, \n&c., \n&c.\n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \nA. LISTER, Postmaster General.\n\n* On Christmas day the clerks in charge of the Shanghai mail were at work from 2 P.M. till midnight, and were required at 7 the next morning for the ordinary work of the Office.",
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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n## VII-POSTMASTER GENERAL\n\n### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n### TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n### CIVIL LIST\n\n$ \nSALARIES:---\nPostmaster General, | 8,840\nAssistant Postmaster General, | 2,409\nAccountant, | 480\nSuperintendent, | 2,640\nSuperintendent of Money Order Office, | 1,440\nSenior Clerk, | 1,440\nClerk, | 240\n11 Clerks, | \n- 2 at $600 | 1,200\n- 1 at $480 | 480\n- 4 at $240 | 960\n- 2 at $360 each | 720\n- 1 at $1,080 | 1,080\n- 1 at $720 | 720\n3 Marine Officers, 2 at $1,680, and 1 at $1,440 | 4,800\n2 Assistants to do. at $120 each | 240\nCompradore at Hongkong, | \nSenior Inspector of Nuisances, | 1,176\nInspectors of Nuisances, | 2,592\nShroff do., | 360\nAssistant Inspector of Markets, | 240\nHead Messenger, | 144\n7 Postmen, 2 at $120, and 5 at $96 each, | 700\n4 Chinese Interpreters, | 960\n6 Messengers, 3 at $84, and 3 at $72, | 468\nCrew of Launch: Coxswain, $120; Engineer, $180; Fireman and 2 Deck Hands at $84 each, | 552\nWatchmen, Hill District, | 720\n4 Watchmen at Markets, | 720\n\n### AT THE CONSULAR PORTS\nSALARIES:-\nPostmaster, Shanghai, | 6,828\nPost Office Agent, Canton, | 1,200\nDo. do., Swatow, | 480\nDo. do., Amoy, | 480\nDo. do., Foochow, | 480\nDo. do., Ningpo, | 288\nDo. do., Hankow, | 240\nShroff at Shanghai, | 300\n\nALLOWANCES:-\nSuperintendent, for Chair Coolies | 208\nFor Assistance at Hongkong, | 288\ndo. at the Ports, | 288\nInspector of Live Stock, do., | 180\nSenior Inspector, for do., | 144\n3 Inspectors, for do., | 1,188\nAssistant Inspector of Markets, | 126\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\nTravelling Expenses of Marine Officers, | 1,000\nNotification of Mails, | 180\nIncidental Expenses, Hongkong, | 730\nPurchase of Disinfectants, Coffins, Coolie Hire, &c. | 1,000\nUniforms for Inspectors of Nuisances, and Watchman at Peak, | 500\nDo. for Assistant Inspector of Markets, | 240\nDo. at the Ports | 700\nRepairs to Post Offices at Shanghai, | 1,400\nIncidental Expenses, | 4,100\nSteam-Launch, Moorings, &c., | 300\nCoals, Stores, &c. for Steam-Launch, | 800\nIncidental Chair Expenses, | 126\n| 8,540\n\n### TOTAL\n| 23,112\n\n## XXII-SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n### TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n\n$ \nSALARIES:-\nClerk, | 960\n6 Foremen of Street Cleaners, | 960\n26 Market Scavengers, 8 at $72, & 18 at $60, | 1,656\ndo., Scavengers for Youmáti, | 120\n2 Water Coolies, at $30 each, | 60\nMessengers, 1 at $84, and 1 at $72, | 156\n| 11,208\n\nALLOWANCES:-\n| 6,468\n\nCONTINGENCIES:-\nGeneral Cleansings, | 350\nScavenging City, Villages, and Hill District, | 28,600\nWatering Streets, | 1,000\n| 33,976\n\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS:-\nColonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention, | 32,000\nGratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails, | 6,000\n| 52,140\n\nREFUND OF POSTAGE:-\nTo London, France, Italy, and other countries, | 80,000\n| 80,000\n\nESTABLISHMENT, | 9,880\nAT:-\nFor 4 Inspectors of Nuisances, | 720\nAssistant Inspector of Markets, | 180\n| 900\n\n### TOTAL\n| 101,730\n\n### TOTAL SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n| 109,416\n\n### TOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n| 109,416\n\n$53,010\n\nA Personal Allowances.\nRising to $1,200.\ne Rising to $360 in 1891 and to $480 in 1892, each.\n$2,400 on appointment; $2,700 after 3 years: $3,000 after 6 years.\n6 $960 rising by $72 yearly to $1,200,\n$720 rising by $48 yearly to $960.\nd Rising to $350, after 2 years.\n\n## Page 33\n## Page 109",
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        "content_text": "## COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n#### POSTMASTER GENERAL.\n\n##### SALARIES:-\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Postmaster General | 4,840 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | 2,400 |\n| Accountant | 1,440 |\n| Superintendent of Money Order Office | 800 |\n| Senior Clerk | 500 |\n| Clerks (11) | 2,160 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 at $1,080 | 1,080 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 at $720 | 720 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;9 at $360 each | 3,240 |\n| Marine Officers (5) | 6,840 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 at $1,680 | 3,360 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 at $1,440 | 1,440 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 at $1,080 | 1,080 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 at $500 | 500 |\n| Assistants to Marine Officers (4) at $120 each | 480 |\n| Compradore at Hongkong | 1,080 |\n| Shroff | 720 |\n| Head Messenger | 240 |\n\n##### OTHER EXPENSES\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Crew of Launch | 639 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Coxswain | 120 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Engineer | 180 |\n| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fireman and 2 Deck Hands at $84 each | 339 |\n| Additional Clerk | 150 |\n\n#### AT THE CONSULAR PORTS.\n\n##### SALARIES:\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Postmaster, Shanghai | 2,380 |\n| Clerk, Shanghai | 720 |\n| Post Office Agent, Canton | 600 |\n| Post Office Agent, Amoy | 600 |\n| Post Office Agent, Foochow | 600 |\n| Post Office Agent, Ningpo | 600 |\n| Post Office Agent, Hankow | 600 |\n| Assistant at any Consular Port | 300 |\n| Shroff at Shanghai | 210 |\n\n##### ALLOWANCES:-\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| For Assistance at Hongkong | 1,032 |\n| For Assistance at the Ports | 2,140 |\n\n##### CONTINGENCIES:-\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cost of Adhesive Stamps | 200 |\n| Travelling Expenses of Marine Officers | 180 |\n| Notification of Mails | 700 |\n| Incidental Expenses, Hongkong | 240 |\n| Repairs to Post Offices at Shanghai | 800 |\n| Coils, Stores, &c. for Steam-Launch | 7,100 |\n\n#### TOTAL POSTMASTER GENERAL ESTABLISHMENT\n\n36,162\n\n#### CONVEYANCE OF MAILS:-\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colonial Share of Expenses for Postal Convention | 32,000 |\n| Gratuities to Ship Masters for Carrying Mails | 6,000 |\n\n#### REFUND OF POSTAGE —\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| To London, France, Italy, and other countries | 38,000 |\n\n#### LOCAL DELIVERY BRANCH.\n\n##### SALARIES:-\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Superintendent | 1,440 |\n| Clerks (2) at $840 each | 1,680 |\n| Head Messenger | 708 |\n| Chinese Messengers (4) at $84 each | 336 |\n\n##### OTHER EXPENSES\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Allowance for sale of Stamps at irregular Office hours | 120 |\n| Rent of Rooms | 1,200 |\n| Lodging Allowance for 13 Chinese, at $4 each | 312 |\n\n### TOTAL, INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n\n117,782",
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        "content_text": "Office, etc.\n\nDate\n\nbrown Agent's 22 May\n\nT\n\nJE\n\nSubject.\n\nhuises for Civil Hospital\n\n15 July Agreement with Miss M. E. Ward\n\n123\n\nSelection\n\n\"\n\nof\n\n7 but\n\n10\n\n47\n\n11\n\n15\n\nน\n\nk\n\n+1\n\n14\n\n11 Dec.\n\n12\n\n11\n\n\"\n\n6 hurses for the Hospital Agreements with Messrs. Gibbs & Gall Agreement with M.W.G. Nicholls\n\nPraya Reclamation Works\n\nSelection of 15 Police Constables\n\nAppt of Mr. J.R. Cook as Asst. Engineer\n\nthe use of local cement for Praya Works\n\nCouncil office 14 Nov. Training Expenses of\n\n(Education Dept.)\n\nTeachers\n\nOffice of Treasury\n\nDate.\n\n78\n\n\"\n\nSubject.\n\n4 Aug. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank\n\nSupply of Subsidiary Coin 22 Sept. Khong and Shanghai Bank\n\nForeign Office & Aug.\n\n\"\n\nIF\n\n11\n\n20\n\n2 Sept.\n\n16\n\n2\n\n\"\n\n13\n\n11\n\n17\n\n[1\n\n\"\n\nConsular Prisoners in Col. Gaols Corres between persons into Hong Kong? Consul, Convention between Chinese Govt & Tel. Cos. Rumoured intention of Chinese Govt to event Fors\n\n(Canton\n\nVinit\n\nof\n\nBd.\n\nTrade My\n\nJeb\n\n2 Apl.\n\n·Patents Ordre. 1889\n\n14\n\n11\n\n11\n\nt\n\nT\n\nMr. Winter's Complaint agst Harbour Master 11 June Appt. of Mr. G. Peebles as Marine Surveyor\n\n125\n\n18 July\n\nAppt. of Mr. Dixon as Asst. Marine Surveyor 3 Oct. Merchandise marks Ordce.\n\n13 Nov. Conveyance of Distressed Seamen\n\nLabour in Bombay India Office 31 Oct. Sunday Labour in\n\nShanghai\n\nLaw Officers 19 Aug. Chinese Submarine miners\n\nTreasury\n\nMy Jan. Military Contribution\n\n22 Feb. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordce, 2 Apl. Supply of\n\n123\n\nl,\n\nSubsidiary coins\n\n(Bank\n\nBranches & Agencies of Hongkong\n\nMy June Establishment of Branches &\n\n30\n\nIssue of 50 cent pieces\n\n15 July Securities of Hongkong Bank agst. note issue\n\n1\n\nS\n\n3 Oct. Chinese Convention with Telegraph Co.\n\nVisit of Czarewitch to the East 13 Nov. Visit of Prince Bahnurangst of Siam\n\nCzarewitch to the East\n\n9 Dec. Consular Prisoners in Col. Gaols\n\n16\n\n31\n\n*\n\nChinese Consuls\n\nNationality of persons born on lands\n\nassigned to British Govt at Shanghai\n\nWar Office 15 Jan. Military Contribution\n\n2 Apl. Suggested Military Governor for Hong Kong 31 May\n\nWar Dept. Property and Praya Extensions.\n\n19 June Disposal of ground south of Kennedy's\n\n128\n\n+\n\ncost of Defence Works.\n\n15\n\n14\n\n26\n\n1\n\n14 July Expenditure on Defences\n\n29\n\nn\n\n11 Aug.\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\ndisposal of land south of Kennedy Rd Removal of Naval & Military Establishments\"\n\nRemoval\n\nof Kazarelto from Stonecutter's Island brown houses of marine lot's 260-2 16 Sept. Tytain Water Supply\n\n22\n\n29\n\nContribution towards Survey\n\nMilitary Contribution\n\nWaterworks Ordce.\n\n8 Oct.\n\nHouses\n\nof\n\nParlia",
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        "content_text": "Department in my letter of the 30th of January last against granting any further aid from imperial funds, does not seem to the Postmaster General to have been conclusively replied to by your despatch, according to the 1889 Estimates, the Colony received from the Imperial Post Office a contribution of $3,888, while it pays for Salaries and other allowances only a total of $9,404 in connexion with the Consular Agencies.\n\nAs a matter of fact, this office pays to the Colony a yearly £4710 sterling, which (at 3/2 to the dollar) is equivalent to $14,484 Dollars.\n\nOf that sum the Colonial Post Office now pays to the Agents at Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo $2,208 Dollars, and desires to raise the payment to $3,300 Dollars. It does not appear in the correspondence forwarded by the Governor what sum is paid out of the Imperial contribution towards the Branch Post Office at Shanghai, but it may be presumed that it would be covered by the residue of the $14,484 Dollars realised by the Imperial contribution.\n\nAs to the Agency at Hankow, for which a sum of $420 is asked as the Agent's salary, the Postmaster General is not aware under what circumstances the Agency has been established since 1867, and with reference to this matter of",
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        "document_key": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]",
        "page_number": 407,
        "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "that the negotiations to obtain \n\npermission for \n\nthe sorting of \n\ncorrespondence for Hongkong \n\non board the French Mail \n\nSteamers between Singapore and this port, have failed \n\nafter the desired object had \n\nalmost been attained), \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nEnclosure. \n\nHONGKONG. \n\nC. O. \n\n10143 \n\nRECP No. # [Red Stamp] 19 MAY 31 \n\nTHE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT FOR 1890. \n\nPresented to the Legislative Council, by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 10th April, 1891, \n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, March 6th, 1891. \n\n21. \n\n403 \n\nSIR—Iu presenting my report on the British Postal Service in Hongkong and China during the year 1890, I feel compelled to advert at the beginning to the heavy loss sustained through the death of the late Postmaster General, Mr. LISTER, who, from the date of his appointment in April 1875 till the day he left Hongkong upon his last and fatal voyage in July, devoted a large portion of his experience and energy to the conduct of Postal matters. By his staff, he will always be remembered for his urbanity, insistence on details and personal capacity for work: whilst the public found in him the embodiment of civility and an officer always ready to redress legitimate grievances, and carry out practical popular reforms and proposals. \n\n2. The Department has lost another zealous servant in the person of Mr. A. J. RODRIGUES, the second clerk, who joined the staff in February 1870. \n\n3. During the year, the personnel of the Department has undergone considerable change. When I went on leave in April 1890, Mr. T. SERCOMBE-SMITH supplied my place and proved of valuable assistance to Mr. LISTER, who was for the next few months mostly confined to his room and bed. Upon Mr. LISTER's decease, I was appointed Acting Postmaster General with Mr. SMITH as second in command. On the 22nd March, the withdrawal from the Colony of Z. M. BARRADAS, the Superintendent of the Money Order Department, led to an investigation of his accounts which showed heavy defalcations on his part. This officer was later on brought back to Hongkong and at the January Criminal Sessions sentenced to three years hard labour. His successor, Mr. H. W. DIXON, who was appointed on the 1st May, has hitherto satisfactorily performed his duties. The adoption of a new system of checks upon the administration of the Money Order Department has placed the recurrence of frauds similar to those lately enacted beyond the pale of likelihood. \n\n4. The Staff consists of 45 persons comprising: \n\n1Postmaster General.\n1Assistant Postmaster General.\n1Accountant.\n2Money Order Clerks.\n3Marine Officers.\n2Chinese Assistants for Marine Officers.\n11Clerks.\n3Senior Chinese.\n7Postmen,\n3Peak and Kowloon Postmen.\n6Messengers.\n5Launch Crew.\n45\n\nTo every officer my thanks are due, but especially to Messrs. ROCHA and MACHADO, whose thorough intimacy with the whole range of postal concerns has proved invaluable. \n\n5. The Consular Postal Agents in the various Coast and Riverine Ports have sustained their character for ability and zeal, and it was the most pleasing act of my last year's tenure of office to announce to them that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had yielded to their reiterated requests for an increase of salary. \n\n6. In the course of 1890, the honorary Agency at Hoihow was converted into a salaried Agency, whilst the Agency at Tientsin, on the recommendation of the late Mr. LISTER, was discontinued. The postal matter passing through the hands of the Agent at that Port was inconsiderable, most of the correspondence being transmitted through the Chinese Customs Channels. \n\n7. I had occasion to address the Government upon the often mentioned topic of illicit Chinese Post Offices which flourish in the Chinese parts of Victoria. It will be remembered that I recommended that the right to establish such Post Offices should be farmed out, and that I expressed an opinion that no other way of bringing the Chinese under a Postal System approximating to that to which the European Colonists are subject was possible so long as China possessed no Postal Administration of her own.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892",
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        "content_text": "weight to Force Kuntopordi\n\nrecommendatioon shey have\n\nBush\n\nquainted thi\n\n5.09\n\n0.\n\nJanuary, 1892.\n\nRECE\n\nRec 25 JUN 32\n\n13492\n\nsispensation of\n\n2\n\nwhich is the\n\nmost they\n\nCam\n\ngive Lawring regarde\n\nthe Comesticated\n\nthe form\n\nRegulations\n\n2 bout\n\nwhich\n\n2\n\nz\n\na coz\n\nto fule 699\n\nI inclose\n\nSam bri\n\nJomotedunt semant Bachel Mansions\n\n+ 8. Fanfield by\n\nColonial office\n\nDoroning\n\n# CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS\n\nOF THE SEVERAL\n\nSOCIETIES OF LINCOLN'S INN, THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, THE INNER TEMPLE,\n\nAND GRAY'S INN\n\n(HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED AS THE FOUR INNS OF COURT)\n\n39 10\n\nTHE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS, THE MODE OF KEEPING TERMS, THE EDUCATION AND EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS, THE CALLING OF STUDENTS TO THE BAR, AND THE TAKING OUT OF CERTIFICATES TO PRACTISE UNDER THE BAR.\n\n## Admission of Students.\n\n1. EVERY person, not otherwise disqualified, who shall have passed a PUBLIC EXAMINATION at any University within the British dominions, or for a Commission in the Army or Navy, or for the Indian Civil Service, or for the Consular Service, or for Cadetships in the three Eastern Colonies of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and the Straits Settlements, shall be entitled to be admitted as a Student, without passing a preliminary Examination, but subject to Rule 7.\n\n2. Every other person, except such as come under Rule 15, applying to be admitted as a Student, shall, before such admission, have satisfactorily passed an Examination in the following subjects, viz.:\n\n(a) The English Language,\n\n(b) The Latin Language, and\n\n(c) English History;\n\nProvided that the Board of Examiners mentioned in Rule 3 shall have power to report any special circumstances to the Masters of the Bench of the Inn of Court of which any person may desire to be admitted as a Student, and that the Masters of the Bench of such Inn shall have power, with or without such report, to relax or dispense with this regulation, in whole or in part, in any case in which they may think special circumstances so reported, or otherwise ascertained by the Bench, justify a departure from this regulation. In the case of a Student who is a Native of India, that fact shall be a special circumstance sufficient to justify an Examination in the Latin Language being dispensed with, upon application to the Masters of the Bench.\n\n3. Such Examination shall be conducted by a joint Board, to be appointed by the four Inns of Court.\n\n4. For constituting such Board, each of the four Inns of Court shall appoint four Examiners, and the Council of Legal Education shall have power to allot such remuneration as the Council shall think fit to such Examiners.\n\n5. The Examiners shall attend according to a Rota to be fixed by themselves, and Two shall be a Quorum.\n\n6. Meetings of the Examiners shall be held at least once in every week during each Term, as hereinafter defined, and once in the week next preceding each Term, and at such other times as shall be appointed in accordance with any order of the Board;\n\nProvided that no Examiner need attend unless two clear days' notice prior to the day appointed for his attendance shall have been given to the Secretary of the Board, by at least one Candidate, of an intention to present himself on that day for Examination.\n\n7. No Attorney at Law, Solicitor, Writer to the Signet, or Writer of the Scotch Courts, Proctor, Notary Public, Clerk in Chancery, Parliamentary Agent, or Agent in any Court original...",
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        "content_text": "169\n\nChinese - approach the Chinese Government with a view to an enlargement of the trading facilities of South China, but for various reasons nothing has been accomplished in this direction. At the present time the Chamber looks under consideration letters to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and to H.B.M. Minister at Peking praying that action may be taken, and I am directed to invite your valuable assistance in obtaining as much information regarding routes and trading centres as possible.\n\nYour office of Consul General affords special facilities for acquiring information. There is a want of full and precise information regarding the advantages of the West River and tributaries - although as long ago as 1870 this Chamber sent an Agent as far as Nan-ning-fu, and travellers have contributed interesting intelligence since, concerning trading possibilities in South China, still all reports must be regarded as incomplete, and it would be of great advantage if fuller informations were forthcoming.\n\nThe Travels of Mr. Bourne in the Kwangsi and elsewhere are of immense value but not having traversed the West River and its entrances, his remarks regarding its trading advantages are necessarily limited to what he has been able to learn by diligent enquiry.\n\nThis Chamber would be glad therefore to know whether you could obtain from Her Majesty's Government permission for a Consular Officer to be sent on a mission up the West River and elsewhere in South China for the purpose of reporting upon the commercial field which might there be known to be open.\n\nI would venture to...",
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        "content_text": "444 + ) is called for by the Ordinance. The document sent is not really a Power of Attorney, but merely an appointment of agent, and was put in by me merely as a guarantee of bona fides. I ... it and it ... required. It may ... at ... \"now return ... be put aside if not ...\n\nIn regard to stamping authorisations to agents, in England these same authorisations are exempted from stamping. Over 20,000 per year are filed at the English Patent Office here and no stamp is ever asked for, and I really do not see that a stamp is required.\n\nIn foreign practice, unless (as in America, Canada, &c.) the Power is to be legalized by the Consul, who affixes a stamp, I have never known a Consular stamp called for.\n\nYet I have, however, instructed Mr. Dinnys to stamp same if the Colonial Secretary still insists on it.\n\n(4) + - no suggested ... I have added a Statutory Declaration by myself to satisfy the Executive Council that the provisions of Section 3 et al of the \"Patent Ordinance, 1892\" have been complied with, which I hope will be satisfactory.\n\nIn reference to the latter part of this paragraph I would state that all English Patents bear date as of the date of application, and granted for the term of 14 years from the said date - in this case - 22nd August 1891; but there is no legal property until the Patent is actually sealed.",
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        "content_text": "## method of appointing Postal Agents \n\nin charge of Post-Offices at the Consular Ports in China, and that in a recent case of defalcation by the agent at Ningpo, who was Consular Constable at that port, the Unofficial Members of Council expressed the opinion that steps should be taken to improve the system.\n\nOn account of the frequent changes in the Consular staff at each port, as well as other reasons, I am of opinion that it would not be practicable to insist on security being furnished in each case, and I accordingly venture to recommend to Your Lordship the propriety of urging the Foreign Office to issue instructions to its officers in China with a view to securing (1) that no officer under the rank of a Consular Assistant should be",
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        "content_text": "355 \n\nobjections would have to be weighed against the corresponding advantages to the public service by a very cheap Post Office Agency under official guarantee at small ports where a separate establishment would entail a heavy expense on the Post Office Department.\n\nMr Robertson, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, stated that the appointment of Post Office Agent there was held by Mr Frater, Consular Assistant and that the duties of the Agency were simply to despatch and receive the daily mails, and that they did not conflict in any way with the efficient discharge of the Consular duties more properly belonging to the Officer engaged.\n\nThe Acting Vice Consul at Chefoo made it a complaint that the duties of a Post Office Agency were imposed upon a Junior Officer without any recompense; and the Consul at Amoy suggested that no Post Office Agency should be offered to a Junior Officer except at the recommendation of the Consul and with his approval.\n\nOn the 5th June 1868 Sir R. Alcock addressed a",
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        "content_text": "356\n\nA circular was sent to the five Consulates where a Consular Officer acted as Post Office Agent, informing them of the transfer of the Agencies to the control of the Governor of Hong Kong. It was pointed out that a Consular Officer could only be allowed to retain a Post Office Agency as long as the orders from the Governor of Hong Kong and the services required of such Agent did not interfere with the efficient discharge of their own proper duties.\n\nThe question of withdrawing the Hong Kong Agencies has been considered from time to time in connection with the proposed establishment of a Chinese National Post Office. In 1887, the matter was not considered ripe for a decision. When the Governor of Hong Kong asked for information on January 22nd, 1889, as to whether there was any prospect of an arrangement being arrived at, by which the Chinese Government would take into their own hands the Postal Agencies at the Treaty Ports, certain representations had been made which appeared to point to the necessity of increased staff at one or more of the Ports, in consequence of the great...",
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        "content_text": "## \n2 \n\nof which are in favour of Japanese dried fish and Chinese raw cotton for export to Japan.\n\nBy Article XIV all articles imported by Japanese subjects, or from Japan, or manufactured in China by Japanese subjects, are exempted from transit dues when passing from one foreign settlement to another.\n\nArticles XV and XVI provide for the commutation of transit dues on imports, or articles manufactured in China by Japanese subjects, and on exports.\n\nArticles XVIII and XIX provide for information being furnished as to the number and position of barrier stations, and the rates they are authorized to levy, and impose on the Chinese Government the responsibility of refunding any excess that may be exacted.\n\nArticle XXI stipulates for the establishment of bonded warehouses at the open ports.\n\nArticle XXIX, dealing with complaints of a civil nature brought by either Japanese or Chinese subjects, is an improvement upon Article XVII of the British Treaty with China. It is no doubt based upon Article V of the Austro-Hungarian Treaty with Japan.\n\nBy Article XXXIII the surrender of Japanese offenders is provided for, as well as that of Chinese offenders. This is an enlargement of Article XXI of the British Treaty.\n\nArticle XXXIV provides for most-favoured-nation treatment in respect of the administration of justice.\n\nArticle XXXV similarly is intended to secure national as well as most-favoured-nation treatment in respect of entrance, clearance, &c., of ships, postal facilities, and a variety of other matters connected with trade, while Article XXXVI is a general most-favoured-nation clause.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**ERNEST SATOW**\n\n## Inclosure 1. in No. 2.\n\n**Draft Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and China**\n\nHIS Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, having resolved, in pursuance of the provisions of Article VI of the Treaty signed at Shimonoseki on the 17th day of the 4th month of the 28th year of Meiji, corresponding to the 23rd day of the 3rd month of the 21st year of Kwang Hsü, to conclude a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan,\n\nAnd His Majesty the Emperor of China,\n\nWho, after having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-\n\n### ARTICLE 1.\n\nThere shall be perpetual peace and friendship between His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor of China, and between their respective subjects.\n\n### ARTICLE II.\n\nIt is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that His Majesty the Emperor of Japan may, if he see fit, accredit a Diplomatic Agent to the Court of Peking, and His Majesty the Emperor of China may, if he see fit, nominate a Diplomatic Agent to the Court of Tokio.\n\n3\n\nThe Diplomatic Agent accredited by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan to the Court of Peking shall have the right permanently to reside, with his family, suite, and establishment, at the capital of China.\n\n### ARTICLE III.\n\nThe Diplomatic Agents of Japan and China shall respectively enjoy all the prerogatives, privileges, and immunities accorded by international law to such Agents, and they shall also in all respects be entitled to the treatment extended to similar Agents of the most-favoured nation.\n\nTheir persons, families, suites, establishments, residences, and correspondence shall be held inviolable. They shall be at liberty to select and appoint their own officers, couriers, interpreters, servants, and attendants without any kind of molestation.\n\n### ARTICLE IV.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan may appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents to reside at such of the ports, cities, and towns of China which are now or may hereafter be opened to foreign residence and trade, as the interests of the Empire of Japan may require.\n\nThese officers shall be treated with due respect by the Chinese authorities, and they shall enjoy all the attributes, authority, jurisdiction, privileges, and immunities which are or may hereafter be extended to similar officers of the nation most favoured in these respects.\n\n### ARTICLE V.\n\nAll official communications addressed by the Diplomatic Agent or Consular officers of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan to the Chinese authorities shall be written in the Japanese language, and, in like manner, all official communications addressed by the Chinese authorities to such Diplomatic Agent or Consular officers shall be written in the Chinese language.\n\n### ARTICLE VI.\n\nJapanese subjects may, with their families, employés, and servants, frequent, reside, and carry on trade, industries, and manufactures, or pursue any other avocations not prohibited by Treaty in all the ports, cities, and towns of China which are now or may hereafter be opened to foreign residence and trade. They are at liberty to proceed to or from any of the open ports with their merchandize and effects, either by land with their own or hired vehicles or conveyances, or by water with their own or chartered vessels, and within the localities at those places which have already been or may hereafter be set apart for the use and occupation of foreigners. They shall have the right to purchase, hire, or rent houses and land, and to sell and dispose of the same, and to build or open churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, enjoying in these and all other respects connected with the system of foreign settlements the same privileges and immunities as the subjects or citizens of the most-favoured nation.\n\n### ARTICLE VII.\n\nJapanese vessels shall have the right to touch, for the purpose of landing and shipping passengers and merchandize, at all the ports, cities, and towns of China which are now or which may hereafter be made ports of call.\n\n### ARTICLE VIII.\n\nJapanese subjects have the right to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior of China, under passports issued by Japanese Consuls and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through. If the passports be not... \n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "143\n\nof certain of the Consular Officials out of money received for the sale of stamps. This practice was irregular and on my representation has, I understand, been since discontinued.\n\nThe circumstances of the deficit in the Accounts of the late Postal Agent at Ningpo, were separately reported to the Secretary of State in the letter from this Department of the 22nd January last.\n\n## Expenditure\n\n3. The total Expenditure of $2,299,096, was more than the total Estimate by $300,115, and larger also than the Expenditure of 1893 by $378,572.\n\nThe net excesses under various Heads, amounting in the aggregate, to $346,981, have been sanctioned by Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance No 16 of 1895.\n\nThe \"Detailed Statement of Expenditure\", furnished by the Treasurer, is appended hereto.\n\n(5)",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nshare of the coasting trade, it might well happen\n\nthat the Norwegian Consular Agent, as also the agent\n\nof the stranger.\n\nIt is a growing practice for Chinese to charter\n\nforeign steamers by the month.\n\nWhere such steamers\n\nare partly employed in carrying passengers,\n\nthe\n\nChinese charterers will naturally give preference\n\nto the flag whose Consular representative interferes\n\nleast with the internal economy of the ship.\n\nAgain it not unfrequently happens that, for one\n\nreason or another a steamer that is really owned by\n\nChinese is put under a foreign flag; and the nominal\n\nowners and local agents of the steamer derive cer-\n\ntain profits from such transactions.\n\nAny restric-\n\ntions which would cause Chinese to seek the pro-\n\ntection of the German or Norwegian flag would to\n\nsome extent injure our interests in China.\n\nIf it is necessary to legislate at all, my\n\nopinion is (1) that all British vessels, ac-\n\ncording to their registered tonnage, should be allowed",
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        "content_text": "54\n\nexample, and these are every year taking a larger\n\nshare of the coasting trade, it might well happen\n\nthat the Norwegian Consular Agent was also the\n\nAgent of the Steamer.\n\nIt is a growing practice for Chinese to charter\n\nforeign steamers by the month. Where such steamers\n\nare partly employed in carrying passengers, the\n\nChinese charterers will naturally give the preference to the flag whose Consular representative\n\ninterferes least with the internal economy of the\n\nship.\n\nAgain it not unfrequently happens that for one\n\nreason or another a steamer that is really owned\n\nby Chinese, is put under a foreign flag; and the\n\nnominal owners and local agents of the steamers\n\nderive certain profits from such transactions.\n\nAny restrictions which would cause Chinese to seek\n\nthe protection of the German or Norwegian flag\n\nwould to some extent injure our interests in\n\nChina.\n\nIf it is necessary to legislate at all, my\n\nopinion",
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        "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]",
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        "content_text": "# XEN\n\n5 \n\n547 \n\n558 \n\n3 \n\n**China Association. Report for 1897-98, and Memorials to Lord Salisbury of 14th April and 8th July 1898.**\n\nLettres d'Extréme Orient: Saigon-Le Developpement de L'Indo-Chine. Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu (*L'Economiste Français*, 1898). Our Trade with Western China, by J. F. Fraser. and its Trade, by A. J. Little (*Contemporary Review*, 1898).\n\nThe Yangtse Valley Report on the Trade of Central and Southern China. Consul F. S. A. Bourne (1898).\n\nReport of the Mission to China of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce. F. S. A. Bourne, H. Neville, and H. Bell (1898).\n\nJourney from Hong Kong to Ssumao. Consul Jamieson (1898). Report of a Journey to North Ssuchuan; and Journey from Yachou to Tachien-lu. Consular Assistant G. J. Litton (1898).\n\nChina in Transformation. A. R. Colquhoun (1898).\n\nThe Yangtse Chiang. Consul W. R. Carles (*R. G. S. Journal*, 1898). Among various official papers and publications the following have been found most useful:-Yunnan, Trade, &c., by Mr. J. Turner, Agent for the Arracan Company (1897); P. W. Memos. on Ssumao (1898); Consular Reports (especially those on Chungking, Wuchow, and Pakboi); Board of Trade Journals (especially November 1897 and April and July 1898); Report on Shan Hills Railway Surveys (P. W. D. Proceedings, March 1891); Conventions between Great Britain and China, 1st March and 6th September 1894 and 4th February 1897; Declaration between England and France, 15th January 1896; Notes by Mr. F. R. Bagley, Chief Engineer, Burma Railways Company.\n\n## I.-BURMA-CHINA OVERLAND TRADE\n\nDiverse estimates have been formed in recent years as to the extent of the Burma-China trade. In 1877 it was placed at 250,000l. annually by Captain Cooke. In 1890 Mr. Hosie valued it at 500,000l., and Prince Henry of Orleans has adopted the same estimate. M. Rocher stated in 1894 on the authority of the farmers-general of likin in Yunnan that it amounted to 160,000l., but he suggested that his informants had an interest in understating the amount. Although much information is contained in the official reports on trade, it is nevertheless impossible to gauge accurately the dimensions of a trade which is partly indirect and passes by many routes. Besides the direct trade given below, a great deal of the trade between Burma and the Northern Shan States and some of that between Burma and the Southern Shan States is transit trade with China, while even Zimmé (Chiengmai) serves as an entrepôt for this commerce. But though it is impossible to show the full course of trade, it may be useful to furnish tables of the direct import and export trade between Burma and China, together with tables of the trade between Burma and the North and South Shan States, a subject interesting in itself apart from its relation to the topic under discussion.\n\nThe period here dealt with extends from 1890-91 to 1897-98, details for earlier years being incomplete or untrustworthy to a degree that renders them of little service for purposes of comparison. The registration of frontier trade was not introduced into Upper Burma until June 1889, and it was imperfect for some time afterwards. Even since revised, simplified, and generally more effective measures of registration have been adopted, reports show that traders frequently make false returns, or evade registration by following circuitous routes. It is thought, for instance, that a considerable illicit traffic in opium is carried on. In spite, however, of incompleteness and inaccuracy, the returns are of value in indicating both the extent of the trade and the kinds of commodities that are interchanged.\n\nIt has been suggested in the trade reports that the enforcement of Article IX. of the Convention of 1st March 1894 between Great Britain and China, by which the Manwyne and Sansi routes were opened, prevented traders from adopting routes other than the Bhamo route in 1895-96. But this clause has been usefully modified by the Agreement of 4th February 1897, under which other routes may be opened if the Boundary Commissioners agree that such measures would be in the interests of trade.\n\n6531. \n\nB",
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        "content_text": "# (Capy) \nsome h ko \nC.O. \n28774 \n**MEMORANDUM OF SOLICITOR** \n\nre \nRIC2 lege | SEP 00 \n64 \n**HONG KONG ORDINANCE** \n\nIn reference to the letter from Mr C.P. Lucas to \nthe Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade dated the \n11th April last, I have the following observations to \nmake on the points to which attention is called:\n\nParagraph 3. The remarks in this paragraph \nare to a certain extent dealt with by my notes on the Bill \nto Clause 9 (1), (2), and (3), and as pointed out, it will \nbe well to bring the form of the whole of this clause so \nfar as it relates to deserters into conformity with Section \n238 of the Merchant Shipping Act. Sub-section 6, \nhowever, deals more especially with imprisonment for \noffences committed within the waters of the Colony, and \nfor which punishment is prescribed in paragraphs d, e, \nand g, of sub-clause 5 of clause 9.\n\nIt is presumably intended to deal with these \noffences, which are not under the provisions of Section \n238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, but which are offences \nthe punishment for which can be conveniently arranged \nfor between the different nations. This therefore is, I \npresume, the reason why sub-clause 6 goes beyond the provisions \nof Section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act by \ngiving the Magistrate power, among other things, to \nsimply hand the offender over to his Consular authority \nwithout specifying what is to become of him. As the \nship to which he belonged may have sailed, this in \nitself may be a convenient power, but, as before stated, \nis not one of the powers conferred by Section 238, unless \nit can be said that the Consular Officer is for this \npurpose an Agent for the owner of the vessel.",
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        "content_text": "# Précis of Amoy Intelligence Report for Quarter ended December 1901\n\nOwing to the absence of rain, the yield of staple products—sugar cane, oranges, indigo, &c.—was unsatisfactory.\n\nSince the 11th November, the Native Customs have been collected by the Imperial Customs. This change gives much satisfaction.\n\nThe li-kin tax on sugar, the staple product, is farmed out to a Company for 500,000 taels per annum.\n\nLi-kin on all goods has been raised, and it is now almost impossible to abolish it, as it has to contribute a large proportion towards the annual interest on the debt.\n\nThe house tax has come into operation: 5 per cent. on houses above 20 dollars in value, to be paid by owners of the property.\n\nIn exchange for brevet ranks and honours, contributions are obtained towards the indemnity.\n\n## (a.) International Settlement\n\nThe Island of Kulangsu is now an International Settlement. As far as local conditions will allow, the Regulations and bye-laws are modelled on those of Shanghai.\n\n## (b.) Japanese Activity\n\nThe Japanese Consul (Mr. Ugeno) returned from Japan in the middle of November and at once proceeded to Foochow, where he remained until the end of the quarter. It is said that he has been endeavouring to induce the Viceroy to accept a Japanese loan of 3,000,000 dollars to pay off the French debt, with a view to the Japanese taking over the Foochow arsenal.\n\nLarge sums of money have been passing through the bank from Hong Kong to Amoy and Amoy to Foochow, but it is almost certain that the French will never consent to give the arsenal, especially if the Japanese are to step into their shoes.\n\nThe Chinese authorities, too, have a deep-rooted distrust of the Japanese and are not likely to put themselves in their power, however pressed for money they may be.\n\nThe Japanese Consul has been trying to obtain for a Japanese subject the camphor monopoly in the Province of Fukien. In July last, this monopoly was granted to a Chinese for fifteen years; the purchase money, it is said, being 40,000 taels. Japanese are probably anxious to secure this monopoly, as any development of the trade in Fukien would seriously injure the value of their monopoly in Formosa. The Japanese Consul is said to have made an offer of 60,000 taels for the Fukien monopoly. The Amoy Taotai is very anti-Japanese and has written to the Viceroy advising him not to grant either of the Japanese requests.\n\n## (c.) French Activity\n\nMonkey Island in Amoy Harbour has been purchased by a French Syndicate in Foochow. The owner of the island was an American, Mr. S. J. Edwards. The transfer was effected by M. Claudel, French Consul at Foochow. It is said that the deed of transfer is in three names, but the general opinion held is that the real purchasers are the French Government.\n\n### The French Post-office\n\nThis office is to be opened on the 1st February. M. Bernard, the Superintendent of the French cable, who has recently been appointed Consular Agent, has leased premises for the new post-office in the Chinese suburb at the back or east of the British Concession.\n\n### French Cable\n\nThe offices have been installed in a large house near the Great Northern Telegraph Office, purchased for 18,000 dollars. The cable broke down in November last, and repairs cannot be executed until the Great Northern Company can spare the services of their telegraph ship.\n\nNote. The cable was landed on the 3rd April, 1901. It is said to go to Chapel Island, some 20 miles distant, and thence to Saigon, thus admitting of communication with Europe, viâ Siberia, without the message passing through a British Colony.\n\n## Commercial Developments\n\nA British Syndicate \"well backed in Hong Kong\" has taken over from a Chinese Syndicate the mining rights in the district of Ankhou, said to be rich in iron and also to contain coal, plumbago, &c. The mines are 60 miles from the coast.\n\nPage 292 \n(?) Touraine.",
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        "content_text": "7587.\n\n# Sutor.\n\n9.\n\n## Expenses by whom payable.\n\n(No 21 of 1891, Sec. 2.)\n\n(6.) All expenses incidental to the apprehension and confinement of any seaman under this section shall be payable by the master of the ship to which such seaman may belong, to be recoverable from him, at the suit of the Captain Superintendent of Police, as a debt due to the Government of this Colony; and the subsistence money for every such seaman confined in gaol shall be paid in advance to the superintendent of the gaol, and in default of such payment, the gaoler may release such seaman: Provided that every seaman imprisoned under this section may, by direction of the Committing Magistrate, be sent on board his ship, or may be placed at the disposal of the Consular Officer at whose request the Magistrate dealt with the case, on the written application of the said Consular Officer, either on or before the expiration of his term of imprisonment.\n\n## 524\n\nSub-section (6) provides that a Foreign seaman who has been imprisoned at the instance of his Consul may be handed over to the Consul before the expiration of his term of imprisonment. (This enables the Consul to send the seaman away in another ship if opportunity occurs.)\n\nThe sixth subsection will also be referred to the Foreign Office, but before referring to that Department, Mr. Chamberlain will be glad to receive any observations which the Board may wish to offer on these provisions.\n\n3. In section 9 subsection 6 the provision that a foreign seaman convicted under the section may be placed at the disposal of the Consular Officer would appear to need further safeguards. It would be preferable to word the whole subsection as in section 238 of the Imperial Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or otherwise the reason given by the Acting Attorney-General might be stated in the Ordinance and a paragraph equivalent to section 238 subsection 1 of the Imperial Act included.\n\nParagraph 3.-The remarks in this paragraph are to a certain extent dealt with by my notes on the Bill to clause 9 (1), (2), and (3), and, as pointed out, it will be well to bring the form of the whole of this clause so far as it relates to deserters into conformity with Section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act. Sub-section 6, however, deals more especially with imprisonment for offences committed within the waters of the Colony, and for which punishment is prescribed in paragraphs D, E, F and G, of sub-clause 5 of clause 9.\n\nIt is presumably intended to deal with these offences, which are not under the provisions of section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, but which are offences the punishment for which can be conveniently arranged for between the different nations. This, therefore, is, I presume, the reason why sub-clause 6 goes beyond the provisions of section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act by giving the Magistrate power, among other things, to simply hand the offender over to his Consular authority without specifying what is to become of him, As the ship to which he belonged may have sailed, this in itself may be a convenient power, but, as before stated, is not one of the powers conferred by section 238, unless it can be said that the Consular Officer is for this purpose an Agent for the owner of the vessel.\n\nIt is presumed that this sub-clause is not intended to refer to deserters who can be apprehended but not confined, but the expenses of the apprehension might well be provided for as the words at present are \"apprehension and confinement.\"\n\n(2) Sub-clause 6 of Clause 9 of the Ordinance provides that foreign seamen imprisoned under the Section \"may be placed at the disposal of the Consular Officer on the written application of the said Consular Officer.\" I think this Sub-clause should be worded like Section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act.\n\nThe Colonial Office. The Board of Trade agree that some parts of Clause 9, dealing with the apprehension of seamen for various offences, should be more in harmony with Section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, but that Section deals with desertion only, while this sub-clause 6 deals with offences which do not come under Section 238 and must necessarily therefore go beyond that Section (as it does in giving power to the Magistrates to hand over offenders to a Consul). I imagine the Ordinance is not bound to be confined within the limits of Section 238, and the Solicitor to the Board of Trade certainly says the powers may be convenient. Perhaps, therefore, we may express concurrence with the views of the Solicitor and say we have no objection to such powers being given to the Magistrate.\n\nI gather from that the Board of Trade have probably already taken the opinion of Counsel on the point dealt with in that paragraph, and if it were necessary for us to go into the matter we should, of course, like to see the Counsel's opinion, assuming my conjecture to be right. But I don't think that it really is a point to be decided by the Foreign Office.\n\n## 416. Para 5 of C.O. letter, which is not an end, is it merely asked and agreed with Draft C.O.",
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        "content_text": "3\n\n78\n\nSmuggling of arms,\n\nMissionaries. (Confidential.)\n\nActivity of French,\n\nThe extreme west of the province appears also to have been the scene of serious disturbances, for the Catholic priests who took refuge some time ago in Kueichou have since been obliged to retire further from the border, and it is stated that the bandits succeeded in capturing the town of Hsingyi.\n\nIn view of the large number of lawless men scattered over the province and the severe distress from which many districts are suffering, amounting in some places almost to famine, it is pretty safe to predict that the coming winter will see the outbreak of widespread disorder such as prevailed last year.\n\nFrom one or two cases that have come to light, it would appear that considerable quantities of arms are being smuggled into these provinces. Recently a boat was seized in Kuanghsi on suspicion and 200 rifles found on board. It was elicited from the prisoners that the same boat had previously smuggled 500. In connection with this affair, it transpired that there was a plan to capture Governor Wang when he was at Hsunchow, on his way to Nanning. It will, perhaps, be remembered that a correspondent of a Hong Kong paper stated that he had been surrounded there by the brigands. Repeated thefts, or possibly clandestine sales, of rifles belonging to the Annamite troops on the frontier have lately been occurring. A big smuggling trade is said to be carried on through Kuangchouwan, and, no doubt, arms find their way through as well as opium and other goods.\n\nWhen Mr. Werner was in charge of this Consulate, about a year ago, he reported more than once on the improper interference of the German missionaries in native cases. During the short time I had charge of German interests, several instances of similar misconduct on their part were brought to my notice. The Prefect of Liechow complained to me that a Mr. Bethke had applied on behalf of a convert to farm a certain tax station, and when this was refused—there being no reason for turning out the then farmer—he had preferred a charge of extortion and robbery against a Customs officer, and had threatened to make trouble in respect of the matter unless his application for the farm were granted. Shortly after, Pastor Witt interfered in a case of a claim made by a Chinese merchant residing and carrying on business in Hong Kong against a local trader, on the ground that a convert, a person of notoriously evil fame, had capital invested in the plaintiff's business. An indirect and, perhaps, somewhat remote consequence of this was a disturbance made by the relatives of the defendant at the shop of the native agent of a British firm where the plaintiff was staying, during which goods belonging to the firm were damaged and stolen, the loss being, however, subsequently made good. About the same time, trouble occurred near Lienchow between Catholic converts and a number of people nominally belonging to the German Mission, resulting in several of the former being wounded and some of their standing crops being destroyed. It appears that a few years ago a section of the chief clan in that locality joined the Catholic Church, thereby exciting the resentment of the remainder who had long been seeking an opportunity to revenge themselves on their kinsmen. Taking advantage of the presence of a German missionary in the neighbourhood, they became nominal adherents of the Mission, and relying on the promises of protection, which it seems to be the practice of the German missionaries to freely give to their followers, they made a dispute about the use of a fish-pond the pretext for a quarrel, and attacked the Catholics with the results above described. Mr. Bethke, on hearing of the affair, at once proceeded to the scene of the occurrence and promised his people German protection. The French Consul telegraphed to the Viceroy, and told the Prefect he would summon a gun-boat if any further acts of aggression were committed; he also sought my assistance in the matter. I wrote to the Prefect urging upon him the importance of maintaining order, regardless of whether the parties were Catholics, Protestants, or otherwise, and advising him to deal with the case as if it was a purely native one. Finally, the matter was amicably settled through the local gentry by the aggressors paying 800 dollars compensation. There are supposed to be some fifty German converts in that district, but it is evident they are not genuine, as work has only been carried on there for a few months, and that merely by a native catechist. On another occasion, Mr. Bethke interfered in a case in which the Mission was not in the remotest degree interested, and there is strong evidence to show that he extorted a sum of 370 dollars from the petty official concerned. Mr. Bach, who was the chief cause of the riot at Lienchow in 1901, is returning shortly with some assistants, and they propose to carry on work in the Leichow peninsula with a view, as they declare, of checking Catholic influence. It seems that the German Consular authorities have no power to deport dangerous characters, and it is to be feared that these people may be the cause of local trouble if they continue to behave in the outrageous manner which has distinguished their conduct in the past.\n\nFrench officers have been recently surveying the country between Kuangchouwan and the West River, and if a railway is built that port will probably be made the terminus instead of Pakhoi.\n\nThere are three French schools at Kuangchouwan with about sixty pupils. Here there is one under a French schoolmaster with some twenty pupils.\n\nA French post-office has now been completed, and a French clerk arrived recently to take charge. A hospital is also to be built. There is already a French doctor, who gives his services gratis to Chinese.\n\nIt may be mentioned here that the French priests on Weichou Island have a stock of 500 rifles supplied by the French Government for distribution amongst their converts (who number some 4,000) in case of attack by pirates.\n\nThe postal service under the Imperial Maritime Customs is being gradually extended. There is at present daily communication with Lienchow, four times a-week with Chinchou, and three times a-week with Nanning viâ Chinchou and Hsiao Tung. A courier service to Kaochou and Yulin is also about to be started.\n\nThe deputy who, as reported by my predecessor, arrived here in September for the purpose of collecting a tax on opium, returned to Canton as soon as the decision to abandon the tax became known, without, as far as I can ascertain, any actual levy having been made.\n\nCommercial.\n\nThe Customs Returns have not yet been completed, but I understand that they will show a falling off in the trade of the port of some 20 per cent. This appears to be partly due to a diversion of the trade to Kuangchouwan, whence it passes into the interior almost, if not entirely, free of duty.\n\nAnpu, which formerly took a considerable quantity of Pakhoi imports, is now supplied from that port at much lower rates than it can be from here; for instance, yarn is sold there 2 dollars a bale cheaper than here, which can only be accounted for by its escaping import duty.\n\nConsiderable quantities of opium are also smuggled through. The trade is, in fact, already assuming fairly large proportions, the imports from the 1st April to the 30th June being valued at 410,000 dollars, and the exports at 215,000 dollars, and recently several steamers have cleared from Hong Kong with cargoes for that trip only. Launches from Canton and Hong Kong call there frequently, and I am told that some of these visit Leichou and other non-Treaty places along the coast.\n\nThe German gun-boat \"Tiger\" came here in October with a Consular officer on board. The Prefect and Magistrate came down from Liechow to discuss with him two somewhat trivial cases which had been referred to the German Consul at Canton by this Consulate some time ago. Both cases were settled.\n\nChinese gun-boats have visited the port several times during the quarter.\n\nDr. Mudra arrived in November to take charge of the newly-established German Consulate. He will also have control over the Vice-Consulate at Kiungchow. I am informed the chief reason for the appointment is a desire to control the doings of the missionaries.\n\nMajor Feng Tien Huang passed through in November to replace Major Liang at Lienchow.\n\nGeneral Pan has been ordered to proceed to Kuanghsi, and will be temporarily replaced by Li Chia Cho, who will also act as Magistrate of Chinchou vice Lu Wei Yu.\n\nH. A. LITTLE, Consul.\n\nPakhoi, January 12, 1903.\n\n(Signed)",
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        "content_text": "rfield and Swire's Chinese agent, it appears that the tax claimed in this case by so-ku-chü\" at Nganking is not, as the name seemed to indicate, \"tso-ku-k'o,” or tax, but is simply lo-ti-shui,\" or destination tax.\n\nThe tso-ku-chu,\" says Taotai Tung, \"is for the collection of lo-ti-shui,' levied on the business of Chinese merchants (or tradesmen). It is levied on the goods in warehouses, and not on the business premises.\"\n\nIn reply to the Taotai's communication on the subject, I pointed out that the English version of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, foreign goods under transit pass freed from all further inland taxation whatsoever, and that it matters not whether goods are in foreign or in Chinese hands if they are of foreign manufacture. With regard to the establishment of Chinese agencies for the sale of foreign goods at places situated in the interior, I stated that I knew of no Treaty Regulations that were infringed thereby, and that such a practice is commonly followed in the neighbourhood of Treaty ports.\n\nIn his reply, the Taotai admitted that the transit pass freed foreign goods en route, irrespective of the nationality of their temporary owner; but he doubted that foreign merchants were not authorized to set up establishments at places not opened to trade; and that the question as to whether Chinese shops should be taxed or not, in the interior, has nothing to do with foreign merchants.\n\nThe contention of the Nganking authorities is that goods of whatever nationality, in the hands of Chinese merchants, are liable to pay this tax at Nganking, and is the reason why they object to Butterfield and Swire's agent exhibiting a signboard bearing the name and title of the foreign firm. They maintain that to do so confers the status of a foreign \"hong\" upon the agency, and that as Nganking is not open to trade by Treaty, foreign merchants have no right to establish themselves there.\n\nI have written to the Taotai pointing out that the sugar agency was set up in accordance with the Treaty, and that Butterfield and Swire had appointed a Chinese as their agent for the sale of their sugar in that market, thereby giving him to understand that, although a Chinese is in possession of the goods at Nganking, the goods themselves remain Butterfield and Swire's property.\n\nThis contention, I would submit, is one which should not be passed unnoticed. The \"tso-li\" is a tax levied on shops in many of the most important towns. It is therefore neither a transit tax nor a destination tax, and it has not been specifically included in Article VIII* of the Treaty of Shanghai among the taxes which are to be abolished. In view of the heavy surtax on foreign goods contemplated by the Mackay Treaty, the question both of this tax and of agencies of foreign firms in the interior becomes an important one.\n\nI have also pointed out that the agency is for the sale of foreign goods only, and on a wholesale basis, so there is very little danger of a monopoly resulting therefrom, through the false representations of the Chinese agent.\n\nIn the present case, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agency is intended for wholesale business only; their agent is not authorized to sell less than a picul of sugar at one time. Supposing the tax to be levied on the goods stored in their depôts, there can be no false representations made as to their ownership, as reference could always be made to the transit pass. The goods will become more or less cumulative as these goods are distributed among other shops for purposes of retail. On the other hand, should the agencies be allowed to do a retail business, their exemption from the shop tax and li-kin would, perhaps, give them such an advantage that they might well acquire a monopoly of the market in respect of the class of goods sold by them.\n\nThe Nganking authorities complain not only of the establishment of depôts by foreign firms in the interior, but also of their exhibiting their \"hong\" names on a signboard, the reason being, I believe, that such a signboard is supposed to render the establishment practically independent of the local authorities.\n\nI have, therefore, the honour to request your instructions on the following points:\n\n1. Whether it can be maintained that foreign merchants have a Treaty right to establish depôts at places in the interior for the purpose of selling foreign goods through a Chinese agent.\n\n2. Whether these agencies may do a retail business and exhibit the name and style of the foreign firm concerned on their signboard.\n\n3. Whether they are liable to pay the shop tax, supposing that it is not levied in the form of a direct tax on the goods.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) V. L. SAVAGE.\n\nPage 191\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Townley to Acting Consul Savage.\n\nPeking, June 2, 1903.\n\nI HAVE received your despatches Nos. 7 and 8 with regard to the establishment of Chinese agencies in the interior by foreign merchants.\n\nI see nothing in the Treaties to prevent foreign merchants from establishing such agencies for the sale of their goods, whether retail or wholesale, but I think that these agencies must clearly be considered liable to the same taxation as their local competitors. The foreign owners of the goods they sell are, of course, entitled to all the privileges accorded to them by Treaty, as, for instance, the right to send their goods inland under transit pass, and they are also entitled to claim that their goods shall not be subjected to any differential taxation in excess of that levied on similar goods in native hands.\n\nI have no reliable means of ascertaining in what manner the shop tax is levied. I propose to make inquiries from the officials on this point. I am meanwhile writing to the Taotai, requesting that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agency at Nganking be not interfered with pending the receipt of your instructions, and suggesting that a record be kept of the amount of the shop tax alleged to be payable by that agency, which will be paid ultimately by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire if you decide that they are liable. If the shop tax is levied on all shops of a certain class, without regard to the question of whether they were agencies of a foreign firm or not, I do not think any objection should be raised. What would be a legitimate subject of protest would be a tax on foreign agencies alone, or on them in excess of what was imposed on other shops of the same class.\n\nAs regards the exhibition of a signboard bearing the name and style of the foreign firm concerned, I think the main objection to it is that it suggests that in case any action, however legitimate, taken by the local authorities against the tenant of the shop, he would receive from His Majesty's Consular authorities the protection and support that would be his due if he were himself a British merchant. Cases might arise in which it would not be desirable or possible to give him such support, and then the absence of it might be misconstrued. I think, therefore, that the exhibition of such signs in the case of purely Chinese agencies should be discouraged; but I am not prepared to suggest their removal where they already exist, for that course might lead the local authorities to suppose that support previously given to the agencies had been suddenly been withdrawn, and they might regard them as being now placed at their mercy.\n\nThe course I suggest is that you should confidentially recommend the British firms concerned to discourage the use of such signs, but that to the Chinese authorities you should defend it as unobjectionable. One argument you might possibly use is that...\n\n(No. 8.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Savage to Mr. Townley.\n\nWuhu, May 20, 1903.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 7 on the subject of the difficulties raised by the Nganking authorities to the establishment, in that city, of an agency for the sale of Butterfield and Swire's sugar, I have the honour to report that, from a letter I have since received from Taotai Tung, and from inquiries I have received as concerned...",
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        "content_text": "615\n\n+\n\nABORSION\n\nder AÍ-LaddAon of ruouod add sved !\n\nCIJENA bad enoksen add id es qiupae To nejjsi 18 Jusbilaus \"OL\n\nave to antisgo Add garniest not and nedard and to O1JORE\n\ngrid von 2%,int of avel bae,ebsql masno) od novim Jeek 9d) ao\n\n- vor doqat will orlog ginine af duonos mid ja getJon Sd♪ 1 SJ80163×T JAFO99$100 79418i edremo od atolls at yd Jaen\n\nTAMAN Bo Josc egge sabredue to gied add dürw nojaaj\n\nnantwona vid at greainsoe* 1*1079ukos bna sgijeeną deljind\n\nbas\n\n231 2018VMŮ Ham!Jcucb Aetio noteroco **\n\n#\n\nsooni oat\n\nvut voc Memari Md 10 engo aid of ejseno od 1998 bus &*(AID\n\n1 Jord# 23 „Eisdind Jasné lo sodd ddi* adconsini leupe\n\nTie Jedd 99duino u od 8trajje Ji\n\nmalno od lo gau si* md stoleradt breads #1g8l7ve 00868 AJAG\n\nq* to Jaxy 943 no aunsudorotors red/bul vas aldissoq as w\n\n1- José Mid of nou gedinul sidd bluois Judd blanco weds bas\n\nasd doule to 2*** 193mans sit,abent #glassd of besego ed\n\nVM JP Mite 781798d e ,serng7e30e daijitä yd bantaleol Lua bejente\n\n- One nannuŸ to noidajfoljne sidik8oq edu Janiays befoeve ed\n\npino Ejestajni donant so!\n\n* Si Livode.#mit iduob on 21 998ḍt\n\n03/ Cause geslist,oleri ayreno* of besojo singer Baionad\n\nPaulo bo dry and to them) nuo konturb to soren náð skaa od\n\nJax to JusBITAL BLOrvoo of o\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government is doubtless aware that the French are contending that the higher reaches of the Yangtse beyond Hankow are outside the Yangtse Valley and British sphere of influence, and that the American control of the Canton-Hankow Railway has been secured by Belgian capitalists, presumably on behalf of French and Russian interests if any conclusion may be drawn from recent events in Persia and North China where Belgian concessionaires have also had the support of the representatives of France and Russia.\n\nThe completion of this line merely to Canton will not satisfy the political aspirations of the Governments just referred to and concessions for a line to the sea coast under the same control are sure to be sought for, especially if the projected Hong Kong-Canton line is not rapidly proceeded with. This might easily take a Southern direction to a port west of Macao or east via Waichow to Bias Bay with the certain result of forming a new and formidable rival to the port of Hongkong.\n\nSir Ernest Satow informed the Committee at his interview with them in August last that he could not understand the delay in opening the port which had been promised by the Chinese Government long ago, and that he would take up the matter with the Authorities on his return to Peking. He mentioned at the time that he very much questioned whether any merchant steamer had succeeded in getting so far up the river, and it appears probable that this fact is still influencing inaction at Peking coupled with possible unwillingness to establish a Consular establishment on the ground of expense. With regard to meeting this slight objection the actual opening of the port might be delayed until such time as it appears necessary to send a Consular representative there, but it seems to my Committee desirable to obtain the right to do so with as little delay as possible.\n\nWith the above-mentioned facts before him,\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "INTENDED FOR\n\nAFRICAN\n\n755.\n\nHONG KONG TRANSVAAL\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.0.\n\n306\n\n27235\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo.\n\n27th Feb 1904\n\nAug\n\nNo. 27235\n\n2\n\n2 AG 041\n\n(Subject.)\n\nChinese Emy to for Transvaal\n\nPrevious Paper. (Post of publication;)\n\n26936\n\n4 Aug #\n\nCopy tel out to 70.\n\n* £; (78) — 1,5899–90000-11-8\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\nReft to your tel re any notification of of Wuchang sufficient at present\n\nWambert\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n7. Push\n\nIn Just tues\n\nM. Fiddes\n\nIn the case of an ordinary Mutiny, we should appoint\n\nan Emigration agent (or Consular delegate)\n\nbut I am not sure that this is necessary at Wuchang unless the Chinese require it,\n\nas Wuchang is much a screen for Hong Kong the emigrant\n\nshould get all the protection required at Hong Kong.\n\nAugt",
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        "content_text": "348\n\n15th. of that month.\n\n3.\n\nI do not now consider it necessary, nor does Mr. May, that we should ask for such treatment of Hongkong which could only have been satisfactorily secured by a further convention or by an interchange of diplomatic notes with China and scarcely without admitting some exercise of authority by Chinese Officials in British Territory. The present arrangements, which were summarised in my telegram of 1744 7 August 4th.), follow very closely the terms of the Convention,\n\nexcept that embarkation in ships complying with the Regulations contained in the Schedule annexed thereto is at Hongkong instead of actually at the Treaty Port of Wuchow, which is not accessible to such ships. There is a halt at Hongkong in the passage of the emigrants from the Wuchow depot to the ship.\n\nThe examination by a qualified officer nominated by the British Consular Officer or his delegate, required by Section 3 of Article IV, is conducted at Hongkong, and the questioning of emigrants which takes place before the British Consul and the Chinese Inspector at Wuchow, required by the same Section, is repeated at Hongkong by a delegate of the British Consular Officer, viz. the Transvaal Emigration Agent.\n\nJuly 1904.\n\n4.\n\nI annex for your information a copy of the provisional arrangement entered into on the 25th July last by Mr. C. W. Campbell, the British Consul-General at Canton acting on behalf of the Transvaal Mining Companies' Agent, with Wen Tsung-yao acting on behalf of the Viceroy of Canton. I yesterday had an opportunity of discussing this arrangement with Mr. Campbell who informed me that the Viceroy had approved it. I pointed out that the 9th clause which stipulated for the",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nIn such manner a great portion of the work of conserving the river would be done without the authorities having to raise special funds for the purpose, and thereby one of the objections to the action, \"Want of Funds,\" largely removed.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Signed) BUTTERFIELD AND SWIRE,\n\nAgents, China Navigation Company Limited.\n\n(And others.)\n\nHaving considered the scheme proposed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Leon Robert, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and others for the improvement of the River Whangpoo, as per their letter of March 1904, addressed to the Commissioner of Customs, together with plan or chart showing bund lines, we have much pleasure in offering our support of same.\n\n(Signed) A. M. MARSHALL,\n\nAgent, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.\n\n(And others.)\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government,\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nC. O.\n\n35211 [September 26.] 557\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne,- (Received September 26.)\n\n(No. 287.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, August 8, 1904. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship copies of two despatches which I have received from His Majesty's Consular Officers at Yünnan-fu and Tengyueh respectively, in reply to communications which I addressed to them, inclosing copies of your Lordship's despatch No. 11 of the 15th January, relative to the levy of li-kin and transit pass rules in the Province of Yunnan.\n\nYour Lordship will perceive that Mr. Wilkinson requests instructions in regard to the question as to whether the right to sell certificated goods at places en route to, but short of, their destination also applies in the case of the sale of such goods at places off the direct route. He points out that, under the provisional regulations, sales off the route constitute the offence of \"divergence,\" which involves the cancellation of the transit pass. He observes, however, that from the wording of the letter from the China Association, inclosed in your Lordship's above-mentioned despatch, it might appear that the Association considers that such sales are permissible.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of the reply which I have sent to Mr. Wilkinson, stating that in my opinion the right of selling goods short of their destination is limited to the sale of such goods at places on the direct and recognized route to the place indicated on the pass.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nYünnan-fu, May 31, 1904.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 2 of the 10th March last, I have the honour to forward a despatch from Mr. Litton on the subject of transit pass rules for foreign imports in Yünnan.*\n\nMr. Litton remarks that the \"right to sell certificated goods at places en route but short of destination was specifically set forth in the provisional regulations which were approved by you,\" but he does not touch on the question raised in my despatch to the Legation No. 4 of the 5th March (copy of which he has seen), namely, whether the sale of such goods at places off the direct route should be permitted. By the letter of the provisional regulations such sale off the route constitutes the offence of 'divergence\" (cha wang), and involves cancellation of the transit pass. The China Association, however, would seem to be of the opinion that goods under transit pass should be saleable at any point \"nearer to the first port of entry\" than the \"named distant city\" for which the pass was issued.\n\nI shall doubtless receive from you instructions as to whether a town which, though situate in the general direction of the named city, is yet undeniably off all recognized routes thither, can be regarded as a \"place short of the destination,\" and therefore as a place whereat, by Lord Lansdowne's directions, the right to sell such goods should be maintained.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\n* Acting-Consul Litton, No. 4 of the 24th April, 1904. Sent direct to Foreign Office from Tengyueh.\n\n[2156 cc-4]",
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        "content_text": "## COPY.\n\n(To accompany Enclosure 4.)\n\n**C.O.**\n16594\n365\n\nRece THES 17 MAY 05 Draft \"Protection Clauses\" for Agreement to govern Migration to South Africa via Hongkong.\n\n1.\n\nNo person of Chinese nationality wishing to emigrate as an indentured labourer from Hongkong to South Africa shall do so otherwise than by passing through the Emigration Agency at Canton.\n\n2.\n\nEvery such person shall be medically inspected and registered at the Emigration Agency at Canton and be given a numbered pass countersigned by the Chinese Inspector and the British Consular Officer or their delegates and bearing the name, age, and thumb mark of the intending emigrant. A duplicate of this pass shall be kept at the Agency, and a triplicate shall be sent for purposes of identification to the Emigration Agent at Hongkong appointed by the Hongkong Government.\n\n3.\n\nEvery intending emigrant shall be sent to the South African Emigration Depôt at Hongkong in such manner as may be agreed upon by the British Consular Officer and the Chinese Inspector at Canton.\n\n4.\n\nThe Emigration Agent at Hongkong appointed by the Hongkong Government will be responsible for the carrying out of clause 1 above and that no indentured labourer of Chinese nationality is received into or shipped from the Emigration Depôt at Hongkong unprovided with the pass referred to in clause 2 above or provided with a pass the particulars of which do not tally with its holder.\n\nThe Chinese Inspector or his delegate shall further be free to inspect the Emigration Depôt from time to time and also the Emigrant Ship before sailing from Hongkong. For the latter purpose, the date of sailing shall in each case be notified to the Chinese Inspector.",
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        "content_text": "## Section I\n\nThe coal mined in the region is of poor quality, merely surface scrapings full of stones and mud. I believe the Posé mines were visited some years ago by an agent of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and that the firm have specimens of the coal in their possession. Posé, I should mention, is an important trade mart close to the Yünnan frontier, some 200 miles above Nanning, on a river which is navigable for light-draught steamers during the summer months. Through Posé come large quantities of Yunnan copper, which are manufactured at Nanning into gongs, candle-sticks, and all kinds of kitchen utensils. From Posé, too, come the tigers and leopards, numbers of whose skins we saw hanging in the furriers' shops in Nanning; a good tiger's skin, head and claws complete, may be bought for 50 dollars; leopard skins range from 10 dollars to 20 dollars. Posé is the farthest point reached by transit-pass from Wuchow.\n\nBy the evening of the second day of our stay in Nanning the river had fallen 2 feet, so it was arranged that we should leave the following day. As it happened, rain set in during the night, the water began to rise, and we might have stayed a day or two longer. I decided, however, to return; if the rain continued I could not in any case see much of the city, and having been over a fortnight absent from my post, I was anxious to get back as soon as possible.\n\nThe return journey was uneventful. Leaving Nanning at 11 A.M. on the 25th June, we crossed the Great Rapid the same evening, and arrived at Hsunchow the following day at 1 P.M. On Monday, the 27th June, the \"Moorhen\" reached Wuchow after an absence of nineteen days.\n\nFor the convenience of Consular officers who may have occasion to visit Nanning in the future, I append a table of distances (approximate) between the principal towns en route.\n\n| From Wuchow to- | Nautical Miles |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tenghsien | 25 |\n| Mengebiang | 36 |\n| Paima | 48 |\n| Pingnain | 66 |\n| Chiang-kou | 77 |\n| Hunchow | 89 |\n| Kueihsien | 150 |\n| Lei Kung hsu (Great Rapid) | 179 |\n| Hengchow | 204 |\n| Yungshun | 242 |\n| Nanning | 320 |\n\n**ITINERARY of His Majesty's Ship \"Moorhen,\" Wuchow to Nanning and return**\n\n| Date | Arrival | Departure | Steaming Hours |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 9 | Wuchow, 8-30 A.M. | Konghau, 8 A.M. | 4 |\n| 10 | Kooghau, 6 P.M. | Kueihsien, 5 P.M. | 9 |\n| 11 |  |  | 11 |\n|  | At Kueibsien |  |  |\n| 21 | Kueihsien, 5 A.M. | Linglitsun, 7 P.M. | 14 |\n| 22 | Linglitsun, 6 A.M. | Nanning, 10-30 A.M. | 23 |\n| 24 | At Nanning |  |  |\n| 25 | Nanning, 11 A.M. | Leikunghsa, 7 P.M. | 8 |\n| 27 | Leikangusu, 6 A.M. | Hsunchow, 6-30 A.M. | 20 |\n| 27 | Hsunchow, 1 P.M. | Wuchow, 7 P.M. | 7 |\n\nTotal distance, 640 miles; steaming hours, 58.1.\n\nNote. His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" steamed at 12 knots an hour; average strength of current, 4 knots; over rapids, 5 to 8 knots.\n\n## Section II.-Nanning as a Treaty Port\n\nAlthough Nanning was declared an open port by Imperial Decree on the 3rd February, 1889, no office of the Imperial Maritime Customs has yet been opened there and the port may, to all intents and purposes, still be considered an \"inland place.\" My visit to Nanning confirmed the opinion I had previously formed as to the advantages which British trade in South China would be likely to derive from the effective opening of the port and the appointment of a British Consular officer to reside there, namely, that from a commercial point of view, the advantages would be quite inconsiderable. It appears to me that Wuchow, situated at the limit of ocean-going steam navigation on the West River, sufficiently meets Hong Kong's requirements as a distributing centre. Foreign goods are imported by steamer to Wuchow and there transhipped, under transit-pass, into junks (which may be towed by steam-launches) for all the principal towns in the West River basin, as far as Lungchow and Posé, and thence overland into Yunnan and Kueichow. Similarly native produce is brought down from these places under outward transit-pass and transhipped into the Hong Kong steamers at Wuchow. The trade, which is steadily increasing, has been carried on for some years past without serious interference on the part of the native Customs authorities. Steam-launches can, under the new Regulations, carry passengers and cargo between Wuchow and Nanning, calling at all recognized way ports; they may, with the permission of the Chinese Government, ply between inland places exclusively, say, between Nanning and Posé. British merchants may lease go-downs for the storage of their goods at Nanning and other riverine towns, and may, I take it, under this clause, appoint native hongs their agents for the care and sale of their merchandise.\n\nThe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce have pressed for the establishment of a foreign custom-house at Nanning because they say that foreign goods could then be laid down there on payment of one import duty only; but this applies only to goods consumed in Nanning itself—an inconsiderable quantity; transit-passes would still have to be taken out, or native Customs dues paid on, goods destined for the surrounding districts. The same remark applies in the case of native produce; the bulk of Nanning's exports come from the country districts and in order to be shipped at the port would have to pay the same transit dues and the same native dues, as they do at Wuchow.\n\nOn the other hand, for political reasons, I venture to think that the effective opening of Nanning would be to the advantage of British interests. There is at the present moment a temporary lull in French railway enterprise in this part of the world, but at any time an energetic Governor-General in Tonquin may decide to resume railway construction on the frontier, and with the continuation of the Tonquin main line from Hanoi to Lungchow and Nanning, the Province of Kuangsi will inevitably be brought under French influence, and the French authorities will undoubtedly endeavour to arrange with the Chinese Governments for special facilities for rail-borne cargo crossing the frontier. Under these circumstances, the presence of a British Consular officer at Nanning might perhaps prevent any serious steps being taken to the detriment of British trade; he would, in any case, be able to obtain early information as to what was going forward.\n\nAs regards the future competition of the French railway system with the West River trade route, and the substitution of Hanoi for Hong Kong as the distributing centre of South-West China, I do not think the latter port has anything to fear as long as the Chinese Government continue to grant reasonable facilities to foreign trade on the West River and the shipping Companies of Hong Kong continue to maintain and improve their steam-boat services. What is now being done in this direction I shall briefly refer to in the next section, but I would here venture to call attention to the vital importance of the West River to the trade of Hong Kong. We have here one of the largest rivers in China, second only to the Yang-tsze in commercial importance, traversing and, with its tributaries, draining the whole of the Provinces of Kuangtung and Kuangsi, and parts of Yunnan and Kueichow to join the ocean in the waters of a British Colony. To-day steamers and steam-launches are taking passengers and cargo from Hong Kong, Canton, and all the principal towns in the delta, to Samshui, Wuchow, Nanning, and even Posé, distant 750 miles from the coast. By means of this service, assisted by native shipping, foreign goods can reach by water all the principal markets in South-Western China—to Shaokuan and Nanhsiung (Namheung), on the borders of Kiangsi; to Kueilin, on...",
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        "content_text": "Josidue s \n\ned ulioda vlek \n\nT \n\nCopy.\n\nInclo. in Sir 2, Satow's No. 87 of February 28th, 1906. 283\n\nH.M. Consul Kiungehow to Sir E. Satow. Accounts No. 2.\n\nKiungchow, February 3rd, 1906.\n\n13485 LAPR APR 21506\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your circular of January 10th, I have the honour to report on the postal management of the Hongkong Postal Agency at this port as follows:-\n\nThe Office of the Agency adjoins the Consular Office, occupying what is virtually the verandah on the west side of the Consulate, as shown in the accompanying sketch. The public entrance to both offices is identical, but they are otherwise quite distinct. With the exception of a writing desk which is the property of the Office of Works, the furniture and other articles used by the Agency have been supplied by the General Post Office Hongkong.\n\nThe constable Mr. W.F. Canning is Postal Agent and performs all the office postal work. He receives a salary of $35 a month.\n\nA postman at $10 and a coolie at $6 a month are employed for outdoor work, e.g. delivery of mails, carrying mail bags and boxes, circulation of mail notices, etc.\n\nThe Consul sees that the Postal Agent renders his accounts and remits any balance in hand to the Hongkong Office at the end of each month.\n\nThe present working of the Agency is, I believe, satisfactory to the public and to the Postmaster General Hongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nM. Hughes.\n\nActing Consul.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2 in Sir E. Satow's No. 87 of February 28th, 1906.\n\nMr. Consul General J. Scott to Sir E. Satow.\n\n284\n\nH.B.M.Consulate General,\n\nCanton, 31 January, 1906. (Received Peking February 1st)\n\nSir:-\n\nIn reply to your Circular Despatch of the 16th instant, I have the honour to report that:-\n\n1). The Office of the Postal Agency is situated in the Consular Offices.\n\n2). The duties of Postal Agent are discharged by P. Grant Jones, a member of the Consular Staff.\n\n3). The salary and emoluments attached to the Postal Agency are $75 per month, paid to Mr. Jones.\n\n4). The Postal Agent is assisted by two Chinese clerks, one at $30 and one at $15 a month, and by four Chinese postmen, one at $10 and three at $8 per month, who are all paid by the Hongkong Government.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed) James Scott.\n\nConsul General.\n\nErnest Satow, G.C.M.G.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking.",
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        "content_text": ".008 2\n\n(bertgil)\n\nholo. in Sir R. Satow's No.\n\nNo. 8701 February 28th, 1906.\n\nAccounts No. 3.\n\nSir,\n\nH.M. Consul, Swatow to Sir A. Satow.\n\n13485\n\n3485\n\nAPR 21 1906\n\n285\n\nIn reply to your Circular Separate of the 10th instant inquiring into the manner in which the Hongkong Postal Agency is managed, I have the honour to report as follows.\n\nThe duties of Postal Agent are filled by the Consular Assistant should there happen to be one. There is a Chinese Assistant and a staff of boatmen in the separate employ of the Post Office.\n\nThe Assistant's office in the Consulate is used for Post Office work, but the main portion of the duties of the agency are carried on at a branch office in Swatow.\n\nDuring the three years I have been in charge of this Consulate the duties of Postal Agent have, during the intervals in which no assistant has been attached to the staff, been performed by my sister Miss Christine Willis.\n\nThe salary of the agent is 75 dollars monthly: it has however for some years been the custom here to allow the Consular Constable from $20 to $30 of this sum for his services in supervising the outdoor work of the agency, arrival and despatch of mails, delivery of letters, etc.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. Willis,\n\nActing Consul",
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        "content_text": "REPORT ON THE HONGKONG POSTAL AGENCY AT AMOY.\n\n287\n\n4) The Agent of the Hongkong Post Office in Amoy is appointed by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, and for nearly forty years the appointment has been held by the British Consular Assistant, on the recommendation of the Consul.\n\nb) The present Agent is Mr. Mackinnon, the Consular Assistant here.\n\nc) The Office of the Agency is a room on the ground floor of the Consular Offices at Kulangsu. There is also a branch office on the Amoy side, in charge of two Chinese clerks.\n\nd) The work of the Agency is extremely heavy, and the wages paid by the Hongkong Post Office to the staff are very small. The Postal Agent, therefore, is forced to sacrifice practically half of his salary as wages to the Post Office staff. Mr. Mackinnon receives $75.00 (seventy-five dollars) salary as Postal Agent, out of which he pays $36.00 to the Post Office clerk, Mr. Simoès, only retaining $39.00 for himself. Mr. Simoès' salary as Postal Clerk is quite disproportionate to the onerous duties he performs, as he only receives $25.00 per month and he is required to attend to the receipt and despatch of mails every day, Sundays included, and at all hours. As he thus relieves the Agent of most of the heavier portion of the routine work, such as the sorting of mails, etc., the Agent supplements his salary out of his own.\n\ne)",
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        "content_text": "H.M. Consul General Hankow to Sir R. Satow.\n\nHankow, 18th January, 1906.\n\nIn accordance with your Circular of 10th January inquiring as to the status of the British Postal Agency at this port, I have the honour to report that the Post Office is part of and attached to the Consulate and communicates by a door with the Assistant's office.\n\nFor many years the agency was managed by the Consular constable, Mr. Theo Stephens, by whom it was handed over on his retiring in 1893 to his successor Mr. Halone but given first to Mr. Wilton and in December 1894 to Mr. E.F. Allan, Consular Assistant. When in 1896 Mr. Allan was removed, Mr. Carles gave the work to Miss A. Malone, daughter of the present Consular constable, who was ultimately appointed agent. Last June Miss Malone was attacked by hip disease and compelled to take to her bed.\n\nHer father, Mr. Halone, took over the actual management in July last and tried with his daughter's help to carry on the office, Mr. Savage and Mr. Fletcher giving what aid they could find time for.\n\nThe Post Office work includes constant correspondence for which Mr. Halone was not well fitted and at the end of October last, Miss Malone having no prospect of quick restoration to health, resigned the agency.\n\nI had then to address the enclosed letter to the Postmaster General at Hongkong; Mr. W.J.B. Fletcher was appointed postal agent from 1st November 1905 and still holds the position.\n\nPage 292\n\nInclo. in ir 3. Satow's No. of February 28th, 1906.\n\nRest 7 MAY 06,\n\nLAPR 21 1906.",
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        "content_text": "British Consulate General Hankow.\n\n1st November, 1905.\n\n293\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that the Postal Agent here, Miss A. Kalone, has been compelled through ill-health and the death of her mother to hand me her resignation.\n\nTo obtain another suitable person from outside would, so far as I know, be impossible and I have the honour to suggest that my consular assistant Mr. W.J.B. Fletcher be appointed postal agent. Mr. Fletcher's own work is already very considerable but on my persuasion he consents to being nominated if he be given the assistance of the consular constable Mr. Balone, who for some months has been helping his daughter in the routine work of the post-office, but whose age and educational deficiencies preclude my suggesting that he be given the appointment.\n\nMr. Fletcher would take the whole responsibility for the proper conduct of the agency, but represents that in view of the growing work the remuneration which must now be divided, I trust that might be raised to dollar 80 per mensem at least.\n\nI trust this request may be considered favourably.\n\nThe Postmaster-General, HONGKONG.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE.H. Fraser\n\nConsul-General,",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nof the Shui-wu Ch'u which need cause the slightest apprehension.\" I said that there were rumours of difficulties which had arisen in connection with the construction of a custom-house at Amoy, and alterations in the system of publishing customs statistics. His Excellency replied that he knew nothing of the former, but, as regarded the latter, the Board had instructed the Inspector-General to submit statistical and similar reports to them prior to their publication. It was only reasonable that the Board should wish to see what they contained before they were given to the public.\n\nMr. Tang then gave me at considerable length his views on the changes which he wished to introduce in regard to financial reports. Hitherto these had been rendered by the Customs Taotais quarterly; now monthly ones would be required. Some of the Taotais were seven quarters in arrears with their reports, which caused much confusion; for though the Board of Revenue knew the sum total which had to be eventually accounted for, they were in ignorance as to the exact amounts in the hands of various officials. He hoped that by insisting on this new scheme the Board would be in possession of some 15,000,000 taels (some £2,500,000) in a few months, which would otherwise have been lying idle as far as the Government were concerned. Then the Inspector-General would have to furnish a statement respecting the annual expenditure on the Customs Service. He had hitherto received a lump sum every year, for which he rendered no accounts. On my expressing my surprise at this system, Mr. Tang assured me that what he said was true, and added that he had not the remotest idea of the amount of Sir R. Hart's salary. The Customs statistics, he went on to say, were not full enough. For instance, it would be advantageous to have returns showing the country of origin of goods imported, the nationality of the persons handling them, and the flag of the ship they were carried in.\n\nHis Excellency finally begged me to believe his word that no changes beyond those on the lines which he had indicated, and which were for the obvious improvement of the Customs Service, were contemplated. As my visit had been somewhat protracted, I then took leave of his Excellency, as there was evidently little to be gained by further discussion at the time of the question on which I had come to see him.\n\nIn the course of the same day I received your telegram No. 140 of the 2nd August, and as Mr. Campbell was to see Mr. Tang in the evening on other business, I asked him to revert to my conversation of the morning, and to endeavour to obtain some more satisfactory statement.\n\nAfter traversing much the same ground as I had, Mr. Campbell ultimately prevailed on his Excellency to promise that he would verbally instruct Sir R. Hart to issue the Circular in the sense I had requested. He declined to write to Sir Robert on the subject, though pressed to do so. I had the honour to report the above in my telegram No. 149 of the 5th instant.\n\nI requested His Majesty's Consular Representatives at Shanghai and Amoy to ascertain confidentially if any instructions had been received by the Commissioners of Customs at those ports in regard to the two matters which I had mentioned to Mr. Tang. The reply from Sir P. Warren bore out what his Excellency had told me respecting the publication of statistics, while Mr. O'Brien-Butler's report failed to show that there had been any departure from established precedents.\n\nMr. Gardner, acting agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank here, gave me confidentially copy of a letter written to him by Sir Robert Hart, which I have the honour to inclose. It will be seen that the Inspector-General is not sanguine as to the future. He briefly reviews the various aspects of the present situation, and puts the question whether the Inspectorate is to become the trustee of the bondholders, and the protected representative of the will of the Treaty Powers, or to remain a purely Chinese office.\n\nLooking at the matter from his own standpoint, and taking into account the welfare of his service, he appears to come to the conclusion that the less the Legations interfere the more likely is the service to enjoy a peaceful though subordinate existence under the Shui-wu Ch'u. Mr. Gardner also left with me copy of an extract from a letter from Sir R. Hart to Sir R. Bredon, inclosed herewith, summing up in a few words the views of the former on the attitude which the Inspectorate should adopt under existing circumstances.\n\nAs I had the honour of stating in my telegram No. 147, I am in communication with Sir R. Hart, whose opinion I asked respecting the new instructions and the general position of affairs. I beg to inclose copy of his reply, in which he sets forth the various arguments which may be urged for or against the right of the Chinese Government to place the Customs under the new Revenue Council, which, as he himself admits, has not yet taken any steps which can be considered contrary to the engagement contained in the Loan Agreements.\n\n3\n\nI also informed Sir R. Hart of the statement made to me by Mr. Tang that he was at perfect liberty to issue a Circular containing the verbal assurances given him by the Administrators-General, if he considered such a course advisable. I inclose copy of a letter I have just received, in which Sir Robert explains why he has deferred taking any action so far, and indicates that he will find an opportunity to issue the Circular and to put its issue on record in despatches to the Shui-wu Ch'u and the Wai-wu Pu on his return to Peking. He also gives his views on the possible position of the Inspectorate-General in the future.\n\nIn acknowledging the receipt of these letters, I shall acquaint Sir Robert of the promise given by Mr. Tang to Mr. Campbell in regard to the issue of the Circular.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Instructions to the Inspectorate-General of Customs, Sir Robert Hart.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWITH reference to the Imperial Decree commanding us to administer revenue affairs, we have already communicated to you the date on which these duties would be entered upon,\n\nHitherto all Customs affairs have been under the control of the Wai-wu Pu and Hu Pu (Board of Revenue). In obedience to the Imperial Decree, we have established the Shui-wu Ch'u (Revenue Council) for the special management of these affairs, and it will enter upon the administration thereof on the 22nd July. Thereafter all Customs affairs which in any way concern revenue business—over and above such as involve international relations, which shall continue to be transacted by the Wai-wu Pu, and the appropriation of revenue, which shall follow the directions of the Board of Revenue—shall be reported directly to this Council, to be considered and dealt with by it.\n\nWe have therefore to instruct the Inspector-General of Customs to act accordingly.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Mr. H. G. Gardner.\n\nDear Mr. Gardner,\n\nAS being the bankers who issued the guaranteed loans, your people are, of course,\n\nPeitaiho, July 29, 1906.\n\ninterested in whatever touches the Inspectorate of Customs, especially as your Agreement contains a clause, approved of by Imperial Edict, stipulating that during the currency of the loans the constitution of the Customs shall not be changed; it is therefore natural for you to discuss the substitution of the new office of Shui-wu Ch'u for the old one, the Wai-wu Pu, to control Customs business and staff.\n\nIt is a many-sided question, and different people occupying different standpoints will take different views and arrive at different conclusions. Thus the banks will ask: \"Does the change damage loan security?\" The trading public will ask: \"Does it change the transaction of Customs business?\" Legations will ask how it affects their political interests; and the Inspectorate will be curious as to its effect on the standing, permanency, and efficiency of the service; and on all these points different people will differ in opinion.\n\nAs for loan security, an Edict only (P) pledges the Empire. As for current work, Chinese procedure and European differ. As for political interests, the Inspectorate has never been the agent, much less a tool, of any Legation; but its disappearance would be felt by all; it has been a convenience, and perhaps it has sometimes been felt to be an obstacle, although whatever it has done has been in general interests, and \"the most-favoured-nation\" clause has made favouritism and differential treatment impossible. As to the effect of the recent Edict on the Inspectorate, it will, of course, affect it in every way, lowering standing, limiting existence, and perhaps impairing efficiency by delaying work. But the real question we of the Inspectorate have to face is this: \"Are we to...\n\n[2146 aa-2\n\n21\n\nB 2\n\n752",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[September 29.]\n\nSECTION C\n\n32765]\n\nNo. 189.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n3943/\n\nIRECR\n\nTokió, September 5, 1906.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received September 29.) £26 OCT 06\n\nI AM in receipt of a note from the Japanese Government informing me that, with the object of giving every possible facility to foreigners who have left immovable property behind in districts within the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Kwantung, it has been decided that applications for the establishment of rights in connection with such property may be made to the Japanese Foreign Office through the medium of the official Representative in Japan of the applicant's country, without necessitating a visit by the owner or his agent.\n\nAll applications are to be accompanied by documentary proof, giving a list of the property, its nature, quantity and value, and the date. It is stated that the application should be in Japanese, but, when unavoidably necessary, it may be made out in English or French.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peking, with a suggestion that it may be advisable to inform certain of His Majesty's Consular officers in China of the above.\n\nI am also forwarding a copy to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\n[2146 ƒ--21]\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.",
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        "content_text": "any step towards the establishment of the proposed municipality. I have the honour to inclose copies of my notes to and translation of the note from the Wai-wu Pu.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nTaolai Yuan to Senhor Valdes.\n\nMarch 26, 1900. I HAVE the honour to inform you that it has been arranged to permit foreigners to lease land belonging to private owners in that part of the Paoshan district lying outside but adjoining the International Settlement, and also outside the Commercial Settlement at Woosung. With some modifications, a similar procedure will be adopted to that followed in the case of land held by Chinese subjects under stamped deeds. I have reported the matter to the Superintendent of Southern Trade, and have asked him to apply to the Tsung-li Yamên for sanction. I have also directed the Paoshan Magistrate to make a thorough survey of the locality with a view to ascertaining where foreign merchants can properly be permitted to lease land, and where for any reason it would be undesirable to allow them to do so; to fix boundary marks, draw up a plan with a written description attached, and report to me.\n\nI have now the honour to state that if any foreign merchant wishes to lease land belonging to a private owner in Paoshan district within the boundaries of the area where such leasing is permitted, by Regulation the landowner must first draw up a deed of lease and deliver it to the \"Tipao\" to be \"chopped.\" It should then be transmitted to this office by the proper Consul, whence it will be sent to the district Magistrate, who shall see that the boundary-marks correspond, and that there has been no misappropriation of land, fraudulent sale, or other malpractices. Not till then may money be handed over; and before a sealed deed of lease will be issued by the Magistrate the foreign merchant or his agent must first go to the Magistrate's office and pay the fees required by Chinese law as well as the yearly rent. As regards this class of sealed deeds, I intend to direct the Magistrate to have a sealed register printed in which will be entered the amount of rent payable annually as well as any transfers of the property that may afterwards take place. No corresponding register will be kept in any foreign language, nor will it be necessary for the Consul to send any officer to make a joint survey with the Magistrate, This will be done to mark the fact that the land is leased on different terms to those in force at an open port.\n\nI have submitted a copy of the forms of lease to the Superintendent of Southern Trade, and have ordered the Paoshan Magistrate to define the boundaries, without delay, and report them to me, when I shall inform you thereof. I have now the honour to send you a copy of a form of lease, and request you to transmit it to the Consular Body. I have also the honour to request a reply.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nDeed of Lease issued by the Magistrate of Paoshan District, in the Department of T'ai Ts'ang, in the Empire of China.\n\nWHEREAS I have received the following instructions from the Intendant of the Su Sung T'ai Circuit :-\n\n\"I am in receipt of the following despatch from the Consul-General at Shanghae\n\n\"I have received a petition from the\n\nto lease in perpetuity a piece of land situated in the\n\nof Paoshan district and belonging to\n\nfen\n\nli\n\neast\n\nsubject, applying for permission\n\ndivision of the The extent of the land is hao, and the four boundaries are: on the north\n\nward\n\nmou\n\nsouth\n\nand west\n\nThe price is\n\nand\n\nthe annual land-tax, payable to the Chinese Government, is 2,000 cash a mow, paid in advance.'\n\n\"I beg to send you this despatch for you to take action.\"\n\nto hand the land over to the said\n\nI have directed the landowner foreign merchant. Should the said merchant, his heirs or assigns, hereafter transfer the property without reporting the matter to their Consul, obtaining the Taotui's sanction and having the transaction recorded in the Register, or should he neglect to pay the annual land-tax of 2,000 cash a mow, payable in advance to the Chinese Government, in disobedience to these Regulations, and after having been severely warned on the subject, this deed will become null and void and the land will be confiscated to the Government.\n\nA necessary deed of lease.\n\n; sealed deed No.\n\nDate\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nProclamation by Magistrate of Paoshan District, October 7, 1902.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWHEREAS I received the following note on the 3rd of this month from Mr. Goodnow, the American Consul-General :-\n\n\"With reference to the road which foreign merchants propose to construct in the Paoshan district from the rifle range to the Szechuan road, a full survey was made by the former Magistrate, an officer of this Consulate, and the Municipal Council's Surveyor, who drew up a plan properly filled in. In addition to the land surrendered by foreign merchants for the purpose of making a road, there remain some 20 mow of land held by twelve Chinese owners, certain portions of which should be surrendered in accordance with the regulations for the purpose of building the road. The road, when completed, will be a great advantage to the residents not merely from the point of view of facility of communications, but also by enhancing the value of land; thus two benefits will be secured at the same time.\n\n\"As, however, it is thought that the ignorant country people may not understand this principle, it has been decided to give payment for land so taken on the following scale :-\n\n\"From North K'ung Chiang, commencing with K'ung Sheng's land as far as the land belonging to Shen Jung Jung, the price of 400 taels a mow will be paid. From Yao Ch'un Fang's property to the \"Ssu Pen Tang\" belonging to Wang the price will be 300 taels a mow; and from Lu Shun Lin's land to Fei Pao Ho's, 200 taels a mow. The prices have been arranged in these three scales according to the loss that will be suffered by the various owners, and they have been arranged on a much more liberal scale than in the case of land surrendered for roads inside the Settlement or for railways. This has been done solely as an act of generosity to the native holders of land.\n\n\"I have therefore the honour to request you to issue a Proclamation notifying the land-owners that they should come to this office with the Head Tipao to receive money due to them, and forbidding them to make any disturbance with a view to obtaining a higher price for their land, as this would interfere with the work of construction.\"\n\nWherefore I have to notify all the land-owners concerned that the object of the foreign merchants in making the road is to improve the means of communication, and further, that the land on each side of the road will rise greatly in value, to the benefit of the land-owners. The price which the foreign merchants have arranged to give for the land required for the road is also exceptionally liberal when compared with that fixed by the Settlement Regulations.\n\nI have therefore to instruct you to go with the Head Tipao, Yao Chun, to the American Consulate to receive the full sums due to you. You must not seek pretexts to cause an obstruction with a view to getting a higher price, and if you venture to disobey these instructions, on complaint being made by the foreign merchants, you will be summoned before me for trial. Let all tremble and obey.\n\n(List of land-owners and amount of land required from each attached.)\n\n[2188 ƒ-7]",
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        "content_text": "145 \n\nWe believe it to be correct to state that the privilege in question was granted to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company through a report to the Tsung-li Yamên made by the Chibli Viceroy (Li Hung-chang—interested in China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, of course) in the 10th month of the 11th year of Tung Chi = 1872.\n\nOver 230,000 piculs brick tea were imported into Tien-tsin during 1904, and classed in the Customs Returns under native imports as brick tea for Russia. The proportion of this quantity imported and transferred by Russians under their special privilege for Kiachta is very small, and is probably considerably less than the odd 30,000 piculs. The large proportion is imported by the steamers of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, and forwarded by Chinese under a bond issued by the Customs which has to be returned by the Superintendent of Trade at Kalgan, certified that the produce has duly arrived. Nominally, it may be supposed that this tea ex China Merchants' steamers is forwarded to Kiachta, but we believe that the first actual market is in Kalgan, and there is no doubt that the tea is actually consumed in Mongolia. Tea forwarded by Russians, which may really reach Kiachta, certainly finds its way back into Mongolia. Tea forwarded by Russians is covered by precisely similar documents to those accompanying Chinese shipments.\n\nA shipment of 1,410 piculs tea ex a steamer of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company imported and forwarded through the Customs by the hong Hsiang Far Yuan, is charged the following taxes:—\n| Tax | Amount (Haikwan Taels) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Coast trade duty | Nil |\n| Wharfage dues | 38.07 |\n| Native customs duty, at 12 cands per picul | 169.20 |\n| A li-kin charge of 4 cands per picul | 56.40 |\n| Total | 263.67 |\n\nThe shipment ex the China Navigation Company's steamer \"Nanchang\" applied on the 28th October last, had to bear the following taxes:----\n| Tax | Amount (Haikwan Taels) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Coast trade duty, at 30 cands per picul | 423.00 |\n| Wharfage dues | 38.07 |\n| Native customs duty, at 30 cands per picul | 423.00 |\n| A li-kin charge, at 15 cands per picul | 211.50 |\n| Total | 1,095.57 |\n\nconstituting a preferential duty against the steam-ship \"Nanchang\" of 831.90 Haikwan taels, or, say, 59 cands, per picul, in favour of Chinese steamers as against British steamers, and by this means the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company have secured the monopoly of carriage of Shansi brick tea from Hankow to Shanghae by river steamer and thence to Tien-tsin by coast steamer.\n\nThe tea in question is known at Hankow as Shansi brick tea, because the buyers are Shansi people who resell to the Mongolians.\n\nThe following Articles in Treaties appear to be framed to assist in circumstances of this nature:\n\n**Article XIV of the French Treaty of Tien-tsin, 1860, viz.:----**\n\"No privileged commercial Society henceforward be established in China, and the same should apply to any organized coalition having for its end the exercise of a monopoly of trade. In case of the contravention of the present Article, the Chinese authorities, on the representation of the Consul or Consular Agent, shall advise as to the means of dissolving such Associations--of which they are also bound to prevent the existence by the preceding prohibitions--so as to remove all that may stand in the way of free competition.\"\n\n**Article XXIV, British Treaty of Tien-tsin, 1858, viz.:----**\n\"It is agreed that British subjects shall pay on all merchandize imported or exported by them the duties prescribed by the Tariff; but in no case shall they be called upon to pay other or higher duties than are required of the subjects of any other foreign nation.\"\n\nWe shall be much obliged if His Majesty's Minister will give directions that some course be taken, either through these Articles or by such means as he thinks fit, whereby the desired end may be attained. The matter is an important one, for not only is a considerable trade at present affected and closed to British steamers, but it appears that if the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company can sustain their right to receive preferential treatment in duties and taxation on brick tea, the way is open to them to establish further monopolies of other items of coasting trade.\n\nIn view of this aspect of the case, we shall esteem it a favour if an expression of opinion can be given us at an early date, in order that we may proceed cautiously in any further action it may be desired to take.\n\nWe trust that we have not written too lengthily, and that the importance of the subject may be sufficient justification.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per pro. Butterfield and Swire),\n(Signed)\nG. J. EDKINS,\nAgents, China Navigation Company (Limited).\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir E. Satow to Consul-General Hopkins.**\n\n(No. 8.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 19, 1906.\n\nI HAVE received your despatch No. 15 of the 14th instant, forwarding a letter addressed to you by the representative of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire at Tien-tsin, in which he states that they are anxious to bring within their business activities the transport by their steamers of brick tea to Tien-tsin and its conveyance thence, under overland pass, on the same terms as brick tea shipped by vessels of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company.\n\nAn examination of the Tien-tsin Customs Returns for 1904, to which Mr. Edkins refers, would appear to show that all the tea re-exported in that year was sent overland to Siberia, Russia, &c., by way of Kalgan and Kiachta, and Article 10 of the Regulations of the 24th February, 1881, governing the overland trade between Russia and China, distinctly states that Chinese produce exported from Tien-tsin overland to Russia must be carried by way of Kalgan, and that sale thereof en chemin will subject the merchant concerned to the penalties laid down in Article 8 of the same Regulations, while Article 16 declares that Russian merchants are prohibited from conveying merchandize belonging to Chinese merchants and passing it as their property.\n\nThe question of duties is also fully dealt with in Article 10. Chinese produce brought to Tien-tsin for export overland to Russia pays full export duty at the original port of export and coast trade duty at Tien-tsin, but the latter is refunded if the produce is exported to Russian territory within a year after its payment, so that native produce carried overland to Russia is liable to payment of one full export duty only.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire, however, allege that they believe that part of the brick tea brought to Tien-tsin is carried to Kalgan for sale there, and not exported to Russia, and they wish to take part in this transport trade; but they are only the carriers, and not the owners, and I know not of any Treaty right or privilege entitling British or other foreign subjects to overland passes to convey native produce, the property of Chinese, from a port overland to a place in the interior of China. Mr. Hosie will be shortly in Tien-tsin, and will take the opportunity of looking into the question in all its bearings.\n\nYou should communicate a copy of this despatch to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\n(No. 23.) Sir,\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Consul-General Hopkins to Sir E. Satow.**\n\nTien-tsin, March 1, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 8, of the 19th ultimo, on the subject of the carriage transport inland of brick tea, copy of which I communicated to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 49.\n\n## Hongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n**C.0 13570**\nGovernment House\nHongkong,\n16th March, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to state that in November last, in consequence of a report by the Post-master-General regarding the unsatisfactory nature of the Amoy Postal Agency Returns, the Assistant Local Auditor was sent to that Port to investigate the matter.\n\n2. He found from a detailed examination of the accounts, which were in a state of great confusion, that a sum of $1,451.14 was missing, regarding which Mr. J. A. R. Mackinnon, at that time a member of His Majesty's Consular Service and Postal Agent at Amoy, could give no explanation. Mr. Mackinnon was accordingly called upon to refund this sum, and after pressure had been brought to bear upon him through F.P. E'Brien Butler, His Majesty's Consul, the money was recovered.\n\n3. It subsequently transpired that owing \n\n**RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,  \n&c.**  \n800- \n8cc...",
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        "content_text": "581 \n\nOwing to a misunderstanding, a sum of $173.84, which had been paid in respect of certain Money Orders by the Postal Agent who succeeded Mr. Mackinnon, had been wrongly credited to the latter Officer, who was thereupon called upon to make the money good on discovery of the mistake.\n\n4. Mr. Mackinnon has failed to reply to letters from Mr. O'Brien Butler asking him to do this, and that officer has now advised this Government that, as Mr. Mackinnon, who is still residing at Amoy, left the Consular Service on the 31st December last, the only way in which the money can be recovered, apart from a Civil Action in the Amoy Consular Court, which would probably render the debtor a bankrupt, is by deduction from such pension, if any, as the Foreign Office may see fit to grant to him.\n\n5. I have accordingly to request that the Foreign Office may be approached in the matter with a view to the recovery of the above-mentioned sum of $173.84.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nNathaniel \n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Page 374\n\nShanghai, 11th July, 1907.\n\nE. B. Skottowe, Esq.,\n\nChairman, China Association, Present.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nOpium Monopoly.\n\nWe beg to enclose herein translation of three articles which appeared in Chinese newspapers on different dates, from which you will observe that the Viceroy of Nanking is making rapid preparations to take, on behalf of the Chinese Government, the monopoly of Opium. This, if allowed to come into force, would destroy competition and thereby cripple the trade and is in direct contravention of article 14 of the Treaty of Tientsin of 1858 (ratified 1860) between France and China which is as follows:-\n\n\"No privileged commercial society shall henceforth be established in China, and the same shall apply to any organised coalition having for its end the exercise of a monopoly of trade. In case of the contravention of the present article the Chinese Authorities, on the representation of the Consul or Consular Agent, shall advise as to the means of dissolving such associations, of which they are also bound to prevent the existence by the preceding prohibitions, so as to remove all that may stand in the way of free competition.\"\n\nThis Treaty also affords protection to us under the favoured nation clause.\n\nWe may also quote article V of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842 which is as follows:-\n\n\"The Government of China having compelled the British trading at Canton to deal exclusively with certain Chinese merchants, called Hong merchants (or Co-Hong), who had been licensed by the Chinese Government for this purpose,",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nI feel that the German here is keen to display anti-Japanese feelings and to make capital vis-à-vis the Chinese thereof. In fact, he says he means to claim any and every advantage which the Japanese are enjoying, whether under plea of military occupation or otherwise. I told him I could not go as far as that; I would claim what seemed a proper privilege, such as exemption from li-kin at Mukden. The other day he informed me he had heard from Peking that the Japanese were claiming a preferential position here as one of the conditions of giving up the port, also advantages in Mongolia, and suggested to me the advisability of the Consular Body addressing the Diplomatic Corps, begging their protest or influence against such conditions. This seemed a ruse to back up China and gain kudos for Germany, and I told him I thought it was hardly seemly for the Consular Body to attempt to mould the policy of their Chiefs in this way.\n\nHe commenced his career here in June 1906 by questioning the right of the Japanese to be here at all. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co. had bought land in the town from a Chinese. Another Chinese claimed it, and a lawsuit between them was heard by the Japanese Court, who gave it against Arnhold, Karberg, and Co.'s friend. Mezger refused to recognize the Japanese Court as having any jurisdiction in the matter, and asked how they obtained their right to try cases between Chinese in Yingkow.\n\nThe Chinese in Mukden have been delighted to see him get rid of some of the Japanese Consular police out of the temple in Mukden he had rented.\n\nWe are good friends, but I feel he requires a cautious attitude. The Chinese will naturally play the off-set game between the nations for all it is worth and are cultivating Mezger assiduously.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**(Signed)**\nH. E. FULFORD.\n\nP.S.-I am told that in Tiehling--one of the new ports--Japanese tobacco has been made to pay li-kin. The Japanese importers refused, but the Chinese dealers who received it were forced to pay. This shows that the Chinese are going to make a bold fight for their principle, \"towns not open, only Settlements.\" But I think we may trust the Japanese to insist on the towns being open.\n\nH. E. F.\n\n## 3\n\n...far as possible, especially at the outset, to keep a foreign agent on the spot to watch over their interests.\n\nI entirely approve also of the attitude of caution which you propose to adopt in your relations with your German colleague, and I consider that we should endeavour, as far as possible, to enlist Japanese co-operation in establishing our commercial position on the basis of the Treaties without entering into any discussion of political questions, which, should they arise, can be dealt with in Tokio or elsewhere as may seem best to His Majesty's Government.\n\nI am, &c.\n**(Signed)**\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**(No. 27.)**\nSir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Consul-General Fulford.\n\nPeking, November 6, 1906.\n\nON the occasion of your recent visit to Peking you conferred with me regarding the necessity of maintaining that the city of Mukden should be open to foreign trade and residence, and that foreign goods should, as at other Treaty ports, enjoy exemption from li-kin within the port area.\n\nYou suggested that, as the place had been opened under the American and Japanese Treaties, the Representatives of those Powers might be invited to instruct their Consuls at Mukden to co-operate with you in fighting the question with the Chinese authorities, who desire to limit the rights of foreigners to the \"Settlement area.\"\n\nI have recently consulted my American, Japanese, and German colleagues on the subject, and learn from Mr. Rockhill that the American Government is determined to have Mukden opened on the same footing as any other Treaty port. Mr. Straight, the American Consul-General, has had instructions in this sense, and these instructions will be repeated, so that you may rely on his co-operation.\n\nMr. Hayashi stated that he held the opening of Mukden to mean that the whole city was to be open to foreign residence and trade on precisely the same terms as prescribed by earlier Treaties, and that he would resist any attempt to enforce payment of li-kin. He promised to send telegraphic instructions to the Japanese Consul-General to act with you in this matter.\n\nBaron von der Goltz, the German Representative, likewise informed me that he would be prepared to co-operate with us in securing the same rights at Mukden as we enjoy at other Treaty ports.\n\nWith reference to the view expressed in your private letter of the 31st October, I quite agree that discussion of the principle of this question of Treaty port areas is not effective in the absence of concrete cases, and British firms should be encouraged as... \n\nPage 70",
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        "content_text": "# C. O. \n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(40859)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n5518  \n[December \n\nSECTION 3. REC 13 FEB 07]\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 5.)\n\n**(No. 236.) (Telegraphic.)**  \nPeking, December 5, 1906.\n\n## MANCHURIA\n\nPlease see your telegram No. 208 of the 1st instant. I have received a telegram from the Acting British Consul at Newchwang stating that he is informed by the local agent of the British-American Tobacco Company that his firm have no agent residing at Antung, nor has the port been visited by any agent in Manchuria, and that they have no knowledge as to the question of duties levied there. Mr. Tebbitt suggests that a Mr. Walsh, who was going to Antung from Chefoo, is probably the agent in question.\n\nThe Company's agents in Manchuria should, I submit, be instructed by their principals to address their complaints to the British Consular officers at Mukden or Newchwang direct.\n\n[2203 e-3]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[4407]\n### No. 1.\n\n7526 [February 9.]\n\nSECTION 128 FEB 07,\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-Received February 9, 1907.)**\n\n(No. 553.) Sir,\n\nAS I had the honour to inform you in my telegram No. 241, of the 9th instant, I duly instructed Mr. Fulford, His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, on receipt of your telegram No. 211 of the 6th December, to send a Consular officer to Antung to inquire into the British-American Tobacco Company's complaint, to ascertain what duties are being levied there, and whether there is any discrimination. I requested him at the same time to instruct the officer selected for this duty to take the opportunity of reporting generally on the state of affairs at Antung, viz., the Japanese Military Settlement area, the choice of site for the Customs, the railway connection across the Yalu, the prospects of trade, &c.\n\nI have now received a despatch from Mr. Fulford, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, reporting that he has directed Mr. Coales, Second Assistant at Newchwang to proceed to Antung, and that on the latter's arrival at Mukden he will furnish him with further verbal instructions. Mr. Fulford also reports a conversation which he has had with the Tartar General on the subject of the Tobacco Company's grievance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Consul-General Fulford to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nMukden, December 15, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with the instructions conveyed in your despatch No. 1 of the 8th instant, I have directed Mr. Coales, who is at Newchwang, to proceed to Antung as soon as particulars are received from the Chefoo Agent of the British-American Tobacco Company respecting his complaint as to differential duties at Antung. Mr. Coales will have to come to Mukden to take the railway hence to Antung, a two days' journey, and I will then have an opportunity of giving him further verbal directions before he starts.\n\nWhen the Tartar General was calling upon me on the 10th instant, I mentioned the grievance of the Tobacco Company. He replied that the Japanese objected to pay any tax at Antung, except the Customs Tariff duty, and that they urged that they could not pay this, because the Maritime Customs had not been opened there. Under these circumstances, the Tartar General said, the amounts they should pay were being \"recorded\" against them.\n\nPending further inquiries and particulars of the Company's complaint, I did not pursue the subject further at the time, beyond remarking that it did not appear equitable that the Japanese should escape payment of duties whilst other foreign merchants' goods had no such privilege. The Tartar General seemed to think that the Japanese goods would not eventually avoid payment.\n\nA native paper here contains accounts of anti-taxation disturbances amongst the Chinese near Antung, and Mr. Coales may be able to ascertain some particulars of the general state of affairs there.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nH. E. FULFORD.\n\n305  \n[2867 i-1]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\nC.O.  \nFebruary 9  \n8373  \nSECTION 4  \nREG 16 MAR 07\n\n(No. 553.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 9, 1907.)\n\nPeking, December 27, 1906.\n\nAS I had the honour to inform you in my telegram No. 241, of the 9th instant, I duly instructed Mr. Fulford, His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, on receipt of your telegram No. 211 of the 6th December, to send a Consular officer to Antung to inquire into the British-American Tobacco Company's complaint, to ascertain what duties are being levied there, and whether there is any discrimination. I requested him at the same time to instruct the officer selected for this duty to take the opportunity of reporting generally on the state of affairs at Antung, viz, the Japanese Military Settlement area, the choice of site for the Customs, the railway connection across the Yalu, the prospects of trade, &c.\n\nI have now received a despatch from Mr. Fulford, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, reporting that he has directed Mr. Coales, Second Assistant at Newchwang to proceed to Antung, and that on the latter's arrival at Mukden he will furnish him with further verbal instructions. Mr. Fulford also reports a conversation which he has had with the Tartar General on the subject of the Tobacco Company's grievance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1\n\n(No. 4.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Fulford to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, December 15, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with the instructions conveyed in your despatch No. 1 of the 8th instant, I have directed Mr. Coales, who is at Newchwang, to proceed to Antung as soon as particulars are received from the Chefoo Agent of the British-American Tobacco Company respecting his complaint as to differential duties at Antung. Mr. Coales will have to come to Mukden to take the railway hence to Antung, a two days' journey, and I will then have an opportunity of giving him further verbal directions before he starts.\n\nWhen the Tartar General was calling upon me on the 10th instant, I mentioned the grievance of the Tobacco Company. He replied that the Japanese objected to pay any tax at Antung, except the Customs Tariff duty, and that they urged that they could not pay this, because the Maritime Customs had not been opened there. Under these circumstances, the Tartar General said, the amounts they should pay were being \"recorded\" against them.\n\nPending further inquiries and particulars of the Company's complaint, I did not pursue the subject further at the time, beyond remarking that it did not appear equitable that the Japanese should escape payment of duties whilst other foreign merchants' goods had no such privilege. The Tartar General seemed to think that the Japanese goods would not eventually avoid payment.\n\nA native paper here contains accounts of anti-taxation disturbances amongst the Chinese near Antung, and Mr. Coales may be able to ascertain some particulars of the general state of affairs there.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. E. FULFORD.\n\nPage 374",
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        "content_text": "## \ndest chahoffin i sl swalers \n\nf \n\n454 \n\n2.\n\nmines and consequently, the Compagnie du Boléo decided to repatriate those of the coolies who were sick.\n\nThese coolies, 112 in number, were shipped from Santa Rosalia by the Ss. \"Ellsworth\" and, five days later, 109 of them (3 having died on this voyage) were transshipped at Salina Cruz into the British Steamship \"Alabama\". The surgeon of the \"Alabama\" states in his report that all of the 109 received on board were suffering from beri-beri; 45 died on the voyage and 3 died after arrival at Pagode Anchorage of this disease. There being no proper quarantine facilities at Pagoda, special arrangements were made for the landing and accommodation of the sick coolies. A report on this subject, from the Consular Agent at Pagoda, will be forwarded to you shortly.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\n\n70\n**Consul**",
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        "content_text": "## 567\n\n2\n\nLondon, as well as from Messrs. Dodwell and Co., and the Liverpool Ship-owners' Association. I have the honour to draw your attention to the Resolutions, copies of which I append, and which were forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe demand for Chinese labour for Panamá, which it is expected will spring up in the near future, and also the constant demand which exists at present in the Mexican mines, makes Shipping Companies anxious to see the present prohibition removed, as otherwise British vessels will lose a valuable trade which will fall into the hands of their German or Norwegian rivals, probably under less favourable conditions than ours.\n\nI may mention that Messrs. Dodwell and Co. made a second unsuccessful attempt in Shanghae in September last to dispatch another British ship, the \"Bessie Dollar,\" to Mexico with coolies under contract. The attempt failed, as it had done at Foochow, permission to clear being refused by His Majesty's Consul-General. Sir H. de Sausmarez, who was appealed to for an opinion on the legal aspect of the case, was, I understand, strongly of the opinion that the law required amendment. I have heard that it was his intention to send home a report on the subject, but whether he has done so I am not informed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**HERBERT F. BRADY**\n\n3\n\nbeen brought to my notice, I have now the honour to give a short account of the circumstances which no doubt formed the basis of the rumour that reached the French Minister.\n\nOn the 10th May last, 515 coolies were shipped from Foochow by the German steamer \"Erna\" for Santa Rosalia, Lower California, Mexico, for work in the copper mines owned by the \"Compagnie du Boléo.\" These coolies were examined by Drs. Myers and Vizerie, of Pagoda Anchorage, and were passed as being perfectly healthy at the time of their departure. I am unable to ascertain at what precise time the epidemic of \"beri-beri\" broke out among the coolies. M. Vetch, a French citizen, by whom the coolies were shipped, states that the epidemic appears to have broken out one month after their arrival at Santa Rosalia. On the other hand, it was stated by the French Vice-Consul, M. Hardy, that some six or seven of the coolies had died on the voyage out, but he could not give the cause of the deaths. He also informed me that over 100 of the coolies had died at the mines, and consequently the \"Compagnie du Boléo\" decided to repatriate those of the coolies who were sick.\n\nThese coolies, 112 in number, were shipped from Santa Rosalia by the steam-ship \"Illaworth,\" and five days later 109 of them (three having died on this voyage) were transhipped at Salina Cruz into the British steam-ship \"Alabama.\" The surgeon of the \"Alabama\" states in his report that all of the 109 received on board were suffering from \"beri-beri\"; forty-five died on the voyage and three died after arrival at Pagoda Anchorage of this disease. There being no proper quarantine facilities at Pagoda, special arrangements were made for the landing and accommodation of the sick coolies. A report on this subject from the Consular Agent at Pagoda will be forwarded to you shortly.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**G. M. H. PLAYFAIR**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the Monthly Magazine of the Chamber for November 1906.\n\n### Report of a Meeting of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool\n\nThe question of the restrictions placed by \"The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,\" and the \"Hong Kong Ordinance, 1899,\" on the conveyance of Chinese emigrants (under contract) by British steamers to foreign countries came up for discussion before the Chamber.\n\nThe Chairman referred to the disabilities under which British ships laboured owing to the Acts mentioned, and said they were debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade, and it was most unfair that they should be at a disadvantage compared with those of other countries.\n\nA case in point was illustrated where a German vessel was favoured (the Foochow case).\n\nThe following Resolutions were passed and copies of them were ordered to be sent to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies:\n\n| Resolution # | Text |\n|-------------|------|\n| 1           | That the Committee of the East India Trades Section of this Chamber deplore the disabilities under which the shipping of the United Kingdom labours, owing to the provisions of \"The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,\" and the \"Chinese Emigration Ordinance (Hong Kong), 1889,\" whereby British vessels are in many cases debarred from engaging in legitimate and profitable trade. |\n| 2           | The recent instance of the steam-ship \"Powhattan,\" which was chartered in London to carry coolies from China to Mexico under contract approved by Chinese Provincial authorities, and with the consent of the Mexican authorities, and which Charter had subsequently to be cancelled, is an illustration of the hardship suffered by British owners at a time when suitable employment for shipping is difficult to obtain. |\n| 3           | The Committee therefore urges that the Law and Ordinance should at once be amended, as being unduly restrictive and entirely out of date, owing to the change of circumstances which has taken place since the Regulations objected to were authorized by the Home Government, and put into operation by the Legislature of Hong Kong. |\n\n(No. 36.) Sir,\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Consul Playfair to Sir J. Jordan**  \nFoochow, November 12, 1906.\n\nWith reference to your telegram No. 8 of the 3rd instant, inquiring as to the existence of popular agitation against the emigration of local coolies to Mexico, and to my telegram No. 12 of the same date, in reply, stating that nothing of the kind had",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 6\n\n(No. 130.) Sir,\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 4.)\n\nPeking, March 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a semi-official letter which I have received from His Majesty's Consul at Chefoo, in which he draws attention to the advisability of His Majesty's Government appointing a Consular Agent at Tsingtao.\n\nIn a further letter which I have received from Mr. Brady he informs me that he has learnt that the American Government have decided to station a Vice-Consul there in addition to the Consul already functioning, and that this Vice-Consul has been especially selected for his intimate knowledge of commercial matters.\n\nIn view of the growing importance of Tsingtao as an outlet for the large trade of Shantung, I am of opinion that British interests would undoubtedly be benefited by the appointment of a British Consular Agent there, and I venture to recommend the matter to your favourable consideration.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Consul Brady to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nDear Sir John Jordan,\n\nChefoo, March 7, 1907.\n\nTHE trade of Tsingtao (Kiao-chau) has developed so much within the last few years, and the interest of British firms in it has also increased to such an extent, that I think the present not an inopportune moment to draw your attention to the advisability of appointing a British Consular Agent there. The matter has several times been brought to my notice since my return here, and again recently by the old-established firm of Messrs. Cornabe, Eckford, and Co., of this port, who have large interests in Kiao-chau, where a branch of their firm has been established, which is looked after by one of the partners, Mr. Reginald H. Eckford.\n\nYou are doubtless aware of the growing importance of the trade of the German colony from the Consular and Customs Reports. One of the chief industries of this province, namely, the straw braid, the great market for which has hitherto been Chefoo, has now become shifted to Kiao-chau owing to the facilities of transport, &c., afforded by the German railway, which passes through the districts where the braid is manufactured; and silk and other articles of produce also show a similar tendency to leave Chefoo in favour of the larger market now found at the German port. This movement of trade, of which the foregoing are but instances, has created a demand for shipping facilities, of which British firms have not been slow to take advantage, and the principal steamer lines running on the coast now make Kiao-chau a regular place of call, in addition to which the number of vessels from foreign ports is also on the increase. The fact, too, that an increasing number of British residents and travellers in the East are resorting to Kiao-chau during the summer months also makes it, in my opinion, advisable that we should have a Consular Representative there. The absence of one has, I am informed, not infrequently been felt, and now that the Russian Government is about appointing a Consul, I venture to submit it would be a favourable opportunity for the British Government to take similar action.\n\nIt would not appear to me to be necessary to appoint a salaried officer; Mr. R. H. Eckford, who has been resident there for some time, and who is persona grata not only in commercial circles but also amongst the German officials, from the Governor downwards, by reason of his personal qualities and also no doubt of his being a fluent speaker of German, would, I have reason to know, accept the honorary post; and I...",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n2 \n\nI believe he would prove acceptable to the German authorities. He is a member of the local Chamber of Commerce and other institutions, and therefore fully acquainted with all that is going on in the colony. If Mr. Eckford were made British Consul or Consular Agent he would be in a position to give valuable information on questions of trade, and it might be of no small advantage, I conceive, to His Majesty's Government to have an Agent in Tsingtao whom they could trust to keep them informed on all matters in which we have an interest.\n\nHaving known him personally for some years, I can bear testimony to his integrity, and, further, that he is, in my opinion, eminently qualified for the post; and for these reasons I venture to take upon myself to recommend him for the appointment, should my suggestion to create such a post meet with your approval.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **HERBERT BRADY**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**C.O.** `19974`\n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA**\n**RECE REG 5 JUN 07**\n[May 8.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n[14944] \n(No. 47.) \nNo. 1. \n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan**\n\n**(Telegraphic)** P.\n\nForeign Office, May 8, 1907. \nLOAN to Viceroy of Wuchang. \nPlease repeat your telegram No. 72 to Tokio. \nConsul-General at Hankow should endeavour to ascertain whether the loan, or any part of it, is for railway construction, and if so for what lines.\n\nYour instructions to him are approved.\n\n[2494 A-1] \n203",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## SECTION 5\n\n### No. 1\n**(No. 127.)**\n**(Telegraphic.)**  \n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 1.)**  \nPeking, June 29, 1907.\n\nCHINESE Engineering and Mining Company's affairs. Under the protection of the Viceroy of Chihli, a Chinese Company has been formed to undertake mining operations within the area claimed by the above Company.\n\nActing under my instructions, His Majesty's Consul-General at Tien-tsin represented the British Company's contention to the Viceroy at an interview on the 26th instant. The Viceroy, however, held that the British Company's position was irregular, and that the Chinese Government had never recognized it, ignoring the transfer of the old Company's property by Chang. His Excellency was unwilling to listen to the views of the British Company.\n\nThe situation was described to me yesterday by Major Nathan. The name of the new Company is the Pei Yang Lanchow Company, and it is placing machinery which it has purchased on land over which the British Company claims, under paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Transfer of February 1901, exclusive mining rights, but for which the Company holds no title-deeds.\n\nI fully concur with the view expressed in the last paragraph of Sir E. Satow's letter to Sir F. Campbell of the 7th December, 1905, and I have explained to Major Nathan that his Company's rights are open to grave doubt, in the absence of any proof that the transfer was ratified by Imperial Decree.\n\nI propose, with Major Nathan's concurrence, to still try to induce the Viceroy to come to an amicable arrangement, as his Excellency might be driven to contest the validity of the transfer deed in the Consular Court were a protest lodged with the Chinese Government against infringement of the exclusive rights claimed under that document by the British Company.\n\nBut the position of the Company is, in my opinion, weak, and wide be allowed their agent, who has, I understand, offered, among other things, a money payment of 3,000,000 dollars, in his endeavours, in which he has been engaged for some time past, to regularize the position of the Company.\n\nThe whole position of the Company appears to rest upon the validity of the transfer deed, and I should be glad to learn your views on this subject.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Shanghae Mercury\" of July 4, 1907.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Shanghae Mercury.\"\n\n11, Peking Road, Shanghae, July 4, 1907.\n\nYOU published an article last night on the subject of the riot at Shanghae in December 1905. This article contains statements which are not only incorrect, but which are exactly contrary to the truth. You assert that the Chinese authorities have refused to consent to an inquiry, whereas it is the Chinese authorities who have from the very first offered to have an inquiry, an offer which was refused by the foreign authorities, who have endeavoured to compel China to pay for damages caused by the riot, without any investigation as to the causes of the riot. This pressure was an act of gross injustice, and has naturally been strongly resisted by the Chinese authorities.\n\nAlmost immediately after the riot occurred, the Viceroy of Nanking, his Excellency Chou Fu, came personally to Shanghae. He wrote to the Senior Consul (who was then the Russian Consul-General) and officially proposed that a joint inquiry should be held, and he named two deputies to act on his side, and invited the Consular Body to name two of their number to act on the foreign side, so that the matter might be fully and promptly investigated. That offer was not accepted, as it ought to have been, and so no inquiry has ever been held.\n\nYou also beg the whole question by making very strong assertions from one point of view. There is another point of view altogether which must be fully investigated and considered before any just decision can be arrived at.\n\nIf damages are claimed, the whole matter must be fully and fairly investigated, and the Chinese authorities are ready and willing, as they have been from the very first, to have the matter so investigated. The issues that will have to be settled may produce very serious results.\n\nThe bitterness that was raised during the two preceding years will continue to produce evil results for a considerable time to come, but it has undoubtedly lessened, and will die out, if not revived by an inquiry which will certainly intensify and aggravate ill-feeling. It must be remembered that many Chinese were killed and wounded during the riot, and that claims for compensation will be made, whereas no foreigners were killed, and only a very few injured. There is no desire on the Chinese side to shirk an inquiry, but only to secure that it is full and fair, and held before persons belonging to uninterested nationalities.\n\nThe British Minister (Sir Ernest Satow, I believe) unfortunately accepted the position of agent (as a sort of debt collector) for other nationalities having claims, and this adds greatly to the difficulties of the position.\n\nI am, &c.\n(Signed) W. V. DRUMMOND.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of July 8, 1907.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"North China Daily News.\"\n\nJuly 6, 1907.\n\nSO much misapprehension still exists with reference to the settlement of the question of the 1905 riot at Shanghae that it seems desirable to give some explanation.\n\nThe case for the foreign claimants appears to be that the Taotai of Shanghae, Yuan, was solely responsible for the riot. The case on the Chinese side is that the riot was the natural outcome of the grossly aggressive policy of the Municipal Council during the years 1904 and 1905. A full and fair investigation of the question of liability must therefore include both sides of the question, and therefore of municipal work and policy during those two years, otherwise it will be nothing better than an empty farce.\n\nThe Chinese view is that the investigation should be made before persons belonging to nationalities that have no interests in the matter, in other words, that it should not be held before British or Chinese authorities, and this is clearly a fair and reasonable contention.\n\nI shall not touch upon the details of what can be said and proved on either side, that can only be gone into when the investigation is being made.\n\nI will only add one general observation on this subject. There has been a great improvement in the Council's work, in one respect since March 1906. The intense...",
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        "content_text": "## 4\n\nThe above bears on the question of registration of trade-marks already in use, while for other reasons mentioned, the longest possible period within which to challenge an application or even completed registration should be secured. If it were possible to invalidate completed registrations, the present publication of the Patent Bureau would serve a useful purpose if it could be brought to the knowledge of the parties concerned. Even should a list of applications be published, it would be of doubtful utility unless means were devised to bring it to the knowledge of any person or firm whose trade-mark was being pirated.\n\nSpeaking generally, it may be said that persons and firms having marks liable to imitation should lose no time in registering them. The expenses incurred in doing so are not excessive, and there is nothing to be gained by postponing matters till the last moment. This applies not only to trade-marks used in Japan, but also to those used elsewhere in the Far East. Whatever trade-mark regulations may be adopted in other countries, it may frequently happen that in the case of imitations coming from Japan, action can be more easily taken in this country so as to deal with the source of the evil, while this would also tend to diminish the danger of applications for registration of the same trade-mark in such a country as China by British and Japanese simultaneously, each having the mark validly registered in his own country.\n\nIn the case of the attempted registration of trade-marks resembling trade-marks already registered, the publication of applications would, of course, be very useful. In principle, under section 4 of Article 2 of the Trade-mark Law quoted above, the Patent Bureau have the power to reject, of their own accord, applications for such registrations. In actual practice, however, the fact of such imitations would probably be overlooked by the Bureau, and an opportunity for the owner of a registered trade-mark to protest against the registration of an imitation is certainly desirable. At the same time, unless the owners of trade-marks had agents in Japan watching their interests, the second registration might be effected before their attention could be attracted. In the majority of instances, provision might be made for this difficulty by retaining the services of the trade-mark agent whose services were originally employed to watch in the owner's interests. It would, nevertheless, seem desirable to secure the longest possible period within which a protest could be made, if necessary, even after registration has been granted.\n\nAttention may be drawn to the fact that in Japan, so many trade-marks are worded in foreign languages, especially English. Owing to this, there may be imitations sufficiently remote to evade the operation of the law, and yet able to deceive purchasers unable to do more than see and recognize a mere general resemblance. Apart from that, however, even when there is no imitation of a trade-mark at all, a mark or label in English placed over goods generally coming from abroad will often take in Japanese ignorant of foreign languages. So far as Japan is concerned, such extensive use of foreign language is now inevitable, but it would be a great assistance to preventing deception if, in cases where the language of the mark or label is not that of the country of manufacture of the goods, it were obligatory to indorse the name of the country of origin on such mark or label. Doubtless, in Japan, such a remedy would now be inadmissible, but in China and Corea, it would be a great assistance to the suppression of imitated trade-marks if there were no deception of purchasers as to country of origin. Even if a Trade-mark Convention in China with Japan as a party thereto were concluded, experience of the Trade-mark Law in Japan shows that many difficulties of interpretation of law must arise. Where, for instance, a Japanese Court of Law has decided that a certain mark is not an imitation of another (foreign) mark, there would always be a tendency to press for the registration of the Japanese mark in China, notwithstanding protests from (say) the British owner of the imitated mark; furthermore, Japanese Consular Courts in dealing with charges of counterfeiting trade-marks would, doubtless, be guided by precedents in the Courts in Japan, whose decisions have on several occasions excited much criticism amongst foreigners. If, therefore, in China and Corea, it were possible in the case of trade-marks and labels not couched in the language of the country of origin or destination of the goods to enable purchasers to recognize the real country of origin, much would be done to discourage imitators of British trade-marks.\n\n## 5\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum respecting Trade-marks in Japan**\n\nInclosed in this Memorandum is an account of the hearing in the Osaka local Court, and also in the Osaka Appeal Court, of a case to prove infringement of a British trade-mark duly registered in Japan. It will be seen that the local Court found that there was no infringement of the trade-mark. In the Appeal Court, while the imitation was decided to be an infringement, the case was dismissed for want of sufficient evidence against the accused, probably under Article 16 of the Trade-Mark Law, which requires knowledge on the part of the defendant to make him liable to punishment.\n\nThe case has further been appealed against to the Supreme Court at Tôki, and, pending a decision there, complete criticism of the matter cannot be made. Moreover, it is possible that the plaintiffs would have been better advised to apply first to the Patent Bureau for at least a ruling as to whether the imitation was an infringement. Japanese Courts seem sometimes to give very narrow rulings, adhering closely to forms of procedure, so that a case may be prejudiced by the slightest want of skill in introducing it.\n\nNevertheless, sufficient of the case has transpired for some comment. As to the decision of the lower Court that there was no infringement, attention may be drawn to the facsimile copies of the original trade-mark and of its imitation. Bearing in mind that English is not the national language of Japan, it can readily be seen that, even if there were some differences in the marks, such differences would not readily be perceived by the great majority of Japanese purchasers. Whisky is not a national drink of Japan, but there are numerous foreign commodities more and more generally consumed in Japan, so that it is an important matter to have not only close imitations, but also all imitations which might reasonably be expected to deceive Japanese prohibited.\n\nAnother noteworthy point is the tendency in Japan not only to imitate the trade-mark itself, but also to make use of false labels. In the case under consideration, besides the trade-mark itself, the defendant also adopted a label containing a certificate which could not possibly apply to any whisky made in Japan. Its adoption meant practically the giving of a warranty of quality, which was absolutely false, but this offence seems quite beyond the purview of Japanese Courts.\n\nThe case is important, not only from the point of view of British trade in Japan, but because it shows how inadequate the legal machinery of the Japanese Consular Courts in China (and Corea) may be to deal with imitations, even if a Trade-mark Convention were concluded. The interpretation of what constitutes an imitation (especially if the imitation happen to be already legally registered in Japan) will be a source of difficulty. Apart from that, the use of false labels and guarantees in English, which may not be punishable if no private rights are infringed, may be even more injurious to British trade than imitated trade-marks. If they are bought under the impression that they are British goods, a distaste for the latter may be established, to the lasting benefit of Japanese goods of better quality.\n\nAnother inclosure deals with the appropriation of a foreign Hong name by a Japanese, who had registered it in Japan. Under present Japanese law, there seems no remedy for the foreign firm, who had never taken the precaution of registering their name in this country, and who would find themselves precluded from using the name in Japan. If a Trade-mark Convention with Japan as regards China were concluded, it is difficult to see how the mutual claims of the two parties for the registration of the Hong name would be settled, or whether the Japanese authorities would agree to a rejection of, perhaps, numerous Japanese applications for permission to continue using names and marks which they have copied for several years.\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n[35584]\n\n## No. 1.\n335\n[October 28.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n**Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 28.) (No. 222.)**\n\nTokió, October 3, 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 198 of the 17th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Dairen on the subject of the possibility of the Commissioner of Customs at that port discriminating in favour of his own countrymen to the detriment of foreign merchants.\n\nIt will be noticed that Mr. Parlett states that, whatever ground the British American Tobacco Company have for objecting to the present system, the fact remains that their own agent at Dairen has had so far absolutely no reason to make any complaint.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n**(No. 53.)**\nSir,\n\n**Vice-Consul Parlett to Sir C. MacDonald.**\n\nDairen, September 24, 1907.\n\nREVERTING to my despatch No. 47 of the 10th instant on the subject of probable discriminatory treatment on the part of the Commissioner of Customs in favour of his own nationals, I have the honour to report that on Sunday last I saw Mr. Lyall, the Commissioner's Private Secretary, and that he was good enough to volunteer certain information, which, though of no great importance, may still be of some little interest, as more or less confirming the statements made by me in my despatch above referred to.\n\nOn the general question of discriminatory treatment Mr. Lyall was disposed, so I gathered, to think that, even with every disposition to favour his own people, the opportunities at the Commissioner's disposal for doing so really effectively were small, was, however, in error in overlooking, or rather, in being ignorant of, one direction in which a certain amount of partiality might be displayed.\n\nIt appears that in China, where the Customs often find it difficult to enforce their decision on recalcitrant merchants in any other way than by adopting the, to them undesirable, procedure of carrying a case into the Consular Courts, a system of extra-Treaty privileges has been instituted. These are privileges purely, not rights, and are in the nature of incentives to \"good behaviour\" to be granted or withdrawn at the will of the Customs. By a partial use of his powers of bestowing or withdrawing these privileges, Mr. Lyall seemed to think a Commissioner could, if he wished to do so, discriminate to a certain extent in favour of his own nationals. It might also happen, he said, that Japanese merchants were able to transact their business at the Customs somewhat more expeditiously than foreign, because of the number of clerks of their own nationality employed in the office; but any discrimination in this direction could not be really serious, and was, moreover, in a measure natural owing to the community of language. As far as Mr. Kurosawa personally was concerned, I gathered that his Private Secretary indorsed the remark I had the honour to make at the end of the second paragraph of my despatch in question.\n\nWhatever ground the British American Tobacco Company in London may have for their objections to the present system, the fact remains that their own agent here has so far had absolutely no reason to make any complaint.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **HAROLD PARLETT.**\n\n[2677]",
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        "content_text": "# FOREIGN OFFICE \nOctober 30, 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit herewith to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies an extract from a despatch which has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the fees levied by His Majesty's Consuls at Swatow, Amoy, and Kiungchow, for services rendered in the capacity of Emigration Officers.\n\n## (Extract)\nNo.69 Conf.\n\nI am to explain that, in the absence of any provision in the Straits Settlements Immigration Ordinance of 1902 for the levying of fees, His Majesty's Consuls were authorised by the Secretary of State to apply Fees Nos. 44, 45 and 90 of the Consular (China and Corea) Fee Table (corresponding to Fees Nos.47, 48 and 92 of the new Table) in the case of foreign vessels. In the case of British ships the fee of Twenty-five Dollars or Twelve Dollars fifty cents, is levied, as provided...\n\nproperly becitale for the payment of fees to port agent of Q Glemmel hast in bet Som And the H.K. Regn (wh. is within...\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. 26908/07.\n\nand address ---\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\nRec `C 38277` \n*Rer 31 001 07*\n\n|                 |              |\n| --------------- | ------------ |\n| Page 363        |              |\n\nI think it rests with ZO.6 to decide what fees shall be paid to these officers for this service rendered.\n\nI think if le Comcas in this reins helein has Zection Koffer the proposed oceles...\n\nI agree `ABS C.PL.7 67/11` at once at...\n\nUnder Secretary of State, Colonial Office. `300`",
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        "content_text": "## No. 2.\n\n624.\n\n**Consular Service, U.S.A.,**\n**Vladivostock, Siberia,**\n**May 10th., 1907.**\n\n139\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your letter of January 2nd. 1907, (`7410/04/C.S.0.`) in regard to compensation due to the relatives of certain residents of Hongkong who were lost with the German Steamer \"China\" then under charter to the Russian Government, when that vessel was sunk by a mine explosion on July 18th., 1904, I have to state that money for the purpose was appropriated and is at present held by the military authorities here, they having refused to pay the same to the Chinese Commercial Agent with the compensation for the death of actual Chinese subjects.\n\nOwing to the destruction of the records in one office by fire and to the confusion in another on account of certain abnormal conditions I have not as yet succeeded in bringing this matter to a conclusion but trust that it will not be much more delayed.\n\nI have etc.,\n**(Sd.) Roger S. Greene,**\nAmerican Commercial Agent in charge of British interests.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nfields ready to be carted to the farm-houses; beans were also harvested, the small millet (Setaria italica) was being cut, while hemp (Cannabis sativa), tobacco, and turnips were still in the ground.\n\nWe\n\nBetween Feng-huang Ting and Ts'ao-ho-kow, which are distant 38.5 and 92.4 miles from Antung respectively by rail, two mountain ranges, the Chi-kuan-shan (Cockscomb) and Ta-fang-shen, have to be crossed and the track zig-zags up and down the steep slopes in a somewhat alarming manner. The curves are marvellously sharp, and it was no surprise to be told that the cars frequently leave the rails. We were fortunate, however, and reached Ts'ao-ho-kow on time (7:15 P.M.), where we had to spend the night in the usual Japanese hotel. There had been cases of cholera at Antung, and there was a medical examination of all passengers on arrival at Tsao-ho-kow. Both pulses were felt by a Japanese doctor, and I was very much afraid that my servant, who had been unable to raise his head all day, would be rejected; but he passed the test without a word, although he was so ill overnight that I had serious intentions of leaving him behind. Next morning he pulled himself together, and, though still very ill, refused to be left behind in Japanese hands.\n\nPunctually at 7:40 A.M. the train, much diminished in size, steamed out of Ts'ao-ho-kow, and, after ascending a valley in which a stream meanders from side to side and has to be repeatedly crossed over trestle bridges, arrived at Ch'iao-t'ou, 38.4 miles from Ts'ao-ho-kow, at 8 minutes past noon. The train was here divided into two portions, and the fore part, consisting of an open baggage wagon, a passenger car, and a small mail van, was dispatched. Crossing the stream it began the ascent of the Mo-tien-ling at the station of Fu-chin, 21 miles from Ch'iao-t'ou, and reached the highest point of the crossing at Ta-tung, 23 miles from Fu-chin. The descent on the north side was very steep (1 in 35 being quite common), and at one point the train had to be backed down. All passed off well: at the station of Meng-chia we had to wait for the other half of the train; and at 3:22 P.M. a fresh start was made for Mukden. About 5 miles from Meng-chia we crossed a long trestle bridge over the T'ai-tzu, which passes the city of Liao-yang, and enters the Hun River, a tributary of the Liao, to the town of Pen-hsi-hu, well known for its coal mines, ironworks, and the manufacture of large brown earthenware jars. The railway traverses the town from end to end along one of its main streets. The city of Feng-huang Ting was too far off to be able to judge of its size, but Pen-hsi-hu is undoubtedly a town of considerable size and importance, and is the largest place touched by the Antung-Mukden line. It is an easy run of 45.8 miles from Pen-hsi-hu to the railway station about 2 miles to the west of Mukden, and this was accomplished, mostly in the dark, in 6 hours 11 minutes, the stoppages at the three intervening stations aggregating 16 minutes, but the well-wooded valleys were replaced by the dull uninteresting plain on which Mukden stands.\n\nBy Article 6 of the Additional Agreement between China and Japan of 1905, \"The Imperial Chinese Government agree that Japan has the right to maintain and work the military line constructed between Antung and Mukden, and to improve the said line so as to make it fit for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods of all nations. The term for which such right is conceded is 15 years from the date of completion of the improvements above provided for. The work of such improvements is to be completed within two years, exclusive of a period of twelve months during which it will have to be delayed owing to the necessity of using the existing line for the withdrawal of troops. The term of the Concession above mentioned is therefore to expire in the 48th year of Kuang Hsü. At the expiration of that term, the said railway shall be sold to China at a price to be determined by appraisement of all its properties by a foreign expert, who will be selected by both parties. The conveyance by railway of the troops and munitions of war of the Chinese Government prior to such sale shall be dealt with in accordance with the Regulations of the Eastern Chinese Railway. Regarding the manner in which the improvements of the railway are to be effected, it is agreed that the person undertaking the work on behalf of Japan shall consult with the Commissioner dispatched for the purpose by China. The Chinese Government will also appoint a Commissioner to look after the business relating to the railway as is provided in the Agreement relating to the Eastern Chinese Railway. It is further agreed that detailed regulations shall be concluded regarding the tariffs for the carriage by the railway of the public and private goods of China.\"\n\nSo far as I could see or ascertain, there is no through traffic except passengers on the line. There was a little charcoal carried between stations evidently for the use of the railway employés, and poles and planks for building purposes along\n\n11\n\n452\n\nthe line. Railway guards were in evidence at every station, and at Antung they numbered 200 men. No commencement has yet been made in improving the line, and I was informed that, in view of the enormous expenditure that would have to be incurred for the tunnelling and bridging necessary to convert the present light railway into a line suitable for commercial purposes, it has been decided that an easier alignment must be found.\n\nMukden.\n\nThe actual brick-walled city of Mukden covers an area of 1 square mile, and may be described as a miniature Peking, but the suburbs which surround it on all sides have a circumference of 13 miles, and the whole is enclosed by an earth or mud wall. Changes have taken place since I visited it in 1896, and they have assumed the same shape as in Peking—new roads and a police force—both badly needed. A fine, wide metalled road, some 2 miles in length, leads from the railway station to the main West Gate of the inner city, wherein four similar roads connecting the eight gates have recently been built by a Japanese contractor at a cost to the provincial Government of about £15,000 a mile. It seems a large sum (£60,000 for 4 miles of metalled roads), but the Japanese by their command of the railway were the only people in a position to bring the necessary stone and carry out the work. A tramway is to connect the station with the city, and about 20 yards had just been laid at the station end. Uniformed police, armed with batons during the day and rifles with bayonets at night, are stationed 200 yards apart on every street, and are said to maintain excellent order, an example which might well be followed by other cities of Manchuria to be referred to later. In addition to the police, there is a body of 10,000 foreign-drilled troops in and around the city. While the old Palace is being repaired and new offices in foreign style built for the Viceroy and Government, the towers over the gates of the city are being demolished as unsafe. They will doubtless have to be rebuilt, and although the late Viceroy is said to have handed over a balance of 7,000,000 taels to his successor, it has already dwindled to 500,000 taels, and funds are urgently needed to complete the work already in hand and carry out other reforms. The Viceroy was absent in Peking, but I had two interviews with the Governor (His Excellency Tang Shao-yi), and he strongly urged that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation should open a branch in Mukden. Mr. Gardner, an agent of that Bank, was in Mukden during my visit inquiring into prospects of business, and discussing the whole question with the Governor, but I gathered from him that, as the principal business of the Bank is exchange transactions, the absence of foreign merchants and direct trade with foreign countries offered little inducement to establish a branch anywhere in Manchuria. There are already two foreign banks in the city, the Russo-Chinese and the Yokohama Specie Banks, and the Chinese Government Hu Pu Bank, but their raison d'être would appear to be to lend money to Chinese merchants on profitable terms. A large provincial loan is the object in view, and large sums and securities have been talked over, but nothing definite has been arranged, and Mr. Gardner, who came back to Peking to report, has returned to Mukden to consult with the Viceroy and Governor.\n\nIn addition to the British Consul-General, there are now Consular representatives of Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States at Mukden. With the exception of the Russian Consul, who shares with the Japanese a Russian church inside the inner city, they live in the western suburb. Only four or five lots in the area set apart for a foreign Settlement between the railway and the city have been taken up, and the Governor informed me that he did not believe in Settlements, leaving me to infer that, so far as he was concerned, foreigners could live where they pleased. The British-American Tobacco Company is the only British firm with a British representative; Messrs. Butterfield and Swire employ a Chinese as agent for their Hong Kong sugars. There is one American merchant doing business on a small scale, and the representatives of German and other firms at Newchwang visit Mukden from time to time. Excluding the Yokohama Specie Bank, there are three large Japanese firms. According to the Japanese Consul-General, there are over 3,000 Japanese residents scattered through the city and suburbs, and their number is increasing every month. Japanese houses line a great part of the road leading from the station to the West Gate. Of course, there is the usual proportion of women, the singing girls, and waiting maids, while gambling-houses claim a considerable number. In one small room, I watched three men running a table something on the principle of roulette. The room was open to the street, and Chinese were betting on the colours on which three red balls about the size of cricket balls would rest after",
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        "content_text": "New Harbin has fine wide streets, not, however, in very good order, and is resplendent with churches and stately buildings, such as the Railway Administration Offices, the residence of the Civil Administration, Colonel Grombtchevsky, of Pamir fame, and the Russian Consulate-General. There are several large schools, attended, I was informed, by 800 Russian children. A fine wide boulevard sweeps through the town, and there are two public gardens. In some of the main streets good shops are met with, but a great part of the town is occupied by small villas standing in well-wooded gardens, the residences of railway employés. I noticed that many houses were unoccupied, and yet new buildings, such as a grand hotel, were still going up. The existing hotels, of which there are several, are poor and tawdry.\n\nThe Pristan is the commercial and industrial quarter of Harbin. I have already stated that it lies along the river bank, stretches back to New Harbin, and is bounded on the south and east by the railway to the Sungari Bridge. It is full of shops, in whose windows European articles of every description were displayed. The principal streets were crowded with Russians, men and women, and not a few Chinese. There is a considerable number of Chinese stores. I visited several of these, and was met with the universal complaint of depressed trade due to the withdrawal of the army, on which they practically depended for existence. One large store I found full of the finest Parisian soaps, soap-powders, perfumes, and cosmetics of every description, and, although there was now no demand for these articles, exorbitant and prohibitive prices were still quoted. In another large store there was a great display of Russian coloured cotton prints, which the manager stated were in great demand for the Mongol market, but the shirtings, sheetings, and drills bore the names of well-known Shanghae British merchants, and had found their way through Vladivostock. I also noticed the name of Richard Haworth, of Manchester; and Wright's (American) Health Underwear lay alongside what I was told was a Japanese imitation, and certainly a very inferior article. There are now three mail trains a week running either way between Moscow and Vladivostock. Beans and bean-cake are carried from Harbin to the latter for shipment to Japan, and the lowering of freights along this section of 840 versts is under consideration.\n\nSo great was the demand for luxuries during the war that champagne fetched as much as 35 roubles (£3. 10s.) a bottle, and the price of all other luxuries were proportionately high, so that it will be readily understood that much of the money spent by the Russian army and its gay followers found its way to France and other wine-growing and luxury-manufacturing countries. While many have reaped rich harvests during the war, trade in Harbin is now so depressed that Government financial aid is being invoked, and there was a Russian Commissioner from St. Petersburgh on the spot inquiring what steps could be taken to tide over the present troubles; but it seemed to me that depression had not yet reached its low-water mark, and that hard times would become harder, for Harbin is stocked with articles which nobody wants or can afford to buy. All the Government aid in the world will not make unsaleable goods saleable.\n\nI was informed by a trustworthy authority that, with a view to pushing Russian goods in Manchuria, Russian agents had been collecting samples of English and other cotton goods in Harbin, and even in Shanghae, for imitation in Russia, and that the railways had recently reduced freights from Moscow to Harbin and even to K'uan-ch'eng-tzu to the same rates as from Vladivostock to these places; but, as a Russian merchant in China, a fellow-traveller, said to me, \"It is no use; Russians are poor business men, they do not try to help themselves, and they will never succeed. One Chinese can do the work of three Russians.\" In spite of this, however, an imposing building, to be used as a cotton goods exhibition, store, and market, was nearing completion in New Harbin.\n\nAnother Russian fellow-traveller, also a merchant in China, would insist on telling me stories at the expense of the business methods of his own countrymen. He said, \"I am returning from Vladivostock to Tien-tsin. Some time ago I took a small parcel of samples to the post-office at the former for transmission to the latter place, and I duly paid the postage of 1 r. 6 c. Next day I went to the post-office to inquire when the parcel was likely to reach its destination. The postmaster said he did not know. But,' said I, 'there is weekly steamer communication between Vladivostock and Shanghae, and several times a week between Shanghae and Tien-tsin.' 'That may be,' said the postmaster, 'but parcels do not go that way; they are forwarded by rail to Verkhne-Udinsk and thence overland by way of Kiakhta to Tien-tsin.' I am going to Tien-tsin to await that parcel, which may take a couple of months to reach its destination.\"\n\nThe industries of Harbin are flour-milling, brewing, and vodka distilling. There are eight large roller mills with a milling capacity of 1,440,000 lbs. of flour per day of twenty-four hours. I should have stated that there is one roller mill near the Russian station at Kuan-ch'eng-tzu with a possible daily output of 36,000 lbs. of flour. They were erected for the purpose of supplying the Russian troops in the north during the military occupation, and during the war the Russian army was entirely dependent on them for the staff of life. To-day they are practically idle, their raison d'être has ceased, and their output is limited to local requirements. Several are bankrupt and in the hands of the Russo-Chinese Bank. Here we have an instance of the lack of business qualifications on the part of the Russian, of which I have just been speaking. Large quantities of foreign flour are imported into Manchuria, the whole of which could easily be supplied by these mills, and yet, owing to want of business push, their horizon is limited to the town of Harbin.\n\nThe chief wheat belts lie along the Sungari and its tributaries, the Nonui and the Mutan Rivers, and although the grain is inferior in size to the American product, it yields flour which Russian bakers can convert into bread excellent both as to colour and flavour. The supply of wheat is abundant, and much is shipped from Harbin to Blagoveschensk, on the Amur, for Harbin by the Sungari and Amur is in steamer communication with both Blagoveschensk and Khabarovsk.\n\nWhat I have said regarding the present condition of the Harbin mills applies equally to the three breweries and the Vodka distillery, They are depressed without the same possibility of revival.\n\nTimes may be bad, but the Russian must have his pleasures, and there are at least three theatres, a circus, and many other places of entertainment. There is a race-course near old Harbin, and the 14th October, the day of my arrival, was race day.\n\nThe population of the Railway Settlement of Harbin is estimated to number between 20,000 and 30,000 Russians and from 15,000 to 16,000 Chinese, the latter in the Pristan. The whole of this Settlement is administered at the expense of the railway, which, however, is tiring of the burden, and is agitating for the imposition of taxes for municipal purposes The Settlement is very imperfectly policed by Russians armed with revolvers and swords. The streets in the Pristan, which is low-lying, are in many places simply quagmires impassable for wheeled traffic, and in New Harbin much is needed to place and maintain such a large area in proper condition. Here and there the electric light shone out in the night, but many of the streets were dimly lighted by oil lamps.\n\nAbout a mile below the Sungari Bridge, and on the same bank of the river as the Pristan, is a Chinese town which, like Harbin, sprang into existence with the advent of the Russians. There is a fairly decent road leading to this town, but the streets are even worse than those of the Pristan, and it says much for the springs of the drosky in which I rode that they returned whole. A capsize and a mud bath a couple of feet deep appeared imminent every moment. This town, like Harbin generally, has lost much of its former glory, and many of the Chinese have gone elsewhere in search of a living. Its population is placed at 40,000, but I think that this estimate is excessive. It is an ordinary Chinese town with shops and street stalls, and many of the houses were vacant. There were numerous opium-smoking dens.\n\nIt is proposed to establish the \"Shang Fou,\" or trade mart, on the piece of ground between the railway bridge and the Chinese town, but the exclusive right to the Settlement at Harbin, although delicately hinted at, has not yet been openly claimed by Russia, and the United States' Consul and Japanese Consul-General have established their Consulates in New Harbin. The former strongly urged the expediency of having a British Consul as a colleague, but in reply to my inquiries he confessed that there was not, to his knowledge, a single British subject in the town. Nor was there an American citizen, outside his own family. His aim, as he frankly avowed, was to induce bigger guns to fight the battle of the Settlement, which must sooner or later be waged.\n\nGerman and Austrian Representatives were said to be coming, and French interests are in the hands of a Consular Agent, an employé of the Russo-Chinese Bank.\n\nThe Yokohama Specie Bank is immediately expected. I saw one or two Japanese women on the streets, but the tide of immigration had only begun to flow so far north. It will come. A few singing girls and waiting maids have already penetrated as far as Tsitsihar, the capital of the Hei-lung-chiang Province. The Taotai has taken up his residence in the Pristan. Custom-houses have not yet been...",
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        "content_text": "# \nI think the above quotations go far to show that His Majesty's Consuls at Canton have not acted under the assumption that they were entitled to register a British vessel in the sense of giving it that national character that alone entitles it to fly the British flag, though I confess that the phrase, Certificate of Registry, has been loosely used for \"Certificate of Ownership\" by both my predecessors and myself. I am unable to trace who was responsible for the statement in the printed form inclosed in my despatch No. 12 of the 5th February last, that it is \"issued in terms of the Maritime Order in Council, 1874.\" It will be observed that in the proposed amended form I had altered this to \"issued under the sanction of His Britannic Majesty's Minister, dated Peking, 3rd February, 1886.\"\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of my remarks on Article 4, and the Articles under the heading of Inland Waters Steam Navigation of the draft Merchant Shipping Regulations, 1907.\n\nWith Sir Edward Grey's opinion that the whole matter is in a very unsatisfactory condition I most fully agree. When the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations were negotiated, it was believed that British trade with the interior of China would greatly benefit. As a matter of fact the British launches running under them in these waterways are almost entirely engaged in the Chinese passenger traffic, are entirely manned and officered by Chinese, and are probably to a very great extent owned by Chinese under British names. Under present conditions Consuls have no adequate control over the launches, and it was to obtain such most necessary control that I asked for sanction of the local Regulations which have been disallowed. Whatever His Majesty's Government may decide on this subject, I venture to submit that very considerable discretion should be left in the hands of His Majesty's Consuls to deal with the constantly varying local conditions.\n\nAs regards the flying of the red ensign, which is now declared illegal, I request instructions as to whether I am to take immediate steps to stop it. To do so will, undoubtedly in the eyes of the Chinese authorities, be equivalent to a withdrawal of British protection.\n\nI am sending copy of this despatch to Sir Havilland de Sausmarez.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Remarks by Consul-General Mansfield respecting Article 4 and Articles under Heading of Inland Waters Steam Navigation\n\n#### PART II-Registry\n\nRegulation 4—British launches plying under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules, while coming under the denomination \"ships\" (see definition), are furnished with none of the documents herein mentioned as essential to navigation in Chinese waters.\n\n#### PART VI-Inland Waters Steam Navigation\n\nRegulation 42 (3) (c).—In shallow waters such as those of the Canton Delta, an accident is hardly conceivable in which the launch could not be beached. Many of the launches are too small to carry the life-saving apparatus herein described, and in the larger ones the passenger carrying capacity would be greatly diminished by it.\n\nRegulation 42 (3) (h). This limitation of the number of passengers carried (it must be remembered that no cargo practically is carried) would in combination with the enforcement of the preceding clause effectually drive all launches carrying the British flag out of the trade. Annexed is a copy of the Special Rules in force here for the guidance of the Customs Surveyor who, as reported by me, has been also appointed Inspector of hulls and machinery of British launches: also the Inspection and Survey Certificate issued by me on his report. As regards the number of passengers, I also inclose a copy of the Customs rules for determining the number of passengers that may be carried by steam launches and passenger boats in tow of launches. The space therein allowed seems amply sufficient when it is taken into consideration that the passengers are without exception Chinese, and the distances travelled are generally very short—10, 15 or 20 miles probably on an average. Longer journeys are nearly always made, on the West River at any rate, in well found steamers plying between Canton and Wuchow. It seems highly desirable that the conditions ruling for Chinese and British launches should, as far as possible, be identical.\n\nRegulations 45, 48, 49.—At so great a distance from Peking the functions attributed to the Minister in these Regulations would in practice be very difficult to exercise. The Consul should have power to act provisionally, and from his action there is, I take it, always power to appeal; and in Regulation No. 48 powers should be given to cancel a certificate, temporarily or definitely, where repeated infractions of rules as to overcrowding, care of machinery, &c., occur.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### Sir H. de Sausmares to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 13.)**\nSupreme Court, Shanghae, October 1, 1907.\n\nA delay has occurred in answering your despatch of the 2nd July as to the Canton Launch Regulations in consequence of Mr. Mansfield's opinion that \"if it is desired to put an immediate and effective stop to British launches now plying under the regulations, it is only necessary to lay down that they must conform to the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Act`.\"\n\nSince then I have had the opportunity of a conversation with you, and I have now the honour to furnish you with my comments on the situation; they, I think, will require consideration before the rules referred to in Sir E. Grey's despatch of the 15th May last can be drafted.\n\nThe question appears to be one of importance as the principle involved affects not only the Canton launches but the majority of launches plying on the inland waters of China under the British flag.\n\nI entirely agree that, as the law stands, the right to fly the red ensign depends entirely on the provisions of the `Merchant Shipping Act`, and that the necessity of registration thereunder follows. I do not, however, understand that it is obligatory that Shanghae should be the port of registry, though it appears so in Sir E. Grey's despatch. Registration in any port of registry, e.g., Hong Kong, would suffice.\n\nIt would appear from Mr. Mansfield's despatch that the red ensign is now flown by launches, which would in many cases probably fail to qualify for registration. Holding the strong views that I do as to the necessity of protecting our flag where properly flown on British shipping, especially in Chinese waters, I think that it behoves us carefully to scrutinize claims to fly that flag. Indeed I have, on one or two occasions where an abuse of this right has been brought to my notice in Court, directed the matter to be reported to the registrar of shipping with the result that more than one ship has been removed from the registry. It is clear that when undertaking the responsibility of protecting a ship as British, we should insist on its being *bona fide* a British ship.\n\nThere is, however, a further most important point of view from which the question must be regarded, that of British trade in the inland waters.\n\nIf it were purely a question of a few passenger launches the matter would be of small importance, but I understand it to be far otherwise, and it is therefore necessary to devise some plan which will conform to the law and which will not make registration too onerous.\n\nThe procedure for registration is contained in sections 4-13 of the `Merchant Shipping Act`. There is nothing therein which cannot be done by an agent in Shanghae save the surveying of the ship. The survey must be by a surveyor who may be appointed by His Majesty's Minister under Article 13 of \"The China and Corea (Shipping Registry) Order in Council, 1904.” It would therefore be competent for you to appoint a sufficient number of surveyors at different ports to obviate any hardship which a survey in Shanghae would involve. Further, if the retention of an agent's services in Shanghae should be too onerous, I see no reason why you should not issue instructions under Article 17 (1) to Consular officers in the out-ports which would direct them to take the necessary papers and transmit them to the registrar of shipping in Shanghae.\n\nThere are, however, provisions in the `Merchant Shipping Act` which will probably be onerous, particularly in the engagement and discharge of native crews,",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nI request that your Excellency will inform me of your decision before the end of the present month of November.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nA. W. MOORE,\n\nAdmiral and Commander-in-chief, China Station.\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nRegistration of Launches under the British Flag at the British Consulate-General, Canton.\n\nI HAVE ascertained that of recent years the only bona fide case of piracy on a British vessel in the West River district was that of the river steamer “Sainam,” belonging to the West River Steam-ship Company (Amalgamated), which vessel was pirated on the 13th July, 1906 (vide my submission of the 31st July, 1906). The remainder of the outrages reported as piracies have in reality been robberies committed on board small launches flying the British flag and engaged in the passenger traffic in the various waterways around Canton.\n\n2. Under our present Regulations for registration at Canton, it seems inevitable that abuses should exist, and as the matter now stands there can be little doubt but that the use of the flag is abused, and that our claims for redress for piracies on so-called \"British\" launches are thereby weakened.\n\n3. I have been unable to procure copies of \"The Inland Waters Regulations, 1898,\" and the West River Regulations of 1897, or of the correspondence which led up to their institution and the introduction of the present system of registry, but, so far as I can gather, the history is briefly as follows:\n\nAuthority for the registration of launches at the British Consulate-General, Canton, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886. This appears to have been the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, and was intended to provide a means for the identification of British vessels in connection with the exercise of control over the river traffic, and as a means of protecting our launches from interference.\n\n4. Sir Nicholas O'Conor directed the Consul to-\n\n\"Issue to any British owner of a steam-launch upon application a certificate under the seal of the Consulate to the effect that his launch is the property of a British subject.\"\n\nThe fee for this certificate was to be limited to the charge for the Consular stamp.\n\nAuthority for such vessels to fly the British ensign was given by Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, although it seems that the flag had been actually used before by them.\n\n5. The actual qualifications for British registration at Canton at the present time, I am informed, are-\n\n(a.) The person registering must satisfy the British Consul-General that he is a British subject.\n\n(b.) He must produce proof of ownership.\n\n(c) The vessel must be passed by a surveyor to be appointed by the Consul-General.\n\nN.B. The fees for the above amount to about 10 dollars (or £1.4s.). Condition (c) was recently established, and has had the effect of disqualifying a disreputable class of launch which formerly flew the British flag.\n\n6. An examination of the list of launches registered at His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, shows that twenty-two out of a total of forty-six are owned by a Mr. Fisher and the Po On Company, of which he is an agent. He informed me that he is interested in some thirty launches altogether.\n\nMr. Fisher is a half-caste British subject, who has apparently been able to make good his claim of ownership of the various vessels registered in his name, but I have reason to doubt that he is the actual owner. His business appears to be the hiring of launches to such as may require them, irrespective of nationality. He may, as he does, charter them to Chinese traders for long periods, and for so long as the charter lasts he takes no further interest in them, neither knowing on what business they are employed, where they ply, or by whom they are manned. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that the majority of the so-called piracies have been committed on vessels registered in his name or that of the Po On Company; there is nothing to prevent these launches being run by a Chinese captain and crew who may be in league with the robbers for the plunder of passengers.\n\n7. To illustrate the conditions under which these passenger launches run, they may well be compared to omnibuses, their routes and principal stopping-places are conspicuously displayed, passengers come on board and take their tickets from a compradore, not only at the regular ports of call, but almost anywhere between ports; and during their run the vessels are stopped frequently to pick up fares, or to put down passengers, who embark or disembark in sampans. No supervision can thus be exercised over the embarkation of passengers who, as has frequently happened, may be robbers themselves with their arms concealed about their persons. The launches are entirely manned by Chinese subjects from the captain down, and there is no check on efficiency or character.\n\n8. There are strong grounds for suspecting that some of the launches registered as British are really Chinese owned.\n\nAll that is required is proof of ownership, and what can be more simple (or more difficult to disprove) if, for a consideration, a British subject accepts temporary ownership, for the purpose of registration, the bill of sale being made out in his name.\n\n9. Although the fact that these robberies are committed at all indicates a state of lawlessness, which it is in the interests of China to put down, yet the question arises as to whether we can conscientiously bring these cases forward as insults to the British flag, and insist that steps should be taken to protect \"British interests.\"\n\n10. That British registration is advantageous to the vessels themselves goes without saying, when it is borne in mind that it affords-\n\n(a.) British protection;\n\n(b.) Considerable reduction in dues levied by local authorities;\n\n(c.) Immunity from interference by Chinese officials, and consequently immunity from \"squeeze\";\n\nbut where the advantages accruing to Great Britain come in it is difficult, for me at any rate, to understand.\n\n11. I have discussed this point with His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and he admits that the so-called British owner is in many cases merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control over the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate; in fact, the Consul-General has made efforts (to which I shall refer later) to put the Registration Regulations on a more satisfactory footing. He thinks, however, that it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag might not be a political mistake.\n\n12. From the Consular point of view the advantages claimed are that launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and when towing, are assisting in the movement of merchandise, and that they thus have their part in the general trade of the Canton Delta and the West River, the British share of this trade being very considerable. It is also claimed that, as the repeated robberies which occur bring great injury to trade, that if the foreign flag is instrumental in securing the suppression of the present lawlessness, it will be greatly to the benefit of both foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected; and that, if the British flag is to be withdrawn, launches will be driven to use that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nThere is, of course, something in this argument, but it must be admitted that the advantages claimed for British interests are very indirect, and I do not consider that there is sufficient in them to justify us in lending our protection to Chinese subjects who fraudulently register their vessels as British for the sake of the material benefits they thereby receive. It must be borne in mind that the consequence of trying to coerce the Chinese authorities in the interests of such as these might possibly have serious consequences. At the present time the country is awakening. Young China, in the\n\n13\n\n[2818 u-2]\n\nE\n\n20",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nplotting (with British subjects), not only is a breach of China's laws committed, but the dignity of the British flag is also affected. I must therefore request that the practice be entirely done away with so as to stop abuses,\n\nI have now examined in detail the records of last year's \"Sainam\" piracy case. Over ten of the pirates concerned have been arrested, and also Liang A-chiu, the actual murderer of Dr. MacDonald, and all have been executed. Two of the rifles lost by the steamer have also been recovered and returned. Thus pirates guilty of robbery have been punished, those who injured human beings have paid the penalty with their lives, while of the booty lost rifles have been recovered. According to Treaty if the local officials do all in their power to arrest the offenders and recover the booty, there is no ground for giving compensation. In view, however, of the Admiral's statement that Dr. MacDonald, after spending over twenty years in China doing good, had been suddenly murdered, leaving behind a wife and children without means, I have been moved to compassion, and, having in view the friendliness of China and Great Britain, specially consent to pay a compassionate allowance for the death of Dr. MacDonald as evidence of commiseration.\n\nI think the above course of action will convince you and his Excellency the Admiral of my exceptional friendliness.\n\nCompliments.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received last night from Viceroy Chang, which is a reply to your official of the 23rd instant.\n\nIt appears thoroughly unsatisfactory in every way, merely repeating the arguments advanced by him and by his predecessors over and over again. I may mention that when I first claimed compensation on account of the \"Sainam\" piracy, Viceroy Ts'en's Secretary in conversation stated that they were willing to direct the Benevolent Societies to provide a few thousand dollars as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald, but when I informed him that the Secretary of State had estimated her indemnity at 6,000l., and that other claims had to be met, he declined to discuss the matter further.\n\nI have telegraphed the gist of the Viceroy's despatch to Sir J. Jordan, and have the honour to inclose copy of the telegram. This deals in part with the question of the Wai-wu Pu's reference to two vessels under Customs control, which form the subject of your telegram just received. The only previous mention of these two vessels is contained in a telegram dated the 12th instant, from Sir John Jordan, copy of which I inclose, and which was submitted to you when in Canton.\n\nYou will note that this telegram infers that the two vessels spoken of are to be employed in the prevention of piracy, whereas in the Wai-wu Pu's Memorandum of the 11th instant, on which the telegram is based, such employment is not clearly stated.\n\nYou will find some reference to an additional two cruisers in reserve in Mr. King's Memorandum on the Viceroy's proposed Regulations.\n\n15\n\n3. Right of Navigation of West River and Inland Waterways.-This was granted under the West River Regulations of 1897 and the Inland Water Navigation Rules of 1898, supplemented by the Mackay Treaty of 1902, Annex (C).\n\nRemarks. It was at the instigation of and owing to pressure put upon the Chinese by the British Government that the Regulations mentioned under 3 were formulated, and it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag would not be a political mistake.\n\nThe navigation of the inland waterways is comparatively recent, and its development has led to the discovery of much that is objectionable and requires amendment. It cannot be denied that the so-called British owner is largely merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control of the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate. At the same time these launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and, when towing, are assisting the movement of merchandize. They thus have their part in the general trade of Canton, the delta, and the West River, of which the British share is very considerable.\n\nPiracy. It is obvious that, if there were not a general state of disorder and lawlessness in Southern China, the repeated piracies which have always existed, and which have obtained more prominence since the year 1897, as they now affect the foreign shipping permitted under 3, would not exist. They must and do bring great injury to trade, and if the use of the foreign flag is instrumental in securing their suppression it will be to the benefit of foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected. If the British flag is withdrawn, launches will be driven to the use of that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nChinese Measures for Suppression. It is submitted that, if the Provincial Government is compelled to acknowledge its liability to pay compensation in the case of every piracy on British launches; this responsibility will go a long way towards spurring on the local officials to eradicate the disease. Continued and energetic action by the civil and military officials on shore is a sine qua non, and, in addition, an effective patrol along the waterways is an absolute necessity. Neither will, it is submitted, be achieved unless there is some foreign control, and it has been decided that this can best be secured by the employment of suitable cruisers under the Imperial Maritime Customs. The number promised by the Wai-wu Pu, four, is inadequate, but is a move in the right direction. If the patrol is constant and effective, it should not fail to be productive of valuable evidence pertaining to the movements and whereabouts of the pirates and to the energy or otherwise of the local authorities on shore and afloat.\n\nControl of British Launches.—His Majesty's Consul-General has already reported how in his opinion this can best be secured, and particulars of his recommendations have been given to Commander Majendie, R.N. There seems no reason to doubt that, if the powers requested were given him, there should be no great difficulty, due discretion being exercised, in weeding out the good from the bad.\n\nCanton, November 15, 1907.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Sly respecting the Registration of British Launches plying on the Canton Waterways and the use of the Flag.\n\n1. Registration.-Authority to register, the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Minister aiming at this end, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886.\n\n2. Flag. Authority to use the red ensign came from Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, who gave it as his opinion that its use must have been contemplated when the authority to register was given.\n\n(No. 61.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, December 3, 1907. IN continuation of my despatch No. 60 of the 1st instant on the subject of the suppression of piracy in these waters, I have the honour to report as follows :—\n\nI telegraphed to you on the 30th ultimo, No. 63, that I was that day informing the Viceroy, at the Admiral's request, that the extended British patrol of the waterways would be inaugurated this week.\n\nSir Arthur Moore has already furnished you with copy of his despatch to me of the 29th November, on which my telegram No. 63 was based (see his Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Inclosure 8, copy of which reached me to-day). I merely forward, then, copy of the Chinese version submitted to the Viceroy.\n\n38\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "354\n\n4\n\nCaptain S. C. Plant, at present employed as pilot of the French gun-boat \"Olry,\" at Chungking, will become marine superintendent for the Company as soon as his services are available. In the meantime, he has drawn up plans and specifications of a shallow-draft tug-boat and flat which have been submitted to the Viceroy of Szechuan and received his approval.\n\nI have been requested by Chou Taotai, Director of the Provincial Bureau of Commerce, acting on behalf of the new Company, to forward copies of these plans to you for your inspection, and to ask you the following questions:\n\n1. Are you willing to construct a tug-boat and flat in accordance with Captain Plant's plans and specifications?\n\n2. What will be the price delivered on board ready for shipment to Shanghae of (a) tug-boat (b) flat?\n\nThe Taotai also wishes to know the cost of freight to Shanghae and the cost of putting together, but as I do not suppose you will be able to give definite replies on these points, I do not include them in the question.\n\n3. Will you undertake to ship tug and flat to Shanghae and superintend putting together, sending out an engineer for the purpose?\n\nI have explained to the Chinese that shipbuilders do not usually undertake to deliver vessels abroad, but they seem to attach much importance to this point, and think it will go far to securing the order if you can see your way to meeting their wishes in this respect. Their idea is that you should hand over the vessels to them in Shanghae, \"in the water,\" as they phrase it, ready to start on their journey up river. They will, of course, pay all expenses incurred on account of freight, putting together, and engineer's passage and salary.\n\n4. How long, approximately, will you take to construct vessels, counting from date order is put in hand to date vessels are ready for shipment to Shanghae?\n\n5. Will you appoint an agent at Chungking, say Captain Plant, with whom Company can draw up a contract, arrange for payment, &c.?\n\nI have explained to the Chinese that it is usual for payments to be made in instalments, and I do not think this point will present any difficulty.\n\nAs it takes at least four months to receive a reply to a letter from England, Chou Taotai is anxious to have telegraphic replies to the above-mentioned questions. If satisfactory, he will confirm the order by wire. I suggest that, as we have no commercial codes here, you should ask the Foreign Office in London to telegraph your reply to me in cypher. I am sending them, through His Majesty's Minister in Peking, a copy of this letter.\n\nThe present order is, I am aware, a small one, and the terms proposed are possibly somewhat unusual, but if the matter can be arranged, it will undoubtedly be the fore-runner of others, not only for tugs and lighters, but also for gun-boats, which the Provincial Government contemplate placing on the Upper Yang-tsze. The French and German Consular and naval authorities in Szechuan have done their best to induce the Chinese to place this order in their hands, and I am sure you will agree with me that it will be a splendid thing if the vexed question of regular and remunerative steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze can at last be solved by means of British-built vessels under British superintendence.\n\nI am sending this letter under flying seal to Captain Plant in Chungking, in order that he may make any additional observations that his knowledge and experience of the matter in question may suggest. I need hardly say that your interests will, in my opinion, be quite safe in his hands. Indeed, his long and successful experience of steam navigation on shallow waters makes his co-operation in the present scheme not only most valuable but, I venture to say, indispensable.\n\nI inclose the plans and specifications above referred to, and a Memorandum by Captain Plant on steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\n5\n\nEuphrates, Karun, and Yang-tsze. Pioneering work has occupied at least half of this time, during which I have handled many different types of river steamers. I merely mention this to show that I am qualified to discuss the question of steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze from a practical point of view.\n\nMuch has been said and written on this subject by people absolutely unqualified to express a practical opinion. I have made a study of this part of the Yang-tsze ever since I came here first in 1899, and I find the problem is not an easy one by any manner of means, principally on account of the different phases the river presents to the navigator at different periods, which may roughly be divided into three: low, middle, and high-level.\n\nDuring the low-level season, the majority of the rapids are at their worst; three of them are infranchisable to any ordinary type of river steamer.\n\nDuring the middle level, many of the low-level rapids have disappeared, but others have formed, also infranchisable.\n\nDuring the high-level season, the same thing occurs again, but the high-level rapids form no insuperable barrier to a fast steamer; it is the gorges, which now present grave dangers on account of the violent swirls which gyrate viciously in each one of them.\n\nA careful survey of the river between Ichang and Chungking at different levels has led me to the conclusion that navigation on this part of the Yang-tsze with steam-ships of sufficient carrying capacity to enable them to pay is quite impracticable, and that from a commercial point of view, the only feasible method is by means of shallow-draft tug-boats, especially constructed to tow shallow-draft flats.\n\nOn a river such as I have described, the great point to aim at in any navigation scheme is the smallest outlay of capital possible at the beginning, and with this end in view, I would propose to start operations with one tug-boat and one flat only, commencing to run through to Chungking at the most favourable season, and then to extend the flotilla as the necessary experience is gained.\n\nThe feasibility of towing in these waters I have proved by experiments conducted with an ordinary steam launch and cargo junk. The tug-boat would be fitted with special appliances for hauling over such rapids as she, with her tow, could not steam.\n\nAt the expiration of the first year, if the tug-boat had demonstrated the feasibility of keeping up a more or less regular service between Ichang and Chungking, the flotilla might be increased, working on the experience gained until it was sufficiently large to cope with the traffic.\n\nThe tug and flat system for these particular waters has much to recommend it. To begin with, safety in this case means handiness, and for that quality, the tug and flat system is the best. It is also the most economical system that I know, costing less for upkeep and running expenses than any other. The risks attending it would, moreover, not be more than in the case of the ordinary junk navigation—probably much less. It is lack of motive power which accounts for most of the accidents to native vessels on the Upper River, and by adopting this system, we practically have the junk with the motive power attached.\n\nA capital of about 10,000l would be required to float a Company for this purpose and purchase the two vessels. I would recommend that the tug-boat and flat be built in England by Messrs. Yarrow and Co., who are experts in the art of building shallow-draft vessels for river service. Such craft could not be built either in Shanghae or in Japan.\n\nThe cost of the tug-boat as per specifications attached would be approximately 5,750l, and that of the flat 2,500l. Working expenses I estimate at from 800 taels to 1,000 taels per month, and the earnings at from 2,000 taels to 2,500 taels per month.\n\n(Signed) S. C. PLANT,\n\n(Note. This Memorandum was written by Captain Plant for presentation to the Chinese authorities.—H. H. F.)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nA Practical Scheme for Steam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze, proposed by S. C. Plant, of Chungking.\n\nIN the first place, I consider it is necessary to state that my experience with rivers and river navigation extends over a period of nearly twenty years, on the Tigris,",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n[March 21.]\n\n18 MAY 08\n\nSECTION 5.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[9686]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 21.)\n\n(No. 54.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 1, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 13 of the 7th ultimo, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a further despatch, and its inclosures, which I have addressed to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio on the subject of the imitation and use in China by Japanese of British and foreign trade-marks. The samples are not inclosed.\n\nI take the opportunity of forwarding to you at the same time copy of a recent letter from the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghae to the Senior Consul in reply to an inquiry from the Consular Body as to the effect of \"provisional registration\" of trade-marks in Shanghae with regard to the rest of China.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\nPeking, February 1, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch of the 6th ultimo, on the subject of Japanese infringements of British and other trade-marks in China, I have the honour to forward to your Excellency copy of a letter addressed to the Acting Commercial Attaché by the agent of the American Trading Company at Shanghae, transmitting some samples of Japanese imitations of foreign soaps and tooth-powders with their originals. The letter from the Company is explanatory of the samples and of the methods employed by the Japanese in introducing the imitations into the interior of China. The specimen imitations of toilet soap and tooth-powder manufactured by the firm of J. G. Mouson and Co. would appear to be the same as those mentioned in despatch No. 89 of the 11th November from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, copy of which was forwarded to your Excellency in my despatch of the 9th December.\n\nI also have the honour to forward copy of a despatch from Sir Alexander Hosie,* transmitting two bottles of glycerine-one a British production, the other a Japanese imitation of the same. Sir Alexander Hosie has also furnished me with a sample of Japanese drilling bearing Sir Elkanah Armitage and Sons' well-known \"Crocodile mark, together with a sample of the original. These I am also forwarding to your Excellency with copy of the covering semi-official letter.*\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Hobson to M. Siffert.\n\nBranch Office of the Bureau for Registration of Trade-marks, Shanghae, January 20, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, in which, on behalf of the Consular Body, you inquire \"What is the effect of the provisional registration of trade-marks at your office in Shanghae with regard to the rest of China, and if, for instance, registration at Shanghae covers Tien-tsin?\" further inquire, with reference to this matter, what measures we take, or propose to\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2889]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE, \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[16110] \n\n0. \n\n[May 11] \n\n## SECTION 3. \n\nLJUN 08 \n\n620 \n\n### No. 1. \n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 11.) \n\n**(No. 96.)** Sir, \n\nTokió, April 15, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch No. 241 of the 29th October, 1907, and your subsequent telegrams, I have now the honour to transmit herewith a copy of our Counter-draft Convention as it stands at present after the various alterations which you have instructed me to make have been effected. \n\nIn two places I have made minor alterations, viz., \"China and Corea\" into \"China or Corea\" in Article 2, and \"firm name and hong mark\" into \"firm name or hong mark\" in the same Article, for which I did not think it necessary to obtain telegraphic sanction, but I have the honour to request that they may be approved. \n\nIn connection with the question conveyed in your telegram No. 23 as to whether it is possible under the Law now in force to register marks when intended for use in China and Corea but not necessarily in Japan, and also whether in such cases it would be in the power of Japanese Consular Courts to take action in case of infringement, and my telegram No. 28 in reply thereto, I have the honour to inclose a Confidential Memorandum of a conversation which took place between Mr. Adachi, of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Crowe. \n\nMr. Adachi, before replying, consulted the Director of the Patent Bureau. It will be noticed that he said that under the Law now in force marks, even though not actually in use in Japan, may be registered by the Patent Bureau, but that under the present Law, even where marks were so registered, the Japanese Consular Courts could not take action in cases of infringement. When, however, the Convention for mutual protection of trade-marks is signed, the Consular Courts would be empowered to take action by virtue of the Convention, which would supplement the existing Law. \n\nThis is in accordance with the principle that the provisions of a Treaty have the force of law when the provisions of the Treaty do not come in conflict with the provisions of the Law. \n\nIt is possible that the Japanese Government may hold that the proposed insertion with regard to the protection in Japan of hong marks, &c., without the necessary registration, is not in conformity with the Japanese Law on the subject, but their opinion on this point cannot be definitely ascertained until our counter-draft is presented, because in the American draft Convention, as shown in my despatch No. 95 of to-day, a different attitude is taken with regard to hong marks. \n\nThe final paragraph of the Memorandum inclosed herewith was added subsequently by Mr. Adachi after further consultation with Mr. Nakamatsu, of the Patent Bureau. They felt that a difficulty might arise if, in the application for registration, it were clearly stated that a mark was to be used solely in China or Corea, as the presumption of the Patent Bureau is that, even though a mark is not in use in Japan, it will probably be used there sooner or later. \n\nIt seems unlikely, however, that any patent agent in applying for registration would go out of his way to make a statement which was not called for. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.** \n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\n**Counter Draft of Convention for Reciprocal Protection of Trade-marks in China and Corea.** \n\nHIS Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, being desirous of securing in China and Corea reciprocal protection... \n\n[2967 1-3]",
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        "content_text": "793\n\ni\n\n2\n\npromote legislation enabling German subjects resident in foreign Concessions in China to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Consular authorities of such Concessions--an arrangement which at present is contrary to German law.\n\nThe position at present, as Dr. Kriege frankly admitted, is that the German Concession authorities are directed to insist on alien residents and their national authorities accepting a status which German residents in other Concessions cannot be allowed to submit to.\n\nThe French, Russian, Italian, and Belgians likewise decline to approve of their nationals accepting the German rules, and the French and Russian procedure as to alien residents in their Concessions is identical with ours. that the Japanese, whose Consul has approved the rules more than once, will follow Dr. Kriege opines, however, the German precedent, which places foreigners in a residents, for, though claiming complete jurisdiction over natives within their Concession, the Germans try them in a Mixed Court presided over by a German and a Chinese officer.\n\nOf the two British holders of lots in the German Concession here, the British Cigarette Company signed the rules; but Mr. Flaherty, then my Vice-Consul, only witnessed the signature and certified the authority of the agent who signed them. Messrs. Vestey Brothers also signed the rules, and Mr. Combe, in my absence at Kuling and without consulting me, approved them. In the latter instance, as when my predecessor in 1898 approved the British subject Cain's accepting similar conditions for the recognition of his sole ownership of land within the German Concession earlier bought from Chinese, it is very probable that the exact bearing of the second rule on the personal liability of the alien lot-holder to be tried in the German Court was not fully explained. The wording might well be taken to mean nothing more than the recognition of Concession rules and of the Concession nation's law respecting the transfer, mortgage, and demise of land, which is all we ask of alien purchasers of our lots, especially since German and other foreign residents on our Concession have for forty years claimed and been granted the right of being justiciable only by their own Courts, and had successfully denied the right of our police to enter their premises without the written permission of their Consular authorities.\n\nI should myself have inclined to this interpretation, but for a visit some time ago from my French colleague, whose assurance of the extent of the German claim was formally confirmed by Dr. Kriege.\n\nI submit that, legally, a Concession is distinguished from a Colony, within which the owner's national law and Courts have sole jurisdiction, by the fact that China has not parted with her original ownership of the soil, and so extra-territorial rights have not been extinguished.\n\nThis distinction is recognized by the German authorities, for when my United States' colleague claimed exemption for certain taxes on his house within their Concession, on the plea that this was the regular privilege of foreign Consuls resident in Germany and its dependencies, this application was rejected on the express ground of the Concession not being German territory.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n3\n\nConsular officer to approve an undertaking by a British subject in China the effect of which is to remove him from the jurisdiction of the British Courts, and to render him liable to prosecution, fine, or imprisonment under the law and by the Courts of some I should be glad, therefore, if you would satisfy me as to the exact meaning of the second of your Regulations for the purchase of land.\n\nother nation.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nHerr von Loehneysen to Consul-General Fraser,\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nHankou, December 3, 1907. IN reply to your letter of the 28th ultimo. I beg to inform you that every owner of a piece of land situated in the German Concession is bound to observe the \"Regulations for the Purchase of Land,\" of which I inclose three copies.\n\nTherefore, the intending buyer of a piece of land in the German Concession has \"to submit to the German law and jurisdiction in all legal matters connected with bis land and his position as a member of the municipal community\" (obligation under 2), and to sign \"a declaration in writing to the effect that he personally submits to the above Regulations, which declaration, if he is a subject of a Treaty Power, must be approved by his Consul\" (obligation under 5).\n\nAs the owner has to submit to the German jurisdiction in all legal matters connected with his land, he has to appear, in case of non-observance or infringement of the Concession Regulations, before the German Court, in accordance to his declaration approved of by his Consul. This submission to the German jurisdiction is, of course, an exception to the rule, according to which every foreigner in China is exclusively submitted to the Courts of his own nationality; but this exception refers only to legal matters connected with his land in the German Concession. In order to enforce a judgment of the German Court against a foreigner we should only be able to take hold not of the person, but of the piece of ground, and have it sold or arrested.\n\nIn every other respect we should have to apply to the Consul of the foreigner in question.\n\nYesterday Dr. Kriege had the honour to submit to your inspection a document wherein Sir Pelham Warren in 1898 approved of the declaration written by Captain Cain, intending buyer of a piece of land in the German Concession, in which Mr. Cain had submitted to German law and jurisdiction.\n\nI should feel much obliged if you would let me have your valuable opinion as to whether you can agree with Sir Pelham Warren's point of view or not.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) v. LOEHNEYSEN,\n\nConsul for Germany,\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Herr von Loehneysen.\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nMR. EVERALL, a British subject, informs me that before Lot 42 in the German\n\nHankow, November 28, 1907. Concession can become his property your Office requires that he sign, and I approve his signing, a submission to certain Regulations which he produces governing the purchase of land in your Concession by other than German subjects.\n\nThese Regulations seem to be generally similar to the system in force in this and the other Concessions in regard to alien purchase of lots, but I do not find the usual statement that, in case of non-observance or infringement of the Concession Regulations and bye-laws, the defaulter will be brought before the Court of his own nationality.\n\nI am, of course, quite willing to guarantee the enforcement upon my nationals who acquire land or house property in your or any other Hankow Concession of all its Regulations and bye-laws; but, in my opinion, it is not in the power of any British\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations for the Purchase of Land.\n\nTHE landowner is bound-\n\n1. To become a member of the municipality of the German Concession at Hankow, in accordance with the statute of the community, to fulfil the duties in connection therewith, and to submit to the Police Regulations of the Concession under penalty of a stipulated fine, the amount of which shall be equal to the highest fine provided for in the respective Police Regulation.\n\n2. To submit to the German law any jurisdiction in all legal matters connected with his land and his position as a member of the municipal community.\n\n3. To guarantee that the obligation under 1 and 2 are also taken over and carried out by his lessees, tenants, or any other person or persons to whom he may transfer his rights, as well as by sub-lessees, sub-tenants, &c.\n\n4. To obtain the formal consent of the Imperial German Consul at Hankow before any sale or transfer of his property to any person not being a German subject is\n\n[2921- -5]\n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nAs I saw no reason why I should not be frank on this subject with Mr. Kawakami, and inasmuch as he already knew my position, I replied in substance as follows, after informing him that I had as yet received no instructions whatever from my Government regarding the matter, and therefore the position I had taken should not be considered as necessarily the views of Government.\n\nmy\n\nThe grounds upon which I based my refusal to recognize the Railway's administration were:-\n\n1. Article 3 of the Portsmouth Treaty, which restores entirely and completely to the exclusive administration of China all portions of Manchuria excepting the Liaotung Peninsula, and stipulates that Russia does not have in Manchuria any territorial advantages or preferential or exclusive concessions in the impairment of Chinese sovereignty, or inconsistent with the principle of equal opportunity;\n\n2. The opening of Harbin by China to international trade and residence without a protest being made from Russia or the railway, or the announcement that either held any special rights of administration, which should be interpreted to mean that if any such rights were previously held they were waived or had been nullified by the Portsmouth Treaty; and\n\n3. As the status of the Railway was private or non-political, it was incompetent to exercise the municipal administration over a place open to international trade and residence that would in any manner interfere with the Treaty rights of other nations. The Railway Company certainly held extensive interests in Harbin, but as it was not a political body, its rights could be only private. It being created by the Chinese Government on one side and the Russo-Chinese Bank, a private corporation, on the other, it is difficult to see how it could take upon itself the exercise of political functions from the Russian Government which is legally known only indirectly in its affairs.\n\nWhile the Railway Company was, in a legal sense, a private or non-political body, it seems true that before the late war the Japanese Government considered it the chief instrument by which the Russian Government was endeavouring to extend its influence in Manchuria. When the conditions now existing in the North extended over the whole of Manchuria and appeared to threaten China's sovereignty, Japan considered the situation of so grave importance that she went to war with Russia, in her declaration of which she clearly set forth as one of the chief causes the fact that China's sovereignty in Manchuria was threatened. At the conclusion of the war, as a guaranty that Russia would not again attempt to infringe upon China's sovereignty in this region, Japan secured from her the clear and unequivocal pledges to completely evacuate Manchuria, to restore it entirely and completely to the exclusive administration of China, and that she (Russia) had in the region no territorial advantages or preferential or exclusive concessions in the impairment of Chinese sovereignty, or inconsistent with the principle of equal opportunity, as stipulated in the Portsmouth Treaty. This Treaty having been made known to the different Powers, must naturally be considered as the most important fact regarding the true political status of Manchuria.\n\nEvidently in order to give additional strength to the \"open door\" policy in Manchuria, in Article 1 of the Supplementary Agreement to the Treaty between China and Japan, signed 22nd December, 1905, Japan secured from China the Agreement to open Harbin, as well as other places in the North, to international trade and residence. That Japan did not recognize Russia's (or the Railway's) absolute and exclusive right of administration in Harbin, but considered China as the proper authority to open the place, is shown by the fact that Japan made the Agreement with China. If we consider China as competent to open the place, in my opinion we must consider her as the competent authority to administer it; else the opening of Harbin by China is farcical. As is well known, there is no other Harbin than the railway town, and therefore could not have been any other town or locality that was meant. Harbin is different from Tsingtao and other places leased to foreign Governments. The Railway Company which claims this place is a private Company and supposedly under Chinese sovereignty.\n\nBeing accredited only to the Chinese Government, and not having been officially informed that China had extended any administrative rights to this private Company, if I recognized in it the rights of administration as against those of China, that Government would have just cause for complaint at my actions. The Russian Government has here a Consular Representative whom I consider as the regular and competent officer for the treatment of all political questions. To divide his functions with a private Railway Company appeared to me wholly irregular and unwarranted, at least until I was officially informed of its true status, and that it was competent to perform the functions that it claims, and could be held responsible for its administrative conduct.\n\nAt any\n\n5\n\nrate, as the situation now stood, and until I received other instructions, in my opinion, I could only consider that China had opened Harbin, and that my Consulate was in here on an equality with the other Consulates. This, however, depended upon the instructions that I should receive from my Government.\n\nI then asked Mr. Kawakami if he could inform me upon what grounds he had recognized the Railway Company's administration in Harbin. His answer was a bit incoherent, or, perhaps, I failed to grasp the meaning of his reply or the idea that he intended to convey.\n\nHe referred to Article 6 of the original Agreement between China and the Russo-Chinese Bank for the construction of the railway, and also said that I would, of course, understand that their interests required such action. He added that, in his opinion, the reciprocal recognition by the Japanese and the Russian Governments of the other's Railway Administration brought no advantage to Japan, as there were practically no Russians or Russian interests in the South, while there were a large number of Japanese with considerable interests in the North which would probably increase.\n\nSince the opening of his Consulate-General in March of last year, Mr. Kawakami's actions regarding the political situation here have been erratic. At the time of his arrival here he took a stand against the Railway Company's administration of the town. After making a short trip to Japan in June he became passive until the end of October, when he again showed a rebellious spirit against the Railway Company, and at that time suggested to me that we work together to compel the Railway Company to relinquish its claim to the Administration. I outlined to him my views much as I have expressed them above, and told him I should be pleased to work with him along those lines. I heard nothing further of any energetic action being taken by him against the Railway's scheme of administration; but about the end of the year he threw himself socially and officially into the arms of the railway officials, and he has since been an intimate associate of General Groubchefsky, the Chief of the Company's civil affairs, the most devoted worker for its cause.\n\nIn an interview yesterday with the Acting Taotai of Harbin he expressed acute disappointment that the Japanese had failed to support him in his protest against the bringing in of the Railway's scheme for the administration of Harbin. He told me that Mr. Kawakami had pledged him his support in case the protest was made; to his great surprise, he had received official notification from Mr. Kawakami that the Railway's administration would be recognized by him, and that he had notified his nationals accordingly. He added that, had China done such an act, serious results would no doubt have followed.\n\nI have been privately informed that Mr. Kawakami, before interviewing me on the 10th instant, called upon the other Consular Representatives in Harbin to obtain their opinion as to the Railway's administration, i.e., the French Consular Agent, the Belgian Vice-Consul (honorary), and a Spanish Commercial Attaché, who is here to study the situation and open a Consulate if warranted. I am assured that their personal opinions were all unfavourable to the Railway's scheme.\n\nIt is clear that the Japanese Government is doing everything it can to instal the Railway's administration here. At first the assistance it gave was of a semi-private and secret nature, which has now developed into open support of the Railway's policy. This is, without doubt, the manifestation of a complete understanding between the Russian and the Japanese Governments as to their respective intentions regarding the \"door\" policy in Manchuria.\n\nopen\n\nIn my opinion the time has arrived when, if the \"open door\" policy in Manchuria is to be anything more than idle fiction, it must receive earnest support from the nations that wish the term interpreted in its true meaning. Russia's intentions in the North, it appears to me, cannot be mistaken. General Gronbehefsky, the Chief of the civil affairs of the Railway, has informed the local Chinese authorities that Chinese police must not enter the Railway's territory. The Russian Consul-General, in a recent interview with the Harbin Taotai, stated that Harbin must be considered as a purely Russian town. In this high-handed conduct Russia, of course, is bluffing. It only lies with the Powers that oppose Russia's course to meet the situation squarely by taking a firm stand in China's behalf until she can instal her rightful administration. opinion, there could be no serious menace in such a stand taken by the other Powers. When Russia realizes that earnestness is meant, she will come down. She knows too well the dangers that lurk in the revolutionary spirit that permeates her whole political structure from one end to the other, even to her army and navy, and which is waiting for an opportunity to burst forth. With her Near Eastern difficulties, provincial strifes, and financial and other domestic problems, she cannot now afford to take another\n\nIn my\n\n801",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n0.\n\n25781 [July:1.]\n\n126\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[22611]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n16 JUL 18\n\n(No. 264.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 1.)\n\nPeking, June 10, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copies of correspondence regarding a case of fraudulent imitation by a Japanese firm of the trade-mark of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. From this it will be seen that an employé of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, whilst at Tielling in Manchuria on the 2nd May, learnt that sugar purporting to be from his firm's refinery in Hong Kong, was being sold by a Japanese. On further inquiry, he found that the sugar was put up in bags of smaller weight than those packed at the Hong Kong refinery, and that the quality was far inferior. A bag of this sugar was purchased from the Japanese firm, and a receipt was obtained declaring the sugar to be from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's refinery.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden brought the case to the attention of his Japanese colleague, but as the Consular Court would have no jurisdiction in such a case until the Convention is completed for the mutual protection in China of British and Japanese trade-marks, I addressed a letter to the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires on the 25th May, asking him whether he could not take steps to stop the infringement, as was done more than once in similar cases during my time in Corea.\n\nOn the 1st June Mr. Abé replied, in the letter of which I have the honour to inclose a copy, informing me that the Vice-Consul at Tiehling had been instructed to investigate the matter and to endeavour to stop the infringement if he should find the complaint well-founded.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkió.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(No. 44.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, May 19, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a letter I have received from the agent of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in Newchwang with reference to the infringement of their trade-marks and general imitation of the packing of the sugar produced by the Taikoo refinery at Hong Kong.\n\nI brought the case informally to the notice of Mr. Kato, my Japanese colleague, on the 14th instant, and asked him whether, in the event of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire having registered their trade-mark in Japan, it would be possible for them to proceed against Japanese firms guilty of fraudulent imitations in the Consular Courts in Manchuria.\n\nMr. Kato replied that he thought that the matter would be outside Consular jurisdiction, but stated that similar cases had arisen within his experience in Corea, where Japanese officials had effected a satisfactory settlement without recourse to the law courts.\n\nMr. Kato was leaving Mukden the next day, Mr. Yoshida, an élève-Consul of inconsiderable experience, being left temporarily in charge of the Consulate-General. I accordingly asked Mr. Kato whether, if I sent the case to Mr. Yoshida, it would be possible for him to inquire into and take steps in the matter. Mr. Kato answered that Mr. Yoshida could do nothing but refer the question to the Foreign Office.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of a letter I have addressed to Mr. Yoshida; but as it appears to me that the case is one of aggravated fraud, and that local representations are not likely to prove effective, I venture to place the matter in your hands at once.\n\n[1844 a-2\n\n-2]",
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        "content_text": "signed. This Board, having reported the transaction to the Throne on the 27th June, and having received the Imperial Decree \"Noted,\" request your Highness to inform His Britannic Majesty's Minister.\" \n\nIn the 17th year of Kuang Hsu (1891) the Tsung-li Yamén informed the foreign Representatives at Peking that Chinese officials, high and low, making loans from foreign merchants must memorialize the Throne and place the transactions on record beforehand. In the present instance the Board of Communications, having concluded a loan of 1,000,000 Kuei-p'ing taels with the Peking branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, have declared that the transaction has been reported to and authorized by the Throne. \n\nI have the honour to communicate the above-mentioned facts for your Excellency's information, and to request that the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation may be directed to act in accordance with the Agreement. \n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) Prince CHING, \n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\nSir J. Jordan to Mr. E. Hillier. \n\nSir, \n\nBritish Legation, Peking, July 1, 1903. WITH reference to your letter of the 20th June, I beg to inform you that I received last evening from the Wai-wu Pu an official communication stating that the Agreement for a loan of 1,000,000 taels, which was concluded by your bank with the Board of Communications on the 20th June, has been reported to the Throne and authorized by Imperial Decree. \n\nA translation of the Wai-wu Pu's despatch is inclosed herewith.* \n\nI am, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN. \n\n* See Inclosure 2. \n\nC\n\n[B]\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's\n\nC.: 508\n\n34061\n\n13 SEP 09\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[29948]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 29.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 29.)\n\n(No. 198. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nTokió, August 1, 1908. WITH reference to your despatch No. 21, Consular, of the 29th April, I have the honour to transmit herewith a Report on a journey to Manchuria recently made by His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Dairen. In accordance with your instructions Mr. Parlett has devoted special attention to the question of railway Settlements, as well as to that of the prospects of British trade at Harbin. British trade at present appears to be very small in North Manchuria, and the duties of a Consul at Harbin would be more those of a Political Agent than those usually associated with the office of Consul. As Sir John Jordan points out in his despatch No. 817 of the 14th July to you, His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden is Consul-General for Manchuria, and, as such, pays periodical visits to Harbin. Until, therefore, there is a large increase in British trade, or until such time as His Majesty's Government may, for political reasons, consider it expedient to have an Agent at Harbin, I agree with Sir John Jordan that there appears to be no immediate necessity for appointing a special Consular officer to the post.\n\nMr. Parlett at the same time lays stress on the potentialities of North Manchuria and suggests that a careful investigation by experts, under the auspices of some representative body like the China Association, might with advantage be made. Sir Alexander Hosie has, however, recently been over all the ground, and his views are embodied in the Report which was forwarded to His Majesty's Government, the contents of which are doubtless known to the China Association.\n\nThe most interesting part in Mr. Parlett's Report lies in what he has to say about the South Manchurian Railway Company and its intimate connection with the Mitsui Bussan Kwaisha. This firm is the most powerful Japanese firm in existence, possessing as it does the strongest political support in Tokió, and, though it has always been difficult to lay any definite charge of differential treatment at the doors of the Japanese in Manchuria, the charges that have—often too recklessly—been made are doubtless in part due to the knowledge of the subtle relationship existing between this firm and the Railway Company.\n\nAnd\n\nAs to the imperium in imperio ordained by the Railway Company with its claim to administrative rights in the railway Settlement and the civil government of Kwantung, it is not unnatural that friction between the respective officials should ensue. this friction is not likely to grow less by reason of Baron Goto's removal to Tôkiô, as he will still be able to directly supervise the management of the Railway Company, and may be expected to support a system which he has created. It appears all too evident that the system of administration in the railway Settlements is gradually assimilating itself to that claimed by the Russians at Harbin. In this connection, namely, that of the growing community of interests between the Russians and the Japanese in Manchuria, I am given to understand that Baron Goto, when in St. Petersburgh, canvassed the support, at any rate the moral support, of the Russian Government on the question of the Fakumen Railway on the ground that its eventual continuation to Tsitsihar would be no less disadvantageous to the Russians than it was to the Japanese.\n\nMr. Parlett finally proposes that a junior member of the Japan Consular Service should be attached to His Majesty's Consulate-General at Mukden in view of the growing influence of the Japanese in Manchuria and the advantage of keeping in close touch with Japanese policy, railway and political. Sir John Jordan, while recognizing these advantages, considers that it might be a matter of offence to the Chinese in general, and Tong Shoayi in particular, as likely to give the impression\n\n[1905 -1]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "I understand that the market for woollen cloth is quite promising, and that Indian yarns have a better sale than any others over the whole province. Fancy and miscellaneous goods are for the most part German or Japanese, and the same, I believe, is the case with the cheaper forms of farming implements. Though I do not wish to speak dogmatically, it seems to me that the demand for foreign goods generally must improve as the north and north-eastern parts of the province are gradually brought into touch with the outer world. I would therefore ask if it is not possible for the north Manchurian markets to be made the subject of careful investigation by experts under the auspices of some representative body like the China Association. It is obvious that with the best intentions in the world the ordinary Consular officer has not the technical training necessary to determine with real accuracy the latent possibilities of these new markets. And, as \"God helps those who help themselves,\" it would be more to the point if British merchants laid aside their methods of verbal complaint against their Japanese rivals in favour of the more practical system of endeavouring to forestall their ambitious designs.\n\nIn connection with the railway Settlements, I should state that of those I saw the most promising was Tiehling. Though the work of construction here was only commencing, there was an air of comparative prosperity about the place which promised well for the future. This is easily intelligible because Tiehling is an important centre for the bean and bean-cake trade, and at the same time a port of shipment on the Liao for merchandise destined for Newchwang.\n\nCareful and systematic plans have been drawn up of all the Settlements along the line, and there is no doubt in my mind that these places will, when they are completed, by the mere force of their respectable organization attract merchants both Chinese and Japanese to reside within their borders. Trade will naturally follow suit.\n\nKharbin.\n\nKharbin is full of an air of despondency. The trade, such as it is, appears from inquiries I made to be mainly in the hands of the Jews and the Germans, with whom the Russian, who is a child in business matters and fated for years to be exploited by others, cannot hope to compete. It has frequently, if I recollect rightly, been stated that Kharbin's prosperity depended entirely on the recent war, and perhaps from the Russian point of view this is correct. This dictum does not, however, take into account the fact that of far more importance than the trade just alluded to, which is a parasitical one of Russian preying on Russian—an exact counterpart of what is happening to-day on a smaller scale in the Japanese railway Settlements—is that with the Chinese. This, by reason of Kharbin's situation within the wheat-belt and on a broad and navigable river, the Sungari, seems likely to become full of promise when the period of depression and despondency succeeding the war passes away. It is difficult, nevertheless, to anticipate what share will fall to the British merchant.\n\nThe United States' Consul, of whom I made inquiries generally, told me that there was quite a respectable demand for British woollen articles, which came apparently by way of Newchwang or Vladivostock. He could not, however, instance any other English-made goods for which there was any sale. Nor were there any British subjects in the town. There was no room, in his opinion, for a foreign bank at present. Any business going was willingly taken up by the Russo-Chinese Bank. Mr. Kawakami, the Japanese Consul-General, was even stronger on the same subject. According to him, the Siberian Commercial Bank had endeavoured to open a branch in the town, but had been warned off because the place was regarded as a preserve of the other institution. I think this is probably the reason why the Yokohama Specie Bank, which has branches as far north as Kwanchengtzu, has not yet put in an appearance at Kharbin.\n\nThe United States' Consul was very anxious to persuade me of the necessity of establishing a British Consular officer at this place, asserting that if this were not done we should find too late that our share of the trade had been captured by the Germans. I take it, however, that his anxiety was really mainly prompted by his desire to have someone to back him in his attitude against the Chinese Eastern Railway. The uses of the stalking-horse are quite familiar to both Americans and Germans in the Far East.\n\nThe other Powers represented at Kharbin are Russia, by a Consul-General; Belgium, by a Consul; France, by a Consular Agent; and Spain, by a Commercial Attaché. It is also reported that a German Consulate is shortly to be opened.\n\nConsidered from the point of view of actual existing trade interests, it does not appear to me that the presence of a British Consular officer in Kharbin is immediately necessary; on the other hand, the political situation is such that it may in the near future become highly desirable, for the safeguarding of British interests, that His Majesty's Government be represented on the spot. Signs are not wanting of Japan's desire to effect a rapprochement with Russia, and though it by no means follows that the consummation of such an object would necessarily be attended with disadvantage to ourselves, it nevertheless appears to me distinctly desirable that the actions of the two Powers in the north of Manchuria should not be allowed to pass disregarded. I can think of no locality more suitable for purposes of scrutiny or the acquisition of intelligence than Kharbin, and for these reasons only would I recommend that the establishment of a Consular officer at Kharbin be taken into serious consideration. Pending the decision of His Majesty's Government in the matter, I would suggest that British interests in the town be confided to the care of His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden.\n\nIn addition to Kharbin, there is another trade-mart in Manchuria which seems to me worthy of attention. This is Kirin, which is presently to be linked by a branch line to the South Manchuria Railway's system. There is no reason why at this place, which lies in one of the most fertile districts of Manchuria, promising openings should not be found for British trade. I would therefore recommend that it be made the subject of investigation when the railway linking it with Changchun is completed.\n\nFinally, I would beg leave to submit the following suggestions for the consideration of His Majesty's Government:\n\n1. That an Assistant from the Japan Consular Service be attached to His Majesty's Consulate-General at Mukden, to enable the officer in charge of that post to keep in close touch with the Japanese. On this suggestion I wish to lay some emphasis. Mukden is the senior Japanese Consular post along the line, and to it all the other Consulates report. It is also, next to Dairen, the most important of the Railway Company's offices. It is, finally, the Chinese seat of government in this part of Manchuria, and consequently the place to which every question affecting the Japanese throughout the province must at some time or other be referred. For His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden to form a correct opinion of questions concerning Chinese and Japanese, or Japanese and foreigners, he should have an accurate knowledge not only of the Chinese language and ways of thought, but also of the Japanese. This, under present circumstances, is an impossibility. Yet if he does not possess this knowledge, he is unable to form a correct estimate of the reasons and objects directing Japanese action, or to obtain full and correct information on matters concerning Japanese policy, railway or political. Mukden is a city which appears to me to be almost as important from a Japanese point of view as from a Chinese, and for His Majesty's Consul-General to be in a position to report authoritatively on both, it seems to me distinctly necessary that he should receive assistance from the Japan establishment. I would therefore, subject naturally to the approval of His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, strongly recommend that an assistant be selected from the Japan service for temporary service in the Consulate-General at the latter place, and that the appointment depend solely on qualifications, and not on seniority;\n\n2. That, even at the risk of overlapping, His Majesty's Vice-Consul be authorized to report on any question in Manchuria in which the Japanese are concerned. It will be remembered that the limit of his jurisdiction is the frontier of the leased territory. I do not think it is necessary to advance reasons in support of this proposal, but if considered necessary they will be forthcoming;\n\n3. That, as I suggested in a private letter to His Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo last year, copies of despatches of general interest be exchanged between the Consulates in Manchuria; or\n\n4. That, if this be found impossible in practice, they be supplied with copies of the print when it refers to Manchuria.\n\nI venture to offer these suggestions because it appears to me that their practical realization would result in the increased usefulness to the public service of the officers concerned. It is obvious that in the open markets of Manchuria, every one of which is a piece of China and a piece of Japan, questions in which the latter are concerned cannot be treated as isolated and independent, but as a part of a whole.\n\nPage 512",
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        "content_text": "at the other Treaty ports in China; that, for particular reasons, it was not considered advisable for the Russian Government to declare the true status of the Railway Company when it was created, but that its actual status had been recently made known, and he thought that no one could now deny that it was a political body; this could be plainly seen in the fact that it was officered by Russian Generals and other officials in the service of the Russian Government. When three Governments, Russia, Japan, and China, were parties to such a matter as the original Agreement for the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company in Manchuria, there could be no doubt that the respective interests of Russia and Japan were of an official nature. Japan now being a party to the original Agreement, is entitled to all its benefits. Regarding the municipal administration of Harbin, he stated that it appeared that the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the adjustment of this question were impracticable. It was true that the Railway Company, or rather, the Russian Government, had failed to announce its special rights in the town of Harbin at the time the place was declared open to international trade and residence by China, but that was a minor matter which he expected to adjust after his arrival at Peking. He said he realized that the work before him was difficult, as the Chinese Government was now endeavouring to evade the terms of the unfavourable Agreement it made, which gave the Railway Company such extensive rights, but he hoped I would not take any action here that would tend to embarrass him in the adjustment of the questions connected with the situation here, and in his efforts to improve the economical conditions in Harbin in particular, and in all North Manchuria in general.\n\nTo his remarks I replied that I had no desire whatever to interfere with the rights of the Russian Government here, but on the other hand sincerely wished that he might be able to arrive at an early settlement of those questions, as at present the situation here appeared to be very inconvenient to everybody. As regards the status of the Railway Company, I had been assured by General Groubchevsky, the former chief of its civil affairs, that it was private, and I believed that the views of the United States' Government on that subject had already been expressed to the Russian Ambassador at Washington. He would, of course, understand that in my position here I must be guided by the different Treaties, including our own, bearing on the situation, of which I was informed. Being accredited to China I could not take any action that would be offensive to that Government, as regards matters of administration, &c., or that would interfere in any way with the measures that China might wish to take for the general development of Manchuria. I assured him that I had no wish to do anything that would embarrass him in adjusting these questions in fairness to all, and I hoped he would urge upon the Russian railway guard, and other local officials, the importance of respecting our Treaty rights and the principles of exterritoriality, the latter of which were long established, and were matters of which the different nations were very sensitive. I called his attention to the recent case of Mr. Harry Roeper (see my despatch No. 46, dated the 29th August, 1908). I also said that in my opinion the natural officer with whom other nationals expected to deal in matters in which Russian interests were involved was the Russian Consular Representative. The Railway Company could not be treated with in such matters, as it had no authority to take them up owing to its status.\n\nIf, as reported, General Horvat, the present Superintendent of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company, is to be appointed Russian Consul-General here, it is to be earnestly hoped that the Chinese Government will insist upon the principle that he give up the superintendence and all other direct connection with the affairs of that Company. With these two offices combined in one person it would be more difficult than ever for the other Consular Representatives here to deal with matters with which Russian interests are connected. Under cover of the superintendence of the Railway Company he would assume functions and take action in various official matters that a Consul-General alone would not be warranted in taking. The tendency would be to work towards a colonial governorship. It is reported that General Chichagoff, the present Commander of the railway guard in Manchuria, will soon retire, and that General Horvat, will also take over the command of those troops, numbering about 25,000.\n\nThe Railway Company's administration over Harbin, referred to in my despatches No. 20 of the 30th December last, No. 23 of the 24th January last, et seq., has been installed, so far as Russian subjects and interests are concerned. Many of the other nationals whose interests are connected with the Railway Company or are catering to Russian trade have voluntarily submitted to its authority and have paid their taxes, but others who have declined to recognize it are conducting their business without interference. Although the local Chinese authorities have assured me that they have instructed all Chinese subjects doing business in Harbin not to pay the taxes to the Administration, or to take out business licences, I am informed that practically all Chinese have paid the taxes.\n\nAs regards the other Governments, they appear to have taken but little interest in the situation here, and will probably not oppose any action that the Railway Company, or, in other words, the Russian Government, sees fit to take.\n\nOther than the Japanese Consul-General, who is actively supporting the Railway Company in its administration here, the French Government has a Consular Agent here, who is also an officer of the Russo-Chinese Bank, and therefore finds it to his personal interest to support the Railway; the Belgian Government has an honorary Vice-Consul, who is a commission merchant for contract supplies to the Railway Company; and the Austro-Hungarian Government will shortly appoint an honorary Consul who is also a commission merchant and contractor for railway supplies. The French and Austro-Hungarian Governments have recognized the Railway's administration over Harbin, with the proviso that their Treaty rights are not surrendered.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) FRED. D. FISHER,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nAmerican Consul.\n\nExtract from the \"Daveti Val,\" a daily Russian newspaper of Harbin, August 14 (27), 1908.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWE have been informed that the duties of an independent Russian Consul-General in Harbin will be abolished and these duties united with those of the Manager of the Eastern Chinese Railway, General Horvat. M. Luba (the present Consul-General) is to be superannuated and removed to a new post. In conjunction with this arrangement a new office will be established, ..., an adviser with the Consulate, to which office it is expected that Prince Meschersky the Vice-Consul at Kuanchengizu, will be appointed. The new arrangement, we think, will greatly help to put in better order Russian affairs in Manchuria. It will establish one authority and abolish the present dual prejudicial one.\n\nPage 359",
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        "content_text": "f\n\n罩\n\n!\n\n481\n\n2\n\npart of the Russian Government, namely, the open recognition of the railway as a Russian Government line.\n\nIt seems that recently friction had arisen between M. Luba, the Consul-General, and General Horwath, in consequence of which they both travelled to Manchuria station to meet the newly appointed Russian Minister on his way to Peking. M. Luba was directed to proceed to St. Petersburgh immediately; General Horwarth returned to Harbin with the Minister, and a few days later took over charge of the Consulate-General.\n\nPrince Mestchersky, the Russian Vice-Consul, told me plainly that the Russian Government were now prepared to identify themselves with the Chinese Eastern Railway, and stated that negotiations were now being carried on in Peking with the view of changing the railway territory at Harbin into a Russian Concession; such Concession, Prince Mestchersky considered, should be run on the same lines as the other foreign Concessions at the various Treaty ports.\n\nConsidering the position of the Russians at Harbin and the absence of any material British interests in the town at the present moment, a settlement of this nature is one practically against which His Majesty's Government might find it difficult to protest. All the available land is in the possession of the Railway Company, it would place Harbin in the position of a Russian Colony, with General Horwarth as Governor. In addition to his position as Chief of the Railway and Consul-General, he is, it is stated, to be given the command of the railway guards. An example of this kind is one which the Japanese Government would be not slow to follow, with consequences that I cannot fail to think would be prejudicial to our material interests.\n\nThe attitude of the Japanese Government at Harbin seems to support this view. Their Consul-General, Mr. Kawakami, who has been for many years resident in Russia, has been throughout a strong supporter of the Russian contention, and the Japanese Government, he informed me, have recognized the Railway Administration and its subordinate municipality.\n\nI inquired of Mr. Kawakami whether he had not found in practice that the Russian Regulations pressed somewhat harshly on his nationals; I alluded in particular to the undertaking which has to be signed before the acquisition of a lease or sub-lease of land or buildings.\n\nMr. Kawakami replied that hitherto no attempt had been made to deal with Japanese subjects without reference to him; that he had not as yet encountered any practical difficulty, nor did he expect any in the future. The Russians, he said, were too weak to give anyone much trouble at present.\n\nMr. Fisher, the American Consul, never loses an opportunity of contesting the Russian position. An American subject was recently arrested by the Russian police for presenting a false bank-note at a café chantant. He was taken to the police station, where inquiries were made, as the result of which he was released. He was, however, compelled to sign a document in Russian, in which an account of the incident was given, and his passport was indorsed by the police authorities. Against this action, Mr. Fisher has lodged a strong protest. He claims that as soon as the man had made out a prima facie case that he was an American citizen, he should have been brought to the American Consulate, and that the police authorities, whom he invariably describes as \"railway guards\" in his communications with the Russian officials, had no right to call upon an American citizen to sign their documents or to tamper with an American passport.\n\nMr. Fisher considers that General Horwath's appointment as Consul-General is objectionable as showing a tendency to convert the Consulate-General into a department of the Railway Administration. General Horwath is rarely at the Consulate, which seems to be left almost entirely to the Vice-Consul, whilst the General receives his visitors, as he did myself, in the offices of the Railway Administration.\n\nThe municipality, I learnt, were having considerable difficulty in collecting taxes from non-Russians. The French Consular Agent, M. Dard, who is also the Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, informed me that he had supported French subjects in their refusal to contribute. His contention was that the municipal Rules and Regulations had not been notified to him officially, and that, unless the French Minister in Peking had signified his approval of such Regulations, it was out of the question that they could be enforced against French citizens. The other Consular Representatives, except Mr. Kawakami, hold similar views, and the question is now in abeyance.\n\nThe conversion of the railway territory into an international Settlement would be in many ways the best solution of the difficulty, but to this course, it seems hardly probable that the Russian Government could be brought to consent. Their property would, of course, be improved in value if the Chinese Government would consent to a perpetual lease in lieu of the present arrangement, and the preponderance of the Russian population is so overwhelming that it would seem that, even under international Regulations, the Russians must continue for an indefinite time to be, for all practical purposes, the administrators of the territory. From this point of view, their only danger would lie in the possibility of an influx of Japanese. Even now, there are 800 Japanese in Harbin, about 60 per cent. of the non-Russian foreign population.\n\nIn whatever rapprochement there may have been recently between the Russian and Japanese Governments, I feel quite sure that the Russian officials in Harbin will do all they possibly can to discourage Japanese from settling in Northern Manchuria. In fact, the stringent Regulations which have been drawn up for the leasing of land at Harbin were, I suspect, prompted by a desire to keep Japanese rather than any other people out of the railway territory.\n\nThe form of lease, of which I inclose a copy, contains a stipulation to the effect that no sub-lease will be valid unless given to a Russian or Chinese subject, and, though this Regulation is not enforced, it has never, Mr. Fisher informed me, been formally cancelled.\n\nThe Russians have practically no interests south of Kuan Chengtzu; their branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank has recently been withdrawn from Mukden, though they still continue at Newchwang. The question of the development of the Japanese Railway Settlements is one in which the Russian Government would not seem to be particularly interested.\n\nI inclose a map of Harbin* with which I was supplied through the courtesy of General Horwath.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nForm of Lease.\n\nROBERT WILLIS,\n\nthe Administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway, by the Superintendent in Harbin, and have concluded this Agreement, to wit:\n\n1. The Superintendent of the Railway hereby grants a lease of land belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, shown on the plan as No. measuring square sajen (1 sajen is 7 feet), located at street, under the following conditions:\n\n2. The term of the lease of this land shall be equal to the term of the Concession of the Railway Company, more particularly from the date of the conclusion of this Agreement until the 1st day of January, 1983.\n\n3. The lessee hereby agrees not later than two years from the date of the conclusion of this Agreement to build upon or improve the ground, for which purpose during the said two-year term, there shall be expended a sum not less than roubles on each square sajen, or in all a sum not less than roubles.\n\n4. Before commencing to build on the land, the lessee must present to the Administration for approval a general and detailed plan of the proposed buildings. After the approval of such plans, the building may be commenced according to the approved plans and by the observance of all published Rules and Regulations regarding structure.\n\n5. The lessee shall submit to all police, structural, sanitary, trade, industrial, and other Rules that may be published by the Administration of the Railway; and also shall pay all taxes or duties brought in on the territory belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway.\n\n6. The lessee shall have no right to prevent the passing through his land of city or railway water-courses and sewer pipes, and also the suspension of poles of city and railway electric wires and cables.\n\n7. After the expiration of the two-year term mentioned in paragraph 3, or sooner, according to the request of the lessee, the land will be inspected, and if the above required conditions shall be found by the Commission to have been executed, then a notation of the examination in accordance therewith shall be made on this Agreement.\n\n* Not reproduced.",
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        "content_text": "The inclosed letter from the Acting British Consul-General at Canton may be of interest as showing the actual state of things at Macao at the present time.\n\nAltesse,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSenhor Brederode to Wai-wu Pu.\n\nPékin, le 3 Octobre, 1908. AYANT transmis au Gouvernement de Sa Majesté la note que votre Altesse m'a adressé le 31 Juillet dernier, j'ai reçu des instructions pour communiquer à votre Altesse que le Gouvernement Portugais, bien qu'il ne concorde pas avec la doctrine exposée dans la note susdite, ne veut pas, en ce moment, continuer la discussion à propos des dépendances de Macao et des territoires en litige, vu que les deux Gouvernements se sont mis d'accord pour confier la résolution de ces questions à une Commission Mixte. A cause de ce même motif, il a décidé de ne pas insister quant à présent, pour que la Chine retire ses troupes des points indiqués dans ma note du 17 Juillet.\n\nDans ce procédé amical du Gouvernement Portugais, votre Altesse voudra voir notre intention de maintenir les bonnes relations entre le Portugal et la Chine, comme du reste nous l'avons déjà manifesté en ne répondant pas, comme nous aurions pu l'avoir fait, par l'établissement de postes militaires Portugais dans les mêmes territoires, aux occupations y récemment effectuées par le Gouvernement Impérial.\n\nNéanmoins le Gouvernement Portugais déclare d'ores et déjà qu'il ne admettra jamais qu'aucune occupation postérieure au Traité de 1887 puisse jamais être considérée par la Commission ni invoquée en quelque occasion que ce soit comme établissant des droits à aucun territoire, ce qui du reste est conforme à nos antérieures déclarations de vouloir fidèlement observer le Traité et conforme également aux déclarations dans le même sens du Gouvernement Impérial, notamment dans la note précitée de votre Altesse du 31 Juillet.\n\nSuivant la teneur de ces mêmes instructions, j'ai l'honneur de communiquer à votre Altesse Impériale que les Délégués Portugais pour la délimitation de Macao et de ses dépendances sont: Francisco Diogo de Sá, Capitaine du Port de Macao; Miranda Guedes, Directeur des Travaux Publics; et Carlos d'Assumpção, Chef du Bureau des Interprètes Sinologues.\n\nLe Portugal et la Chine ayant un égal intérêt dans le rapide règlement de cette affaire, je prie votre Altesse Impériale de vouloir bien me faire savoir dans un bref délai quels fonctionnaires le Gouvernement Impérial a l'intention de nommer à l'effet de former, conjointement avec ceux désignés par le Gouvernement Portugais, la Commission Mixte, dont les pouvoirs devront être: étudier la question et négocier, ad referendum de nos deux Gouvernements, le projet de délimitation de Macao et de ses dépendances.\n\nJe profite, &c.\n\n3\n\n711\n\nHe tells me that bona fide trade is almost non-existent in the Colony. The best class of Chinese merchants, despairing of a revival of trade and disgusted at the ever-increasing taxation, are gradually leaving the place and settling in Hong Kong or Canton. One of the few remaining silk filatures, established over twenty years, was forced to close its doors in May last as the result of the imposition of a new and burdensome tax.\n\nThe principal lottery of Macao, which in Chinese hands has for some years past yielded its promoters a fair profit and the Government a steady revenue, is also closed. The Government, alleging that the \"farmer\" was making an undue profit, demanded an increased share of the winnings. The \"farmer\" refused, whereupon the Government took over the lottery themselves. For two months they ran it at a loss, then in consequence of a dispute over the payment of the first prize, the Chinese boycotted the lottery and it naturally ceased to exist. For the same reason—increased demands for money on the part of the Government—several of the largest \"fantan\" shops have quite recently been closed. The Colony's principal sources of revenue are: (1) the opium farm; (2) gambling dens; (3) brothels. No restrictions have been placed on opium-smoking, and it is hoped that the closing of the divans in Hong Kong will give an impetus to the business in Macao.\n\nWhile the all-important work of deepening the harbour is entirely neglected, large sums of money are being spent on unremunerative public works, such as sea walls, roads, and gardens. It is an open secret that the poorly paid officials in the various Government departments rely on these works, or rather the contracts in connection with them, to supplement their salaries.\n\nThe harbour, as you know, has been gradually silting up for many years owing to the deposits of mud brought down by the West River. There is now a depth of only 8 feet at high water on the bar at the entrance to the inner harbour, which falls to 4 feet at low water. The only hope of preserving the harbour lies in the construction of a gigantic breakwater and the employment for a year or two of a powerful dredger, an undertaking which, in the present state of the Colony's funds, would appear to be quite out of the question.\n\nOpinions differ as to the effect the proposed railway from Canton will have on the fortunes of Macao. Some seem to think that a railway will be the saving of the Colony; others hold that while it will certainly develop the trade of the Canton delta, the railway will hardly benefit Macao at all. I am inclined to take the latter view, because it seems to me that Macao, which practically produces nothing, manufactures nothing, and is debarred by its harbour from being a port of foreign entry and a distributing centre, is quite unfitted to serve as a railway terminus. If the Concession for a railway to Macao has been surrendered by Portugal I cannot help thinking that the Chinese will do their best to avoid running the line there at all, taking it instead to Kongmoon and Sanui. Permission to construct such a line has, as you know, been applied for by the Yuch Hau Railway Company.\n\nAs far as one can foresee, Macao's only hope of prosperity lies in a transfer to China; otherwise it will continue to be, as it is at present, a poorly patronized health resort and a feeble imitation of Monte Carlo.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nCanton, September 11, 1908. THE following notes on affairs at Macao, too fragmentary to embody in an official despatch, may be of interest to you. I derive my information from Mr. William Farmer, proprietor of the Macao Hotel, one of the few remaining British subjects resident in the Colony. A man who has had a chequered career as actor, soldier, policeman, merchant, &c., he has now settled down with a wife and family to end his days in Macao, where he appears to be on the best of terms with the authorities, both ecclesiastical, civil, and military. He is indeed regarded by them as an unofficial British Consular representative, and his good offices are always invoked when Hong Kong trippers, as frequently happens, come into conflict with the police.\n\nHis ambition is to be one day appointed our Consular Agent in Macao, and should the necessity for such an appointment ever arise, I should be disposed to recommend him for the post.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[41488]\n\n## SECTION 3\n\nSir J. Jordon to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 28.)\n\n**(No. 443. Confidential.)**\n\nPeking, October 9, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of an interesting Report by Mr. Willis, Acting Consul-General at Mukden, on the commercial situation at Harbin, to which, in accordance with my instructions, he recently paid a visit.\n\nI venture to draw your attention to the statement in this Report as to the uncertainty of there being any real equality of commercial opportunity in Manchuria so long as the railway communication is controlled by Russia and Japan, and I may state that I am in general agreement with Mr. Willis' view that the extension of the Chinese line is the most effectual safeguard against a policy of discrimination.\n\nIt is for this reason that I have encouraged the project of a railway from Chinchow Fu to Taonan Fu, which formed the subject of my despatches Nos. 359 and 435 of the 6th August and 30th September respectively.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S.-Since the above was written, I have received a further despatch from Mr. Willis, of which a copy is inclosed, illustrative of the methods employed by the Russian and Japanese Railway Administrations to further their own political aims instead of confining themselves to improving the means of communication and developing the resources of the country.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 63. Confidential.)**\n\nMukden, October 1, 1908.\n\nIN accordance with instructions contained in the last paragraph of your despatch No. 25, Confidential, of the 24th ultimo, I have the honour to submit the following Report on the commercial situation at Harbin:\n\nUnfortunately, heavy rain fell during my visit, and the roads of Harbin are under such conditions so disgracefully bad that it was impossible for me to make personal investigations to any extent in the low-lying commercial part of Harbin and the native city of Fu Chia Tien.\n\nThe material of this Report has been gathered mainly from conversations I held with M. Konovaloff, the Commissioner of Customs; Mr. Fisher, the American Consul; and M. Dard, French Consular Agent and Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank.\n\n| Nationality | Population |\n| --- | --- |\n| Russian | 20,000 (approx.) |\n|    Railway guards | 4,000 (approx.) |\n|    Chinese Eastern Railway employees | 10,000 to 12,000 |\n| Japanese | 800 |\n| Austrian | 100 |\n| German | 70 |\n| Turks, Greeks, Roumanians, Bulgarians, etc. | 500 |\n| British | ... (at least 40 to 50 Sikhs and Mr. Warburton) |\n\nAt the last census, the Russian population of Harbin was given at 23,000, but it is gradually diminishing. Of these, 4,000 approximately are railway guards, and from 10,000 to 12,000 are in the employ of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The remaining population are for the most part engaged in providing for the necessities and amusements of the railway guards and employés.\n\nOf foreign nationalities living in the railway Settlement, there are roughly 800 Japanese, 100 Austrians, 70 Germans, and about 500 Turks, Greeks, Roumanians, Bulgarians, and other unrepresented Southern European peoples. Of resident British subjects, I only succeeded in finding Mr. Warburton, the sub-Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, but I learnt that from 40 to 50 Sikhs were employed by Russian establishments as watchmen. The British American Tobacco Company have a branch at Fu Chia Tien, the Chinese town adjacent to the Russian Settlement.\n\nC. O. 1189\n11 JAN 09\nPage 49",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nprivate management, on which depends the premier industry of Tsingtau, its shipping, has evoked the most determined resistance from all sections of the community. Chinese, German, and other foreign merchants unite in condemning the scheme, the only dissentients being the few whose interests are not affected, or are even prompted by the Ordinance; the shipping Companies, for instance, who under the provisions of the Ordinance are in a large measure freed from responsibility for claims. Indignation meetings have been held by the Foreign and Chinese Chambers of Commerce; but protests, suggestions, and proposed modifications have been entirely ignored by the Government, who have persisted in forcing through this scheme in the teeth of all opposition.\n\nIt is true that the draft Regulations appear to have been submitted to the Foreign and Chinese Chambers of Commerce for an expression of their opinion, and the matter was also discussed at several interviews between various Chinese and foreign residents and Dr. Schrameier, the Commissioner for Chinese Affairs, who, if report may be trusted, is principally responsible for the scheme. But, for all the consideration they received, these opinions might just as well never have been expressed.\n\nThe best-organized and most strenuous opposition came, as might be anticipated, from the Chinese. A Chinese newspaper, the \"Tsingtau News,\" published on the 4th September the draft of the petition of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to the Governor on the subject of the Ordinance. In this petition, copy and translation of which I enclose, the Chinese point out, not without some show of reason, that they will be placed at a considerable disadvantage in dealing with an Administration wielding practically unlimited power; that they have no redress against any arbitrary action of the Administration; that the latter, feeling that it controls the situation, is not likely to evince much consideration for the interests intrusted to its care; and that it will be impossible for merchants to obtain any compensation for loss of or damage to goods resulting from the negligence of the Administration. Finally, realizing that the financial portion of the scheme is the crux of the matter, the Chinese offer to pay an impost of 50 cents per ton on all goods imported or exported—that being the average at which the fees charged under the new tariff work out—provided the shipping firms are held responsible for the payment thereof, and are also allowed to control the loading and discharging of goods as heretofore. In other words, the merchants are willing to meet the Authorities on the money question, provided they are allowed to manage their own affairs, free from Government interference.\n\nThe \"Tsingtau News\" of the 11th September contained a copy of Dr. Schrameier's reply to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, copy and translation of which I enclose. His letter held out no hope of any compromise on the one important point raised, the Government control of the wharves and godowns. The Chinese consequently turned their attention in another direction.\n\nOn the 10th September, they approached the local agent of the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship Company and endeavoured to come to some mutual Agreement outside the terms of the Ordinance. Their suggestions were that the Company should undertake on behalf of its customers all liability for the charges due under the new tariff and should also admit liability for goods lost or damaged, without reference to the position taken up by the Administration. The Chinese would thus have been freed from the necessity of entering into any relations with the Administration. The agent, however, refused to come to terms, stating that he fully approved of the scheme. This was only natural, as the Hamburg-Amerika Company are solely steamship agents; and, as stated above, are in a large measure freed from responsibility for claims under the provisions of the Ordinance. Thereupon, the Chinese decided to boycott the line, and they at once took steps to carry their decision into effect. They were afraid, however, lest they should be amenable to the law for establishing a boycott in German territory—indeed, when the boycott was first foreshadowed, it had been pointed out that it was punishable under German law with fine and imprisonment. The Chinese, however, managed to circumvent the law by making all the preliminary arrangements in Shanghai, where the boycott Agreement was eventually signed by the representatives of all the Chinese firms in Tsingtau. Under the Agreement, a fine of 1,000 taels was to be imposed on any of the signatory firms shipping by the Hamburg-Amerika Line; and if they shipped through a foreign firm, the fine was to be raised to 2,000 taels.\n\nThe boycott was completely successful; from the 10th to the 24th September, the steamers of the Hamburg-Amerika Line did not receive a single package either in Tsingtau or in Shanghai. Finally, realizing that the Chinese were in earnest, and driven to desperation by the prolonged boycott, the firm on the 24th September sent a letter to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, in which they unreservedly withdrew from their previous position, promised to pay all wharfage dues on behalf of their customers, and acknowledged liability for any damage to or loss of goods discharged from or shipped by their steamers. I enclose copy and translation of this letter. The Chinese, having carried their point, the boycott was immediately raised.\n\nThere the matter stands for the present. Whether any further difficulties will arise when the Ordinance comes into force on the 1st November is difficult to say. The Chinese may possibly rest content with the Concessions they have wrung from the shipping Companies, although it would be too much to assume that they are reconciled to the Ordinance, while the foreign merchants are as averse to it as ever.\n\nTurning now to the Ordinance itself, the claim by the Government of the right to assume control of all the wharf and godown accommodation at Tsingtau is certainly a new, almost a revolutionary, departure; and the principle, once established, would seem to be susceptible of extended application. Apart from this consideration, the monopolistic control by a Government Department of such important branches of industry is hardly likely to prove as satisfactory to the public at large as a competitive system of private enterprise, under which successful results are attained only in proportion as the interests of the merchants are considered.\n\nAs to the Regulations themselves, there is little to say, except that the Government appears to have covered itself very fully against any liability for loss or damage, and this it is which constitutes one of the chief grievances of the Chinese merchants. Even in cases where liability is theoretically admitted, the aggrieved party has got to prove explicitly that the damage or loss originated on the premises of the Wharf Administration and was due to the act of its employés, a task which would usually prove to be a difficulty, and would always be a troublesome one. Hitherto, of course, the shipping Companies were liable as long as the goods were actually in their care, and, for the sake of their business, would always be prepared to consider and to pay any reasonable claim, whereas no such consideration need weigh with the Administration, secure in the enjoyment of its monopoly and of its official status.\n\nFinally, it will be noted that the Administration acknowledges no liability for damages by fire, even when brought about by the act of its own employees (paragraph 6). Whether such a provision would hold good at law, I am unable to say, but it certainly seems to bear hardly on the owners of the goods.\n\nI may mention here that the schemes for raising money are by no means confined to the present Ordinance. I am told that a tax on water is contemplated among others. The sum of 10 cash is to be levied on each load of water carried, roughly equivalent to two bucketfuls. A building tax on Chinese huts has also been introduced and is levied everywhere in the Colony with the exception of Tsingtau itself. The tax on first-class huts is 6 dollars; second and third-class huts pay 4 dollars and 2 dollars respectively. The latest proposal is to abolish the use of Chinese weights and measures in the Colony and to introduce the metric system. All Chinese, so I understand, are to be compelled to buy metric scales, and a fine will be inflicted on any merchant or shopkeeper found to be without such scales.\n\nThe mere recital of such schemes sounds sufficiently amazing, but I am assured that all of them either have been introduced or else are seriously in contemplation. What the attitude of the Chinese will be and whether they will patiently submit is another question. Such methods of taxation are likely to recoil on the prosperity of Tsingtau; for, apart from bearing very heavily on the Chinese community, and causing much irritation and discontent, they may not impossibly result in driving many of them away from the Colony altogether.\n\nI am indebted to Mr. Eckford, the Consular Agent at Tsingtau, for the material on which this Report is based.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**BERTRAM GILES**\n\n## Page 91",
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        "content_text": "153 \n\n2 \n\nSettlement is larger than is ever likely to be required, and if a portion could be returned to the Chinese on terms, they would probably consent to the conversion of the remainder into an international Settlement if they were given to understand that this solution would be acceptable to Russia and the other Treaty Powers. \n\nWhat I have written is largely based upon the views of the British and American Consuls-General, both of whom are convinced, from personal acquaintance with the place and knowledge of all the circumstances, that an international Settlement would be an important factor in the development not only of Harbin but of all Northern Manchuria.\n\n## Dear Sir John, \n\nBelieve me, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**M. Korostovetz to Sir J. Jordan.** \n\n[Undated.] \n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated the 2nd November, concerning the question of the Russian Settlements on the territory of the Chinese Eastern Railway, where you gave your personal opinion on a possible arrangement of existing difficulties. I greatly appreciate the suggestions you have made, and that will be very useful for my personal guidance. \n\nSir, \nThanking you very much for your kind attention, I remain, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. KOROSTOVETZ.\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Fisher to Mr. Rockhill.** \n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, China, October 12, 1908. \n\nWITH reference to my despatches No. 61 and 62, dated the 31st August and 3rd September last respectively, regarding the changes in the Russian policy here, and the appointment of General Horvat as Consul-General, I have the honour to inclose herewith carbon copy of my despatch No. 51, dated the 10th instant, to the Department of State, on the same subject. \n\nI have, &c. \nSir, \n(Signed) \nFRED. D. FISHER, \nAmerican Consul.\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Fisher to Assistant-Secretary of State, Washington.** \n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, October 10, 1908. \nWITH reference to my despatches Nos. 47 and 48, dated the 29th August and 2nd September last respectively, regarding the probable changes that the Russian Government contemplated in its policy here, and the appointment of General Horvat, the Superintendent of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company, as Acting Consul-General, I have the honour to report that the Taotai of Harbin has informed me that the Chinese Government has raised a protest against General Horvat's appointment as Consul-General while he holds the office of Superintendent of the Railway Company, and is asking that M. Luba, the Permanent Consul-General, return to his post at the end of his leave. \n\nIn this protest it is sincerely hoped, for the interests of the other nationalities, that the Chinese Government will maintain its position. In taking charge of the Consulate-General, General Horvat has practically submerged that office in the administration of the Railway Company. He has no hour for receiving at the Consulate-General, and in any matter in the nature of a Consular function in which an interview with General Horvat is required he must be sought at his office of Superintendent of the Railway Company, and at such an hour as will be subservient to the administration of that Company. As the duties of Superintendent of the Company are necessarily large, the treatment of any matter with him as a Consular officer is found very unsatisfactory; the tendency appears to be to compel the treatment of all such matters with him as Superintendent of the Railway Company and not as Consul-General, which, owing to the status of the Company, appears entirely impracticable. Had the Russian Government not established a Consulate-General here in the first instance, the claim that the Railway Company was a political body and competent to perform the functions of such an office would at least have more plausible grounds, but the fact that as soon as China opened Harbin to international trade and residence a Consulate-General was established seems an ample admission that the Railway was lacking competence at that time to assume such a rôle, and it ought to preclude such a pretence now. \n\nAs indicated on p. 4 of my despatch No. 47 of the 29th August last, General Chichagoff, the commander of the railway guard in Manchuria, has left for St. Petersburgh, it having been announced that he has been granted a leave. The command of the railway guard has not yet been taken over by General Horvat, and it is probable that the matter is being held in abeyance on account of representations from the Chinese Government. About a month ago the report was current here that preparations were being made for the Russian Department of Finance to take over the management of all the branches of the Russo-Chinese Bank in North Manchuria, but recent announcements in the local Russian newspapers state that, owing to representations made by the Foreign Office at St. Petersburgh, the carrying out of this scheme has been postponed. As the Russo-Chinese Bank practically controls all bank transactions abroad, and has secured control of nearly all the flouring mills, breweries, and other industrial undertakings, through advancement of funds at various times, the importance of the consummation of this plan can readily be seen. Under the direct management of the Department of Finance the bank would no doubt assume a political status similar to that of the Railway Company, and become an active agent in the policy of exclusion and control that the Russian Government is trying to carry out in North Manchuria, I believe both of these matters have been timely reported in full to the Chinese Government by the Taotai here.\n\nFrom the information that has reached me here, it appears to be the purpose of the Russian Government to secure from China the grant of the Harbin Railway Settlement as a Government Concession, with jurisdiction over all residents here; if such cannot be obtained, then the Concession without jurisdiction. As regards matters of jurisdiction, so far as they concern the other Treaty Powers, it does appear that China is in the position to treat with Russia, inasmuch as Harbin has been declared open, and the Treaty rights of other nations also apply here, and cannot be surrendered without their consent. On the other hand, in my opinion, the granting of the Railway Settlement in Harbin as a Russian Government Concession would be seriously detrimental to the interests of all the Powers who stand for the \"open door\" in Manchuria, as well as to China herself, whatever terms are conceded for Harbin would also have to be conceded for the other sixty or seventy Railway Settlements along the line of the railway, ranging in size from 4 to 30 square miles. This would establish a series of Russian Government Concessions across the whole breadth of Manchuria, linked together by a Government railway having its connections at both Russian borders, with a feeder running 150 miles southward from Harbin. In such a position, having control of the practical means of transportation, Russia would have practically nothing more to accomplish to make her influence in the north complete. From past experience, no great stretch of imagination is required to see what Russia's action would be in such a position.\n\nShould China concede Harbin as a Russian Government Concession, she would then lose the strength of the argument that the Railway Company has only a private status.\n\nSo far as I am able to learn, no Agreement has been made between the Chinese Government, or local authorities, and the Railway Company as to the delimitation of Harbin, although an Agreement exists for the other Railway Settlements along the line. During the Boxer troubles in 1900, the Railway Company took possession of a large area here, most of which was vacant or Government land. Later, the local Chinese official secured the release of some of the land so occupied, without, however, concluding an Agreement of any kind. Within the area held by the Railway Company were a number of tracts owned by private Chinese subjects, the title-deeds to which the Company secured.\n\nThe aim of the Chinese Government appears to be to take over the administration of the whole of Harbin, and prevent the establishment of any Settlement that would be...",
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        "content_text": "## 412\n\nblanket. I saw the accused shake a man by the shoulder. He sat up in a dazed manner and when his ticket was demanded he, after some delay, tendered 50 cents and it was handed to me. I looked at the man and he appeared to me to be dazed with opium. I remarked this as I passed on. We finished collecting tickets about 25 minutes past 11 p.m. There was no disturbance or noise of any kind while I was on deck. There were 666 passengers on the lower deck. The lower deck is fairly well lit with electric light. If a passenger is asleep he is usually shaken up by his shoulders. I have never seen any member of the crew kick a passenger to wake him up. It is usually opium smokers who have to be wakened by shaking. With 600 passengers on the lower deck it would be impossible to walk across the deck without touching some of them. The accused went round with me to collect the tickets. We sometimes have to shake a man more than once.\n\nChan Kim Cho, Compradore, was called and said: I went down with the captain after some passengers had told me that a man had been kicked to death. It was about 12:30 a.m. I do not know any of the men who spoke to me on the lower deck.\n\n## THE DECISION\n\nDecember\n\nCANTON\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand the Japanese Doctor of the Reform Army, one English Doctor, and one Doctor of the Canton Ambulance Society. It is reported that the Chinese insist that another trial should be held, this time at the Portuguese Consular Court.\n\nNovember. A dispatch to that effect is said to have been sent by the Viceroy to the Portuguese Consul-General. A boycott of the steamer is also on the programme at the instigation of the Self-Government Association.\n\nH.E. Viceroy Chang has notified General and Military officials of all ranks in the Kwangtung Province that they must not attend strictly to their duties out of the State mourning in accordance with the law. All officials are requested to remain in their respective Bureaux and no leave of absence be granted.\n\nThe 72 Guild Tress comments on the decision of the Court as follows:\n\nIn reviewing the case in which the deceased was wounded by a kick he received near the heart from the foot of the accused, and also a blow given with the hand, both of which were causes of the man's death, it should be said that in both instances there were marks of injuries and there was the clear evidence of numerous persons proving it beyond doubt. Therefore it was impossible for the accused to be excused or held blameless. In reviewing the evidence given by the fellow passengers of the steamer, one of them not only said that the accused did not beat the man to death but that he did not beat anybody at all. The passenger died because he was ill when he went on board the steamer and he died a natural death. They actually hushed up a case of such grave importance. This can only be described as arbitrary, and treating the Chinese people with contempt. The evidence was false and trumped up and there were many contradictions.\n\nAt the conclusion of the enquiry, the British Consul-General said: The proceedings at this preliminary enquiry are not altogether regular, for two reasons: firstly, no definite charge has been framed against the watchman, Noronha, of having caused the death of this passenger. The Viceroy's letter simply states that a Chinese passenger on the Fatshan has been murdered by a foreigner; no further details are given. However, as I learnt from other sources that the watchman Noronha was accused of having done this thing, and as he voluntarily came to this Consulate-General and offered himself for investigation into the truth of the allegations against him, I decided to hold the enquiry.\n\nIn the second place, Noronha is a Portuguese subject and as such, if a serious charge of this nature is preferred against him, he should be tried by his own Consul. But I decided, in consultation with my Portuguese colleague, M. de Moraes, that, in view of the fact that the alleged criminal offence had been committed on board a British steamer by a person on that steamer's articles, and in view of the popular excitement prevailing in regard to this case, it would be expedient that I should first hold a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of this passenger on the Fatshan. This I have done in as public and thorough a manner as possible. A deputy from the Viceroy has been present at the hearing, taking notes and cross-examining the witnesses. The public, including members of the Chinese press, have been allowed to be present and the Portuguese Consul-General has occupied a seat in Court.\n\nI have come to the conclusion, after carefully considering all the evidence that has been brought forward yesterday and to-day, that there is not sufficient evidence to justify me in handing over the accused to his Consul on a charge of having caused the death of this passenger. Of the 600 odd passengers on the Fatshan that night, only two came forward to testify that they had seen the accused assault the deceased, and their evidence, for reasons which I have mentioned before, I am bound to regard with grave suspicion. On the other hand, Dr. Davenport's evidence, given in the clearest and most explicit manner, goes to show that the deceased died a natural death. Under these circumstances, the accused, as far as the Court is concerned, is discharged. It is open to the Chinese Authorities, should they consider the result of this enquiry unsatisfactory, to charge the accused in the Portuguese Consular Court, where, I am sure, all charges made against him will receive an impartial and fair hearing. I will ask Mr. Greaves, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's Agent, to hold himself responsible for Noronha's appearance when called upon.\n\nMr. Greaves gave the necessary assurance.\n\n## CHINESE COMMENTS ON THE CASE\n\nThe local Press is still publishing hostile articles concerning the matter, and a petition has been sent to the Viceroy praying that the body of the deceased may be exhumed and a fresh post-mortem examination held by three doctors, viz.\n\n## EXCITEMENT AT CANTON\n\nThere is great excitement in the City (writes our Canton correspondent) over the decision re the s.s. Fatshan incident. A boycott of the Sternhaut Company's entire fleet appears to be threatening.\n\nI have no doubt the excitement would soon fizzle out if the local authorities were to issue a proclamation explaining clearly to the public the facts of the inquiry or if the proceedings at the inquiry and the evidence of both foreign and Chinese witnesses were translated and published in the leading local papers.\n\nBelow is a translation of a circular issued by the Self-Government Association, which I give is apparently the first step towards a boycott movement:\n\nWe beg respectfully to inform the public that on the night of the 6th day of this moon (29th Nov.), a Chinaman was kicked to death by a foreigner on board the s.s. Fatshan. The following patriotic and eminent persons, viz., Yeong Wo Kai, Cheong Lau Ki, Tung Chun Kwan, and Tam Show Po, were strangers to the deceased, yet they possessed such patriotic and honourable feelings as to come forward as witnesses to give evidence in the case and petitioned the Authorities to obtain redress on behalf of the deceased. This really shows the sincerity of their feelings and ardent love of their country and their brethren.\n\nFrom inquiries made, we learn that all these patriots are business men. For several days they have wasted their precious time and toilsome labour. Those who are regarded as our brothers must really respect them. We have decided to invite these patriots to come to the Association on the 10th day of this moon (3rd instant) for the purpose of taking their photographs, which we will carefully preserve as a remembrance. We therefore invite all our brothers to attend at the Association on that day to pay their respects to them.\n\n## ENCOURAGING NATIVE INDUSTRY\n\nIn a dispatch sent to the Viceroy, the Board of Agriculture, Labour, and Commerce in the Kiang-su Province has stated that the cotton cloth manufactured in the above province is strong, fine, white, and its quality is far superior to that manufactured in Bombay. Hitherto, its consumption has been confined to several southern and eastern provinces, but of late years, this cloth has found its way into those provinces and has been ousting the native cloth. Recently, the Board has received several Imperial Edicts commanding them to encourage native manufactures.\n\nThe Board requests the Viceroy to give instructions to all Military and Police Departments and the Directors of Schools and Colleges in the Province of Kwangtung to purchase the native cloth manufactured in Kiang-su for the use of the military, police, and students. The Viceroy has issued an order to that effect.\n\n## BLACKMAIL\n\nThe International Banking Corporation has again received a letter demanding $100,000 blackmail to be paid within five days on account of a certain Shek Loong junk.\n\n## CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY\n\nThe total sum of money due on the instalment of the shares of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company amounts to over $1,600,000, out of which about $1,300,000 has been collected by the Company up to the 30th day of the 10th moon (23rd instant). From this amount, the sum of $200,000 has been paid into the Company in drafts or promissory notes to be collected on the date.\n\n## THE FATSHAN LINE\n\nIt is reported that recently complaints have been made by many passengers of the Fatshan Railway of articles missing from the luggage cars.\n\nOwing to the recent increase of railway traffic, many steam launches have been placed on the Canton-Fatshan run, and, if stern measures are not taken to put a check to the pilfering, it is causing great annoyance to travellers, and the bulk of the passenger trade will fall into the hands of the steam launch owners.\n\n## OBJECTION TO A KEROSINE DEPOT\n\nA British firm purchased a piece of land at Samshui for the purpose of building a kerosine depot. The gentry there objected to a kerosine depot and applied to the Sam-shui Magistrate to issue an injunction restraining the firm from erecting the depot on the ground that \"kerosine is dangerous goods.\" The Magistrate reported the matter to the Viceroy, who directed the Provincial Treasurer to investigate and settle the question.\n\n## THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE NEW EMPEROR\n\nThe Viceroy has received cables from Peking to notify the officials and people of the Kwangtung Province of the enthronement of the young Emperor, which will take place on the 1st day of the 1st moon, and that the Grand Council has decided that the two characters \"Shuen Tung\" shall be the title of the reign of the new Emperor. As it is customary in many lines of trade to use the title of the reigning Emperor on the goods manufactured, the cablegram expressly instructs His Excellency to issue proclamations to the public that all articles and goods now being manufactured for the forthcoming year must bear the title of the new Emperor.\n\n## NEW COINS\n\nThe Viceroy is also in receipt of instructions from the Board of Revenue...\n\n`Mr. Fox's dispatch No. 71 of December 9th, 1909`\n\n343\n\n`Mr. Fox to Viceroy Chang. (JAP 20 1909)`\n\nCanton, December 16th, 1909\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Y.E.'s dispatch dated the 10th instant, in which you informed me that a Chinese passenger on the British steamer \"Fatshan\" had been kicked to death by a foreigner.\n\nOn receipt of this dispatch, I at once deputed Vice-Consul Porter to proceed to the Wharf, and in company with Deputy Haish and the Samshui Magistrate, hold an inquest on the body. Dr. Davenport, who had already made an examination that morning, went again to the \"Fatshan\" at the request of the Chinese Authorities and made a second examination in the presence of the officials...\n\nIn the meantime, I had summoned the Portuguese watchman Noronha, who was accused of having caused this passenger's death, and I fixed the following day at 10...",
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        "content_text": "## Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey\n\nA few days later, Mr. Campbell, the Chinese Secretary, had occasion to call on Liang Tajen in connection with other business, and his Excellency took the opportunity to convey to me a message, the terms of which are contained in the inclosed Memorandum by Mr. Campbell, and were communicated to you in my telegram No. 27 of the 17th January.\n\nThe whole question, as its previous history abundantly shows, is one surrounded with difficulties, not the least of which at present is the total absence of reliable information in the archives of the Portuguese Legation here. The result is that the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires is not in a position to discuss the question on equal terms with the Wai-wu Pu. The Legation is regarded rather as a dependency of Macao, from the revenues of which it is, I understand, maintained, and the Chargé d'Affaires either does not possess, or is unwilling to exercise the discretionary powers usually allowed to an Agent representing his Government. He merely telegraphs the substance of the communications he receives to Lisbon, and obtains little or nothing in return to enable him to deal with the statements of the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nAs I have suggested to you in my telegram No. 27 of the 17th instant, it seems necessary, if we are to assume responsibility for the conduct of this question, that we should receive direct and first-hand information of what is going on at Macao, and I think, therefore, it would be desirable if a Consular officer could, with the consent of the Portuguese Government, be sent there for this purpose.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n### **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n43444  \nC. O.  \n6761 RECE  \n[December 12.]  \nSECTION 7.  \nRect 25 E 09\n\n### No. 1. Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey\n\n(No. 199.)  \n**(Telegraphic.) P.**  \n**HANKOW-CANTON Railway**  \nPeking, December 12, 1908.\n\nI was approached to-day by my American colleague on the subject of his Government's desire to arrange for the investment of American capital in railways in this country. Mr. Rockhill told me that he was in receipt of telegraphic instructions which, in special reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway, urged him to compete with the other foreign Legations in securing to American financiers equality of opportunity.\n\nI pointed out to Mr. Rockhill that the Chinese were committed to us so far as the financing of the Canton-Hankow line was concerned. From a general point of view I thought that American co-operation in loans for railway purposes was to be welcomed, politically speaking, but, in the best interests of China, I was strongly adverse to competition as opposed to co-operation. I alluded to the fact that a railway loan to the Chinese entailed a very strict supervision over the manner in which the money was spent, as we had recently learnt by experience.\n\nMy American colleague fully concurred in the views I expressed as to co-operation and the need for satisfactory guarantees with railway loans, adding that the Chinese had themselves told him of the special Agreement with ourselves regarding the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nThe agent of an American bank at Shanghae is at present in Peking, and, in view of the fact that the capital of this bank is said to be to a large extent in Belgian hands, I took the opportunity to say to Mr. Rockhill that I was certain the American Legation would not lend the protection of its name to a Belgian concern.\n\n[2065 m- -7]\n\n* Memorandum by Mr. Campbell, January 17, 1909.\n\n445",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Report by Vice-Consul Porter on the Death of a Passenger on the Steam-ship \"Fatshan\"\n\nsay, 6 Dr. Davenport then made a thorough examination of the body and, needless to say, arrived at the same conclusion as before.\n\nThe representatives of the Chinese medical profession and the other busybodies on board seemed dissatisfied with the tame result of all their agitation and proceeded to inflict another very searching examination on the corpse. The result of this was, I gathered, an alleged broken rib and the translation of some post-mortem discoloration into exterior marks of bruises. Dr. Davenport promptly demonstrated their error.\n\nA wrangle of the most undignified description then ensued between the Namhoi Magistrate and Mr. Hsieh on the one part and a group of excited passengers, doctors, and press men on the other. It was extremely ludicrous to see the way in which the Magistrate disappeared into a sea of angry faces while almost the entire crowd of onlookers shouted at him at once.\n\nI urged Mr. Hsieh to have the body removed at once, as the medical examination to which we had agreed was now over, and it remained for him to carry out his part of the bargain and have the rest of the inquest held on shore.\n\nMr. Hsieh was endeavouring to do this in the face of considerable difficulty when the guard from the \"Moorhen,\" who had turned out with the greatest promptness as soon as my request reached Captain Walcott, arrived with Captain White of His Majesty's ship \"Robin\" in charge, and brought the proceedings to a natural termination.\n\n39\n\nThe hospital attendants took the body ashore and laid it down on the wharf. The Prefect and Magistrate returned to the telegraph office and I left with the Viceroy's Deputy and returned to Shameen to make arrangements for a joint inquiry to be held before Mr. Fox.\n\nAs soon as the officials had left, Captain White cleared the ship and kept sentries on the gangways until half an hour later when an expensive coffin, which in the heat and anxiety of the moment the Namhoi Magistrate had undertaken to provide, arrived and enabled the body to be removed.\n\nIt would, undoubtedly, have been better for a guard to have been placed on board the \"Fatshan\" immediately after her arrival, but Captain Lloyd did not at first consider the situation at all serious. The permission given to the authorities to view the body on board in the presence of the Vice-Consul was a friendly concession, due largely to the ill-feeling that had been aroused by French Consular action in the \"Paul Beau\" affair. The delay between the dispatch of my note and its receipt on board the \"Moorhen\" rendered it impossible to clear the ship during the examination, it being manifestly inadvisable to invite Chinese police on board for the purpose.\n\n(Signed) **H. PORTER**\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n### Report by Dr. Davenport on the Death of a Passenger alleged to have been kicked to death on board the Steam-ship \"Fatshan\"\n\nI HEREBY certify that I have this day examined the body of a Chinaman who is said to have died on the voyage last night from Hongkong to Canton on the steam-ship \"Fatshan.\"\n\nI could find no evidence of any broken bone or any sign of any external injury to head, trunk, or limbs, and there were no physical signs of effusion of blood or fluid into any cavity as would probably occur if any internal organ such as the liver or spleen were severely damaged.\n\nAs on percussion the spleen was found to be somewhat enlarged and particularly from the appearance of lips, tongue, and mouth, I have no hesitation in stating that I firmly believe that the deceased had been suffering from fever for several days previously and that when he came on board the \"Fatshan\" in Hongkong, he must have been seriously ill.\n\n(Signed) **E. C. DAVENPORT, M.R.C.S. England, L.R.C.P. London, M.B. London**, Medical Officer to His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General and Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n7\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n### Extract from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press\" of December 7, 1908\n\n[Not printed.]\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n### Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\n\nCanton, December 4, 1908\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch dated the 1st instant, in which you informed me that a Chinese passenger on the British steamer **\"Fatshan\"** had been kicked to death by a foreigner.\n\nOn receipt of this despatch, I at once deputed Mr. Vice-Consul Porter to proceed to the \"Fatshan,\" and in company with Deputy Hsieh and the Namhoi Magistrate hold an inquest on the body. Dr. Davenport, who had already made an examination that morning, went again to the \"Fatshan\" at the request of the Chinese authorities and made a second examination in the presence of the officials.\n\nIn the meantime, I had summoned the Portuguese watchman, Noronha, who was accused of having caused this passenger's death, and I fixed the following day at 10:30 o'clock for the holding of an inquiry into the affair. I duly notified the Chinese authorities concerned, asking them to order the attendance of witnesses for the prosecution and inviting them to be present at the inquiry.\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquiry, which lasted two days, I found that there was not sufficient evidence to make the watchman responsible for the death of this man, and the medical evidence given by Dr. Davenport showed clearly that the man had died a natural death. I therefore discharged the accused, requesting the agent of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to be surety for his reappearance if hereafter required.\n\nA copy of all the depositions made at the inquiry was sent to Deputy Hsieh yesterday afternoon with a request that he would translate them into Chinese and lay them before you.\n\nI think your Excellency, after perusing these documents, will agree with me that on the evidence before me I could come to no other conclusion.\n\nIf your Excellency is satisfied with the results of this inquiry, I have the honour to request that you will cause a Proclamation to be issued, explaining to the public that a full inquiry has been held, and that it has been found that this man did not die a violent, but a natural, death.\n\nThe issue of such a Proclamation is, in my opinion, essential in view of the many unfounded and exaggerated rumours, which, through the medium of the Chinese newspapers, have during the last few days disturbed the minds of the people of Canton.\n\nIn this connection, I beg to draw the serious attention of your Excellency to the action of the Canton newspapers, in particular the \"Kwo Shih Pao,\" in printing detailed statements of witnesses before the inquiry was held, and after the inquiry, although their reporters were present and heard all that was said, publishing inaccurate and entirely one-sided reports of the proceedings.\n\nIn all Western countries, such conduct on the part of newspaper editors would meet with severe punishment, and, as I understand the Press Regulations recently issued by the Chinese Government, provide penalties in cases where newspapers endanger the harmony of international relations by publishing false reports, I have the honour to request that your Excellency will summon the editors of the newspapers who have printed inaccurate and exaggerated reports of this affair and impose suitable penalties as a warning to others.\n\nYour Excellency will, I am sure, take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the friendly relations which at present exist between Chinese and foreigners in Canton being disturbed by the ill-considered utterances of irresponsible journalists.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **HARRY H. FOX**",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 511 \n\n## C.O. \n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[4903] \n\n### No. 1. \n7798 \n[February 6.] - \nRECEIVED 4 MAR 09 \n\n**(No. 562.)** Sir, \n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received February 6, 1909.) \nPeking, December 16, 1908. \nI HAVE the honour to inclose, with reference to my despatch No. 508 of the 11th instant, copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's Consul at Chinan, dealing with the boycott of trade at Tsingtau and the anti-German agitation in Shantung. \n\nAttempts were made to carry out the requirements of the Wharf and Godown Ordinance in ways which would not be obnoxious to the Chinese, but the latter, from refusing to ship goods in foreign steamers unless they were guaranteed complete immunity from Government interference, went on to boycotting the Great Harbour altogether, and eventually the Chinese Chamber of Commerce combined with the Shantung guild at Shanghai in a scheme to suspend the import and export trade until the Ordinance was repealed. At this stage, the German authorities, realizing that the prosperity of the port was seriously attacked, appointed a Committee of merchants to negotiate with the Chamber of Commerce, and, according to the latest information, they have been compelled to rescind the Ordinance and to give way on every point in dispute. \n\nAs Mr. Giles points out, the surrender of the German authorities in this matter is of grave import to foreign interests generally. Though of late years the boycott has at different times been employed to bring pressure to bear on the American and Japanese Governments, it had, until the question of the German Ordinance arose, shown itself to be a double-edged weapon of doubtful utility. The success achieved at Tsingtau cannot be disguised, and apart from the difficulties which it may create for the Germans in Shantung, there is small reason to doubt that it will increase the ranks, already numerous in China, of those who look upon the boycott as a convenient and safe form of hostility, especially when a knotty international problem has to be solved. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN.** \n\n### Inclosure in No. 1. \n**(No. 20.)** Sir, \n\n#### Acting Consul Giles to Sir J. Jordan. \nChinan, December 1, 1908. \nIN continuation of my despatches Nos. 16 and 18, I have the honour to report on further developments in Tsingtau and in Shantung generally in connection with the prevailing anti-German feeling. I am indebted for much of the information in this despatch to the Consular Agent at Tsingtau, Mr. Eckford, who has kept me informed of the progress of the boycott directed against the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship Company. \n\nIn my despatch No. 18, I mentioned that this Company had been reduced to holding out the inducement of half rates, but that even on those terms they could obtain no cargo from the Chinese. They finally went so far as to offer free freight, in the hope of thereby breaking the boycott, but again without any success. Foreign firms who continued to ship by their steamers were charged the rates hitherto in force, the Company itself defraying all the wharfage and godown dues. On the other hand, the rival shipping agents, Messrs. Siemssen and Co., endeavoured to meet the views of the Chinese merchants; they loaded and discharged their steamers in the outer harbour by means of cargo-boats, thus avoiding payment of the obnoxious wharfage dues. The distance was very great, however, and the risks were too heavy for this practice to commend itself to many shippers. On one occasion, a cargo-boat with 200 bags of refined sugar capsized on the journey between the ship and the shore, and became a total loss. \n\n[2155 ƒ-2]",
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        "content_text": "## Dr. Davenport's Examination and the Aftermath\n\nDr. Davenport then made a thorough examination of the body and, needless to say, arrived at the same conclusion as before.\n\nThe representatives of the Chinese medical profession and the other busybodies on board seemed dissatisfied with the tame result of all their agitation and proceeded to inflict another very searching examination on the corpse. The result of this was, I gathered, an alleged broken rib and the translation of some post-mortem discoloration into exterior marks of bruises. Dr. Davenport promptly demonstrated their error.\n\nA wrangle of the most undignified description then ensued between the Namhoi Magistrate and Mr. Hsieh on the one part and a group of excited passengers, doctors, and press men on the other. It was extremely ludicrous to see the way in which the Magistrate disappeared into a sea of angry faces while almost the entire crowd of onlookers shouted at him at once.\n\nI urged Mr. Hsieh to have the body removed at once, as the medical examination to which we had agreed was now over, and it remained for him to carry out his part of the bargain and have the rest of the inquest held on shore.\n\nMr. Hsieh was endeavouring to do this in the face of considerable difficulty when the guard from the \"Moorhen,\" who had turned out with the greatest promptness as soon as my request reached Captain Walcott, arrived with Captain White of His Majesty's ship `Robin` in charge, and brought the proceedings to a natural termination.\n\nThe hospital attendants took the body ashore and laid it down on the wharf. The Prefect and Magistrate returned to the telegraph office and I left with the Viceroy's Deputy and returned to Shameen to make arrangements for a joint inquiry to be held before Mr. Fox.\n\nAs soon as the officials had left, Captain White cleared the ship and kept sentries on the gangways until half an hour later when an expensive coffin, which in the heat and anxiety of the moment the Namhoi Magistrate had undertaken to provide, arrived and enabled the body to be removed.\n\nIt would, undoubtedly, have been better for a guard to have been placed on board the \"Fatshan\" immediately after her arrival, but Captain Lloyd did not at first consider the situation at all serious. The permission given to the authorities to view the body on board in the presence of the Vice-Consul was a friendly concession, due largely to Paul Beau, the ill-feeling that had been aroused by French Consular action in the affair. The delay between the dispatch of my note and its receipt on board the \"Moorhen\" rendered it impossible to clear the ship during the examination, it being manifestly inadvisable to invite Chinese police on board for the purpose.\n\nH. PORTER.\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n(Signed)\n\n**Report by Dr. Davenport on the Death of a Passenger alleged to have been kicked to death on board the Steam-ship \"Fatshan.\"**\n\nI HEREBY certify that I have this day examined the body of a Chinaman who is said to have died on the voyage last night from Hongkong to Canton on the steam-ship \"Fatshan.\"\n\nI could find no evidence of any broken bone or any sign of any external injury to head, trunk, or limbs, and there were no physical signs of effusion of blood or fluid into any cavity as would probably occur if any internal organ such as the liver or spleen were severely damaged.\n\nAs on percussion the spleen was found to be somewhat enlarged and particularly from the appearance of lips, tongue, and mouth, I have no hesitation in stating that I firmly believe that the deceased had been suffering from fever for several days previously and that when he came on board the \"Fatshan\" in Hongkong, he must have been seriously ill.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. C. DAVENPORT, M.R.C.S. England, L.R.C.P. London, M.B. London, Medical Officer to His Britannic Majesty's Consulate General and Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n### Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n**Extract from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press\" of December 7, 1908.**\n\n[Not printed.]\n\n### Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n**Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang.**\n\nCanton, December 4, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch dated the 1st instant, in which you informed me that a Chinese passenger on the British steamer \"Fatshan\" had been kicked to death by a foreigner.\n\nOn receipt of this despatch, I at once deputed Mr. Vice-Consul Porter to proceed to the \"Fatshan,\" and in company with Deputy Hsieh and the Namhoi Magistrate hold an inquest on the body. Dr. Davenport, who had already made an examination that morning, went again to the \"Fatshan\" at the request of the Chinese authorities and made a second examination in the presence of the officials.\n\nIn the meantime, I had summoned the Portuguese watchman, Noronha, who was accused of having caused this passenger's death, and I fixed the following day at 10:30 o'clock for the holding of an inquiry into the affair. I duly notified the Chinese authorities concerned, asking them to order the attendance of witnesses for the prosecution and inviting them to be present at the inquiry.\n\nAt the conclusion of the inquiry, which lasted two days, I found that there was not sufficient evidence to make the watchman responsible for the death of this man, and the medical evidence given by Dr. Davenport showed clearly that the man had died a natural death. I therefore discharged the accused, requesting the agent of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to be surety for his reappearance if hereafter required.\n\nA copy of all the depositions made at the inquiry was sent to Deputy Hsieh yesterday afternoon with a request that he would translate them into Chinese and lay them before you.\n\nI think your Excellency, after perusing these documents, will agree with me that on the evidence before me I could come to no other conclusion.\n\nIf your Excellency is satisfied with the results of this inquiry, I have the honour to request that you will cause a Proclamation to be issued, explaining to the public that a full inquiry has been held, and that it has been found that this man did not die a violent, but a natural, death.\n\nThe issue of such a Proclamation is, in my opinion, essential in view of the many unfounded and exaggerated rumours, which, through the medium of the Chinese newspapers, have during the last few days disturbed the minds of the people of Canton.\n\nIn this connection, I beg to draw the serious attention of your Excellency to the action of the Canton newspapers, in particular the \"Kwo Shih Pao,\" in printing detailed statements of witnesses before the inquiry was held, and after the inquiry, although their reporters were present and heard all that was said, publishing inaccurate and entirely one-sided reports of the proceedings.\n\nIn all Western countries, such conduct on the part of newspaper editors would meet with severe punishment, and, as I understand the Press Regulations recently issued by the Chinese Government, provide penalties in cases where newspapers endanger the harmony of international relations by publishing false reports, I have the honour to request that your Excellency will summon the editors of the newspapers who have printed inaccurate and exaggerated reports of this affair and impose suitable penalties as a warning to others.\n\nYour Excellency will, I am sure, take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the friendly relations which at present exist between Chinese and foreigners in Canton being disturbed by the ill-considered utterances of irresponsible journalists.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\nPage 570\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**Hankow, January 25, 1909**\n\nIn reply to your despatch No. 3 of the 13th instant, I have the honour to report that there are at Hankow no British firms concerned in the traffic in ammunition and arms for Chinese military purposes.\n\nHere, as elsewhere, this trade was until lately entirely in the hands of certain German firms, but latterly the Japanese endeavour to compete.\n\nThis condition is, in my opinion, natural enough. When this Provincial Government set about the adoption of Western army organization, they sought equipment and instructors from the nation generally recognized as the most efficient in these respects, and when they started the making of guns, rifles, and ammunition, they obtained the plant and experts from the same source.\n\nGerman instructors (there are three in the Hupeh Military School) were in a position to press upon the military authorities the superiority of their makers of warlike munitions, and their large local firms took full advantage of the openings thus presented to them exclusively.\n\nWhether from this cause or for other reasons, British arms and ammunition makers seem to prefer to be represented in China by these German firms. Thus, in Hankow, Messrs. Buchheister and Co. are agents for Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. (Limited); and Carlowitz and Co. are the agents of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim (Limited), of London, as well as of Friedrich Krupp, of Essen.\n\nHere at least the negotiations are conducted by special Chinese employés, who obtain prompt news of any orders pending; but the Hanyang Arsenal and Powder Factory supply almost all the actual weapons and cartridges, both of German patterns.\n\nThat secret commissions are paid is common report, and in accordance with native official practice, as stated in the Chinese newspapers, an extract from which, describing the arms business in scathing terms, formed No. 10 in my despatch No. 71 of the 11th November, 1908. Charges of purchasing, at prices extravagant for the newest and best, old and inferior munitions crop up not infrequently in the native press, where I have never met with any attempt to deny such malpractices. Even such an opposition paper as the \"Universal Gazette\" appears convinced of the necessity for the purchase of munitions being intrusted entirely to the central authorities with the aid and advice of the Chinese Legations abroad. Should this reform be adopted, even though supplies were invited by open tender, there is little likelihood of the Government's facing the expense of altering the prevalent type of gun and rifle. But the influence of military instructors on the source to be drawn on for weapons was shown by his Excellency Chang Chih-Tung's purchase of complete field batteries, with horses, from Japan for the use of the Hupeh troops at the 1907 manoeuvres, while the agent of the Rexer automatic gun and Mr. Bland, the traveller for Vickers, Sons, and Maxim (Limited), both found General Chang Piao too much engaged to receive them.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **E. H. FRASER**\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n### Acting Consul-General Fow to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**Canton, February 5, 1909**\n\nIN reply to your despatch No. 3, dated the 13th ultimo, I have the honour to report that there are no British firms engaged in the importation of munitions of war in this Consular district.\n\nThe trade is entirely in the hands of German firms, of whom two—Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. and Messrs. Arnhold Karberg and Co.—have succeeded in establishing a practical monopoly.\n\n| Firm | Represents |\n| --- | --- |\n| Carlowitz and Co. | Krupp, Vickers, Sons, and Maxim |\n| Arnhold Karberg and Co. | Mauser's and other German factories |\n\nBoth firms employ Chinese agents or compradores of Taotai's rank, whose special business it is to keep in touch with the Viceroy's yamên, the Shan Hou Chu (Board of Reorganization), and the naval authorities, in fact, all the spending Departments of the Provincial Government, and obtain timely information regarding intended purchases of war material. At the same time one or more German employés of both firms are technical experts with a working knowledge of the Chinese language. Their Canton managers make a point of keeping on good terms with the Chinese officials, whose interest they cultivate with frequent entertainments and timely loans. They apparently have no difficulty in gaining access to the Viceroy himself, and one at least is the holder of a Chinese decoration.\n\nIf British merchants in Canton are asked why they take no share in this lucrative traffic, they invariably reply \"the arms business is not one we care to touch,\" and they go on to explain that the system of secret commissions and doctored invoices which has become inseparably connected with the trade makes it impossible for any self-respecting firm to engage in it.\n\nMaking due allowance for our merchants' not unnatural feeling of bitterness at the large share of Government business, not only in munitions of war, but in machinery, electrical appliances, building contracts, &c., which their German rivals obtain in Canton, I believe this explanation describes fairly accurately the position of British firms with regard to the arms trade.\n\nIt is within my own knowledge that one of the best-known German agents for war material openly stated that, in order to obtain an order in Canton he was obliged to bribe every official concerned from the Viceroy downwards, and it is a fact that...",
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        "content_text": "# No. 6.\n## Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received October 14.)\n**(No. 235.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n### SUPAO Case\nPeking, October 14, 1903.\n\nWith reference to the last paragraph of my telegram No. 220 of the 9th ultimo, no communication has been made to me by Prince Ching as to the result of the telegram which he promised, but I incline to believe, omitted to send.\n\nThe Senior Consul at Shanghae was addressed on the 30th August by the Viceroy of Nanking in a letter in which he demanded the surrender of the accused. This letter was considered by the Diplomatic Body on the 3rd October and to-day. It was agreed that the Consular Body at Shanghae should be instructed to reply that, though unable to surrender the prisoners to the Chinese authorities, they are prepared to consent to their trial before the Mixed Court, to which may be added, if necessary, for the trial of the case according to Chinese law, a Chinese official of sufficiently high rank for the purpose.\n\nThe Consular Body are further to intimate to the Viceroy that, should this proposal be rejected by him, the accused cannot be indefinitely detained in custody.\n\nThe trial, moreover, must follow the rules of strict justice, and, if a verdict of guilty be found, the punishment awarded must be proportioned to the offence.\n\nLastly, the Viceroy may be informed that, in the opinion of the Diplomatic Body, such measures should be taken as may be necessary to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents in the future.\n\n## No. 7.\n### The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\n**(No. 167.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n#### SHANGHAE Sedition Case\nForeign Office, October 15, 1903.\n\nThe instructions issued to Consular Body, as reported in your telegram No. 235 of yesterday, seem quite satisfactory, but the punishment of the prisoners, if convicted, must be carried out in the Settlement, and I assume the Chinese Government understand this.\n\n## No. 8.\n### Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne,—(Received October 16.)\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n#### SUPAO Case\nPeking, October 16, 1903.\n\nWith reference to your Lordship's telegram No. 167 of yesterday, the Chinese Government is not being communicated with in Peking, but the British Acting Consul-General at Shanghae will be instructed that the punishment of the prisoners, should they be convicted, must, in accordance with the agreement originally made, be carried out in the foreign Settlement.\n\n## No. 9.\n### The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\n**(No. 168.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nForeign Office, October 17, 1903.\n\nWith reference to proposed scheme, for diverting Northern Railway Loan Funds to construction of branch line to Hsiku and station there and purchase of land for the purpose, the British and Chinese Corporation are informed by their agents at Shanghae that you require the approval of His Majesty's Government.\n\nYou are authorized to notify our approval unless you see any objection.\n\n## No. 10.\n### Foreign Office to the China League.\nForeign Office, October 19, 1903.\n\nI am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, relative to the questions of local administration and Mixed Court jurisdiction at Shanghae.\n\nI am to inform you that a despatch has been received from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, inclosing a report, drawn up by the Acting British Consul-General at Shanghae, on the alleged breaches, to which attention was called in your letter of the 18th February last, of the Provisional Rules defining the jurisdiction of the Mixed Courts in the foreign Settlements at Shanghai.\n\n### Case No. 1.\nMr. Mansfield states that Fung Yung-tung, a resident in the interior, was visiting Shanghai in connection with a transaction in cocoons. He was living at an inn, and had become security for a contract to deliver a certain quantity of the cocoons to a Chinese dealer. The contract was not carried out, and a claim was brought against him in the Mixed Court of the French Settlement. According to Fung Yung-tung's statement, he was decoyed by an agent of the dealer to a ten-house in the French Settlement, and was there arrested by the French police, and brought before the Mixed Court.\n\nThe case was brought to the notice of the Consular Body by the Municipal Council. The French Consul-General positively denied any complicity of the French police in inducing the man to come into the French Settlement, and stated that a French firm were interested in the case. As, by Fung Yung-tung's own statement, he was only a visitor in Shanghae, and not a resident, the Consular Body did not consider that any direct contravention of the Provisional Regulations had occurred.\n\n### Case No. 2.\nMr. Mansfield has inclosed copies of the correspondence which passed between the Municipal Council and the Council of the French Settlement relative to the case of a native dog-catcher in the employment of the Municipal Council, who was arrested by the French police for having crossed over in pursuit of a dog to the French Settlement.\n\nThe Municipal Council admitted that the native was technically in the wrong, and properly liable to punishment, but drew the attention of the French Council to the fact that a municipal employé, known to be in their service, should not have been tried and convicted at the Mixed Court in the French Settlement without formal notice being given, and full opportunity afforded to the Municipal Council to be represented in such manner as might be considered suitable. The Municipal Council further stated that they trusted that, with a view to the maintenance of correct procedure and good relations, as a matter of courtesy and of right, the French police would be instructed hereafter, should any such case occur, to give formal notice in writing to them of any proceedings that might be impending against a municipal servant.\n\nThe French Council, in their reply, did not deny the correctness of the view put forward by the Municipal Council, but stated that, having taken note (\"pris connaissance\") of the letter, they had decided to communicate it to the French Consul-General.\n\n### Case No. 3.\nMr. Mansfield explains that licences are granted by the Municipal Council...",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n3203 [November 28.]\n\nPECS SECTION 8.2 UCO, \n[41488]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n**(No. 443. Confidential.)**  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received November 28.)  \nPeking, October 9, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of an interesting Report by Mr. Willis, Acting Consul-General at Mukden, on the commercial situation at Harbin, to which, in accordance with my instructions, he recently paid a visit.\n\nI venture to draw your attention to the statement in this Report as to the uncertainty of there being any real equality of commercial opportunity in Manchuria so long as the railway communication is controlled by Russia and Japan, and I may state that I am in general agreement with Mr. Willis' view that the extension of the Chinese line is the most effectual safeguard against a policy of discrimination.\n\nIt is for this reason that I have encouraged the project of a railway from Chinchow Fu to Taonan Fu, which formed the subject of my despatches Nos. 359 and 435 of the 6th August and 30th September respectively.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\nP.S.-Since the above was written, I have received a further despatch from Mr. Willis, of which a copy is inclosed, illustrative of the methods employed by the Russian and Japanese Railway Administrations to further their own political aims instead of confining themselves to improving the means of communication and developing the resources of the country.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.  \n**(No. 63. Confidential.)**  \nMukden, October 1, 1908.\n\nIN accordance with instructions contained in the last paragraph of your despatch No. 25, Confidential, of the 24th ultimo, I have the honour to submit the following Report on the commercial situation at Harbin :-\n\nUnfortunately heavy rain fell during my visit, and the roads of Harbin are under such conditions so disgracefully bad that it was impossible for me to make personal investigations to any extent in the low-lying commercial part of Harbin and the native city of Fu Chia Tien.\n\nThe material of this Report has been gathered mainly from conversations I held with M. Konovaloff, the Commissioner of Customs; Mr. Fisher, the American Consul; and M. Dard, French Consular Agent and Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank.\n\nAt the last census the Russian population of Harbin was given at 23,000, but it is gradually diminishing, and at the present moment 20,000 would be an outside limit. Of these 4,000 approximately are railway guards, and from 10,000 to 12,000—M. Dard gave me the latter figure—are in the employ of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The remaining population are for the most part engaged in providing for the necessities and amusements of the railway guards and employés.\n\n| Nationality | Approximate Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Japanese | 500 |\n| Austrians | 100 |\n| Germans | 70 |\n| Turks, Greeks, Roumanians, Bulgarians, and other unrepresented Southern European peoples | about 500 |\n\nOf resident British subjects I only succeeded in finding Mr. Warburton, the sub-Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, but I learnt that from 40 to 50 Sikhs were employed by Russian establishments as watchmen. The British American Tobacco Company have a branch at Fu Chia Tien, the Chinese town adjacent to the Russian Settlement.\n\n[2029 ee-6] \n6",
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        "content_text": "# 1910\n\n## 130\n\nextended to the Chinese Empire? English merchants at Shanghae might arrange for their introduction to Peking, whence they would spread to Mongolia. In one place it was said to me that in a few years everyone would avoid Japanese goods as the worthlessness of the specimens now on view would be realized, but I do not think so, for there will always be people to buy trash, and secondly, where the inferior goods now find a market the better class will later on find its way.\n\n## Summary\n\nThe situation in Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan may be summed up as follows: The Russian policy towards these dependencies is a purely selfish one, its object being to draw them towards the Russian Empire with the view of ultimate absorption. With this object all development except on Russian lines, or on lines approved by her, is to be combatted. This policy results in stagnation of trade except towards Russia; at the same time that sympathies are thus caused to tend towards Russia, the prestige of the Russian Government is to increase by pomp of Cossack force.\n\nThe policy of the Russian Government is aided by the inertness of the Chinese Government towards the provinces. The adoption, however, of a policy of development has caused some perturbation. In addition to this there is a growing desire on the part of Peking to have everything reported there. This latter can be checked and frustrated by the insidious support of those candidates for posts who are Russophil or corrupt or weak. These prove easy tools in the hands of able Russian Consular authorities, and either fail to report Russian encroachments or actions until these have become precedents, or else, if they report, may be expected to do so in the most rosy light, while at the same time they may be trusted to support the Russian policy of non-development except on Russian lines. All other appointments except those approved by the Russian Government are cavilled at. Hence the alarm at the energetic action of the Chinese Government in Altaishan and at the dispatch thither of a Peking Manchu in close sympathy with his Government; and it was an intimation that the Chinese Government meant business when they sent a large force there at the same time. With no Consular agent on the spot, such an official could not be tampered with. Failing, therefore, the support of His Majesty's Government towards a non-development policy, all efforts will be directed towards obtaining the recall or disgrace of the officers before the colony has developed too far, and efforts will be made to obtain the appointment of a man approved of by the Russian local authorities, i.e., a man who can be counted on not to continue work or to work only in sympathy with the Russians.\n\nThe Chinese Government seem to be aware of the danger to the dependencies and to be alive to the need for development from the side of China. It depends on how steady they are against Russian threats as to whether they are to succeed or fail.\n\nThe traveller through Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan cannot but be impressed by the excellence of these provinces as buffers between the two Empires and the real need that these should remain such, to allow China time to reform herself and to come into line with the west.\n\n## Possibilities of a Mahommedan Rebellion\n\nHis Majesty's Government will not of course be ignorant of the Moslem rebellions of the last sixty years, of 1847, 1857, 1867-1877 (Yakub Beg), 1895 (Ninghsia), each of which was accompanied by the most terrible massacres of Chinese and Moslems alike, and which in each case ended by the gradual resumption of Chinese sovereignty over their revolted subjects. Manchu insolence and misgovernment, accompanied by open alarm on the part of the Chinese of their Mahommedan fellow-subjects, and comparison by the latter of the well-being of their co-religionists on the Russian side of the frontier are doing much to bring about a repetition of these historical facts. What will the Chinese Government do if another rebellion breaks out in the near future? West and north of Urumtsi the military force is practically non-existent. Directly the flame breaks out these lands are lost to China except the fortress walls in which the Chinese will cower, too terrified and too inefficient to do anything. Much depends on the efficiency of the force at Urumtsi; if that fails the Chinese the rebellion will run at once to Ninghsia and Kansu, Shansi, and Shensi; it is open to doubt whether this will not do so in any case in spite of Urumtsi which will be left as an oasis in the midst of rebellion. The Chinese Government will then have to start to repress the rebellion in the near provinces, rescue Urumtsi and gradually reconquer Chinese Turkestan.\n\nWhat will the Russian attitude be during all that time? It will be remembered \n## 131\nthat in the other rebellions her hands were full in Europe. Central Asia was still half unconquered, there was no Central Asian Railway, the Siberian Railway only a dream. What is the position to-day? Central Asia held down, lines of railways and telegraphs to within a short distance of the frontier, a vast trade along the whole line. Can the Russian Government from Kuldja to Urga, all threatened by the rebellion, remain inactive and even if they wish to, will they be able to restrain their Moslem subjects on the border or will they care to do so, lest their own prestige should suffer and their subjects complain that the Russian Government is unable to protect Turki and Hassack interests.\n\nIn conclusion of that portion of the journey which lay in China (over six and a-half months), I have the honour to observe that although by force of circumstances the journey during two of these was performed in a manner highly disappointing and intensely unsatisfactory to myself yet this report has in no way suffered, for precisely the same route was taken as had been intended had I been able to form my own caravan in Mongolia. The reverse has indeed occurred, for it became clear in North Mongolia that in order to have carried out the entire programme as arranged with my own animals, another two months would have been necessary on account of the frequent halts which it would have been necessary to make for the sake of resting the camels, while had a surveyor accompanied the party either the time must have been protracted to a year or the journey very considerably curtailed.\n\nNow that the end of the journey in China has been reached it may also be of use to observe that it was one involving no danger and little risk. Certain things were necessary such as good health, energy, patience, a good temper, and last but perhaps as great as any, enthusiasm. Patience and a good temper, if not natural gifts, must be acquired for the time being. Good health is necessary for if this were to break down in the desert the traveller has no help at hand save himself. Energy is necessary to continue the march day after day be the weather good or bad, or however gloomy one may feel, to keep servants and camel men or carters up to the mark, for if the traveller flags, much more so will the retinue, to keep constantly on the alert in case of danger to life or property. Patience is necessary to deal with Chinese officials, natives, camel-drivers, and carters, to continue slowly day after day knowing that with camels the utmost you can do will be 30 miles a-day, and to deal with and thwart the dishonesty of servants; a good temper is necessary to stand the inquisitiveness of the crowd, their silly questions, and the Chinese mind which thinks so slowly and by such different methods to our own.\n\nWith all these one can defeat the many difficulties that arise and without them it is better not to travel in Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan.\n\n## SECTION IX.--KULDJA TO LONDON\n\nOctober 30.--It was a terrible day, and a snow blizzard was raging from the west; in spite of this it was absolutely necessary to make a start. We slept at Suidun.\n\nOctober 31.--The Chiang chün sent a small officer from Hsincheng in the early hours of the morning with presents of meat, cigars, cigarettes, and biscuits for the journey.\n\nIt had snowed all night, and continued to do so during most of the day. The road was very bad, and the carriage frequently threatened to capsize. A good deal of swampy ground had to be forded, and the water almost entered the carriage in places.\n\nPassing through Chinese Khorgos (another of the Hsien towns) in the early afternoon, we were stopped shortly afterwards at a gateway in the road, where our passports were examined by an opium sot. My servant and the driver produced theirs; I was too cold to look for mine. Emerging from the gateway we reached the broad stony bed of the small Khorgos stream, the boundary between Russia and China; we pulled up at Russian Khorgos, the Customs station and a military post, lying in a belt of trees on the west side of the stream. We reached Djarkend about 8:0 P.M.\n\nHere began our journey by the Russian posting system, which did not end until we reached Omsk, on the Siberian Railway, on the 20th November. We kept westwards as far as Altenimel, where we turned north through the mountains to Kopal, and thence over the plains at the east end of Lake Balkash to Sergiopol (the 9th November); here we had to cross over low hills to the valley of the Irtish at Semipalatinsk; (the 12th November) the river being frozen we were unable to proceed by steamer, and had to continue by road down the right bank of the river to Omsk.\n\nExcept for bitter winds the weather was good nearly all the time; this was fortunate as we had to travel day and night by open sledge without stopping. The snow lay deep.",
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        "content_text": "# Memorandum\n\nAs I wished to be informed exactly as to the actual working of the system under these regulations, I requested His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden to furnish me with a report based upon his knowledge of local conditions. Mr. Willis's information confirms what has been written above. He adds that the governor-general of Kuantung is charged with the general supervision of the railway, and is responsible for the maintenance of a police force in the various settlements, the control of which is delegated by him to the local Japanese consular official.\n\nFor executive purposes inside the settlement limits, the Japanese consul is regarded as the agent of the Kuantung Government, and reports to the governor-general, and not to the Foreign Office at Tokyo, while appeals from the decisions of the settlement magistrates lie to the courts in the leased territory instead of to the consular courts.\n\nIt is true that the regulations provide that the railway company may establish, if necessary, councils in each settlement, but they are mere advisory boards appointed by the railway officials themselves, and their only power is to answer questions addressed to them by the director of the settlement. So far, even this limited machinery for arriving at some sort of popular expression of views has only been established in two or three places. The principle of extra-territoriality of the settlements has been carefully maintained, and although Chinese subjects reside in them in considerable numbers, the Chinese officials are not allowed to participate in any way in the administration.\n\nMr. Willis says that, as far as he is aware, no European or American has hitherto resided or applied to reside in the railway territory, but the question of their residence and position there is likely to arise sooner or later. Although it is true that at Mukden there has been no attempt to convert the railway settlement into a commercial town, yet at Antung, the South Manchurian Railway Company or the Japanese Government control practically all the land desirable for residential sites, and a very excessive proportion of the available river frontage, and Mr. Willis has learnt that at Liaoyang and Tiehling, Japanese towns of considerable size have already sprung up between the railway station and the Chinese cities, and the land held by the company at every important centre is sufficient to admit of the establishment of similar towns.\n\nTo sum up, the whole administrative machinery in the Japanese settlements is purely official—there is no recognition of China's sovereign rights; no participation by China in the governance of matters concerning her own subjects; and no recognition, implied or otherwise, of the rights of the subjects of Treaty Powers. The practical withdrawal of tracts of Chinese soil from the area in which the Chinese authorities are to exercise authority, and the subjects of foreign Powers are to enjoy the rights secured to them by treaty with China, undoubtedly runs counter not only to the text of the international arrangements into which China has entered, but also the spirit and intention of the recent Sino-Russian agreement. The question is more likely to increase in importance than otherwise, for, as I have already pointed out, the railway administration owns practically all the desirable land in every important centre, and the probable growth of these communities will consequently take place on territory to which the Japanese claims of administration will apply.\n\nIt appears to me, therefore, that Mr. Ishii was rather optimistic in his statement, and that not only would a proposal from the Chinese Government to enter into an arrangement similar to that concluded with Russia prove very embarrassing to Japan, but that a rigid adherence to her present system of government in the settlements may well in the future involve her in difficulties with the Treaty Powers, whose rights she will be disregarding.\n\nMr. Willis reports that the Japanese consul-general had admitted to him that, although the Japanese Government held that under the Russo-Chinese agreement of 1896 they possessed exclusive rights of administration in the railway area, yet they would, he thought, in view of the recent Harbin agreement, be forced sooner or later to take up this question with the Chinese Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(In the absence of His Majesty's Minister),\n\nW. G. Max Müller\n\nPage 363\n\n`30925` \n`31609` Fatshan\" Incident \n`503` DOMESTIC.\n`JR241` \n`1739-A. & H. W.--20962/27- 26000-11-08`\nNext subsequent Paper `32468` \n3 Sept. 1909 \nSign Office \nast Previous Paper. \n7609 \n760 23 SEP OC \nRoycott of Butterfield at Swire. \nSinds copy despatch from Piking \nMr. Stukt. Collins \nhe shake pressimatly at the in print \neventually \n? Tently. \n0.0 \n1609 \nHONG KONG",
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        "content_text": "## 586\n\n### i \n\nA 2 (Yunnan). No reply was received to this, or to a further communication in April forwarding the statement of a claim against them for wages by a former employé. The latter letter was returned to me by the Chinese postal authorities at Yunnan-fu, with the endorsement that Borg Brothers had left Hokou some time previously.\n\nIn June I received a letter from them, dated Laokay (Tonquin), stating that an earlier letter had probably gone astray in the post, and requesting to be registered; but enclosing neither particulars nor fees for registration. I have now repeated my request for these particulars, and at the same time I have desired to know whether their place of residence is Hokou (Yünnan) or Laokay (Tonquin).\n\n### Chinese Hospital\n\nThe Chinese authorities propose to build a hospital for Chinese soldiers. The hospital is designed for 150 beds. The site is being selected outside the city, and will be in the medical charge of Dr. Mazzolani. The doctor is now hard at work with his classes in the military college. He has seventy picked students, and appears to be fairly well satisfied with their intelligence and application. He tells me that the provincial authorities in Szechuan have informed Yunnan that they are not at all pleased with the results of the training received at the medical college at Chengtu, under Dr. Légendre, and that the Yunnan officials intend to be absolutely independent of French medical assistance.\n\n### Falling off in attendance at French Dispensary\n\nDr. Féray, who is the French consular doctor, tells me that the Chinese soldiers formerly under his care have been taken away, and that his dispensary patients have fallen off in numbers. The French explain this by saying that the Chinese are not yet used to the new French assistant, Dr. Vadon. It is true that Dr. Vadon does not yet understand the Chinese language, but he is an able man, with a kindly sympathetic manner. The true explanation must, I think, be found in the fact that the Chinese authorities have now opened their own dispensary, and drawn away patients.\n\n### Proposed French University and Hospital\n\nThe French are anxious to establish a university and a large hospital in the city, but they are uneasy that the Chinese will raise objections. A class has been opened for medical students, but the number attending Dr. Féray's course is small - eight only.\n\n### New French Consular Site\n\nThe French consul is endeavouring to purchase a fine site for the consulate outside the city.\n\n### Proposal for a Rupee Coinage\n\nMr. Wei, the manager of the mint, has informed me that a rupee coinage for Western Yünnan and the Chinese Shan States was in contemplation. The dies would be ready in a few days. He said that upwards of 300,000 Chinese rupees were issued annually from the Chengtu mint and had penetrated throughout Thibet. The latter remark is not borne out by my own information. He hoped that the Burmah Government would permit the free circulation of this rupee in the Burmese Shan States and in Burmah. I did not encourage him in his hope, and I suspect he was sounding the way for the governor-general. I have since heard from a good Chinese source that the question is being mooted to offer the importation of salt from Burmah into the Chinese Shan States in exchange for the recognition of the Chinese rupee as legal tender in the Burmese Shan States.\n\n### Squeezes at the Mint\n\nMr. Chao, the official director of the mint, resigned, and left Yunnan-fu a few days before the departure of the Hsi Liang (25th February). It is now rumoured that he made over 80,000 taels during his eighteen months' tenure of office by debasing the coinage. A few days ago a consignment of dollars, duly sealed with the mint seal, was found by the military authorities to contain a large number of copper coins.\n\n### Mint Machinery\n\nNew machinery has arrived for the mint. It was supplied by Messrs. Mandl and Co., whose interests in Chinese Government contracts now appear to have been sold to the German firm of Carlowitz and Co.\n\n### M. \n\n#### German visitors to Yünnan-fu\n\nTwo German representatives of Carlowitz and Co., Messrs. Crasemann and Schultz, and a special agent of Messrs. Krupp and Co., M. Berger, have arrived and taken a house. They are awaiting the arrival of the new governor-general Li Ch'ing-hsi. M. Berger talks of sending for his family from Germany, but it is probable that the other two will leave as soon as business negotiations are in train. The acting governor-general declines to enter into any contract with them. Crasemann told me that his firm had bought out M. Mandl, and used his Chinese hong name, \"Hsin-yi,\" in military contracts with the Chinese Government. He appeared to regard the interest thus acquired as very valuable, not only in connection with Chinese officials generally, but more particularly in regard to the family of the late Li Hung-chang. Li Ch'ing-hsi, the newly appointed governor-general, is the nephew of the late Li Hung-chang. It cannot be gainsaid that M. Mandl was in the highest favour with Li Hung-chang during the China-Japan war. Latterly, I believe, he acquired considerable influence in Chinese official circles at Canton. M. Crasemann further informed me that M. Mandl had obtained the contract for the machinery in all the Government mints in China. Kao erh ch'ien, formerly Administrator for Foreign Affairs at Yunnan-fu, and at present Chinese commissioner on the Macao Boundary Commission, told me one day that he considered M. Mandl the cleverest European in China in his methods of dealing with Chinese. It will thus be seen that the German visitors to Yunnan-fu are well supplied with credentials for getting contracts.\n\n### Missionaries\n\nThe French consul has lately consulted me informally as to missionary cases. He complains that his hands are full of these, and that he cannot get them settled. The Chinese authorities, he declares, are becoming more and more obstructive, especially in cases connected with missionary landed property. It would be positively disastrous for this consulate-general to work in concert with the French consulate in missionary cases, and I could only say that I was thankful that I had not yet been met by similar difficulties.\n\n### Colonial Opinion in Tonquin\n\nColonial opinion in Tonquin, judging by the views of visitors to Yunnan-fu, seems to have taken the credit for having effected the transfer of Hsi Liang, whose dismissal was demanded at Peking in connection with the Weigand incident (`P.G. No. 28 of 1908`).\n\n### M. Bacot\n\nM. Bacot, a French traveller of independent means, who was recently given the Garnier Award by the French Geographical Society for his travels in Thibet, passed through in May last en route for Tachienlu. He told me that he had been very kindly received by the India Office at London. He was thinking of crossing the Thibetan province of Poyul and descending the Brahmaputra River - a somewhat ambitious programme.\n\n### Local Troubles\n\nThe trouble at Hsüan-wei-chou (Eastern Yünnan) has been nipped in the bud, owing to the prompt measures taken by the acting governor-general. What threatened to be a wide-spread rising in Chiu-pei-hsien (Eastern Yünnan) has been crushed without apparent effort, owing to the energy and courage of the magistrate. That district is inhabited by large numbers of Sha-yi, a tribe of whom very little is known. They live remote from the towns, and appear to occupy themselves principally as wood-cutters and charcoal burners. Their hair is bound into a chignon, and they wear a sort of sarong or cotton kilt twisted into a knot at the side of the waist. A few brought into contact with the Chinese have the queue, and wear the ordinary clothing of a Chinese coolie. The leader of the rising claimed to have discovered a tablet buried in the forest bearing an inscription interpreted to mean that he was a descendant of the Ming Royal Family, and that his son would become Emperor. He gathered 5,000 to 6,000 followers together and proceeded to Chiu-pei-hsien. The magistrate had no soldiers, but he closed the city gates and sent to Yünnan-fu for assistance, which was promptly forthcoming. In the meantime, the magistrate had collected a small body of men and kept the Sha-yi out of the city. They occupied the villages in proximity to the town, but were attacked by 300 soldiers with two guns. The Sha-yi were armed with nothing but clubs, knives, and stones. A hundred of them were killed without loss to the Chinese, and sixty prisoners were beheaded. The remainder have dispersed. The leader was killed. His son, a little boy of 9 years, was brought to Yunnan-fu in a cage. He is now in the new prison. I visited this establishment a short while ago in company with the judge, and the demeanour of the juvenile pretender towards his gaoler was evidence that they were not harsh with him. The judge, to whose kindheartedness he owes his humane treatment, tells me that he is now being taught Chinese, and that it is proposed to set him free when he is of age, provided his conduct has been satisfactory.\n\n### Railways\n\nIt is now confidently expected that the French railway will reach Yunnan-fu before the close of this year. The construction train has reached Liu-feng-ts'un, 100 kilom. (64 miles) from Yunnan-fu. The earthquake on the 21st May did only trifling damage to one of the tunnels, and dislodged a large quantity of débris on to the track at Po-hsi. Three or four Lolo villages in the vicinity of Po-hsi were partially destroyed and six or seven natives killed. The shock was a sharp one at Yunnan-fu, lasting for seven or eight seconds (11:30 P.M.), but no damage was done. The French consul tells me that the Chinese authorities at Yünnan-fu have denied to him that the Chinese Government intends to buy back the French railway. This railway will have cost not less than $4,000,000 by the time it reaches Yunnan-fu, and I doubt if the Chinese at Yünnan-fu would recommend the purchase, for this large amount, of a railway which they regard as doomed to financial loss.\n\nThe subject of a light Decauville railway, to cost 300,000 taels, from Yunnan-fu to ... \n\nPage 3 \n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n715\n\n[September 27.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nIRE \n\n(R£! 25 OCT 09 \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 27.)\n\n**(No. 319.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, September 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report to you the following instance of somewhat high-handed action on the part of the Russian police at Harbin towards a British firm recently established there :--\n\nOn the 12th August a telegram was received through the American Legation from the American vice-consul at Harbin, Mr. Paddock, to the effect that the Russian police had, at the request of an Austrian subject and without any legal proceedings, taken possession of and sealed the storehouse of the British firm of Craig and Co.\n\nIn my absence from Peking, Mr. Max Müller telegraphed to the acting British consul-general at Mukden for further information, and, after visiting the Russian Legation, addressed the letter of which I have the honour to enclose a copy to the Russian Minister, who was also absent from Peking. I beg to transmit copies of two despatches from Mr. Willis which will put you in possession of the facts of the case as far as they were known to him, and will explain the action which he had taken; also a copy of the letter which Mr. Max Müller received from the Russian Legation in reply to his protest.\n\nI cannot say that the explanations contained in this letter can be considered quite satisfactory, but in view of Mr. Max Müller's formal protest and of the opinion expressed by Mr. Willis in his second despatch, I have thought it better to allow the matter to drop.\n\nThe American vice-consul at Harbin appears from a despatch which he addressed to the State Department on the subject to have taken a far more serious view of the incident than Mr. Willis. He reports that Craig's agent, Klementasky-who claims to be a British subject, though not registered at the consulate-general at Mukden-- wrote a letter to all the consular representatives at Harbin; and Mr. Paddock went so far as to ask the Japanese consul-general, in his capacity of doyen of the consular corps, to call a meeting of his colleagues to consider the question of taking official notice of the matter, but the Japanese consul-general thought that it would be best to await the result of the representations made by the British authorities.\n\nI do not, however, attach so much importance to Mr. Paddock's report as I should have had I not known that gentleman personally in Corea. He was excitable and not very dependable, and he is, I am told, an anti-Russian at Harbin as he was anti-Japanese in Corea, and would no doubt like to urge us forward to take the initiative in the vexed question of the Russian administrative rights in Harbin.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a copy of yet a further despatch from the acting British consul-general at Mukden dealing with a question arising out of this incident, namely, whether it would not be advisable in the event of British firms establishing themselves in railway territory to inform the Russian consulate-general. I have replied to Mr. Willis that, provided it is understood that our action is purely for convenience' sake, and does not imply any recognition on our part of the Russian view of their own rights, there would be no objection to his making such a notification to the Russian consul-general at Harbin.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Russian Minister.\n\n[Undated.]\n\nI HAVE received indirect information that the Russian police at Harbin have, at the request of an Austrian subject and without any legal proceedings, taken possession of and sealed the storehouse of the British firm of Craig and Co, in that town.",
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        "content_text": "# Consul Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan\n\n## Newchwang, September 17, 1909\n\nIn accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 9th instant, I have the honour to report on the progress that is being made with the scheme for the improvement of the navigation of the Liao River.\n\nIn my intelligence report for June quarter, I informed you that the taotai had successfully negotiated with the Hu Pu Bank a loan of 100,000 dollars to meet the cost of the proposed weir at Shuang Tai Tzu. The security for this loan, which bears interest at 7 per cent and is repayable in six years, is the tax on native boats referred to in my despatch of the 2nd June, from which the taotai hopes to raise at least 15,000 dollars per annum. The loan is also guaranteed by the Viceroy at Mukden, a condition upon which the bank insisted, although his Excellency in exchange has withdrawn his promised contribution towards the expense of the work of 20,000 taels. The amount raised, however, is sufficient to meet the estimated cost, and operations have already been commenced under the superintendence of Mr. Hughes, the consulting engineer of the Mukden Government. It is probable that the weir itself will not be completed until the end of next summer, but Mr. Hughes hopes by means of a temporary dam across the Shuang Tai Tzu outlet to effect a considerable improvement in the channel below it before the close of the present season. The months of October and November are, I should explain, two of the busiest in the year for the river trade, the boats being then engaged in bringing down to Newchwang the new bean harvest. For this reason, it is extremely desirable that something, if possible, should be done before the end of the season to improve the channel in question, which, as Mr. Hughes rightly anticipated, has proved this year the most difficult to navigate along the entire course of the Liao.\n\nThe construction, however, of the weir at Shuang Tai Tzu, though a measure of urgent necessity, is but the first, and least costly, of the three distinct works advocated by Mr. Hughes for the proper conservancy of the river. The second of these works is the amelioration of the whole river between Tung Chiang Tzu, the present limit of navigation for junks, and Newchwang. The third is the protection of this port from the danger of the river breaking through the narrow neck of land between Duck Island and the harbour, the result of which would be to ruin the present anchorage, render the existing wharves useless, and probably flood the town. There is a fourth work, too, of which Mr. Hughes makes no mention, but which, if it could be successfully accomplished, would be as beneficial to the port as the other three. I refer to the deepening of the bar at the mouth of the river so as to enable vessels drawing, say, 26 feet of water to come up to Newchwang. At present, the depth of water on the bar varies, according to the season, from 18 to 22 feet, which is, unfortunately, not enough for the average ocean-going steamer as distinguished from the coaster, and so places the port at a great disadvantage in the European trade as compared with its chief rival, Dalny.\n\nThe cost of improving the navigation of the whole river between Tung Chiang Tzu and Newchwang, if properly carried out, which would mean not only deepening the present shallow, but also narrowing the stream where its width is too great, confining it to one course, where it now divides into two or more, and straightening it where its bends are too abrupt, Mr. Hughes estimates at well over 1,000,000 dollars. As he believes this sum to be prohibitive, he suggests as an alternative scheme the employment of dredgers of large capacity, which can be moved from place to place to remove such obstacles to navigation as have formed or may form in the future. To purchase these dredgers, a sum, according to his estimate, of 150,000 dollars will be required, and the annual working expenses will be about 30,000 dollars. For the work at Duck Island, he accepts M. de Rijke's estimate of 160,000 dollars. What the cost of deepening the bar will amount to, it is impossible to say. It will certainly not be inconsiderable.\n\nTo meet the cost of these various works, all of which are of vital importance to the prosperity of Newchwang, but for which, at the lowest estimate, 500,000 dollars will be needed, the 100,000 dollars raised by the taotai for the construction of the Shuang Tai Tzu weir are the only funds as yet available. The question which has therefore arisen is, how is the balance required to be provided? The solution which naturally suggests itself is that the money should be furnished by the Provincial or even the Central Government, for the river is a national asset which it would be almost criminal to neglect, but, as the taotai points out in the enclosed despatch on the subject, which he has addressed to the consuls at this port, the finances of Manchuria are at the present time in so impoverished a state that it is hopeless to expect any allocation of public funds for the purpose, and he holds out no hope of assistance from the Central Government. The only alternative that suggests itself to him is the adoption at Newchwang of a scheme on the same lines as the Haiho Conservancy scheme at Tien-tsin, by which the money can be raised by a tax of so much per mille on the value of the cargo of all vessels entering the port, and of so much per ton on their registered tonnage.\n\nA meeting of the consular body to discuss the taotai's proposals was held here on the 14th August, at which the opinion generally expressed was that, rather than that the work should not be carried out at all, it was better to agree to some tax on the trade of the port, but that the tax should be as light a one as possible, as otherwise its effect would be to drive trade to Dalny, which it was the very object of the conservancy works in contemplation to prevent. The only dissentient from this view was the Japanese consul, who stated that his nationals would not hear of any tax on the trade to assist a scheme of this nature. It was finally decided, at my suggestion, that a second meeting should be held, at which the representatives of the foreign and Japanese chambers of commerce should be invited to attend and express their views in person.\n\nThe meeting was held, but no representative from the Japanese chamber put in an appearance, the Japanese consul explaining that he was empowered on their behalf to state that they objected in toto to the taotai's proposals, but were willing to consider a scheme for an increase in the pilotage fees, the proceeds to be devoted to the deepening of the bar. The representatives of the foreign chamber, being then asked for their views, expressed very much the same opinion as that of the majority of the consuls at our first meeting, namely, that it was better to pay rather than have nothing done at all, but that the taxes imposed should be moderate, and that, before agreeing to them, every effort should be made to impress upon the Chinese Government the wisdom of bearing the entire cost themselves rather than risk a diversion of the trade to other ports. Since then, the committees of the two chambers have met privately to discuss the question without, however, arriving at any understanding.\n\nTwo reasons were given by the Japanese for refusing to agree to any taxation of the trade of the port—one, the very excellent one that it would divert trade to Dalny; the other, that the conservancy of the upper river was unnecessary, seeing that the railways now provided an excellent alternative means of communication. They were willing, however, that the profits of the pilotage scheme referred to by the consul should be devoted in the second place to the improvement of the river. This scheme, which I cannot believe to have been seriously meant, was that pilotage should be made compulsory, the number of pilots increased and fixed salaries paid them, and the fees for pilotage raised to whatever extent was necessary to provide the funds required. This would mean, as Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent here pointed out to me, that their regular steamers would each have to pay something like 300 taels per trip, a charge which would more than swallow up their profits; in fact, no better method of driving trade and shipping away from the port altogether could possibly be devised.\n\nThe consular body is now waiting for a report from the foreign chamber of commerce of the result of their meeting with the Japanese, and also for an expression in writing of their views as to the extent to which the trade of the port might bear taxation. As soon as this is received, a further meeting will be held, at which, in all probability, it will be decided that each consul shall address his Minister separately, recommending the taotai's proposals, as modified by the chamber, to his favourable consideration. The chamber of commerce will, I believe, recommend a maximum tax of 1 per mille on the value of all exports and imports, and a tax of 24 candareens per ton on the registered tonnage of all vessels entering the port; and, to meet the views of the Japanese, which are also in this respect their own, they will ask that the deepening of the bar be included amongst the works to be taken in hand. The amount that will be raised annually from these taxes, if they should ever be agreed to, will not be less than 50,000 taels, for the value of the trade last year was 53,300,000 taels, and the tonnage entered 531,000 tons, in addition to which some 7,500 sea-going junks also visited the port; but, in any case, it will not be sufficient to provide the full amount required to carry out the whole work effectively. The ideal solution would be for the Chinese Government to bear the entire cost, but this, as things stand, seems unlikely.\n\nPage 3\nPage 14",
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        "content_text": "## C.0.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[37593]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[October 11.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n24\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 11.)\n\n**(No. 349.)** Sir,\n\nPeking, September 24, 1909. WITH reference to my despatch No. 317 of the 6th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch from the acting consul-general at Canton respecting the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. Butler Wright, chief accountant of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nI have already expressed my views on the subject in my despatch above mentioned, and I need only add that I fully agree with the opinion expressed by Mr. Fox as to the position of the British and Chinese Corporation and the moral obligation which they have incurred to make good the defalcations of a man whom they had certified to be a proper person for the post which he occupied.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### (No. 103.) Acting Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, September 8, 1909. REFERRING to my telegram No. 21 of the 4th instant, I have the honour to enclose, for your perusal, copy of a letter from Mr. Grove to Taotai Wei Han, managing director of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese section), describing the manner of Mr. Butler Wright's, the chief accountant, departure from Canton.\n\nMr. Butler Wright, who was arrested in Shanghae on the 6th instant on a charge of embezzlement of railway funds, is now in custody under remand pending the arrival of the consular warrant.\n\nAlthough an audit of Mr. Butler Wright's accounts commenced on the 1st September, the discovery of what appear to be serious misappropriations of the moneys in his charge was made, quite by accident, the day after his departure from Canton. Mr. Power, the assistant accountant, opened a packet lying on the office desk, supposing that it contained Mr. Wright's official pass book of his imprest account. In reality the packet contained Mr. Wright's private pass book, which he had evidently through inadvertence left behind.\n\nIt was the sight of several considerable entries on the credit side of the pass book that aroused Mr. Power's suspicions and led to an examination of the private and official pass books by the engineer-in-chief and himself, from which it became evident that Mr. Wright had been in the habit of transferring large sums of money from his official to his private account in the International Bank at Canton.\n\nMr. Wright was apparently allowed to keep sums ranging from 10,000 dollars to 15,000 dollars in his official imprest account in Canton, over which he had sole control, and it would appear that he has never been called upon to render an account of this money.\n\nIn view of the fact that the engineer-in-chief has more than once urged the British and Chinese Corporation to institute an audit of the railway accounts, that Mr. Butler Wright, with a salary of only 600l. a-year, and a wife and family to support in England, was notoriously living far beyond his means, and in view of his well-known gambling proclivities, it is, I venture to think, an extraordinary circumstance that these facts, which must have been known to the Corporation's agent in Hong Kong, did not induce them long ago to safeguard their interests and their reputation by an examination of Mr. Wright's accounts.\n\nWhatever the Corporation's legal responsibility in the matter may be, they are, it seems to me, morally bound to make good the amount of Mr. Wright's defalcations.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[39842]\n\nOctober 30.(23 NOV 09)\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n86\n\n### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 30.)**\n\n(No. 320.)\n\nPeking, September 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of two despatches from the acting British consul-general at Mukden, with enclosures, respecting the arrest of a British subject named Birkett, by the South Manchurian railway settlement police at Changchun.\n\nBefore receiving Mr. Willis' second despatch, I had approved the terms of the note which he had addressed to his Japanese colleague on the 28th ultimo, but from the enclosures in Mr. Willis' second despatch, it would appear that the Japanese authorities admit that the proper course would have been to have handed Birkett over to the Chinese authorities pending reference to the nearest British consular officer, and that he was only detained at the hotel out of consideration for his personal comfort.\n\nThe action of the Japanese authorities in this case contrasts favourably with that of the Russian authorities in the case of Craig and Company's agent at Harbin, reported in my immediately preceding despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 38.) Acting Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nMukden, August 28, 1909.\n\nYESTERDAY morning I received notice from the Japanese police at Mukden that one Birkett, a British subject, had been arrested by the South Manchurian railway settlement police at Chang-chun for having obtained credit from the Yamato hotel at that place, and attempting to leave without settling his account. Birkett was being sent to Mukden by the South Manchurian railway, and would arrive the same evening.\n\nI at once saw Mr. Koike, my Japanese colleague, and arranged with him to take charge of the man at the railway station at Mukden. At the same time I told Mr. Koike clearly that I did not acknowledge the right of Japanese settlement police to arrest and detain British subjects. Mr. Koike replied that the Japanese Government claimed sole rights of administration in the railway areas, but added that he thought from his telegram that Birkett had not been arrested, but was coming down of his own free will.\n\nIn the absence of a constable attached to this consulate-general, and there being no possible place in my present quarters suitable for use as a cell, I was forced to request the assistance of the Chinese authorities for effecting the arrest and securing the detention of the accused. I thought it wiser to refuse Mr. Koike's offer of assistance, and the remainder of my colleagues are without facilities of this nature.\n\nAlthough I remanded Birkett for ten days so as to give him a chance of proving the truth of his statements, I have little doubt but that he is a confirmed swindler. As long as the Japanese police are de facto administering the railway settlements it seems to me that we cannot well object to their arrest of British subjects when it is necessary, in the interests of justice; but in this case Birkett was in their charge from 1:30 P.M. on the 26th August until 6 P.M. on the 27th, when he was handed to me.\n\nI consequently deemed it my duty to take exception to the action of the Japanese police, and accordingly I addressed a note to Mr. Koike, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.",
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        "content_text": "## 3.181 \n**Roof 23 NOV 09** \n2 \n\nThe work. The letter concludes by stating that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce has also expressed itself in accord with these suggestions.\n\nThe concurrence of the Japanese Chamber was very unexpectedly given at a final meeting of the representatives of the two Chambers held at my suggestion last week. It was pointed out by the representatives of the foreign Chamber that the proposed taxes would in all probability barely cover the cost of strengthening the bank at Duck Island and the annual running expenses which the deepening of the bar would involve, so that the provision of funds for the up-river improvements would fall entirely on the Chinese Government. The Japanese representatives thereupon gave way, and agreed to lend their support to the foreign Chamber's views.\n\nThe Chamber's letter was discussed at a meeting of the consular body held here on the 25th instant. It was decided that each consul should report separately to his Minister on the question, but that the senior consul should reply to the taotai's letter in the name of the body, informing him of the views held by the Chambers of Commerce, and suggesting that a survey should at once be made of the bar so that some estimate could be arrived at of the probable cost of deepening it. The question of addressing the doyen of the diplomatic body was raised, but the general opinion was that it would be premature to do so until we had learnt from the taotai how the provincial authorities regarded the proposal that the deepening of the bar should be included in the conservancy scheme, and what further pecuniary assistance they were prepared to render. As far as I know, the bar has never been surveyed by a qualified engineer, and we are absolutely in the dark as to whether any useful improvement in its channel can be effected except at prohibitive cost. Mr. Hughes will, we hope, be instructed by the Viceroy to undertake the work of surveying it, but whether he will be able to do so this year or not is doubtful. He is at present superintending the work at Shuang Tai Tzu.\n\nI should mention in conclusion that I have received a letter from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent at this port, requesting me to place on record the fact that, as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, he has reserved his vote on the resolution approving the imposition of a tax on shipping pending reference to his principals. The United States Consul, on the other hand, has protested against the inadequacy of this same tax, which he maintains should be at least 5 candareens per ton.\n\nI have, &c. \n**F. E. WILKINSON.**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA \n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n`[40077]`\n\n### No. 1 \n[November 1.]\n\n#### SECTION 1, Z \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 1.) (No. 373.)\n\nPeking, October 12, 1909. Sir,\n\nIN my despatch No. 336 of the 16th September I had the honour to enclose copy of a despatch which I had addressed to His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang, commenting upon his handling of the Yu Fa Ch'ông case, and I now beg to transmit to you copy of the reply which I have received from Mr. Werner.*\n\nThe contentions put forward by Mr. Werner do not alter my opinion that he made a mistake in holding the preliminary hearing. There were two courses clearly open to Mr. Werner, and, in my opinion, he chose the wrong one, although the right one was sufficiently clearly indicated to him by the instructions of the Crown Advocate. Seeing that he had conducted a long and necessarily acrimonious correspondence with the taotai on the subject, it was not difficult to foresee that his holding of the preliminary inquiry would cause great dissatisfaction, and it was eminently a case in which he should have exercised the discretion allowed him by article 25 (1) of the order in council, which seems especially designed for such cases.\n\nHaving decided to hear the case, Mr. Werner committed a further fault of judgment in exercising the power granted him by Rule 42 of the Supreme Court to exclude the public from the preliminary examination. We had everything to gain and nothing to lose by the widest publicity, and should not have given the Chinese the opportunity of saying, as they now do, that a public charge has never been publicly heard. These criticisms are of course offered from a political point of view, but the state of things in China imposes upon consuls the duty of seeing that their judicial functions are exercised, in so far as British legal procedure permits, in a way that will not provoke popular resentment.\n\nMr. Werner refers to the interference of American missionaries and other people at Kinkiang, and has more than once stated his belief that, but for this undercurrent of foreign support, the boycott would have stopped before now. There seems, I regret to say, to have been considerable friction between Mr. Werner and several of the members of the small foreign community at Kiukiang for some time past, and complaints of social squabbles have reached me from both sides, into the merits of which I have not considered it advisable to enter. Mr. Werner, as I have been obliged to remind him, has had similar experiences at several other ports in China.\n\nI am glad to be able to report that things seem to be improving both at Kiukiang and Shanghae. Mr. Werner telegraphed on the 8th instant that shipment of cargo had been resumed that morning, and on the following day cargo was also shipped from Shanghae to Kiukiang, and His Majesty's consul-general at the former port telegraphed that the boycott was relaxing.\n\nThe Wai-wu Po, on whom I have continually urged the necessity for vigorous action, have sent a Councillor of the Board, Mr. Liu Yuk-lin, to do all he can by personal action on the spot to effect a complete cessation of the boycott. I have given him letters to Mr. Fraser at Hankow and Mr. Werner at Kiukiang, and have asked both consuls to afford him full co-operation in devising measures calculated to attain the end in view.\n\nThe Board, however, still insist that the removal of Mears is necessary for the appeasement of the popular feeling, and I have instructed Mr. Werner to bear carefully in mind the suggestions made in your telegram No. 167 on this point. A considerable section of foreign opinion is opposed to the step as a concession to Chinese prejudice, but the man's usefulness at Kiukiang must be so greatly impaired as to make the solution seem almost a necessity.\n\nI have, &c. \n**J. N. JORDAN.**\n\n* Not printed. \n`[2495 a--2]` \n--2] \n90",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nEnclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nM. Korostovets to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMy dear Colleague,\n\nDecember 14, 1909. I beg to inform you that I have read with due attention the arguments expounded in your letter dated the 13th December, concerning the case of Messrs. S. Macgregor and Co.\n\nThis particular case touching the question of principle which is at present under consideration, I deem it necessary to refer the points contained in your Excellency's letter to my Government, and hope to be able to give you an answer at the earliest possible date.\n\nThanking you very much for the frank exposition of your views on the subject, I remain, &c.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nWai-wu Pu to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nKOROSTOVETZ,\n\nPeking, December 10, 1909. With reference to the organisation of municipalities on the lands of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23rd June, in which you state that the detailed regulations to be afterwards drawn up must receive the approval of the treaty Powers.\n\nThe Board were engaged in considering this matter when they received from the Russian Minister, M. Korostovetz, a copy of the Russian Government's notification—a detailed criticism of which has already been communicated to your Excellency in the form of a circular. When the Chinese and Russian Governments dispatch commissioners to Harbin to draw up the detailed regulations, the Chinese Government must necessarily firmly maintain the terms of her circular to the Powers in order to preserve her sovereign rights and requite the friendly interest which the various Powers have taken in this question.\n\nWith reference to your Excellency's despatch under acknowledgment the Board has arranged with the Russian Minister that His Majesty's consul will be informed when the negotiations open.\n\nI have the honour to write this note for your Excellency's information, and beg that you communicate it to His Majesty's Government.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n[B]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nRece 191\n\n4196\n\n[January 2. 11 FEB 10\n\n[1140]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir A. Nicolson,\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n(No. 20.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, January 25, 1910. With reference to previous correspondence I transmit to your Excellency the accompanying copies of two despatches from His Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the Russian railway settlement in Manchuria.\n\nThe earlier of these papers encloses a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden pointing out that, with the exception of German subjects and protégés, American citizens, and British subjects, the foreign residents appear to be paying the municipal taxes demanded by the Russian Town Council at Harbin, and stating that British merchants are by no means averse from paying taxes if fairly assessed, and provided that they are not subjected to annoyance at the hands of the Russian police.\n\nIn commenting on Mr. Willis's despatch, Sir J. Jordan expresses the opinion that it might be better to endeavour to obtain safeguards on these points rather than risk the possibility of Russia coming to an understanding with Japan on the basis of her original interpretation of clause 6 of the agreement of 1896.\n\nI am inclined to concur in the above view, and I think it of the utmost importance that His Majesty's Government should not take any step at the present juncture calculated to provoke common action between these two countries to secure such an interpretation of the clause. This contingency could not fail to exercise a detrimental result on British interests both in North and South Manchuria, and would tend to complicate still further the situation produced by the recent American action in regard to the neutralisation of the Manchurian railways.\n\nAs your Excellency is aware, His Majesty's Government have never raised insuperable objections to the proposals made by Russia in regard to the question of railway settlements. They have claimed nothing more than that the rules for the government of international municipalities in China must receive the approval of the Treaty Powers before they can be made applicable to foreign subjects, and they accordingly suggested that these regulations should be drawn up in consultation with the diplomatic or consular authorities of the Power concerned.\n\nIn the circular despatch enclosed in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 461 of the 10th ultimo, which the Wai-wu Pu has addressed to the foreign representatives protesting against a notification alleged to have been issued by the Russian Foreign Office on the subject of the railway settlements, your Excellency will observe that the Chinese Government dispute the contention of the Russian Government that the Chinese, instead of administering Harbin themselves, have transferred their rights of administration to the Russian Railway Company so that the latter acts as agent of the Chinese Government in supervising the administration of Harbin and other places. This answer leaves no sort of doubt as to the wishes and views of China in the matter, and expressly states that she is desirous of preserving the sovereign rights to which she is entitled in Manchuria as elsewhere throughout the Chinese Empire, and at the same time to safeguard the proper interests of the various nations which trade with her.\n\nI should be glad if your Excellency will take the first opportunity that presents itself of bringing to the notice of M. Isvolsky the above views, and while pointing out again the real nature of the reservations made by His Majesty's Government, make it perfectly clear to his Excellency that they are genuinely anxious to see the present question settled to the satisfaction of Russia and Great Britain alike.\n\nYour Excellency should bear in mind the arguments used by Sir J. Jordan in a private letter to the Russian Minister at Peking, dated the 13th December (see Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 472 of the 18th ultimo), in connection with the conditions on which the Chinese Eastern Railway Company were prepared to accede to the\n\n* Sir J. Jordan, No. 461, December 10; ditto, No. 472, December 18, 1909. [2605 bb-2]\n\n0",
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        "content_text": "He also says \"I cannot help feeling that we shall find that China has more than fulfilled her share of the bargain.\"\n\nIn these circumstances we think that our Government ought to modify the ten years' arrangement. On the 29th July, 1907, three friends of our cause were accorded a private interview with Mr. Morley, when the present arrangement had just been announced and was the subject discussed. One point concerned a probable plea on the part of China for more speedy reduction, and the question was asked: \"Would Mr. Morley be prepared to consider such a plea if deliberately put before him by the Chinese authorities?\" In reply he said he could only refer to his statement on the 30th May, 1906, that any deliberate proposals from the Chinese Government on the subject of opium would meet with sympathetic consideration.\" So far as we are aware the Chinese Government have not thus deliberately proposed a modification of the arrangement, for they feel that as the weaker nation they must take what they can get rather than get what they ask. But Sir Alexander Hosie has distinctly certified to the anxiety of the Central Government to shorten the limit (\"China No. 1, 1909,\" p. 4). And at the Shanghae Commission, when the possibility of a change was brought forward by the American delegates, Tong Kai Sun, the leading Chinese spokesman, said that, while China had no wish to go back upon the agreement, she would appreciate any assistance in curtailing the period of importation. China, he thought, was not precluded from asking that her case be taken into further sympathetic consideration. (Report, Vol. I, pp. 55-6.)\n\nWe therefore venture to suggest to you that it would be altogether worthy of Britain, with her record of justice and consideration for nations not so highly favoured as herself, if, even in the absence of any official proposal from China, the British Government intimated a willingness to modify the agreement, and to shorten the period agreed upon.\n\nWe note with interest the statement in your letter that there is nothing in the agreement which binders China antedating the ten years, and that she is well aware of this. But what she is not equally well aware of is our willingness to antedate in that case the cessation of the Indian export of opium to China. In replying to a deputation in Edinburgh on the 17th December, 1909, the Under-Secretary for India gave us hope that such might be the policy of the British Government. He said that, in the case of China thus antedating the production of her opium, \"the trade in foreign opium will, under the arrangement with Great Britain, correspondingly cease.\" If Lord Morley confirms this statement, and it is approved by you, we trust you will not delay to communicate it officially to China, as we are certain that the knowledge of it would have an immediate and immense effect in stimulating her in her heroic efforts to eradicate the evil against which she is struggling.\n\nIf the concession regarding the shortening of the ten years' period is granted, the other matter treated of in your letter—the revision of the treaties—becomes less important. Yet we continue to think and to urge that the clauses which our Peking Legation deems so detrimental to China (“China No. 1, 1908,\" p. 32) should by mutual agreement be held in abeyance. We are thankful for the clear interpretation of these clauses which you give in your letter. We only wish that the \"wholesale dealers,\" to whom you refer, and your consular agents would apply the clauses accordingly. We fear that they have not been so applied in regard to the Kucheng incident referred to in the \"Times of the 11th January.\" The \"unswerving sincerity\" of the Chinese is deliberately certified to in a resolution at the Shanghae Commission drawn up by the British delegation. But in the case referred to their sincerity was called in question, although they had evidenced it by raising thousands of dollars voluntarily in place of opium revenue. You seem to think that the Kucheng authorities by their action in shutting the shops wished either to institute a monopoly of all opium, or to give an unfair opportunity for the sale of the native drug to the detriment of the Indian. We cannot see how the facts, carefully verified by Bishop Price, give any colour to this theory. The bishop wrote to the agent of Messrs. Jardine after he had a report of your reply to the Scottish memorial of last June, in which you said that, while upholding treaty rights, you would support bona fide steps for the suppression of the evil, and we cannot but think that he was right in supposing that the effort came under such a category. But even if, on enquiry, you find that the forcing of our Indian opium upon an inland district was thus in accordance with treaty right, surely, if such practices are to be allowed, it is high time that the clauses that make them legal were swept away. They seem to us to be entirely obsolete, belonging to a period when it was held that the destiny of Britain was to rule and the fate of China to be ruled,\" but totally foreign to a time when China is plainly seen to be qualifying herself for being included in the comity of nations, and likely before long to rank as a great world Power.\n\nEre closing, permit us to mention the matter of morphia. At p. 28 of the recent White Paper Mr. Max Müller refers to it. He says, \"It is to be feared that, without the assistance of countries from which the morphia is exported, China will be unable to check the smuggling of it along her extensive sea and land frontier.\" More than half of the world's supply of morphia is still manufactured in Britain (the larger part in Edinburgh), and quantities of it are sent directly or indirectly to the East. The Shanghae Commission, as you are aware, recommended that its \"manufacture, sale, and distribution\" should be supervised. We have asked the Board of Trade to put morphia separately among the export of drugs, so that the quantity sent out might be known, but this very slight \"supervision\" has not as yet been granted, and we should be glad if you could see your way to do something in the matter.\n\nWith every desire to assist and not to hinder a beneficent foreign policy, which shall redound to the good name of our country abroad, we remain,\n\nOn behalf of the Representative Board of British Anti-Opium Societies,\n\nJAMES L. MAXWELL, M.D.,\n\nChairman of Representative Board. On behalf of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade,\n\nJOSEPH G. ALEXANDER,\n\nHonorary Secretary.\n\nOn behalf of the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Traffic,\n\nB. BROOMHALL, Honorary Secretary.\n\nOn behalf of the Women's Anti-Opium Urgency Committee,\n\nRACHEL B. BRAITHWAITE,\n\nA. CALDECOTT,\n\nHonorary Secretary.\n\nChairman of the Church Anti-Opium Committee.\n\nG. S. MUIR,\n\nHonorary Secretary, Edinburgh Committee for Suppression of Indo-Chinese Opium Traffic.",
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        "content_text": "456\n\n9850\n\n2\n\nget is that it is open to them to remove their establishment to Dairen, a course which is obviously impossible, in view of the large amount of capital which they have sunk in Newchwang. The agent therefore asks the assistance of the chamber of commerce at making representations in the proper quarter in order that pressure may be brought upon the railway company so as to induce them to place their rates from Dairen and Newchwang on a mutually fairer basis than is at present the case.\n\nThe chamber have accordingly brought the matter in their turn to the notice of the consular body, by which it has been decided that each consul shall address his Minister separately on the question, my Japanese colleague objecting to a joint despatch to the doyen at Peking.\n\nThe Asiatic Petroleum Company's agent puts his case so clearly that comment on it on my part is scarcely necessary. As it may, however, be argued that, as long as the railway freight from Dairen to the interior is not lower than from Newchwang, the latter port is not at any actual disadvantage, even though deprived of the benefit which its closer proximity to the trade centres of Manchuria should give it, I venture to point out that sea freights to Newchwang are higher than to Dairen, and that for large steamers expenses here are considerably greater than they are at Dairen, so that the discrimination in the railway rates is without question a very severe handicap to the trade of this port. The importance of the question to the Asiatic Petroleum Company has been accentuated too by the fact that, tempted by the favourable freights offered and by the promises of the railway administration, the Standard Oil Company, their chief rivals, propose to make Dairen their head-quarters, and to erect there, instead of at Newchwang, the tanks they have in contemplation.\n\nI also enclose a copy of the letter addressed by the chamber of commerce to the senior consul, transmitting the Asiatic Petroleum Company's complaint.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nF. E. WILKINSON.\n\nNewchwang Chamber of Commerce to Mr. Beltchenko.\n\nNewchwang, January 29, 1910.\n\nI BEG to bring to the notice of your honourable body the disadvantage at which Newchwang is placed vis-à-vis Dairen, in the matter of freight rates on certain commodities by the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nIn their latest freight tariff dated the 3rd November, 1909, equal rates are charged from both ports to the principal trade centres of Manchuria, although the distance from Dairen is 137 miles greater than from Newchwang.\n\nAs an illustration of the way in which this discrimination on the part of the South Manchurian Railway Company is affecting an important branch of Newchwang trade, I beg to lay before your honourable body the enclosed copy of a communication, dated the 28th instant, which this chamber has received from the Newchwang agent of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (Limited), London, in which it is pointed out as an instance that on its oil dispatched from Newchwang to Mukden the Company is most inequitably compelled to pay more than twice the freight per mile than is paid on oil from Dairen.\n\nThis chamber considers most unsatisfactory the verbal reply made by the South Manchurian Railway to the Asiatic Petroleum Company's representations, amounting as it virtually does to an admission that the rate basis has been fixed with the object of diverting trade from Newchwang to Dairen, and this chamber would ask your honourable body to take up this question with the object of securing, by fair and proportionate adjustment of mileage rates, that equality of treatment which the trade of Newchwang has the right to enjoy.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. F. HARLEY, Chairman.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Company to Newchwang Chamber of Commerce.\n\nREP Real 4 APR 10\n\nSir,\n\nNewchwang, January 28, 1910. WE should like to draw your attention to the baggage and freight tariff of the South Manchurian Railway Company, published on the 3rd November, 1909, in which, on p. 33, under the heading \"Specific Freight Rates,\" there appears the following:-\n\nThe car-load rate on kerosene oil\n\n\"(V) Freight Rates on Kerosene Oil. from Dairen and Yingkou only shall be as follows :-\"\n\nFollowing this the rates are given per ton to Liaoyang, Mukden, Tiehling, Kaiyuan, Changtu, Ssupingchieh, Kungehuling, Changchun, and Kwanchengtau.\n\nThe list comprises all the important towns in Manchuria, and the distance from Dairen to any of these places is 137 miles greater than the distance from Newchwang (Yingkou), In making the freight rates the same from Dairen as from Newchwang the railway company are undertaking the haulage over this distance of 137 miles for nothing. To Mukden, for instance, the largest distributing centre in Manchuria, the distance from Dairen is 248.7 miles, while from Newchwang it is only 111 miles, so that on kerosene oil sent from here we are paying more than twice the rate of freight per mile than is paid on oil from Dairen.\n\nSuch discrimination is greatly to the detriment of the trade of this port, and entirely obviates the advantage which its closer proximity to the trade centres of Manchuria should give it; and at the same time it gives to companies establishing themselves at Dairen an unfair advantage over companies established at Newchwang.\n\nWe have gone to the expense of erecting an oil-tank installation at Newchwang and have made this port our head-quarters for Manchuria, relying on the principle of \"equal opportunity\" which Japan has so many times expressed a willingness and desire to maintain in this country. We are of opinion that the present schedule of rates is in contravention of that principle, and we have approached the South Manchurian Railway Company and put this view before them, but we are met only with the reply that it is quite open to us to establish our head-quarters in Dairen instead of in Newchwang. It is, however, obviously impossible, when capital has been sunk on tanks and buildings, &c., in one port, to transfer such tanks and buildings to another port without great loss; and we are thus hampered in every way in our endeavours to work the trade of Manchuria through Newchwang.\n\nIt is because we consider that the rates as published, not only on kerosene oil but on all goods, are calculated seriously to hamper the trade of Newchwang and to give a great and unfair advantage to the trade of Dairen that we wish to lodge this protest with you, and to ask the assistance of the chamber of commerce in making representations in the proper quarter, in order that some influence may be brought to bear upon the railway company so as to induce them to place their rates from the two ports on a mutually fairer basis than is at present the case.\n\nWe beg, &c. For the Asiatic Petroleum Company (Limited),\n\nG. S. HAWKINS.",
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        "content_text": "487 \n\n22 \n\nIn the province of Kirin, on the other hand, not only was the scale of taxation heavier, but there had been a constant effort on the part of the authorities to levy taxes on certificated goods. At Changch'un, and apparently all over the province, there were six different forms of taxes, for the exact description of which I beg to refer you to the memorandum. After citing a number of instances which had given rise to protests from foreign merchants, the report concluded by saying that the consular body at Mukden had little or no information as to the treatment of goods in the province of Heilungchiang.\n\nAfter due consideration, my colleagues authorised me, as dean, to address a further protest to the **Wei-wu Pu** in reply to their note of the 22nd February, 1910. In our note dated the 21st instant, of which the copy is enclosed, we have pointed out that the Kirin authorities openly claim the right to tax foreign goods once they reach the hands of Chinese merchants. We contest this claim on the ground that the taxes enumerated directly affect the foreign importer or his agent, and we request the proper observance of the regulations of 1907 and the provisions of the Treasury.\n\nWe have also taken the opportunity of drawing the attention of the **Wei-wu Pu** to a matter brought to our notice by the Newchwang Chamber of Commerce. In November last year, certain regulations drawn up by the Bureau of Business Taxes were issued and enforced at the trade mart of Changch'un for levying a so-called \"business tax\" on all imported merchandise as well as on exports of grain. The authorities in Manchuria have occasionally contended that beans are included in grain, of which the export abroad is prohibited, but we have successfully resisted this contention in the past. We maintain in our note that they are an article of produce, the export abroad of which is not prohibited, and that, as such, they are exempt under \"internal taxes, article 12, paragraph 2, of the Japanese treaty of 1896 from all imposts, duties, charges, and exactions of all kinds\" when purchased by foreign merchants in a treaty port. We point out that the imposition of this \"business tax,\" which amounts to about 3 per cent, ad valorem, is inconsistent with the spirit of the treaty provisions between the Powers and China, and we demand the abolition of the regulations and the tax.\n\nIt is, perhaps, too much to expect that our representations will lead to the total abolition of these levies, but I trust that they will have the effect of keeping taxation in Manchuria within reasonable bounds.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n### **Wai-wu Pu** to Dean of Diplomatic Body\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nPeking, February 22, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 10th December, 1909, in which you state\n\n(Quotes note.)\n\nThe board accordingly communicated with the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governors of Fengtien and Kirin, asking them to investigate and report on the matter. The following reply has now been received from the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governor of Fengtien, viz. :-\n\n| Original Statement | Response from Authorities |\n| --- | --- |\n| Goods under special exemption certificates imported to the trade marts by foreign merchants, as well as goods imported from the trade marts into the interior under transit pass | Exempt from duty by regulation; no further duty levied in the past. Since the coming into force of the provisional regulations, the various custom-houses have acted in accordance therewith, and there has been no differential treatment. |\n| Cases where duty was ordered to be paid | Due to merchants not receiving the special permit or goods not corresponding with the special permit. No case of merchants being forced to pay a consumption tax when goods and permit corresponded. |\n| Goods imported into the interior from the trade marts not covered by transit pass or where the customs certificate existed but the goods did not correspond | Duty levied according to regulation. |\n\nThe action of the custom-houses in ordering payment of duty was due to the fact that either they did not receive the special permit or that the goods did not correspond with the special permit. We have never heard of a case of merchants being forced to pay a consumption tax when the goods and permit corresponded. Further, as regards goods imported into the interior from the trade marts, there have been cases where the goods were not covered by transit pass, or where the customs certificate existed, but the goods did not correspond. Again, there have been cases where the transit pass remained in one place and the goods in another, so that the examination could not take place immediately. Seeing that the merchants have themselves broken the regulations, the action of the custom-houses and the li-kin barriers in levying duty is entirely according to regulation, and exception cannot be taken thereto. Subsequently, with regard to foreign and native goods imported to the Manchurian trade marts and from there into the interior, the question whether they are to escape paying duty or not will depend on whether or not they are covered by transit pass and special exemption certificate. If they are not so provided, then they must pay duty on arriving at the custom-houses and li-kin on passing a barrier. If, however, the goods are provided with transit pass and special certificate, and the custom-house has ascertained that the goods correspond with the papers and that there has been no false declaration or smuggling, then exemption from duty will be granted in order to comply with the established regulations.\n\nThe board has further received a reply from the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governor of Kirin, in which they state as follows ----\n\n\"Foreign goods which have paid the full import duty at the Imperial Maritime Customs and which carry special exemption certificates on importation to the newly opened trade marts in Kirin province have these certificates stamped by the custom-houses and the goods are released after examination. There has never been any case of a further levy of duty. Although certain taxes exist in Kirin province, yet it is only the capital and selling turnover of Chinese merchants which come especially within the scope of such taxes. Such taxes are not levied on goods, and still less do they affect foreign goods imported by foreigners themselves. We suppose that by the Kirin business tax mentioned by the Austro-Hungarian Minister, the Kirin 7-4 li tax on business capital and the 9 li tax on selling turnover is meant. As to the 7 li tax, there is a fixed regulation that on the business capital of every merchant a tax of 7 cash shall be levied for each tiao (1,000 cash), Kirin money, and of 7 li each Kirin tael. These are taxes which have long existed in Kirin. In 1892, owing to a shortage of ready money and as heavy losses were sustained by the melting down of small cash, the merchants themselves agreed to add on an additional 4 bao (0.4 li) to 7 li tax. This is the 7-4 li tax on business capital.\n\nAs regards the 9 li tax, rules have been fixed that on the selling turnover of any merchant 9 cash will be collected on every tiao. In 1900, owing to the large supplies required by the military, the people were urged to establish a house-tax, and further, a tax of 6 li was collected on the selling turnover of every merchant. Subsequently the merchants, considering that the house-tax was vexatious, requested that the house-tax should be done away with and 3 li added to the 6 li. This is the 9 li tax on selling turnovers.\n\nThe above-mentioned taxes are still levied on the capital of Chinese merchants. They have been in operation for years, and have not been objected to by either Chinese or foreign merchants. With regard to the collection of 1 m. 5 e. per case of kerosene oil, this is levied on the business capital of Chinese merchants. Consequently the rules for special certificates have in no way been infringed. Further it has never been agreed in the treaties that Chinese merchants shall be freed from every sort of tax when they purchase foreign goods.\n\nThe board has the honour to state that goods under special exemption certificate or transit pass must, of course, be free from further taxation. But if the merchants do not observe the established rules, as, for instance, by having the goods in one place and the pass in another, or the goods do not correspond with the papers, they cannot complain if the goods meet with further taxation.\n\nTransit passes and special exemption certificates are issued purposely to avoid li-kin en route and have no connection with the taxes levied on the capital and property of Chinese merchants invested in their enterprises. Taxes of this sort should not be quoted as a proof that further taxation is being levied.\n\nI have the honour to address this reply for your Excellency's information, and to request that you will communicate it to your colleagues on the diplomatic body.\n\nI avail, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Acting Consul-General Willis to Changchun Tuotai\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\nMukden, December 9, 1910.\n\nI HAVE received your communication with reference to the question of local taxation on sugar imported into Changchun by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.\n\nIn my view, the object of the provisional regulations was to protect goods, no matter whether the importers are Chinese or foreign merchants, and I maintain that goods imported into the open marts under exemption certificate, when goods and certificate correspond, are free from further duty.\n\nI cannot possibly recognise, therefore, that sugar imported under exemption certificate by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in accordance with the provincial regulations is liable to any further taxation, no matter whether the sales are effected by Chinese or foreign merchants.\n\n## Enclosure 5 in No. 1\n### Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ching\n\nPeking, April 21, 1911.\n\nON the 10th December, 1909, the then doyen of the diplomatic body, His Excellency, M. de Kuczynski, addressed a note to your Highness in which he pointed out that the provisional rules issued in November, 1907, relating to the transport of foreign and native goods to the newly opened marts in Manchuria were not being properly carried out, and he requested that instructions might be issued by the Chinese Government to the Viceroy which would remove the just cause of complaint of foreign merchants.\n\nOn the 22nd February, 1910, the doyen of the diplomatic body received a reply from your Highness's board forwarding reports from the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governors of Fengtien and Kirin. As regards Fengtien province, it was denied that the \"consumption tax\" was levied when the goods and the special permit corresponded, but it was stated that in contrary cases, li-kin was levied in passing customs barriers. In the case of Kirin province, the governor explained the nature of the \"business tax,\" which, according to him, was nothing to do with the foreign goods imported by foreigners, it being merely a tax on the business capital and selling turnover of Chinese merchants. His Excellency also proceeded to justify the levy of various other taxes in Kirin province on the ground that they are levied only on the property of Chinese merchants, and that they have been in force for some years.\n\nAfter discussion of your Highness's note of the 22nd February, 1910, by the diplomatic body, it was decided to refer the matter back to the consular bodies at Mukden, Harbin, and Antung with a view to obtaining more detailed information as regards the nature of the illegal taxes at present levied on foreign goods in Manchuria. From a report that had been furnished by the senior consul at Mukden, the following description has been taken of the taxes complained of in Kirin province:\n\n| Tax Name | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kuan chuan | '07 per cent. |\n| Chu chuan | '04 per cent. |\n| Mai ch'ien chuan | '09 per cent. |\n| Ying yeh shui | 1 per cent. |\n| Hai shan shui | ... |\n\nThese are known as the 7 and 4 li tax, and are generally levied from the importer. Special excise taxes are levied on tobacco, wines, and spirits. In the case of tobacco, the tax is 10 per cent, ad valorem.\n\nThat these taxes have been and are still being levied on goods brought in under exemption certificate seems to need no specific proof. The Kirin authorities openly assume the attitude that they may tax such goods as of right once such goods are in the hands of Chinese merchants.\n\nIn view of the above, it is evident that, in spite of what the Governor of Kirin has to say on the point, these taxes do directly affect the foreign importer or his agent. Again, regulations drawn up by the bureau of business taxes were issued in November last, and enforced at the trade mart of Changch'un for levying a new so-called \"business tax\" on all imported merchandise as well as on exports of grain. By the expression \"exports of grain,\" beans are presumably included, and I would therefore remind your Highness that beans are an article of native produce whose export abroad is not prohibited, and, as such, are, according to the Japanese treaty of 1896, article 12, section 2, exempt from all \"internal taxes, imposts, duties, charges, and exactions of all kinds\" when purchased by foreign merchants in a treaty port.\n\nAs regards the illegal taxes which continue to be levied in certain parts of Manchuria under various names and pretexts upon foreign goods under exemption certificates, the diplomatic body cannot admit that, as claimed by the Governor of Kirin and others, the Chinese authorities have a right to tax foreign goods in a treaty port or trade mart when once they are in Chinese hands.\n\nThe foreign representatives must therefore repeat the request made in their note of the 10th December, 1909, viz. that the regulations of 1907 in their present form and the treaty provisions should be faithfully observed by the Li-kin and other provincial authorities of Manchuria, and that the Chinese Government will issue instructions to the Viceroy which will remove the just causes of complaint of foreign merchants.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "344\n\n4.\n\nI am to enquire to what extent the Auditor has hitherto supervised the balances at the Agencies.\n\nAre personal visits made by the Auditor or an Officer of his Department, and, if so, with what frequency? If not what are the existing arrangements for periodical inspection of the balance of Cash, stamps, &c.?\n\nIt is presumed that the Hong Kong Auditor, in the matter of the Agencies, acts as a check on the Hong Kong Post Office on behalf of the Hong Kong Government; but it is desired to know whether he also acts as a check on the Agencies on behalf of the Hong Kong Post Office or whether the Post Office itself undertakes this work.\n\n6. Agency buildings (Colonial Office letter of 7 December 1910 and enclosures No. 36184/10.)\n\n(A) elsewhere than at Shanghai\n\nAt seven of the Agencies viz. Canton, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Wei-hai-wei and Chefoo, no provision is made under the heading of rent in the Hong Kong Estimates for 1910. At Canton, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow and Ningpo the Agents are, it is understood, Consuls or Consular Officers.\n\nMay it be assumed that Office accommodation is provided without cost to the Hong Kong Administration (a) at the five Agencies in Consular buildings belonging to the Crown (b) at Weihaiwei in premises provided by the Weihaiwei Administration, and at Chefoo, where a merchant is understood to be Agent, in the merchant's premises without charge for the accommodation?\n\nAt Amoy there is an item of £120 for rent and at Swatow of ...",
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        "content_text": "345\n\n5.\n\nof $60. Are these payments made for premises rented by the Hong Kong Government or are the sums paid as allowances to the Post Office Agents (Consular Officials in these cases) for finding Post Office accommodation outside their Consular premises? In either case, particulars are desired as to the conditions of tenancy.\n\nAt Tientsin, there is an item for rent of $240. It is understood that the Agent is Clerk to a firm of Merchants and that the Post Office is situated on the premises of his employers. Particulars are desired of the terms of the tenancy.\n\n(B) At Shanghai.\n\nThe Postmaster General has requested His Majesty's Office of Works to inform and advise him as to these buildings and the valuation thereof; and it is understood that that Office is now conducting the necessary investigation through its local representative in China.\n\n7. Furniture at Agencies (Colonial Office letter of 3 March 1911 No.342).\n\nI am to ask for a statement showing approximately the character and quantity of the articles included. Was the valuation made by the various Postal Agents, and, if so, were they instructed\n\n \nThe Postmaster General accepts in principle the purchase of the furniture and \"other properties\" valued on the statement prepared by the Postmaster General of Hong Kong at $1824 in the case of Shanghai, and a total of $1561 at the ten other agencies, or $3185 in all.",
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        "content_text": "382\n\n4.\n\nSurveyor for other agencies and to conduct necessary correspondence with the Chinese and other Postal Administrations which cannot conveniently be dealt with otherwise than locally.\n\nII. Unestablished Servants (10 Postal Agents, 11 Assistants and Clerks, 1 Shroff, 58 Postmen, Boatmen, etc., 80 in all).\n\nSimilar information is desired as to names, nationality, age, length of service, and conditions of employment under the above-mentioned headings, (1), (2) and (3); also information as to the conditions on which the employment may be terminated; as to any claims, whether by custom or by right, to gratuities on retirement; and (in the case of the Assistants or Clerks) as to any recognised claim to promotion.\n\nWith regard to the Postal Agents, 10 in number, in charge of the agencies other than Shanghai, it is understood that they are all, except the Agents at Tientsin, and Chefoo, and presumably the Agent at Wei-hai-wei, in the Imperial Consular Service.\n\nParticulars are desired with regard to the Agents at Tientsin",
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        "content_text": "his \n\nmy fro \n\nto tial. \n\naccused \n\nin a \n\nLa political \n\nwe don't care whether he \n\nor other offence, but \n\nwhile in It King he shall be considered as in legal custody\". \n\nbeing \n\nI imagine that that is a portion which JoMG. \n\nis not likely to adopt : stumpre \n\nstick to \n\n70. м \n\nwe mbarnya. \n\nحمت \n\ngano. I suppose we must consult \n\nprobably the Germans will smice the \n\nquestion at the end. \n\nWe had batter \n\n: Send a copy of at the come to 7.0, upring them to the Straits (Baby) conce \n\nthanth \n\nMithe court thinks that it is not he possible \n\nto meet the Consul's wishes; mark for their \n\nobsons \n\nOrdre 64/16 \n\n14172 \n\nMore \n\nin \n\nRig \n\n라 \n\nhas put the H.K. order \n\nShails andre. \n\nSo \n\nMat \n\nMust plain \n\nOur persilion previous \n\nin \n\npar \n\non \n\nx \n\nTh \n\nThick \n\nr \n\nwette \n\nи \n\nthis \n\nCase, \n\nWeaker. \n\nX-LI \n\nlust \n\nde fine \n\nit \n\nfuns. \n\nin cleach in fully explained \n\nthe rather to 70. \n\n୮ \n\nJ \n\nacquer. \n\nNIA \n\n5704 \n\nstats. \n\nProceed on proposed g \n\nM. Robins \n\nAir \n\nin \n\nG. 3074 \n\nThe Germans must avoid scading \n\nIt. Kong \"prosign offenders who would not \n\n71886/10 \n\nThe is so \n\nMN \n\nthe \n\nORDINANCE No. 14 of 1872.\nDetention of Foreign Offenders.\nSIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nNo. 14 of 1872.\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for the temporary Detention of certain Foreign Offenders.\n\n[20th December, 1872.]\n\nWHEREASnd dapet who have been accused of convicted of \n\nHEREAS Subjects of Foreign Governments resorting to \n\nCrimes committed there, die frequently brought within this Colony,\n\nthe course of their Irmasinision their competives fronting \n\nfor Trial or Punishment on such Charges or Convictions, and it is expedient to provide for the temporary Detention and Custody, within the Colony, of such Offenders pending the necessary Arrangements for their Transmission as aforesaid: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\nTitle.\nPreamble.\n252 \n\n* outside the colone an \n\nfrequently \"This colone the thing for colp \n\nin of \n\nrespuction Jadrnment's \n\nI. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Foreign Offenders Short Title.\nDerention Ordinance, 1879.\" \n\nII. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance, the Tero\" Consular Interpretation.\nOfficer\" includes a Consul General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular «Consular Agent, and any Person for the Time being discharging the Duties Officer.” of Consul General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent.\n\nThe Term \"Superintendent of the Gaol\" includes the Superin- \"Superintend tendent of Victoria Gaol or the Keeper of any Prison or Place of ent of Gaol,\" Custody for Criminals within this Colony.\n\nIII. In ease Requisition shall at any Time be made to the Upon Requi-\nGovernor by the Consular Officer in this Colony of any Foreign sition the \n\nGovernor may Government to apprehend and temporarily detain in Custody any \n\nissue Warrant Person, who being a Subject of such Foreign Government, and to Police having been accused or convicted of any Crime alleged to have Magistrates. been committed Chise or Japan is brought within this Colony in the course of his Transmission his own Constrelor Trial or Punishment, it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall in his Discretion think fit, by Warrant under his land and the Soal of the Colony to signify that such Requisition has been made and to require the Police Magistrates to govern themselves accordingly and to aid in apprehending the Person so accused or convicted and hereinafter referred to as the Offender.\n\nIV. Upon the Issue of such Warrant as aforesaid, it shall be Warrant or lawful for any Police Magistrate to issue his Warrant for the Order of Apprehension of the Offender to be dealt with in Manner hereinafter Magistrate. provided.\nV. If the Offender be apprehended, he shall be brought forthwith Proceedings before the Magistrate, and the following Conditions and Regula- before the tions shall be complied with:-\nMagistrate.\n\nthem \n\n§ in the custode of \n\noffians of such Crostrument",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nImagine cases in which it would be an object to burke the control of the Court by appointing a foreigner.\n\n\"Manager\" is intended to apply to a managing director who has certain liabilities under the Ordinance as well as to a special manager in winding up. I have carefully considered the case of the secretary, and do not think it necessary that he should be British. He is, I think, only liable to fine under one section of the Ordinance (section 90), and the company and directors are liable also, so that there is no fear of the company allowing him to neglect his duty. I think \"manager\" should be put into the Ordinance wherever it has been omitted in copying the Companies Consolidation Act. A penalty on the company might be inserted, but is hardly necessary.\n\nInformation by Hong Kong Companies other than China\n\n8.--(1). A company registered under the Ordinances, other than a China company, shall, if it has a place of business established in China, within three months of the commencement of this Order, or within one month of the establishment of such place of business, file with the deputy registrar of companies in Shanghai a copy of all documents and other written information which it is required by the Ordinances to file with the registrar of companies.\n\n(2.) If any company to which this article applies fails to comply with any of the requirements of this article the company, and every officer and agent of the company, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars for every day during which such neglect has continued.\n\nThis is necessary or we shall have a gap in our register of companies doing business in China. See note to the preamble. Sub-Article (2) is section 252 (5) of the Ordinance.\n\n9. All fees prescribed by the Governor of Hong Kong under the Ordinances to be levied by the registrar of companies, which are paid to the deputy registrar in Shanghai shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong.\n\nArticle 165 of the Principal Order shall apply to all other fees and fines levied under the provisions of the Order or of the Ordinances applied thereby.\n\nThis provides for the Government of Hong Kong taking all registration fees, which seems just; the second part of the article simply leaves the question of other fees and fines open for negotiation. As all the work in respect of them will be done by officers paid exclusively by the Imperial Government, it would seem right that these fines and fees should go into the Imperial Exchequer.\n\n$163-1\n\nProvision for auxiliary action.\n\nRecognition of\n\n477\n\n10. Any Order made by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in the course of winding up a company incorporated under the Ordinances shall be enforced in China in the Supreme Court, and in the same manner in all respects as if the Order had been made by that Court.\n\nThis is in accordance with a suggestion in the Board of Trade memorandum. The Ordinance will no doubt contain a reciprocal provision.\n\nIn a recent case a foreign plaintiff was found guilty of fraud in Shanghai, and he then proceeded to Hong Kong and commenced an action of the same nature against the same company in the Hong Kong Court. The Hong Kong Court ordered service out of the jurisdiction on the liquidators in Shanghai. All the business of the company is in Shanghai. Such a case, which might recur at any moment, would be met by an enactment by Order in Council, and Ordinance of a provision such as that in Order XI, R. 2, of the English High Court Rules with reference to service of an English writ in Scotland. My attention has been particularly drawn to this hardship by the China Association.\n\n11.-(1.) A company shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British company unless it has complied with the provisions of this Order and the Ordinances, but shall nevertheless be subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Courts in China.\n\n(2.) Nothing in this Order shall affect the right of the Secretary of State to direct that British protection shall not be accorded to a company other than a China company, even though it has complied with the provisions of this Order and the Ordinances.\n\nThis is substantially article 44 of the draft Order as to consular registration.\n\nWe want sub-article (1), as it will deprive British companies of protection, if they seek to avoid their legal duties, e.g., under the shelter of a foreign agent, who will not be finable under section 252 (5).\n\nSub-article (2) will probably be desired by His Majesty's Minister. I do not, however, think that the \"China company,\" for which we are specially legislating, ought to be deprived of protection when it has complied with all the special requirements which our present legislation imposes upon it. This article has been added at the last moment, and has not been seen by the Committee of the China Association.",
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        "content_text": "# — 6 —\n\nthe word \"Colony\" in the second line of the first proviso to sub-section (1) thereof; \n(d) by the insertion of the words \"or, in the case of a China Company, have been received in Shanghai,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the ninth line of the first proviso to sub-section (1) thereof. \n(e) by the insertion of the words \"or where, in the case of a China Company, the mortgage or charge is created within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council but comprises property outside the limits of the China Orders-in-Council,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the second line of the second proviso to sub-section (1) thereof. \n\n(12.) In section 110 by the addition of the following paragraph to sub-section (1) thereof;— \n## Amendment of section 110.\n(iv.) In the case of any company \"on the application of the Registrar of Companies or of the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.” \n\n(13.) In section 113, as amended by section 16 of the Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913 \n(a) by the deletion of the words \"of such \" in the twelfth line of sub-section (1) thereof as printed in the said Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913; \n(b) by the repeal of the second proviso to sub-section (5) thereof; \n(c) by the addition at the end thereof of the following sub-section — \n**(9.) Sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply in the case of a China Company.**\n\n(14.) In section 114-- \n## Amendment of section 114.\n(a) by the insertion of the words \", or, in the case of a China Company, if the company has branch banks beyond the limits of the consular district wherein such Company has its registered office,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the first line of paragraph (a) of sub-section (5) thereof; \n(b) by the insertion of the words \", or, in the case of a China Company, to the registered office of the company within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council;\" after the word \"Colony\" in the fourth line of paragraph (a) of sub-section (5) thereof. \n\n(15.) In section 132 by the insertion of the words \"or by the Registrar of Companies, or by the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai,\" after the word \"contributories\" in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof. \n## Amendment of section 132.\n\n(16.) In section 141- \n## Amendment of section 141.\n(a) by re-numbering sub-section (2) as sub-section (3); \n(b) by inserting a new sub-section (2) therein as follows:- \n**(2.) For the purpose of this Ordinance so far as it relates to the winding up of China Companies or Hongkong China Companies by the Supreme Court for China the term Official Receiver shall mean the person appointed in that behalf by the Judge of the Supreme Court for China.**\n\n(17.) In section 171 by the substitution of the words \"its jurisdiction\" for the words \"the Colony\" in the third line thereof. \n## Amendment of section 171.\n\n(18.) In section 178 by the addition of the words \"and in the case of a China Company in some newspaper circulating in the place where such Company has its registered office.\" at the end thereof. \n## Amendment of section 178.\n\n(19.) In section 216 by the insertion of the words\", or within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council before any officer of the Supreme Court for China lawfully authorized to take and receive affidavits, after the word \"affidavits\" in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof. \n## Amendment of section 216.\n\n(20.) In Table A in the First Schedule by the deletion of the words “On a show of hands every member present in person shall have\" in the first line of Article 50 thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words, \"business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an\". \n## Amendment of Table A.\n\n## 7.--(1.) Sections 35, 36 and 37 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, shall not apply in the case of China Companies. \n### Sections 35, 36, 37 of Ordinance No. 58 of 1911 not to Apply to China Companies.\n\n(2.) An instrument of transfer of share in a China Company shall be exempt from stamp duty unless executed by the transferor within the Colony. \n### Stamp duties on transfers of shares.\n\n(3.) No probate duty or estate duty shall be payable in respect of the share or other interest of a deceased member of a China Company in such company. \n### Probate and estate duty.\n\n(4.) In lieu of the aforesaid duties, an annual fee for each Chinese calendar year at the rate of four cents for each hundred dollars of the paid up capital of the company shall be paid in advance by every China Company to the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong on or before the 31st day of January in each year: Provided that where a company is placed on the Register at Shanghai after the 1st day of January in any given calendar year a proportionate part only of the said fee shall be payable in respect of the period from the date of its being so placed on the Register at Shanghai to the 31st day of December next following. \n### Companies to pay annual fee.\n\n(5.) If any company hereafter transferred from the Register in Hongkong to the Register at Shanghai shall at the date of such transfer be the holder of an unexpired local register licence under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, a proportionate part of the licence fee in respect of the unexpired portion of the period covered by such licence shall, if previously paid by such company, be refunded to the company by the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong within one month of the receipt by him of proof to his satisfaction that the fee referred to in the preceding sub-section has been paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai in respect of the period for which the refund is claimed. \n### Refund of local register licence fee.\n\n(6.) If any company makes default in complying with the provisions of sub-section (4) of this section it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues, and every director, officer and agent of the company who knowingly or wilfully authorises or permits the default shall be liable to the like penalty. \n### Penalty.\n\n## 8. The Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913, is hereby amended as follows \n### Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1913.\n\n(1.) By the repeal of sub-section (a) of section 6 thereof, and by the re-numbering of sub-sections (b) and (c) as (a) and (b) respectively. \n\n(2.) By the repeal of the words \"of such\" in the fourteenth line of sub-section (4) of section 16 thereof. \n\n(3.) By the repeal of sub-section (a) of section 16 thereof. \n\n## 9. The Companies Ordinances, in so far as they affect China companies carrying on business within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council, shall be read with and subject to the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1917.\n### Application of Companies Ordinances.\n\n## 10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the day of 1917.\n### Commencement.",
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        "content_text": "# \n211\n\n\nthe word \"Colony\" in the second line of the first proviso to sub-section (1) thereof;\" \n(d) by the insertion of the words “or, in the case of a China Company, have been received in Shanghai,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the second line of the first proviso to sub-section (1) thereof. \n() by the insertion of the words \"or where, in the case of a China Company, the mortgage or charge is created within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council but comprises property outside the limits of the China Orders-in-Council,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the second line of the second proviso to sub-section (1) thereof. \n(12.) In section 110 by the addition of the following paragraph to sub-section (1) thereof ;— \n## Amendment of section 110\n(v.) In the case of any company \"on the application of the Registrar of Companies or of the Registrar **of Companies at Shanghai,” \n\n(13.) In section 113, as amended by section 16 of \n## Amendment \nthe Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913 \n(4.) by the deletion of the words “of such \" in the twelfth line of sub-section (1) thereof as printed in the said Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913: \n(6.) by the repeal of the second proviso to \nsub-section (5) thereof; \n(c.) by the addition at the end thereof of the \nfollowing sub-section :— \n**(9.) Sub-section (1) of this section shall \"not apply in the case of a China Company.**\n\n(14.) In section 114-- \n## Amendment \nof section \n114 \n(1.) by the insertion of the words “, or, in the \ncase of a China Company, if the company has branch banks beyond the limits of the consular district wherein such Company has its registered office,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the first line of paragraph (a) of sub-section (5) thereof : \n(b) by the insertion of the words **, or, in the case of a China Company, to the registered office of the company within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council\" after the word \"Colony\" in the fourth line of paragraph (r) of sub-section (5) thereof, \n\n(15.) In section 132 by the insertion of the words \n## Amendment \nor by the Registrar of Companies, or by the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai,\" after the word \"contributories\" in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof. \n\n(16.) In section 141– \n## Amendment \n(a) by re-numbering sub-section (2) as sub-section (3): \n## of section \n141 \n(4.) by inserting a new sub-section (2) thereto \nas follows:- \n(2.) For the purpose of this Ordinance so far as it relates to the \nwinding up of China Companies or \nHongkong China Companies by the \n\"Supreme Court for China the term \nOfficial Receiver shall mean the \n* person appointed in that behalf by \nThe Judge of the Supreme Court * for China.\" \n\n(17.) In section 171 by the substitution of the words \n## Amendment \njurisdiction\" for the words “the Colony' \nin the third line thereof. \n## of section \n171 \n\n(18.) In section 178 by the addition of the words \n## Amendment \nand in the case of a China Company in some newspaper circulating in the place where \n## of section \n178 \nsuch Company has its registered office.\" at the \nend thereof, \n\n(19.) In section 216 by the insertion of the \n## Amendment \nwords, or within the limits of the China \n## of section \n216 \nOrders-in-Council before any officer of the \nSupreme Court for China lawfully authorized to take and receive affidavits,\" after the word **affidavits** in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof. \n\n(20.) In Table A in the First Schedule by the \n## Amendment \ndeletion of the words \"On show of hands every member present in person shall have \n## of Table A \nin the first line of Article 50 thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words, \"All business shall be deemed special that is transacted: 1 20\", \n\n7.-(1) Sections 35, 36 and 37 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, shall not apply in the case of China Companies. \n## Sections 35, 36 and 37 of Ordinance No. 38 of 1911 not to apply to China Companies \n(2.) An instrument of transfer of a share in a China Company shall be exempt from stamp duty unless executed by the transferor within the Colony, \n## Stamp duties on transfers of shares \n(3.) No probate duty or estate duty shall be payable \n## Probate and estate duty \nin respect of the share or other interest of a deceased member of a China Company in such company. \n\n(4.) In lieu of the aforesaid duties, an annual fee for each China calendar year at the rate of four cents for each hundred dollars of the paid-up capital of the company shall be paid in advance by every China Company to the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong on or before the 31st day of January in each year: Provided that where a company is placed on the Register at Shanghai after the 1st day of January in any given calendar year a proportionate part only of the said fee shall be payable in respect of the period from the date of its being so placed on the Register at Shanghai to the 31st day of December next following. \n## Annual fee \n(5) If any company hereafter transferred from the Register in Hongkong to the Register at Shanghai shall at the date of such transfer be the holder of an unexpired \n## Refund of local register licence fee \nlocal register licence under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, a proportionate part of the licence fee in respect of the expired portion of the period covered by such licence shall, if previously paid by such company, be refunded to the company by the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong within one month of the receipt by him of proof to his satisfaction that the fee referred to in the preceding sub-section has been paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai in respect of the period for which the refund is claimed, \n\n(6.) If any company makes default in complying with the provisions of sub-section (4) of this section it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues, and every director, officer and agent of the company who knowingly or wilfully authorises or permits the default shall be liable to the like penalty. \n## Penalty \n\n8. The Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913, is \n## Amendment of Ordinance No. 22 of 1913 \nhereby amended as follows:- \n(1) By the repeal of sub-section (a) of section 6 thereof, and by the re-numbering of sub-sections (b) and (c) as (1) and (b) respectively, \n(2.) By the repeal of the words \"of such\" in the fourteenth line of sub-section (a) of section 16 thereof. \n(3.) By the repeal of sub-section (c) of section 16 thereof. \n\n9. The Companies Ordinances, in so far as they affect companies carrying on business within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council, shall be read with and subject to the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 191 \n\n## Application of China Orders-in-Council (Companies) \nCouncil, \n\n10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the ... day of \n## Commencement \n191 \n319",
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        "content_text": "# Paraphrase of CYPHER Telegram\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE**\nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**\nDate **30th July, 1915**\n\nYour cypher telegram of 24th July and my telegram of 5th July. In future you should stop all telegrams to enemy subjects in countries covered by the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation of 25th June, and any telegram to British, allied or neutral subjects in those countries should be censored carefully and, if found to contain anything undesirable or suspicious, stopped.\n\nAs for mails, all bags whether sealed or not should be opened and examined with care. All letters to enemy subjects should be stopped and all correspondence for British, allied or neutral subjects, if containing anything suspicious or undesirable, stopped. No correspondence of any sort should be forwarded to enemy post offices in China.\n\nAny information which seems likely to be of interest to any department of H.K.'s Government should, if found in examination of letters or telegrams, be communicated promptly and by telegraph if specially urgent to that department and to any of H.B.M's representatives or Consular Officers to whom it may be of use.\n\nUnder the present circumstances, any information of commercial activity, organization or success of enemy firms in their attempts to continue trade under the name of a neutral employee or agent or of a sham neutral company or of attempts by British firms to maintain relations with enemy firms is of special interest.\n\nSpecial importance is attached by the Foreign Office to a thorough and careful censorship of all correspondence at the present time.\n\nI will give replies to your questions in your cypher telegram of 13th July at the earliest possible moment.\n\n**BONAR LAW**",
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        "content_text": "(101209/15).\n\nanything of a suspicious or undesirable character. No correspondence of any kind or from any source, should be forwarded to enemy Post Offices in China.\n\n4\n\nSir E. Grey would also be glad if all information likely to be of interest to any Department of His Majesty's Government which may be discovered in the course of the examination of letters or telegrams could be communicated promptly and in cases of special urgency by telegram, to this or any other Department of His Majesty's Government concerned, and to any of His Majesty's Representatives or His Majesty's Consular Officers to whom it may be of use.\n\nIn this connection I am to observe that any information as to the commercial activities, organization, or success of enemy firms, as to any attempts of enemy firms to continue trading under cover of the name of a neutral employee or agent or of a bogus neutral company or as to any attempt of a British firm to maintain relations with an enemy firm, is of particular interest under the present circumstances.\n\nI am to urge the extreme importance of a careful and thorough",
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        "content_text": "COPT.\n\ntio,2,\n\n(110205).\n\ntr\n\n38286\n\nREC REG 19 AUG 15\n\n152\n\nISIMAR,\n\nJuly 16, 1915,\n\nSir:\n\nIn reply to your circular 59849/15 of the 1st June, 1915, I have the honour to report that the following German firms in this Consular district hold British agencies:-\n\nDiedrichsen & Co, agents for Canadian Pacific Railway Coy.\n\nArnhold Karberg & Co. agent for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and for P. & O. S.N. company.\n\nIt is possible that these agencies were terminated at the outbreak of war, but no publication was made of the fact.\n\nIt is also possible that other British agencies may be held by the above firms and not advertised locally.\n\nThus Carlowitz & Company exhibit a notice board in Chinese outside their offices stating that their firm is agent for all the best British and German fire and marine insurance companies. Such cases, however, would be covered by the report made from Shanghai where the German firms have their head offices.\n\nThere is at present no British firm in Tainan which...\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State, Foreign Office, S.O.",
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        "content_text": "(d) by the insertion of the words \" or, in the case of a China Company, have been received in Shanghai,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the ninth line of the first proviso to sub-section (1) thereof.\n\n(e) by the insertion of the words \"or where, in the case of a China Company, the mortgage or charge is created within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council but comprises property outside the limits of the China Orders-in-Council\" after the word \"Colony\" in the second line of the second proviso to sub-section (1) thereof.\n\n(12.) In section 110 by the addition of the following paragraph to sub-section (1) thereof:—\n\n(v.) In the case of any company \"on the application of the Registrar of Companies or of the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.\"\n\n(13.) In section 113, as amended by section 16 of the Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913—\n\n(a) by the deletion of the words \"of such\" in the twelfth line of sub-section (1) thereof as printed in the said Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1918;\n\n(b) by the repeal of the second proviso to sub-section (5) thereof;\n\n(c) by the addition at the end thereof of the following sub-section:\n\n(9.) Sub-section (1) of this section shall \"not apply in the case of a China Company.\"\n\n(14.) In section 114—\n\n(a) by the insertion of the words \", or, in the case of a China Company, if the company has branch banks beyond the limits of the consular district wherein such company has its registered office,\" after the word \"Colony\" in the first line of paragraph (a) of sub-section (5) thereof;\n\n(2) by the insertion of the words \", or, in the case of a China Company, to the registered office of the company within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council;\" after the word \"Colony\" in the fourth line of paragraph (b) of sub-section (5) thereof.\n\n(15.) In section 132 by the insertion of the words \"or by the Registrar of Companies, or by the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai,\" after the word \"contributories\" in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof.\n\n(16.) In section 141—\n\n(a) by re-numbering sub-section (2) as sub-section (3);\n\n(b) by inserting a new sub-section (2) therein as follows:\n\n(2.) For the purpose of this Ordinance so far as it relates to the winding up of China Companies or Hongkong China Companies by the Supreme Court for China the term \"Official Receiver\" shall mean the person appointed in that behalf by the Judge of the Supreme Court \"for China.\"\n\n(17.) In section 171 by the substitution of the words \"its jurisdiction\" for the words \"the Colony\" in the third line thereof.\n\n(19.) In section 216 by the insertion of the words \", within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council before any officer of the Supreme Court for China lawfully authorized to take and receive affidavits,\" after the word \"affidavits\" in the fifth line of sub-section (1) thereof.\n\n(20.) In Table A in the First Schedule by the deletion of the words \"On a show of hands every member present in person shall have\" in the first line of Article 50 thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words, \"All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an\".\n\n7.—(1) Sections 35, 36 and 37 of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, shall not apply in the case of China Companies.\n\n(2) An instrument of transfer of a share in a China Company shall be exempt from stamp duty unless executed by the transferor within the Colony.\n\n(3.) No probate duty or estate duty shall be payable in respect of the share or other interest of a deceased member of a China Company in such company.\n\n(4.) In lieu of the aforesaid duties, an annual fee for each calendar year at the rate of four cents for each hundred dollars of the paid-up capital of the company shall be paid in advance by every China Company to the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong on or before the 31st day of January in each year: Provided that where a company is placed on the Register at Shanghai after the 1st day of January in any given calendar year a proportionate part only of the said fee shall be payable in respect of the period from the date of its being so placed on the Register at Shanghai to the 31st day of December next following.\n\n(5.) If any company hereafter transferred from the Register in Hongkong to the Register at Shanghai shall at the date of such transfer be the holder of an unexpired local register licence under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, a proportionate part of the licence fee in respect of the unexpired portion of the period covered by such licence shall, if previously paid by such company, be refunded to the company by the Colonial Treasurer of Hongkong within one month of the receipt by him of proof to his satisfaction that the fee referred to in the preceding sub-section has been paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai in respect of the period for which the refund is claimed.\n\n(6.) If any company makes default in complying with the provisions of sub-section (4) of this section it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues, and every director, officer and agent of the company who knowingly or wilfully authorises or permits the default shall be liable to the like penalty.\n\n8. The Companies Amendment Ordinance, 1913, is hereby amended as follows:—\n\n(1.) By the repeal of sub-section (a) of section 6 thereof, and by the re-numbering of sub-sections (b) and (c) as (a) and (b) respectively.\n\n(2.) By the repeal of the words \"of such\" in the fourteenth line of sub-section (a) of section 16 thereof.\n\n(3.) By the repeal of sub-section (e) of section 16 thereof.\n\n(18.) In section 178 by the addition of the words \", and in the case of a China Company in some newspaper circulating in the place where such Company has its registered office.\" at the end thereof.\n\n9. The Companies Ordinances, in so far as they affect China companies carrying on business within the limits of the China Orders-in-Council, shall be read with and subject to the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 191.\n\n10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the day of 191.\n\nPage 393",
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        "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915",
        "content_text": "CIPI\n\nM...vett\n\n\"\n\nmee ein\n\nbejel Jojom\n\nS08E2\n\n194\n\nJ.\n\n127\n\n(173135/18)\n\nnegotiated in Mr. Nahl's name.\n\nIn these circumstances Your Excellency will readily understand that His Majesty's Government are unable to authorise His Majesty's Consular officers in China or the Colonial Authorities at Hong Kong to regard or treat goods consigned by Mr. Kahl or his agent in any other manner than as goods shipped by the enemy firm.\n\nof Biemssen and Company.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest\n\nconsideration,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,",
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        "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915",
        "content_text": "*** 4077/4.\n\nA copy.\n\n372\n\nThe General Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.,\n\n15, Trinity Square,\n\nLondon,\n\nFebruary 26, 1915.\n\n11269\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nHOME OFFICE, Whitehall,\n\nREC REG & MAR 15\n\nSir,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your letter of the 23rd instant, C.477, ** we have made enquiries about the shipment of 13 cases Umbrellas Frames which arrived by our s.s. \"Balgownie\" from Rotterdam on the 4th ulto. These goods formed part of a consignment shipped from Amsterdam by Messrs. J.K. van Ummersen acting as agent for The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, by which Company's steamer the goods were to be re-exported from London. Upon the Thames Union Lighterage Company presenting the necessary clearance papers at the Custom House the Lighterage Company received the information that the goods would not be passed, for the reason that the goods were of German origin and that no Consular certificate had been forwarded with the Bill of Lading for their release.\n\nThe goods are now on land at Irongate Warehouse's yard under stop by the Customs in accordance with instructions and are the various documents in connection with the parcel.\n\nWe have reported the circumstance to Messrs. Smith & Van Ummersen, the company's Agents at Rotterdam, whom we have also informed that the goods are lying at Irongate Wharf at the risk and expense of whom it may concern.\n\nWe are,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nT. & J. MACLEOD\n\nJ. Macalister,\n\nDirector.\n\nWe would mention that we had no knowledge of the goods being on board our steamer \"Balgownie\" until the vessel arrived.\n\nPage 372\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom indicating page number are kept as is, assuming they represent page metadata)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]",
        "content_text": "45\n\nRegister are in respect of goods of German and Austrian manufacture such as aniline dyes. As the manufacture of these goods remains in enemy hands, it seems impossible to authorize the sale of such marks.\n\n4.\n\nEnemy owned trade marks used on goods of British manufacture are in a different category. I have addressed you regarding these in my Confidential Despatches of the 11th March, 22nd July and 4th September, 1915, and the 21st January, 1916. They are of two classes. One class is that of marks in which the manufacturer had definite legal interest and the other is that of marks used on goods which the importers have ordered from whom they choose. The goodwill in Hongkong in respect of such trade marks could be dealt with by the liquidators and it would therefore be possible to sell the marks. There are however two objections. In the first place it is not impossible that the purchaser might be some person formerly connected with the enemy firm, whose object in purchasing would be to keep the marks alive for the benefit of the original owner. And secondly the sale of the marks could be made effective by this Government only within the narrow limits of Hongkong, whereas their value lies in their effectiveness as a selling agent in China; and, although in the ordinary course every possible step is taken to get official recognition in China of Hongkong trade marks, yet it would hardly be politic to attempt to press upon the Chinese Authorities the claims of a purchaser under a forced sale against those of the enemy owner, who has probably deposited the marks in question with his Consular representative at Shanghai. I may refer to the somewhat analogous case of the compulsory transfer in France of the trade marks of La Grande Chartreuse, which transfer the English Courts refused to recognise in the United Kingdom.\n\n5.\n\nI am therefore of opinion that no useful purpose would be served, either in the direction of the benefit of British creditors or in that of the suppression of enemy trade, by taking steps to sell either trade marks or goodwill. If, however,",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]",
        "page_number": 308,
        "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]",
        "content_text": "# 028\n\nFrom | To | Date\n---------|----------|---------\nSECRETARY OF STATE | GOVERNOR, HONGKONG | 14th July, 1916\n\nTranslation of `0015` Telegram,\n\nYour telegram 20th May. Exportation of Mica from United Kingdom to Japan allowed only if consigned to British Consular agent for approved firms who have given prescribed guarantee, understanding that Chinese Mica which has reached London market is not quality required for production of munitions and therefore no objection to exportation of Chinese Mica now in Hongkong to Japan on above conditions. You should ask British Ambassador at Tokyo to inform you of approved firms. Following already approved: American Trading Company, H. Heilman, Mitsui. It is possible that better grade Mica now produced in China and if further consignment reach Hongkong, you should submit samples for consideration of Minister of Munitions when matter will be considered further.\n\n**BONAR LAW**",
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        "id": 465315,
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916",
        "page_number": 114,
        "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916",
        "content_text": "109\n\nBritish Consul wrote us in regard to one of our Chinese Agencies \"It is not at all clear to me why, at an open Treaty Port, foreigners should employ a Chinese Agent instead of one of their own nationality\".\n\nThe co-operation with Chinese is not encouraged by most of Consuls as was the case with the German Consul, with the result that if a Britisher does so, he practically does so with the full knowledge that he has neither the goodwill or support of his own representative. Speaking for ourselves, we do go as far into the Interior for our business as any of the German Firms did, but as to encouragement to take up such schemes in co-operation with Chinese, as mining, direct sources of Produce and sales, inland navigation, with all its cumshaws, access to local officials, no British Firm feels he has the good will of his Government behind him to risk his time and money, such will not be possible till our Government at Home through the Foreign Office indicate through Consular Officials that every effort is to be made to encourage co-operation with Chinese in trade and that they see that Chinese Officials do not unduly delay the granting of permission in terms of Treaties, which in 99% of cases is the point on which most schemes break and on which unnecessary squeeze and cumshaw come in.\n\nAs regards the liquidation of German Firms here, the policy of the local Government, which no doubt is only the reflection of the attitude of the Secretary of State, is only the liquidation of Goods in stock, not the total breaking up of the whole organization; staffs in the case of solvent firms are being kept on or such of them that the Alien Enemy wishes to; Godowns, Offices etc., too. Although all this is distinctly against the wishes of British Firms and the Chamber of Commerce here, we are met with the official reply to our representations, that it is not the policy of H.M. Government.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917",
        "page_number": 195,
        "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917",
        "content_text": "(42050).\n\n<\n\n1915\n\nREC!\n\n17357\n\nREC 3 Pr17\n\nThe London Chamber of Commerce, Inc.\n\n1, 2 & 3, Oxford Court,\n\n& 97, Cannon Street,\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\n•\n\nFebruary 23rd 1917.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI beg to refer to the cargo ex the German steamship \"Bayer\" at Naples, which has been requisitioned by the Italian Government, and to say that the Italian Government have now finally approved claims for payment in respect of goods requisitioned by the following firms, but stipulate that our Naples Agent presents a consular declaration showing the names and nationality of the various firms to whom payments belong.\n\nThe declaration required is that of the British Consul at Naples.\n\nI beg to say that efforts have been made to induce the Italian Government to withdraw this requirement and to accept an affidavit either by the parties concerned or by the London Chamber of Commerce, but these efforts have failed, and the Italian Authorities insist on the consular declaration.\n\nIn these circumstances, I shall be much obliged if you will kindly instruct the British Consul at Naples to issue, on application by our Agents Messrs. Holme & Son, at Naples...\n\nUnder Secretary of State.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nWhitehall. S.W.\n\n+",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nwaiting for the result of the inspection of the unclosed provinces, was a distinct breach of this policy. Mr. Alston's attention had been drawn to the Customs notification at Shanghai, but he had forborne to protest, as he did not wish to interfere with any arrangements for the taking over of the stocks by the Chinese Government. He would now, however, enter a protest against the premature closing of Canton and Shanghai, and he hoped that this action would strengthen the hands of those who desired the Government to take over the stocks. Mr. Alston gave Mr. Ezra to understand that in principle he favoured Government purchase, if it could be arranged on equitable terms, as affording the best solution of the stock problem.\n\nMr. Ezra thanked Mr. Alston for his sympathetic attitude, Peking, May 8, 1917.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n010\n\nT\n\nI confidently claim that this legation has never wavered in carrying out to the full, and more than to the full, the obligations imposed by the agreements of 1907 and 1911, whereas the Chinese Government has on several occasions acted in contravention thereof. It is certain that a spirit of candour and co-operation on the part of the representatives of both Governments is essential to the effective completion of the policy of suppression on which both Governments have determined, and the premature closing of Canton and Shanghai seems to me to furnish an additional example to many previous ones of the lack of such candour and co-operation on the part of the Chinese Government.\n\nPending the receipt of the reports of the joint inspection of the provinces now proceeding, I have the honour to request that your Excellency will give immediate instructions to secure adherence to the provisions of the 1911 agreement, and that you will favour me with an early reply.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n1\n\nCustoms Notification No. 870.\n\nIN accordance with instructions received to-day through the Inspector-General of Customs no further importation of opium, either from bonded godown or direct, is permitted.\n\nSir,\n\nCustom House, Shanghai, April 1, 1917.\n\nF. S. UNWIN, Commissioner of Customs.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Alston to Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nPeking, May 4, 1917. I HAVE the honour to invite your Excellency's attention to the provisions of the Opium Agreement of 1911 for the gradual diminution of the production of opium in China and of the annual export from India with a view to total extinction in 1917.\n\nAs your Excellency is aware, although the agreement provided for a progressive reduction in the number of export permits for Indian opium declared for shipment to or for consumption in China, until permits for only 5,100 chests could be issued in 1916, and none in 1917, the Indian Government, in order to prevent the accumulation of stocks and to co-operate more effectively with the Chinese Government in the policy of opium suppression, ceased issuing such permits altogether in 1913, and there has since been no export of Indian opium to China. A quantity of the opium exported prior to that time is still in bond, and according to article 8 of the agreement may be imported into any treaty port of China without let or hindrance,\n\nYour Excellency is also aware that since the conclusion of that agreement His Majesty's Government have never failed to accede to the requests made by the Chinese Government from time to time for the joint inspection of the provinces, and that as a result of such inspections one province after another has been placed on the list of those into which His Majesty's Government have agreed that no Indian opium shall be conveyed. At the present moment, in accordance with the desire of the Chinese Government, investigations are being conducted by several of His Majesty's consular officers in conjunction with Chinese officials with a view to establishing by clear evidence that the cultivation and import of native opium has been effectively suppressed in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kwantung, Kiangsi, Yunnan, Kueichow, and Shensi, so that these six provinces, the only provinces still open to Indian opium, may be likewise closed in accordance with article 3 of the agreement.\n\nArticle 3 further provides that \"the closing of Canton and Shanghai to the import of Indian opium shall not take effect except as the final step on the part of the Chinese Government for the completion of the above measure.\"\n\nSuch being the position of affairs, it was with considerable surprise that I learned that Customs notifications were issued at Canton and Shanghai on the 1st April last to the effect that no further importation of opium, either from bonded godowns or direct, would be permitted. This notification was issued without any previous consultation whatever with this legation, and I am at a loss to explain how the sudden closing of Canton and Shanghai is to be reconciled with the article in the agreement above quoted.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nOpium Agreement,\n\nThis agreement, made at Shanghai on the 6th day of February, 1917, between the Shanghai Opium Combine by its chairman, duly authorised in this behalf (hereinafter called \"the combine\") of the one part, and Wong Kwei Chek, of 117, Szechuen Road, merchant and commission agent, and a citizen of the Republic of Portugal (hereinafter called \"Mr. Wong\") of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS, in pursuance of his agreement with the combine, dated the 4th day of April, 1916, Mr. Wong has since that date rendered valuable services to the combine in the prevention, detection, and suppression of opium smuggling and illicit trade in opium as is evidenced by the large number of successful prosecution of offenders and the confiscation of large quantities of illicit opium;\n\nAnd whereas, though it was stipulated in clause (5) of the aforesaid agreement that Mr. Wong should be remunerated for his services, he was not so remunerated, nor was he reimbursed the heavy expenses incurred by him in the prosecution of his work;\n\nAnd whereas, for the considerations and compensation hereinafter mentioned and provided, the said Mr. Wong agrees to waive his claims under the aforesaid agreement;\n\nAnd whereas, he has also, at the request and on behalf of the combine, for several months past carried on prolonged negotiations with the Chinese Government for the purchase by the latter of the residue of the combine's stock of opium on the 31st day of March, 1917, negotiations which have been brought to a successful issue by the signing of the agreement of the 28th January, 1917, between the said combine and the Chinese Government;\n\nAnd whereas, the said Mr. Wong claims the sum of 800 taels per chest as commission due to him under a promise made to him by the combine, which the said combine hereby confirms, and which will form part of the considerations and compensation hereinafter mentioned and provided for;\n\nAnd whereas the said Mr. Wong has, at the request of the said combine, successfully secured from the Tuchun of Kiangsu adequate protection for opium duly labelled and certified as having paid the special contribution payable under the agreement between the Shanghai and Hong Kong Opium Combines and the special envoy for the prohibition of the sales of opium in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwangtung, dated the 1st day of May, 1915;\n\nAnd whereas the said Mr. Wong rightly claims compensation for the successful conclusion of his labour as aforesaid;\n\nAnd whereas the said agreement with the Chinese Government contemplates the purchase by it of opium to the value of 10,000,000 taels at the rate of 8,200 taels per chest, payable in Chinese Government 6 per cent. bonds of the first year of the Republic, which would roughly mean the purchase by the Government of about 1,215 chests out of about 2,100 chests to-day in existence as belonging to members of the said combine;\n\nAnd whereas the said Mr. Wong, for the considerations and compensation hereinafter mentioned and provided for, has agreed to purchase in the manner and for the sum herein stipulated the residue of the combine's stock of opium as may be left over on...\n\n[2718 e-1]\n\nD\n\n327",
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        "content_text": "the 31st day of March, 1917, after completion of the purchase by the Chinese Government as herein before mentioned, with the exception of such opium which has been labelled, certified, and delivered before the said date, at the price of 5,700 taels per chest, payable by the said Mr. Wong in Chinese Government bonds similar, to all intents and purposes, to those which will be payable by the Chinese Government as aforesaid;\n\nAnd whereas the said Mr. Wong has been using, and, in consideration of the premises, promises to use his best endeavours to secure the successful purchase by the Government of the residue of the stock of opium which will be held by the Hong Kong Combine on the 31st day of March, 1917, for which said Hong Kong Combine, the said Shanghai Combine, herein acts, and whose obligations, as herein specified, the said Shanghai Combine hereby guarantees;\n\nAnd whereas the said Mr. Wong also agreed to purchase the residue of the Hong Kong Combine stock of opium as may be left over on the 31st day of March, 1917, after the eventual completion of the purchase of part of it by the Chinese Government, for which negotiations are pending as hereinbefore stated, also at the price of 6,700 taels per chest, payable by the said Mr. Wong in Chinese Government bonds similar to all intents and purposes to those which will, eventually, be payable by the Chinese Government should the present negotiations be successfully concluded.\n\nAnd, whereas, it is agreed between the said combine and the said Mr. Wong that the compensation hereinafter provided for shall be understood to be in full settlement and satisfaction of all claims by him in respect of all services rendered to date as aforesaid, and all services to be rendered till final completion by the Chinese Government, of its obligations, as well as in full settlement reimbursement and satisfaction of all claims by him for salaries paid to the staff, rewards to informers, travelling and hotel expenses incurred by him, his partner, agent, middleman, or servant, and generally of all out-of-pocket expenses and disbursements incurred by him in the course of his services as aforesaid in extricating the combine from a grave and critical financial position, and under the above-mentioned agreement of the 4th April, 1916.\n\nNow, it is hereby mutually agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:-\n\n1. As a cumulative remuneration Mr. Wong shall be entitled to receive and shall receive from the combine a payment of 2,500 taels per chest on every chest of opium coming under either of the following classifications:\n\n(a.) Opium sold and delivered by the combine since the 31st day of December, 1916, the date when negotiations with the Chinese Government were practically brought to a conclusion, to the 31st day of March, 1917.\n\n(b.) Opium paying the special contribution of dollars 3,500 to the Chinese Government under the agreement dated the 1st day of May, 1915, enjoying the benefit of the protection of the declaration issued by the Tuchun, of Kiangsu, dated the 28th day of January, 1917.\n\n(c.) Opium to be purchased by the Chinese Government as aforesaid, and paid for in Chinese Government bonds.\n\nAs well as the sum of 1,700 taels Shanghai sycee for every chest of opium sold by the Hong Kong Opium Combine, since the said 31st day of December, 1916, to Canton merchants.\n\n2. Should the agreement with the Chinese Government for the purchase by same of the residue of the stock of the Hong Kong Combine be concluded, the above classifications (b) and (c) shall apply also to the Hong Kong stock.\n\n3. The aforementioned payments to Mr. Wong shall be paid in cash in classifications (a) and (b) and in Chinese Government bonds, as the combine will receive, in classification (c).\n\n4. On the 31st March, or at such other subsequent time as the combine will decide, the said Mr. Wong shall take over and pay, at the rate of 5,700 taels per chest, all residue of the stock which may be left after the completion of the purchase by the Chinese Government, with the exception of such chests which will come under classification (b). The said Mr. Wong shall pay for said stock in Chinese Government bonds similar to all intents and purposes to those which the combine will receive from the Chinese Government. It is clearly agreed that Mr. Wong fully understands the present situation and the risks connected with this purchase, and that the combine's responsibility shall cease on the combine handing over to him delivery orders for the chests in question, the combine declining all responsibility if said opium shall be depreciated or rendered valueless by action of the Chinese Government or any other Government or of any consular or municipal authority.\n\n5. The combine shall have the right to keep all or any of the monies due to Mr. Wong, under the present agreement, as a guarantee for the faithful performance by him of the conditions and stipulations herein agreed upon.\n\n6. In consideration of the promises the said Mr. Wong will continue at all times to render to the combine every assistance in his power and co-operate with it for the smooth and successful working of this agreement in relation to the Chinese Government or otherwise.\n\nIn witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.\n\nWitness:\n\nWitness:\n\n(Signed)\n\n(For and on behalf of the Shanghai Opium Combine),\n\nEnclosure 8 in No. 1,\n\n(Signed)\n\nStatement as to Opium Prices. (Communicated by Mr. Ezra, May 1.)\n\nPrices may be divided into four periods or sections:--\n\n1. 1911 to February 1913, when combine formed.\n\nSince the year 1911, as a result of the treaty between Great Britain and China, the number of chests imported into China were materially reduced; prices therefore rapidly advanced, so that by July 1911 the rates per chest rose to 4,500 dollars. Owing to the revolution in October, prices declined, and as a result of disorders in the interior, business was seriously affected and merchants compelled to sell cheaper. The average prices during this period were, however, about 4,000 dollars, and taking this figure as a guide, it would mean, assuming six years have elapsed from this period until now, adding interest at 380 dollars per chest per annum, insurance 50 dollars, storage at 125 dollars; the result would be that it costs to-day not less than 7,300 dollars; but this is working on simple interest, and if we calculate compound interest we will find the figure to be 7,900 dollars at least. The price of 8,200 dollars in bonds would certainly mean a loss to the merchants, as the bonds are depreciated in value. Moreover, merchants who possess opium at the low cost are few, as within this period of six years opium changed hands many times, and once changed the purchaser would find his cost much higher, so that even this price cannot be considered a standard.\n\n2. From February 1913 to May 1915, when the agreement with the Government for the surtax was signed.\n\nIn this period prices varied considerably, but by February 1914 rose to 7,200 dollars; and, if storage, interest, insurance for two and a half years were added, it would cost to-day 9,000 dollars to 10,000 dollars.\n\n3. From the 1st May, 1915 to the 1st January, 1916. Prices during this period were 8,000 dollars to 15,000 dollars. will lose heavily by the proposed sale to the Chinese Government.\n\n4. Final period.\n\nOf course holders\n\nBy January 1916 about 14,000 dollars, February 15,000 dollars, March to end of year from 11,000 dollars to 8,000 dollars.\n\nPage 328",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n19\n\n18\n\nDeath or desertion to be reported.\n\nPenalty on master for unclean condition of ship.\n\n(7) In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers, or other persons on board of any ship in the waters of the Colony, or of the desertion of any of the crew of any British or colonial ship or of any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, or in the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers or persons on board of any ship in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of such ship shall, forthwith or on the arrival of the ship in the Colony, as the case may be, report the same to the Harbour Master, and, in default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars for every death or desertion which he may neglect to report.\n\n(8) If any ship carrying passengers from any port or place to any port or place in the Colony is found, on its arrival in the Colony, to be in a filthy and insanitary condition, the master of the ship shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Port to inspect every such ship on its arrival in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.\n\nSeaman or apprentice deserting may be apprehended and put on board vessel to which he belongs, etc.\n\nDiscipline.\n\n9.—(1)(a) If any seaman or apprentice belonging to the crew of any British ship deserts therefrom or absents himself from his duty while the ship is within the waters of the Colony, it shall be lawful for any police officer, or for the master or person in charge of the ship, or for anyone specially deputed by such master or person in charge to arrest such seaman or apprentice without warrant and convey him before a Stipendiary Magistrate; and in case such seaman or apprentice refuses to return to his duty on board the ship or does not give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the Stipendiary Magistrate may order such seaman or apprentice to be put forcibly on board the ship or to be confined in any gaol or other place of security within the Colony, for any period, until he can be put on board the ship at her departure from the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed 3 months.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any Court, Justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. If any person harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, he shall for each offence, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.\n\n• As amended by No. 2 of 1903, No. 80 of 1911, No. 61 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a Stipendiary Magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted, or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted, or concealed, on board any other ship, boat, or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat, or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a Stipendiary Magistrate, to be dealt with as is hereinbefore directed.\n\n(3) If any person harbours, conceals, employs, or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing, or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony, knowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded, or absented himself from duty, or causes, induces, or persuades, or endeavours to cause, induce, or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate, or to attempt or endeavour to violate, any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship, or knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding, or absence from duty of any such seaman, such person so offending shall for every such offence, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nDefinition.\n\nPassenger ship to be surveyed once a year.\n\nM. S. Act, 1894. s. 271 (1) (a).\n\nPassenger ship not to clear without certificates of survey.\n\nIb. s. 271 (1) (b) (2).\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nunder this section may, by direction of the committing Stipendiary Magistrate, be sent on board his ship or may be placed at the disposal of the consular officer at whose request he dealt with the case, on the written application of such officer, either on or before the expiration of his term of imprisonment.\n\nPART III.\n\nPASSENGER SHIPS.\n\nSurveys.\n\n10. (1) In this Part \"passenger ship\" means every ship exceeding 60 tons register carrying passengers from, to, or between places in the waters of the Colony.\n\n(2) Every passenger ship which carries more than 12 passengers shall be surveyed once at least in each year in the manner provided in this section, except-\n\n(a) British ships which have from the United Kingdom or from any British possession passenger certificates or survey and other certificates equivalent to those required under this section, the same being in force and applicable, and which have been issued under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts or any enactment in force in any British possession; and\n\n(b) Foreign ships which have from their own country, or from the country from whose flag they have been transferred, or from any British possession passenger certificates or survey and other certificates equivalent to those required in the case of British ships; Provided that, in the event of any question arising as to the sufficiency of any foreign certificate to protect the ship holding the same from survey under this section, such question shall be referred for settlement to the Governor-in-Council, whose decision thereon shall be final.\n\n(3) No passenger ship which carries more than 12 passengers shall clear out or proceed on any voyage from this Colony unless the master has the certificates as to survey required under this Part, the same being in force and applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed, or, in the case of a foreign ship, certificates equivalent to those required in the case of a British ship. Any passenger ship attempting to go to sea may be detained until such certificates as aforesaid are produced to the Harbour Master.\n\n* As amended by No. 2 of 1909, No. 9 of 1900, No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 4 of 1912 Supp. Sched.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n533\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n23\n\nsurveyors.\n\nto inspect\n\n(4) The Governor may appoint such number of fit and proper persons to be Government surveyors for the purposes of this Ordinance as he may think proper, and appoint their duties, and may remove any of them, and may fix the remuneration to be received by them.\n\n(5) It shall be lawful for the said surveyors, in the execution of their duties, to go on board any ship to which this section applies, at all reasonable times, and to inspect the same or any part thereof, or any of the machinery, boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the master, mate, or engineer, to which the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts or any Ordinance apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage; and if, in consequence of any accident to any such ship or for any other reason, they consider it necessary to do so, to require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof; and any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such ship, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars.\n\n(6) The said surveyors shall execute their duties under the direction of the Governor, who may make regulations as to the mode or manner in which the surveys hereinafter mentioned shall be made, and as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees due and of any expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties, and may thereby determine the person by and to whom and the conditions under which such payment shall be made; and, until such regulations are made the said surveyors shall execute their duties in accordance with the Instructions to Surveyors issued by the Board of Trade.\n\n(7) Every surveyor who demands or receives, directly or indirectly, from the owner, agent, or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance or from any other person, and any such owner, agent, master, or other person who offers or gives any fee or remuneration whatsoever (otherwise than is permitted by this Ordinance) to any such surveyor for or in respect of such survey shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars.\n\n(8) The owner, agent, or master of every passenger ship being within the waters of the Colony shall, where such ship comes within the meaning of this section, cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of the Government surveyors, who shall thereupon, if satisfied, give ...",
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        "content_text": "542\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n4).\n\n40\n\nPower to require security for costs from complainant.\n\nSupplement*ry provisions as to detention of ships.\n\n*Act of 1804. .. 730.]\n\nApplication to foreign ships of provisions as to detention.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n(7) Where a complaint is made to the Governor that a British or colonial ship is unsafe, he may require the complainant to give security, to his satisfaction, for the costs and compensation which may be incurred by the Government, and any action that may be necessary to enforce such security may be brought in the name of the Attorney General: Provided that where the complaint is made by one-fourth, being not less than 3, of the seamen belonging to the ship and is not, in the opinion of the Governor, frivolous or vexatious, such security shall not be required, and the Governor shall, if the complaint is made in sufficient time before the sailing of the ship, take proper steps for ascertaining whether the ship ought to be detained under this Ordinance.\n\n(8) (a) An order for the detention of a ship, whether provisional or final, and an order varying the same, shall be served as soon as may be on the master of the ship.\n\n(b) When a ship has been detained under this Ordinance, she shall not be released by reason of her British or colonial register being subsequently closed.\n\n(c) For the purposes of a survey under this section, any person authorised to make the same may go on board the ship and inspect the same and every part thereof and the machinery, equipment, and cargo, and may require the unlcading or removal of any cargo, ballast, or tackle.\n\n(d) The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts with respect to persons who wilfully impede an inspector shall apply as if those provisions were herein enacted, with the substitution for the inspector of any member of the Court of Survey, assessor, or surveyor, who, under this section, has the same powers as an inspector or has authority to survey a ship.\n\nOverladen Foreign Ships.\n\n18. When a foreign ship whilst in the waters of the Colony is unsafe by reason of the defective condition of the hull, equipments, or machinery, or by reason of overloading or improper loading, the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to the detention of ships shall apply to that foreign ship as if she were a British ship, with the following modifications:—\n\n(1) a copy of the order for the provisional detention of the ship shall be forthwith served on the consular officer for the State to which the ship belongs, and, if there is no such consular officer, on the master of the ship;\n\n(2) where a ship has been provisionally detained, the consular officer on the request of the owner, agent, or master of the ship, and, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent, or master of the ship, may require that the person, if any, appointed by the Governor to survey the ship shall be accompanied by such person as the consular officer, or the owner, agent, or master, may select; and in such case if the surveyor and such person agree, the Governor shall cause the ship to be detained or released accordingly; but if they differ, the Governor may act as if the requisition had not been made, and the owner, agent, or master shall have the like appeal to the Court of Survey touching the report of the surveyor as is hereinbefore provided; and\n\n(3) where the owner, agent, or master of the ship appeals to the Court of Survey, the consular officer, on the request of such owner, agent, or master, or, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent, or master, may nominate any competent person or persons to be members of the Court of Survey, not exceeding two.\n\n18a. Nothing in the provisions of sections 13, 14, 16 and 18 shall Exemption. affect any foreign ship not bound to this Colony which comes into the waters of the Colony for any purpose other than that of embarking or landing passengers or taking in or discharging cargo or taking in bunker coal.\n\nPART V.\n\nMARINE COURTS AND COURTS OF SURVEY.\n\nMarine Courts.\n\n19 (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever occasion may arise, by warrant under his hand and the seal of the Colony, to form a Court (which shall be called the Marine Court) to make investigations as to shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships, or to inquire into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers of ships.\n\n(2) Such Court shall consist of not more than 5 or less than 3 members, of whom one shall be a Stipendiary Magistrate and pre- of Court:\n\n* As amended by No. 9 of 1909.\n\n* As amended by No. 9 of 1909, No. 29 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.\n\nAs amended by No. 2 of 1908, No. 80 of 1911, No. 60 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.",
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        "content_text": "48\n\n[8.22 contd.]\n\nShip to be entered within 24 hours.\n\nDirections of Harbour Master to be followed.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nold berth, after notice to remove, under the hand of the Harbour Master, has been given on board of her. It shall also be lawful for the Harbour Master to require all ships, including ships of war of any foreign nation, to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct, or he may prohibit their anchoring or securing in any particular place.\n\n(4) Every such master shall, within 24 hours after arrival at any port, enter his ship at the Harbour Master's office or, if the said office is closed, as soon as possible after it is again open for business, and, in the case of a British or colonial ship or of a foreign ship which is not represented by a consular officer, shall deposit there the ship's articles, list of passengers, ship's register, clearance from last port, and true copy of manifest, if required. In the case of a foreign ship represented by a consular officer, the said papers shall be lodged by the master at the proper consulate. Any master who offends against the provisions of this sub-section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\n(5) Every such master shall immediately strike spars, clear hawse, or shift berth, and generally follow such directions as, having regard to the state of the weather, the condition of the port, or any other circumstances, the Harbour Master may deem it necessary to give with a view to the safety of the shipping and the proper regulation thereof; and any master who wilfully disobeys or neglects this regulation shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\n\"Blue Peter\" to be hoisted and port clearance to be obtained before departure.\n\n(6) Every such master about to proceed to sea shall, where practicable, hoist a \"Blue Peter\" not less than 18 hours before the time of intended departure, and shall give notice thereof, and if required, shall state the nature of the intended voyage and the general description of the cargo, to the Harbour Master, who, if there is no reasonable objection, will furnish a port clearance, return the ship's papers, and attest the manifest, if necessary; and any master having obtained such clearance and not sailing within 36 hours thereafter shall report to the Harbour Master his reason for not sailing, and shall re-deposit the ship's papers, if required. Any master who wilfully neglects or disobeys this regulation, or wilfully gives false information, or goes to sea without having obtained a port clearance, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be held to apply to any ship arriving when the Harbour Master's office is closed for business\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n547\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n19\n\nand leaving before the said office is again open for business, but in such case the master shall cause such arrival and departure to be reported to the Harbour Master as soon as practicable.\n\nQuarantine.\n\n23. (1) The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for maintaining and enforcing an effectual quarantine in the ports and waters of the Colony, and for the setting apart of suitable places in available situations for quarantine stations and providing for the detention and seclusion in such places of persons, whether actually suffering from disease or not, arriving on board vessels subjected to quarantine, and for the payment to the Government by the owner or agent of any such vessel of any such costs and expenses charged or incurred for the medical attendance and maintenance of any person removed to any hospital or other place.\n\n(2) Every person who offends against any such regulations (except regulation No. 14 of Table I in the schedule) shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,000 dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 months; and the Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers whom he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, shall have the same powers to prevent the commission of breaches of such regulations, and to arrest, recapture, or detain offenders against them, as may be used by any person for the prevention of any felony or the arrest, recapture, or detention of a felon.\n\n(3) All costs and expenses charged or incurred under regulation No. 14 of Table I, may be recovered in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court at the suit of the Treasurer.\n\nFairways,\n\n24. No vessel of any description, whether a ship of war or otherwise, shall be allowed to anchor within any fairway which is set apart by the Harbour Master for the passage of vessels; and the master or other person in charge of any boat or other vessel dropping anchor in or otherwise obstructing such fairway shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.\n\nAs amended by No. 80 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 46 of 1913 Supp. Sched.\n\nAs amended by No. 80 of 1911 and No. 16 of 1912.",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nThe Barmen Export Gesellschaft, of Barmen, with branches in Cuba and the Dutch Indies, continues its activities in Bangkok to the import of German manufactured articles, and also operates a retail store at Samyek.\n\nDeutsch-Siamesische Handels Gesellschaft. This is a comparatively unimportant company conducting a small miscellaneous trade, but nevertheless holding the agency of....\n\nThe Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company.\n\nIn addition the Germans controlled several of the local dispensaries.\n\nReasons for the Success of German Competition. Whereas the imports of British and German goods have steadily increased from 1897 to 1913, the ratio is practically the same in each year, so that so far as the actual goods shipped from the United Kingdom compared with those shipped from Germany are concerned British manufactures are holding their own. The British merchant in Bangkok, however, has not participated during the past ten years in the distribution of the large increase in imports (amounting to £2,900,000) to anything like the same extent as his German competitor, and this fact is attributable to three main causes:-\n\n(a) The extensive credit granted by the German merchants to Chinese and native dealers.\n\n(b) The looser methods of enforcing contracts in vogue with the German firms, and which have operated in favour of the Chinese and native dealers.\n\n(c) The control by German steamship companies of the shipping service between Singapore and Bangkok.\n\nWith regard to the first of these causes, it is interesting to note that some years ago an association was formed by the European importing houses in Bangkok with the object of arriving at a common agreement with regard to the length of credit to be allowed, and it was unanimously resolved to restrict all credits to Chinese and native dealers to a period not exceeding three months. The German firms, while making out their promissory notes for payment within three months, rarely collected them within four months, and granted extensions to six months and even longer without interest being added. It was found that while all the rules of the Siam Importers' Association were being adhered to by the British merchants, the Germans observed them only on paper, and constantly broke them in practice in order to secure an advantage over their competitors. The association was therefore dissolved.\n\nWith regard to the second cause, which practically amplifies the first, the regulations of the Siam Importers' Association also covered such questions as the limit of time within which goods must be cleared by Chinese and native purchasers from the importers' godowns. The systematic breach of these regulations by the German houses conclusively demonstrated the hopelessness of British and German firms coming into line in actual practice. Speaking generally, the Germans resorted to ways and means of doing business which the average British merchant would not stoop to adopt, but which they found afforded them a large turnover with an increased risk.\n\nThe above-mentioned reasons for German success are common to German enterprise throughout the Far East. The control of the local shipping service, however, is peculiar to Siam.\n\nAs the Norddeutscher Lloyd for many years prior to the war controlled practically the whole of the transport between Singapore and Bangkok of goods which had been transhipped at the former port, the shipping company's agents in Bangkok, who were themselves a trading firm, obtained a valuable insight into the trading activities of their competitors. All manifests passed through their hands, and they secured all those details in respect to the shipments which are such a valuable asset to a competing merchant. There is no doubt, whatever, that they made the fullest use of this knowledge and also utilised their position in order to coerce business into their hands. This has been particularly noticeable in the case of the import of gunny bags from Calcutta, in piece goods and other imports, and in securing fire and marine insurance agencies.\n\nThe distribution by German houses of an increasing proportion of British manufactured goods notably cotton textiles is due to the home manufacturers requiring a broader outlet for their goods than the local British houses could offer owing to their perfectly legitimate wish to conduct the business on safe financial lines, and having had bitter experience of the unsatisfactory method of granting long credits to dealers. The German merchants were willing to take the risks, and consequently were able to send home valuable orders to Manchester and elsewhere. During the war, British merchants have undoubtedly secured an enhanced trade in British textiles and machinery, but it is extremely probable that, unless the German firms are so crippled financially after the war that they cannot afford to give credit, they will tend to regain their position.\n\nA further advantage which has accrued to the German houses from their possession of a large turnover is the number of sound British agencies held by them. These were mainly for imports, insurance, and shipping, and a number of them have already been specified in describing the various firms. I know of no case where a local British merchant has similarly represented German interests. It is desirable that British principals should be urged to place their representation in British hands. Since the war, two British insurance companies have transferred their agencies from a German to a neutral firm; but this is no satisfaction from the point of view of the local British merchant, although it should be noted that it is a distinct advantage to a British insurance company to secure the premium of a large Continental shipper, which can frequently be obtained only by appointing him as agent.\n\nThere is no proof obtainable of any direct subsidy being granted to German merchants by their Government. The possession of the virtual shipping monopoly with Singapore and Hong Kong, which can only have been arranged by State subsidies to the Norddeutscher Lloyd, was undoubtedly of great benefit. Furthermore, it is established that the German Minister and consular officials at Bangkok were willing to take up, and actively to prosecute on behalf of their nationals, cases against Chinese and native dealers in which the German claims and rights were of the most shallow description. While the British Legation confined its attentions to bona fide legitimate cases, the German officials were most aggressive in pushing their claims on the Siamese Government, as has already been remarked in the case of the German Director of Railways. There appears to have been a closer connection between the German officials and the mercantile community than existed with other nationalities. As an instance of this, I am informed by the Bangkok agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank that for some years prior to the war he was constantly requested by the German Consulate for an opinion as to the standing of Chinese and native firms in Siam. No doubt such information, together with similar commercial intelligence gleaned from other sources, was at the disposal of German firms both locally and in Germany.\n\n39\n\nDanish Competition.--Perhaps the most serious competitor British exporters in Bangkok have had to face in the past is the powerful and enterprising East Asiatic Co., Ltd., of Copenhagen. This firm describe themselves as steam and motorship owners, millers of teak and other woods, oil millers, cement and super-phosphate manufacturers, rubber and cocoanut estate owners, exporters and importers. The firm are keen competitors with British merchants in the produce trade in the Straits Settlements, China and Vladivostok, the possession of their own oilseed crushing plants in Denmark together with the maintenance of their own line of steamers giving them a great advantage. Their activities in Bangkok are mainly concerned with shipping, timber and imports. A regular direct line of steamers, of some 4,500 tons each, is maintained with Europe. A bi-weekly service of coasting steamers is run under the auspices of the Siam Steam Navigation Co. between Bangkok and Singapore via the Gulf coast ports. They operate most modern sawmills in Bangkok and at Bandon on the Malay coast, and conduct a very large import and export trade, including the successful management of the Oriental Stores a retail branch on the departmental stores' plan.\n\nJapanese Competition. The import of Japanese goods before the war was not great, amounting to only £161,000 in 1913-14, but it should be noted that it had quintupled in ten years. Since the outbreak of war, however, active steps are being taken by the Japanese to strengthen their hold on the market. Japan, particularly, is laying herself out to secure the trade formerly held by Germany and Austria in cheap sundry articles, such as enamel ware, hosiery, perfumery, cheap textiles, &c., &c. This competition is not likely to be felt by British interests, unless Japan is able to introduce her cotton goods on to the market on a greater scale. The imports of cotton goods from Japan during the last three pre-war years were as follows:--\n\n1911-12 1912-13 1913-14\n\n£22,860 £52,590 £48,605\n\nIn this total, however, are included singlets and other knitted goods.\n\n616",
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        "content_text": "42\n\nThe prospects for the extension of British influence and trade in Siam, after the war, appear to present great promise. So far from foreign trade being discouraged, as has been the case in many Eastern countries, it is welcomed in Siam by both Government and people. The attitude of the Siamese Government was clearly outlined in a speech delivered by the late King in 1907, at a banquet given to the leaders of the foreign mercantile community in Bangkok. His Majesty said :—\n\n\"The pioneers of Siamese commerce have in truth been the merchants of foreign countries, owing to intercourse with whom, as we see to our great satisfaction, the spirit of commerce is now at last awakening in our own people. It is highly beneficial to the commerce of our country that the merchants of all nations should meet and trade here, alike to their own advantage and to that of our State. We fully appreciate the great advance of the commerce of Siam, and, knowing that there is no more important factor in promoting the material progress and welfare of a country than successful commerce, we have always had deeply at heart the encouragement of trade within our dominions.\"\n\nSECTION 4. The Philippine Islands.\n\nSources of Information. The information contained in this section has been obtained at personal interviews with the London and Glasgow partners of the leading British firms trading in the Islands. A memorandum has been received from the agent at Manila of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the detailed statistics published by the United States War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, have been freely drawn upon. H.M. Consular Reports for Manila have also been quoted in respect of details of Imports and Exports.\n\nGeneral Information.--The Philippine Islands, with an area of 717,942 square miles, and an estimated population of eight million people, form one of the richest and most fertile areas in the tropical world. Much of the land is covered by forests of great value, and nature is so bountiful that almost all tropical products grow to profusion. Among the products for which the islands are renowned is the fibrous plant, abaca, from which Manila hemp is made, a product used throughout the world in the form of rope and twine. Fine sugar, rice, coffee, cacao, and tobacco are grown, and although the implements and machines used in farming are of the simplest character, nature is so lavish that, up to the present, they have proved sufficient.\n\nThe islands have had a somewhat chequered history. Their population consists in the main of Malays, but for centuries their relations with China had been very close, and for such progress as they made during the first fifteen centuries of the Christian Era they are indebted to the Chinese, who settled in the Islands and freely married with the natives. The Philippines were discovered by Magellan in 1521, and for the next 377 years remained under Spanish rule until the Spanish-American War brought about their conquest by the United States. The Islands have been under American control since August 1898.\n\nThe foreign trade of the colony was conducted under Spanish rule by old-established British and Spanish merchants with offices in Manila, and the British houses still conduct the greater portion of the export trade, although the development of foreign commerce since 1898 has brought about a large influx of American and German merchants, and has caused intensified competition in imported articles.\n\nThe capital of the islands and the great centre for foreign residence and trade is Manila, in the island of Luzon, but most of the large trading concerns have branches at Iloilo, in the island of Panay, for the shipment of sugar, and at Cebu, on the island of the same name, for the shipment of hemp drawn from the southern islands.\n\nExtent of Foreign Trade. The total foreign trade of the Philippines during the last three complete pre-war years was valued as follows:-\n\n  \n     \n    Imports\n    Exports\n    Total\n  \n  \n    1911.\n    £10,005,092\n    £9,289,020\n    £19,294,112\n  \n  \n    1912.\n    £12,847,479\n    £11,413,487\n    £21,260,966\n  \n  \n    1913.\n    £11,106,830\n    £9,952,699\n    £21,059,529\n  \n\n43\n\nThe total trade has expanded very considerably under the American policy of development, but since the passing of the Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1909, which established free imports from the United States, and placed heavy duties upon goods from other countries, the share of United States manufacturers in the import trade has increased rapidly, until in 1913 they contributed more than 50 per cent. of the imports into the colony.\n\nThe total growth of the trade over a period of years, and the relative positions of the United Kingdom and her three principal competitors, the United States, Germany, and Japan, will be seen from the subjoined table, compiled from the United States Government statistics, and giving the annual average import and export figures during four quinquennial periods:-\n\n  \n    Years.\n    Total\n    United Kingdom.\n    United States.\n    Germany.\n    Japan.\n  \n  \n    Imports.\n     \n     \n     \n     \n     \n  \n  \n    Calendar Years, 1890-1894.\n    4,772,108\n    483,164\n    639,895\n    75,390\n     \n  \n  \n    Fiscal Years, 1899-1903\n    4,768,998\n    1,710,388\n    2,728,668\n    561,659\n     \n  \n  \n    1904-1908\n    5,353,572\n    1,609,967\n    4,992,600\n    920,189\n     \n  \n  \n    1909-1913\n    5,703,758\n    2,240,706\n    16,188,394\n    2,429,727\n     \n  \n  \n    Exports.\n     \n     \n     \n     \n     \n  \n  \n    Calendar Years, 1890-1894\n    7,114,419\n    3,436,784\n    219,493\n    16,063\n     \n  \n  \n    Fiscal Years, 1899–1903\n    7,340,260\n    6,237,975\n    122,700\n    417,287\n     \n  \n  \n    1904-1908\n    8,706,815\n    12,150,529\n    1,034,010\n    650,824\n    1,112,888\n  \n  \n    1909-1913\n    7,165,387\n    17,403,144\n    1,209,668\n    1,209,668\n     \n  \n\nThe striking features of these figures are:-\n\n(1) The rapid progress made by United States trade since the annexation in 1898, and more particularly since the passing of the Import Tariff Act of 1909.\n\n(2) The slow actual growth of the trade with the United Kingdom, and the relative decline from a commanding position under the Spanish régime to a secondary position at the present time. This is almost entirely due to the imposition of the tariff.\n\n(3) The growth of the trade with Germany and Japan, particularly during the last quinquennium, due to the extension of the interests of those countries at Manila and elsewhere, and the establishment of German and Japanese traders in the islands.\n\nAlthough in the face of the heavy tariff, imports of British manufactured goods are not likely to increase, and the position of the United Kingdom in the trade of the Philippines is likely to still further decline after the war, the significant fact remains that local British merchants still control the bulk of foreign trade of the islands, and British exchange banks have a large share in financing it. The export trade in hemp and sugar is almost entirely controlled by the three leading British houses, and this position has been maintained despite the entry of American competitors in the field. In the import trade there is much more competition, but the British houses who specialise in this branch are holding their own. Naturally, in the face of the Customs Tariff, they are obliged to turn their attention more and more to the distribution of American goods.\n\n618",
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        "content_text": "52\n\nsubsequently took refuge in another port in the Philippines. There are now interned in Philippine ports 24 German vessels of a total net tonnage of 54,448 tons, and of these 17 are laid up at Manila.\n\nFinancial Facilities.-Ample financial facilities for trading are provided by the local branches of the Hong Kong and Chartered Banks. The International Banking Corporation act as the financial agents of the United States Government and do a fairly large exchange business. Much of the inter-island finance is transacted by the Bank of the Philippine Islands. Most of the larger merchant houses employ their own resources and receive from time to time, when required, clean advances against the credit of the house. The smaller firms, however, open documentary credits and pass their drafts through the banks in the usual way.\n\nSince the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States the adoption of more vigorous methods in that country to foster the export trade, and more particularly since the outbreak of the war, a tendency has been apparent for American business to be financed through New York instead of through London as heretofore. This is little more than a tendency at present, so far as the Atlantic ports are concerned, but, should the war be prolonged, there is some danger that the practice may become generally established.\n\nCurrency. Some stability is given to Philippines trade by the fact that it is on a gold basis. The unit of value is the theoretical gold peso, representing gold value exactly equal to 50 cents United States currency, or a nominal 1d. This parity is maintained by the sale by the Government in the Philippines of drafts on its redemption fund in New York, and the sale in New York by the agent of the Philippine Government of drafts on the redemption fund in Manila. The Government's rates of exchange are fixed, and fluctuate only within the limits set by the specie points.\n\nOfficial Representation. The British representatives are usually drawn from the British Consular Service in Japan, and comprise a Consul-General, Vice-Consul, and Pro-Consul at Manila, and Vice-Consuls at Iloilo and Cebu. The head of one of the largest British houses in Manila writes à propos the Consular Service as follows:-\n\n\"The duties of British Consular Officials abroad should be made to embrace not only the diplomatic requirements of the service, but also the acquisition and dissemination of information regarding commerce, shipping, manufactures, and machinery likely to be of interest to British traders and manufacturers. The information they procure should be transmitted promptly to be of use.\"\n\nIn this statement I entirely concur,\n\nChamber of Commerce. The Manila Chamber of Commerce is nominally an international body, but is to all intents and purposes British, as the British members largely preponderate. The head of one of the leading Manila houses does not recommend the inauguration of a purely British Chamber, but if it is decided to reform and revivify the official commercial representation, I consider that such a step would be highly desirable and would bring Manila into line with the other important entrepôts in the Far East. The attitude of the British merchant is intensely individualistic and, quite apart from the other benefits of collective action, any institution which will lead him to consider national mercantile interests as a whole will be of service.\n\nProbable German Activity after the War. The business of the German houses in the Philippines has been seriously restricted during the war on account of the closing of their home market, and also by the action of H.M. Government in preventing goods reaching them through British ports or in British vessels. As the Philippine Islands, however, are under American control, it is difficult to see how any restrictive official measures can be taken against German activity after the conclusion of peace. The extension of the black list \"for a limited period after the war does not appear to me to be either practical or advisable in a foreign country where neutral interests would be involved. It is therefore to be anticipated that after the war these firms will be able to resume their business in American and Continental goods as formerly. Their activity can, however, be restricted in two ways:-\n\n(a) By the restriction of the financial facilities formerly accorded to them by the British exchange banks; and\n\n(b) By the withdrawal of those British agencies which were formerly in German hands.\n\n53\n\nOn both these questions a definite pronouncement of policy should be made sooner or later by H.M. Government, as they apply all over the world, and can only be satisfactorily settled by a uniform policy.\n\nThe Future of Philippines Trade.-The future of British trade with the islands depends entirely upon the future attitude of the United States with regard to their political status. With the advent of the Democratic Party to power in the States, and the appointment of a Democratic Governor-General in 1913, modifications of the existing United States policy towards the islands were at once put into operation, tending towards the placing of more and more power in the hands of the Filipinos with a view to independence at an early date. Immediate steps were taken to place natives in many of the highest and most responsible positions, and they were even allowed a majority in the Philippine Commission, the Upper House of the Legislature, thus giving native legislative control in both houses.\n\nThe resulting uncertainty as to whether the United States contemplated the abandonment of all control over the islands in the near future produced a widespread feeling of uneasiness and distrust in local commercial circles which prevailed during the whole of 1913 and 1914, and greatly restricted business. Considerable opposition to this policy was raised among United States manufacturers to whom the Philippines trade was becoming more and more valuable. It is noteworthy that, with the exception of Chilean nitrate, the islands do or can produce all those products which the United States now purchases in South America.\n\nThe present position is one of uncertainty. If the United States retain control of the islands they are not likely seriously to modify their tariff, and consequently British manufactures will find a comparatively stagnant market. On the other hand, should complete independence be granted, the preference in favour of the United States would be withdrawn, and British trade would obtain a considerable share of the business now being transacted in New York.\n\nIt is generally felt, however, that the natives are not sufficiently advanced to govern their own country, and that independence would result in anarchy and weakness. In such an event, the suzerainty of the United States being withdrawn, the islands would fall an easy prey to Japan, which has long cast envious eyes on the country as a valuable outlet for her surplus population, and a strong point d'appui in Southern Asia.\n\nOn the whole, it would appear to be in the interests of Great Britain that the United States should retain firm control over the Philippines. Japan is becoming our greatest rival, both political and commercial, throughout the Far East, and Japanese sovereignty over the islands, which must almost inevitably result from the withdrawal of American support, would seriously alter the balance of power, and would be far more detrimental to our mercantile interests in the long run than would the present conditions, even taking the tariff into account. British merchants are able to control a considerable share of the local trade under existing conditions. Were Japan to occupy the country, their position would be most seriously undermined.\n\nSUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS.\n\n1. The foreign trade of the Philippine Islands has expanded rapidly since the American occupation in 1898, but in consequence of the Tariff Act of 1909, whereby American goods are admitted free and a heavy tariff is imposed on foreign products, the United States trade now amounts to approximately 50 per cent. of the total, and the British share has relatively declined, until, in manufactured goods, it occupies a very secondary position. Increasing competition is also being experienced from Germany and Japan.\n\n2. In the produce export trade, and particularly in respect of the heavy annual shipments of hemp and sugar, local British merchant houses transact the bulk of the business, and also hold a very strong position in the general shipping, insurance, and mercantile business not only of Manila, but also of Iloilo and Cebu.\n\n3. German competition has been most severely felt in the import trade of the islands, and is of comparatively recent growth. Not only have the imports of German goods increased, notably as regards soft goods, sundries, chemicals and hardware, but the local activity of recently-established German houses has met with a certain degree of success, mainly on account of:-\n\n(a) Longer credit facilities granted to Chinese and native dealers;\n\n(b) The permitting of deferred payments on large installations of machinery and plant;\n\n623",
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        "content_text": "# Fociodical drydocking and machinery inspection\n\n## Clauses 9-35\n\n9. Should the steamer remain in the Admiralty service for more than six months from the date of her last drydocking, the Owners agree, if required by the Admiralty, at the expiration of such six months to place the steamer in drydock, to clean and paint her bottom, to open up or test under steam as may be considered necessary by the Admiralty Inspectors any parts of the machinery and boilers, and to make good any defects likely to interfere with satisfactory fulfilment of her continued service, all of which shall be done at Owners' expense, and the same at the expiration of every six months during the currency of this Charter.\n\nSuch drydocking and inspection shall take place at the port at which the steamer shall complete her voyage or at any other adjacent port as may be approved by the Admiralty. The hire shall cease from the time the steamer is available for drydocking at the port of drydocking until she is again placed at the disposal of the Admiralty at that port, ready to load and/or bunker and efficient for further service, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but not on Sundays or public holidays nor after 1 p.m. on Saturdays, unless steamer sail or work be begun meantime.\n\nIn calculating the period off pay under this clause, an allowance of 48 running hours without stoppage of hire shall be granted in respect of each drydocking.\n\n10. If there is any misrepresentation as regards steamer's size, capabilities, and position, or if steamer has not arrived at the port of delivery or is not ready to load by or on the date specified, the Admiralty have the option of cancelling this Charter.\n\n11. Payment of Hire shall be made in England as follows:--\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for two months certain or more, one calendar month's hire in advance on the steamer entering into pay, half a month's hire at the end of the second month, half a month's hire at the end of the third month, and one month's further hire at the end of each succeeding completed month of service.\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for less than two months, the advance of hire to be made on the steamer entering into pay shall be for two-thirds of the hire for the period certain, such advance in no case to exceed the amount of one calendar month's hire, and the remaining payments shall be made as laid down above.\n\nIn all cases, such payments shall be considered as payments on account, and the balance of hire shall be paid on the passing in Office of the accounts, &c., to be rendered by the steamer, and on receipt of the Logs for the period (vide clause 24).\n\nPeriods off pay, and periods less than one calendar month at the expiration of this Charter shall be reckoned in days. A day's hire shall be calculated on the basis of 1/365 of twelve calendar months' hire of the steamer; and in case of inefficiency under clauses 9 and 25, any fraction of a day amounting to 12 hours or over shall count as one day off pay.\n\nClaims for hire and other expenses allowable under this Charter shall be rendered to the Director of Transports, Admiralty, S.W., on `Form T.191a`.\n\n12. The Owners shall provide and pay for all wages, provisions, including fuel for galley and Electric Light, and all other expenses in connection with the Master, Officers, Engineers, and Crew, for the insurance of the steamer, for all deck and engine-room stores, water for all purposes, for the proper ventilation of the cargo, for boats, for ballast necessary to enable the steamer to proceed with safety without cargo, and for the maintenance of the steamer in a thoroughly efficient state in hull and machinery for and during the service.\n\n13. The steamer shall sail under flags provided by the Admiralty, but the Owners shall provide the following flags, &c., for signalling: -\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | A set of International Code Flags and the latest edition of the Signal Code. |\n| (b) | A pair of Hand Flags for Semaphoring messages in daylight. |\n| (c) | A Flashing Lamp for signalling at night (Morse Code). |\n| (d) | Signal Letters for British Ships. |\n\nThe Owners shall provide the Charts required for the safe navigation of the steamer according to the services on which she may from time to time be employed, and shall supply the necessary Compasses and Chronometer, in respect of which certificates from competent authorities shall be furnished that they are in good order and that a correct deviation table has been provided.\n\n14. The Admiralty shall be liable for all coal, or other fuel, except fuel for galley and Electric Light, and shall accept and pay for all fuel in steamer's bunkers at the time of delivery.\n\nThe Owners shall on entry into pay hand to the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port a certificate signed by the Master and Chief Engineer of the number of tons of fuel in the bunkers of the steamer, and its description.\n\nOn the expiration of the Charter, the Owners shall pay the Admiralty for all the fuel left in the bunkers.\n\nBoth such payments shall be made at the current market price at the respective ports.\n\n15. The Admiralty shall be liable for port charges, pilotage, lights, dues, necessary tug assistance, consular charges (except such as relate to Officers or Crew), Bills of Health, and overtime under conditions of clause 17, but the Owners shall without any charge against the Admiralty arrange through the Master or their Port Agents all such services in connection with the navigation and clearing of the steamer as if they were trading on their own account, pay the claims therefor, and reclaim from the Director of Transports such as are necessary and for Admiralty account, the claim for each service being supported by the receipted vouchers. All pilotage certificates must show the draft of water.\n\n16. When Great Britain is at peace, the Officers, Engineers, and every member of the Crew shall be British subjects. When Great Britain is at war, this stipulation is to be carried out so far as practicable, but in any case, Master, Officers, and Engineers must be British subjects, and members of the hostile nationality are to be excluded. At least one of the officers or men must be able to use the flashing lantern.\n\nA full list of the Crew with their rating and nationality shall be produced on the entry into pay of the steamer.\n\n17. The steamer shall work day and night if required, and the steam winches shall be at the service of the Admiralty by day and night with full steam when and as required. The same shall be worked free of cost by the Crew, which must contain efficient skilled hands to work all the winches on board at once in one shift. The Admiralty will repay overtime under such conditions as may be from time to time authorised.\n\n18. The Admiralty shall not be held liable if the steamer shall be lost, wrecked, driven on shore, injured, or rendered incapable of service by or in consequence of dangers of the sea or tempest, collision, fire, accident, stress of weather, or any other cause arising as a sea risk.\n\n19. The risks of war which are taken by the Admiralty are those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause: -\n\n\"Warranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether before or after declaration of war.\"\n\nSuch risks are taken by the Admiralty on the ascertained value of the steamer, if she be totally lost, at the time of such loss, or, if she be injured, on the ascertained value of such injury.\n\nShould a dispute arise as to the value of the steamer, the same shall be settled as laid down in clause 31.\n\n20. In the event of any member of the Crew being killed or injured as a result of warlike operations in which Great Britain is engaged, the Admiralty agree to settle any lawful claims arising from such death or injury according to the scales laid down in the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, and the Owners shall be relieved of their liability under the Workman's Compensation Act, 1906, or other Acts in respect of such claims.\n\n21. The Master shall prosecute his voyages with the utmost despatch and shall render all customary assistance with ship's Crew and boats.\n\n22. The Master shall obey all orders and instructions which he may receive from the Admiralty, or from any Officer authorised by them, and shall in all respects comply with the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, but he shall be solely responsible (on behalf of the Owners) for the management, handling, and navigation of the steamer. He shall keep accounts of his cargoes as laid down in the above-named Instructions, and the Admiralty hereby agree to indemnify the Owner from all consequences or liabilities that may arise from the Master signing Bills of Lading, as well as from any irregularity in Ship's papers consequent thereon, except as laid down in clause 27.\n\nThe Admiralty shall not be held responsible for losses sustained through the negligence of Pilots, Tug-boats, Stevedores, or others employed by them, the Owners recognising them as their servants even if appointed and paid by the Admiralty or the Agents of the Admiralty (but see also clause 26).\n\n23. If the Admiralty shall have reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Master, Officers, or Engineers, the Owners shall, on receiving particulars of the complaint, investigate the same, and, if necessary, make a change in the appointments.\n\n24. The Master shall be furnished, from time to time, by the Admiralty, with all requisite instructions and sailing directions in writing, and shall keep a full and correct Log of the voyage or voyages, which is to be forwarded quarterly to the Admiralty. (See also clause 11.)\n\n25. If from deficiency of man or stores, breakdown of machinery, or any other cause, the working of the steamer is at any time suspended for a period exceeding twelve running hours, pay shall cease for the whole of such and any subsequent period of whatever duration during which the vessel is inefficient. (See also clause 11.)\n\nAny work that may be done during a period of partial inefficiency of the steamer, except proceeding to a port for repairs or to replenish bunker coals owing to accident, shall be paid for on the basis of the time it would have occupied had the steamer remained efficient. If upon the voyage her speed be reduced by a defect in or breakdown of any part of her machinery, damage to propeller, rudder, or by any other mishap of hull or engines or cargo, the time so lost and the cost of any extra coal consumed in consequence thereof shall be deducted from the hire; but should the steamer be driven into port or to anchorage by stress of weather or for coals, such detention or loss of time shall be at the Admiralty expense. In the event, however, of breakdown at sea or other accident necessitating the steamer proceeding to a port of refuge for repairs, or to replace or land crew, hire to cease until the steamer arrives back in a similar position to that in which she was at the time of the breakdown or accident, &c., and any coals used to be replaced or paid for by Owners, whichever Admiralty may elect.\n\nIf through accident, any part of the cargo or bunkers have to be discharged, the time occupied in discharging and reloading same to be deducted from the hire.\n\nAny time so lost shall count as part of the term of charter named in clauses 2 and 7, but the Admiralty have the option of keeping the steamer for an additional period equivalent to the whole or part of the time lost.\n\n26. Throughout this Charter, losses or damages, whether in respect of goods carried or to be carried or in other respects, arising or occasioned by the following causes shall be absolutely excepted, viz.: - The act of God, perils of the seas, fire on board, in hulk, craft, or on shore, barratry of the Master or Crew, enemies, pirates, robbers, or thieves, arrests and restraints of princes, rulers, and peoples, collisions and strandings, explosions, burstings of boilers, breakage of shafts, or any latent defect, even if existing at the beginning of the voyage, in the hull, boilers, machinery, or appurtenances, negligence, default, or error of judgment of the Pilot, Master, or Crew, or other servants of the Owners, in the management or navigation of the steamer.\n\n27. Except as limited in clauses 25 and 43, the Owners will be held strictly accountable for the value of and liable to the Admiralty for any loss or damage to coal, oil fuel, collier, and oil fuel outfits, signalling stores, &c., and all other Government stores of whatever description which may be shipped, whether as cargo or for use on board, in charge of the Master, who will be required to sign Bill of Lading and/or give receipts for same, and will be responsible for receipts given or Bills of Lading signed by the Mates for same.\n\nThe Owners will be held responsible for the safe and proper stowage of Government stores. If hired labour is employed for stowage, the expense will be borne by the Admiralty.\n\nThe stores will be shipped under the supervision of the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port, but this will not relieve the Owners of their responsibility for stowage.\n\n28. The steamer has liberty to assist vessels in distress, and to deviate for the purpose of saving life.\n\nAll salvage to be for Owners' benefit, but ship to be deemed off pay during the time occupied in salvage operations, and cost of coal consumed in such operations and port charges and expenses to be for Owners' account.\n\n29. The Admiralty to have lien on the steamer for all moneys paid in advance and not earned.\n\n30. Penalty for non-performance of this agreement proved damages.\n\n31. Any dispute arising under this Charter shall be referred, under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889, or any Amendment thereof, to the arbitration of two persons, one to be nominated by the Owners and the other by the Admiralty, and should such Arbitrators be unable to agree, the decision of an Umpire whom they must elect shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto, and it is further mutually agreed that such Arbitration shall be a condition precedent to the commencement of any action at law.\n\n32. General average shall be settled according to York-Antwerp Rules, 1890, but the Admiralty shall not be called upon to sign bonds or pay deposits, as Owners of British ships have no lien on Government stores and cannot detain them.\n\n33. The steamer shall not be ordered nor proceed to any port where fever or pestilence is prevalent, nor where quarantine is in force (except at Admiralty risk and expense), but the Owners shall be liable for any delay of quarantine arising from sickness of the Master or Crew, if the vessel has not been sent to a quarantined port.\n\n34. The wages paid to Crew employed under this Charter Party shall be not less than those current at the port on the date of signing-on.\n\n35. In pursuance of Act 22 Geo. III. Cap. XLV., no Member of the House of Commons is to be admitted to any share or part in this Charter or to any benefit to arise therefrom.\n\n## SPECIAL CLAUSES - COLLIERS\n\n(Not applicable to Oilers)\n\n36. Colliers must be supplied with the necessary derricks, winches, &c., complete with the required 24-inch wire whips and other ropes, blocks, and fittings for the speedy and efficient discharge of cargo.\n\nIn colliers fitted with double derricks and winches, the following gear for coaling whips shall be provided for each pair of derricks: -\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Two flexible steel wire 2-inch ropes, each sufficiently long to reach any part of the hold, with either derrick topped over the collier's hold and the other swung over the vessel being coaled. In addition, two spare whips for each pair of derricks should be carried. |\n|  | Four iron blocks capable of taking 2-inch wire rope and tested to six tons, viz.: - One block at the heel of each derrick and one (which should be self) at the head. |\n|  | One swivel cargo hook constructed so as not to catch the coamings, &c. |\n\nPage 381 \n3",
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        "content_text": "topy.\n\n72.56.\n\n(88834)\n\nC\n\nSir,\n\n3C6\n\nC.O\n\nREC\n\n36183\n\nREG 19 JUN 19\n\n28th April, 1919.\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith copy of a correspondence which has passed between the Governor of Hongkong and myself and the British Consular Agent at Koepang, on the subject of the manufacture and exportation of prepared opium in Portuguese Timor.\n\nI presume that Mr. Pilliet, when he transmitted the application contained in his telegram of January 22nd, was not in possession of the facts set forth in his letter of the 10th April.\n\nI have written to him to say that if he had this information at the time he should have reported it fully to me, when I should not have transmitted the application to obtain opium to the Government of India without referring to you.\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nA. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P.,\n\netc.\n\netc., etc..\n\nLONDON.\n\nI have,\n\netc.\n\n(sd): W.N. DUNN,",
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        "content_text": "307\n\nCopy.\n\nFrom H.B.M. Consul General, Batavia. To British Consular Agent, Koepang.\n\nSir,\n\nBATAVIA,\n\n17th March, 1919.\n\nWith reference to correspondence on the subject of the Opium Monopoly in Portuguese Timor ending with my telegram of the 3rd of January last, I have to enclose copy of a letter which I have received from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, and I would request you to be so good as to furnish me with your comments thereon, and especially with regard to \"Manufacture and exportation of prepared opium\".\n\nI am, etc.,\n\n(sd): W.N. DUNN.\n\nCopy.\n\nTo H.B.M. Consul General, Batavia.\n\nFrom H.E. Governor, Hongkong.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nNo. 2530/1919.\n\n19th February, 1919.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to call your attention to the action of the Portuguese Authorities in Timor in inviting tenders for a prepared opium monopoly for the Colony, at an upset price of $200,000 per annum. 500 chests per annum are to be allowed duty free, and a further quantity if desired at $400 per chest. The contract is for the \"manufacture and exportation of prepared opium\", and it is expressly stated that there is to be no sale to the \"natives\" of Timor. There is further a reservation providing for purchase by the new contractor of plant belonging to \"the former contractor Leong Kwong\", but I am informed there has been no \"farm\" in Timor for some time.",
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        "content_text": "3C3\n\nFrom H.B.M. Consul General, Batavia. To H.E. Governor, Hongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nBATAVIA,\n\n11th March, 1919.\n\nReferring to your letter No.2530/1919 of 19th February 1919, regarding the action of the Portuguese Authorities in Timor, in inviting tenders for a prepared opium monopoly, I have the honour to inform you that I am making further enquiries from the British Consular Agent at Koepang, who also looks after British interests in Portuguese Timor.\n\nMy information at present is confined to the following: -\n\nThe British Consular Agent at Koepang reported on October 23rd 1918 that according to an official \"Boletin\" of the Portuguese Timor Government dated 21st September 1918, the Government were to sell by public auction on January 18th 1919 the Opium Monopoly, and that a Mr. Kwok-U-Shun, a Chinese resident of Hongkong now resident in Portuguese Timor and a member of the Int. Petroleum Co. Ltd. had approached him to learn whether the British Government would allow the export of raw opium to Portuguese Timor if he or any other person purchased the monopoly.\n\nOn my learning further that Mr. Kwok-U-Shun proposed to obtain his opium supplies from India, I gave these particulars and approached the Foreign Department of the Government of India on his behalf to learn whether he could purchase opium in India for despatch to Portuguese Timor.\n\nI was then informed by the Finance Department of the Government of India on the 7th December 1918 that this party could obtain opium at the Calcutta auctions and that export would be allowed on his obtaining a pass from the Bengal Board of Revenue and complying with the prescribed requirements.\n\nOn",
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        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "On the 22nd January 1919, I received the following telegram from the British Consular Agent at Koepang:-\n\n\"Your telegram 10th December the successful applicant for opium monopoly in Portuguese Timor requests to know in the prescribed requirements through the Bengal Board of Revenue if there is any limit to quantity opium he may wish to export to Portuguese Timor and what number of chests would approximately be allowed him for export to Portuguese Timor per year stop Portuguese Timor Government allow five hundred chests to be imported annually as per agreement with opinion of increase\".\n\nTo which telegram I replied on the 23rd January 1919:-\n\n\"Opium seems useless making enquiries desired by applicant better he instruct his agents Calcutta satisfy Government requirements himself and bid for quantity he is allowed import or less\".\n\nYou will observe there is nothing in the above information about \"manufacture and exportation of prepared opium\" from Portuguese Timor.\n\nI have,\n\netc.,\n\n(SA): W.N. DUNN.\n\nCONSUL GENERAL.",
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        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "Copy.\n\nFrom British Consular Agent, Koepang. To H.B.M. Consul General,\n\n3.9/1.\n\nSir,\n\nKOEPANG,\n\nBatavia.\n\n10th April, 1919.\n\n371\n\nWith reference to your letter dated 17th ultimo, with enclosed copy of a letter from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong dealing with the manufacture and exportation of prepared opium in Portuguese Timor.\n\nI have the honour to inform you, that the question of the manufacture of opium first began to receive the attention of the Portuguese Authorities in Timor in 1914, through a Chinese Syndicate at Hongkong operating under the name of Leong Kwong, who claimed the right to boil opium by a decree dated 28th October 1914, whether this decree was published I am unable to say. But after much correspondence with the Portuguese Authorities at Timor, the monopoly was granted for the manufacture of raw opium to Leong Kwong, and published in Bulletin Official Timor 16th December 1916, but I believe nothing was stated in this notice or in the contract entered into between the Portuguese Authorities and Leong Kwong as to whether the British Government would allow the export of raw opium into Portuguese Timor, Leong Kwong ignoring this fact immediately proceeded to erect a factory at Dilly, Timor for the manufacture of opium and some 500 chests of raw opium was purchased at Calcutta and the first consignment of some 50 chests were seized by the Authorities at Singapore en route for Timor stating that the quantity was in excess of Timor requirements. A contretemps then arose with the Portuguese Government, with a resultant loss to the Company of Leong Kwong of some 350,000 Dollars.\n\nThe...",
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        "content_text": "373\n\nsailing from Timor, and no doubt ultimately would find its way to Java or even Australian ports. No explanation is necessary to prove that the manufactured opium in Timor is not for consumption in Timor, and that 90% or more would find its way to China.\n\nI find the primary reason for its manufacture is to bring revenue to the already exhausted Portuguese Treasury in Timor, and the Portuguese Authorities may at an early date approach the British Government to allow large imports to take place in Timor.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Signed) C. I. PILLIET.\n\nBRITISH CONSULAR AGENT.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "Periodical drydocking and inspection\n\nWhen hire ceases. Forty-eight hours allowance. Cancelling clauses. Payment of hire, advances, short payments. Balance of hire. Broken periods. A day's hire. Claims: how to be rendered. Owners' liabilities. Plaza signalling. Navigation requisites. Admiralty liabilities, Miscellaneous.\n\n9. Should the steamer remain in the Admiralty service for more than six months from the date of her last drydocking, the Owners agree, if required by the Admiralty, at the expiration of such six months to place the steamer in drydock, to clean and paint her bottom, to open up or test under steam as may be considered necessary by the Admiralty Inspectors any parts of the machinery and boilers, and to make good any defects likely to interfere with satisfactory fulfilment of her continued service, all of which shall be done at Owners' expense, and the same at the expiration of every six months during the currency of this Charter.\n\nSuch drydocking and inspection shall take place at the port at which the steamer shall complete her voyage or at such other adjacent port as may be approved by the Admiralty. The hire shall cease from the time the steamer is available for drydocking at the port of drydocking until she is again placed at the disposal of the Admiralty at that port, ready to load and/or bunker and efficient for further service, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but not on Sundays or public holidays nor after 1 p.m. on Saturdays, unless steamer sail or work be begun meantime.\n\nIn calculating the period of pay under this clause an allowance of 48 running hours without stoppage of hire shall be credited in respect of each drydocking.\n\n10. If there is any misrepresentation as regards steamer's size, capabilities, and position, or if steamer has not arrived at the port of delivery or is not ready to load by or on the date specified, the Admiralty have the option of cancelling this Charter.\n\n11. Payment of Hire shall be made in England as follows:-\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for two months certain or more, one calendar month's hire in advance on the steamer entering into pay, half a month's hire at the end of the second month, half a month's hire at the end of the third month, and one month's further hire at the end of each succeeding completed month of service.\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for less than two months, the advance of hire to be made on the steamer entering into pay shall be for two-thirds of the hire for the period certain, such advance in no case to exceed the amount of one calendar month's hire, and the remaining payments shall be made as laid down above.\n\nIn all cases such payments shall be considered as payments on account, and the balance of hire shall be paid on the passing in Office of the accounts, &c., to be rendered by the steamer, and on receipt of the Logs for the period (vide clause 24).\n\nPeriods of pay, and periods less than one calendar month at the expiration of this Charter shall be reckoned in days. A day's hire shall be calculated on the basis of 1/365 of twelve calendar months' hire of the steamer; and in case of inefficiency under clauses 9 and 25, any fraction of a day amounting to 12 hours or over shall count as one day off pay.\n\nClaims for hire and other expenses allowable under this Charter shall be rendered to the Director of Transports, Admiralty, S.W., on Form T. 191.\n\n12. The Owner shall provide and pay for all wages, provisions, including fuel for galley and Electric Light, and all other expenses in connection with the Master, Officers, Engineers and Crew, for the insurance of the steamer, for all deck and engine-room stores, water for all purposes, for the proper ventilation of the cargo, for boats, for ballast necessary to enable the steamer to proceed with safety without cargo, and for the maintenance of the steamer in a thoroughly efficient state in hull and machinery for and during the service.\n\n13. The steamer shall sail under signal provided by the Admiralty, but the Owners shall provide the following flags, &c., for signalling:\n\n(a) A set of International Code Flags and the latest edition of the Signal Code.\n\n(b) A pair of Hand Flags for Semaphoring messages in daylight.\n\n(c) A Flashing Lamp for signalling at night (Morse Code).\n\n(d) Signal Letters for British Ships.\n\nThe Owners shall provide the Charts required for the safe navigation of the steamer according to the services on which she may from time to time be employed, and shall supply the necessary Compasses and Chronometers, in respect of which certificates from competent authorities shall be furnished that they are in good order and that a correct deviation table has been provided.\n\n14. The Admiralty shall be liable for all coal, or other fuel, except fuel for galley and Electric Light, and shall accept and pay for all fuel in steamer's bunkers at the time of delivery.\n\nOn the expiration of the Charter the Owners shall pay the Admiralty for all the fuel left in the bunkers. Both such payments shall be made at the current market price at the respective ports.\n\nThe Owners shall on entry into pay hand to the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port a certificate signed by the Master and Chief Engineer of the number of tons of fuel in the bunkers of the steamer, and its description.\n\n15. The Admiralty shall be liable for port charges, pilotages, lights, dues, necessary tug assistance, consular charges (except such as relate to Officers or Crew), Bills of Health, and overtime under conditions of clause 17, but the Owners shall without any charge against the Admiralty arrange through the Master or their Port Agents all such services in connection with the navigation and clearing of the steamer as if they were trading on their own account, pay the claims therefor and reclaim from the Director of Transports such as are necessary and for Admiralty account, the claim for each service being supported by the receipted vouchers. All pilotage certificates must show the draft of water.\n\n16. When Great Britain is at peace the Officers, Engineers, and every member of the Crew shall be British subjects. When Great Britain is at war this stipulation is to be carried out so far as practicable, but in any case, Master, Officers and Engineers must be British subjects, and members of the hostile nationality are to be excluded. At least one of the officers or men must be able to use the Bashing lantern.\n\nA full list of the Crew with their rating and nationality shall be produced on the entry into pay of the steamer.\n\n17. The steamer shall work day and night if required and the steam winches shall be at the service of the Admiralty by day and night with full steam when and as required. The same shall be worked free of cost by the Crew, which must contain sufficient skilled hands to work all the winches on board at once in one shift. The Admiralty will repay overtime under such conditions as may be from time to time authorised.\n\n18. The Admiralty shall not be held liable if the steamer shall be lost, wrecked, driven on shore, injured or rendered incapable of service by or in consequence of dangers of the sea or tempest, collision, fire, accident, stress of weather or any other cause arising as a sea risk.\n\n19. The risks of war which are taken by the Admiralty are those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause:\n\nWarranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether before or after declaration of war.\n\nSuch risks are taken by the Admiralty on the ascertained value of the steamer, if she be totally lost, at the time of such loss, or, if she be injured, on the ascertained value of such injury.\n\nShould a dispute arise as to the value of the steamer the same shall be settled as laid down in clause 31.\n\n20. In the event of any member of the Crew being killed or injured as a result of warlike operations in which Great Britain is engaged, the Admiralty agree to settle any lawful claims arising from such death or injury according to the scale laid down in the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, and the Owners shall be relieved of their liability under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, or other Acts in respect of such claims.\n\n21. The Master shall prosecute his voyages with the utmost despatch and skill and render all customary assistance with ship's Crew and boats.\n\n22. The Master shall obey all orders and instructions which he may receive from the Admiralty, or from any Officer authorised by them, and shall in all respects comply with the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, but he shall be solely responsible (on behalf of the Owners) for the management, handling, and navigation of the steamer. He shall keep accounts of his cargoes as laid down in the above-named Instructions and the Admiralty hereby agree to indemnify the Owners from all consequences or liabilities that may arise from the Master signing Bills of Lading, as well as from any irregularity in Ship's papers consequent thereon, except as laid down in clause 27.\n\nThe Admiralty shall not be held responsible for losses sustained through the negligence of Pilots, Tug-boats, Stevedores, or others employed by them, the Owners recognising them as their servants even if appointed and paid by the Admiralty or the Agents of the Admiralty (but see also clause 25).\n\n23. If the Admiralty shall have reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Master, Officers, or Engineers, the Owners shall, on receiving particulars of the complaint, investigate the same, and, if necessary, make a change in the appointments.\n\n24. The Master shall be furnished, from time to time, by the Admiralty, with all requisite instructions and sailing directions in writing, and shall keep a full and correct Log of the voyage or voyages which is to be forwarded quarterly to the Admiralty. (See also clause 11.)\n\n25. If from deficiency of men or stores, breakdown of machinery, or any other cause, the working of the steamer is at any time suspended for a period exceeding twelve running hours, pay shall cease for the whole of such and any subsequent period of whatever duration during which the vessel is inefficient. (See also clause 11.)\n\nAny work that may be done during a period of partial inefficiency of the steamer, except proceeding to a port for repairs or to replenish bunker coals owing to accident shall be paid for on the basis of the time it would have occupied had the steamer remained efficient. If upon the voyage her speed be reduced by a defect in or breakdown of any part of her machinery, damage to propeller, rudder or by any other mishap of hull or engines or cargo, the time so lost and the cost of any extra coal consumed in consequence thereof shall be deducted from the hire; but should the steamer be driven into port or to anchorage by stress of weather or for coals, such detention or loss of time shall be at the Admiralty expense. In the event, however, of breakdown at sea or other accident necessitating the steamer proceeding to a port of refuge for repairs, or to replace or land crew, hire to cease until the steamer arrives back in a similar position to that in which she was at the time of the breakdown or accident, &c., and any coals used to be replaced or paid for by Owners, whichever Admiralty may elect.\n\nIf through accident any part of the cargo or bunkers have to be discharged, the time occupied in discharging and reloading same to be deducted from the hire.\n\nAny time so lost shall count as part of the term of charter named in clauses 2 and 7, but the Admiralty have the option of keeping the steamer for an additional period equivalent to the whole or part of the time lost.\n\n26. Throughout this Charter losses or damages whether in respect of goods carried or to be carried or in other respects arising or occasioned by the following causes shall be absolutely excepted, viz.:-The act of God, perils of the seas, fire on board, in hull, craft, or on shore, barratry of the Master or Crew, enemies, pirates, robbers, or thieves, arrests and restraints of princes, rulers, and peoples, collisions and strandings, explosions, bursting of boilers, breakage of shafts, or any latent defect, even if existing at the beginning of the voyage, in the hull, boilers, machinery, or appurtenances, negligence, default, or error of judgment of the Pilot, Master, or Crew, or other servants of the Owners, in the management or navigation of the steamer.\n\n27. Except as limited in clauses 26 and 43, the Owners will be held strictly accountable for the value of and liable to the Admiralty for any loss or damage to coal, oil fuel, collier and oil fuel outfits, signalling stores, &c., and all other Government stores of whatever description which may be shipped, whether as cargo or for use on board, in charge of the Master, who will be required to sign Bills of Lading and/or give receipts for same, and will be responsible for receipts given or Bills of Lading signed by the Mates for same.\n\nThe Owners will be held responsible for the safe and proper stowage of Government stores. If hired labour is employed for stowage, the expense will be borne by the Admiralty.\n\nThe stores will be shipped under the supervision of the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port, but this will not relieve the Owners of their responsibility for stowage.\n\n28. The steamer has liberty to assist vessels in distress, and to deviate for the purpose of saving life.\n\nAll salvage to be for Owners' benefit, but ship to be off pay during the time occupied in salvage operations, and cost of coal consumed in such operations and port charges and expenses to be for Owners' account.\n\n29. The Admiralty to have lien on the steamer for all moneys paid in advance and not earned.\n\n30. Penalty for non-performance of this agreement proved damages.\n\n31. Any dispute arising under this Charter shall be referred, under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889, or any Amendment thereof, to the arbitration of two persons, one to be nominated by the Owner and the other by the Admiralty, and should such Arbitrators be unable to agree, the decision of an Umpire whom they must elect shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto, and it is further mutually agreed that such Arbitration shall be a condition precedent to the commencement of any action at law.\n\n32. General average shall be settled according to York-Antwerp Rules, 1890, but the Admiralty shall not be called upon to sign bonds or pay deposits, as Owners of British ships shall have no lien on Government stores and cannot detain them.\n\n33. The steamer shall not be ordered nor proceed to any port where fever or pestilence is prevalent, nor where quarantine is in force (except at Admiralty risk and expense), but the Owners shall be liable for any delay of quarantine arising from wilful misconduct of the Master or Crew, if the vessel has not been sent to a quarantined port.\n\n34. The wages paid to Crew employed under this Charter Party shall be not less than those current at the port on the date of signing-on.\n\n35. In pursuance of Act 27 Gen. III. Cap. XLV., no Member of the House of Commons is to be admitted to any share or part in this Charter or to any benefit to arise therefrom.\n\nSPECIAL CLAUSES.—COLLIERS.\n\n(Not applicable to Oilers.)\n\n36. Colliers must be supplied with the necessary derricks, winches, &c., complete with the required 24-inch wire whips and other ropes, blocks, and fittings for the speedy and efficient discharge of cargo.\n\nIn colliers fitted with double derricks and winches, the following gear for coaling whips shall be provided for each pair of derricks:-\n\nTwo flexible steel wire 24-inch ropes, each sufficiently long to reach any part of the hold, with either derrick topped over the collier's hold and the other swung over the vessel being coaled. In addition, two spare whips for each pair of derricks should be carried.\n\nFour iron blocks capable of taking 24-inch wire rope and tested to six tons, viz.:-One block at the heel of each derrick and one (which should be self-lubricating) at the head.\n\nOne swivel cargo hook constructed so as not to catch the coamings, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\n**MINUTE**\n\nMr. Beckett 31  \nMr. Dixon  \nMr. Grindle  \nSir H. Lambert  \nSir H. Read  \nSir G. Fiddes  \nCol. Amery  \nLord Milner\n\n131 Jan 21  \nam 10. to ack. The receipt of your letter of the 7th Jan, No. 7. and to request you to inform Lord Curzon of Kedleston that there is no objection to the Still Minister at Peking transmitting direct to the various Consular Ports, as felt by the British Consul for... \n\n| Agent | B | j | 159 | 37aq Mkong |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\n200/100/10",
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        "content_text": "# OPIUM\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n`F2681/330/10`\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 22.]\n\n### SECTION 1, July 215.\n\n(No. 304.) My Lord,\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.-(Received August 22.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to advert to the question of the penalisation of British steamers on the Yang-tze on account of the smuggling of opium by members of the native crews, which was referred to in Mr. Clive's despatch No. 763 of the 27th November, 1920, and dealt with more fully in my despatch No. 77 of the 14th February last, enclosing a copy of a letter from the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai on the subject.\n\nThe matter has of recent months assumed increased proportions, and has evoked a considerable amount of feeling among British steamship companies, who, as was mentioned in paragraph 7 of my despatch No. 238 of the 5th May, contrast the strict measures applied to foreign vessels with the apparent immunity enjoyed by Chinese vessels under official control. In the case of these latter the officers in charge frequently evade search by preventing the customs officials from coming on board, and there is strong reason to believe—although no actual proof is at present to hand—that quantities of opium are transported down the river by their agency. A strong protest on this subject from the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai has just reached me, and I am asking the Inspector-General of Customs to favour me with his observations thereon.\n\nOn a recent occasion at Hankow matters were brought to a head by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's agent refusing to comply with the customs authorities' demand that they should deposit a sum of money pending investigation into the case of one of the company's ships on which opium had been found concealed. His Majesty's consul-general supported the agent, and raised the question as to whether the customs authorities have any right to proceed to action against a British ship in such circumstances otherwise than by filing a complaint in the British Consular Court charging them with the commission of an offence under King's Regulations No. 22 of 1919 prohibiting British subjects to deal in opium except under licence. The question having been referred by Mr. Goffe to the Acting Crown Advocate, the latter formulated an opinion to the effect that the Customs had no power to inflict an arbitrary fine on the Company. I have the honour to enclose a copy of Mr. Mossop's despatch.\n\nIn the meantime His Majesty's consul-general received privately from the Commissioner of Customs an assurance that British steamers would henceforth not be fined for carrying opium. In the present circumstances I consider that this offers the best solution of the situation, and I am asking the Inspector-General privately if he is willing to confirm the Commissioner's assurance. The shipping companies and their officers will of course remain liable to prosecution under the King's Regulation if smuggling takes place under conditions which implicate the ship's officers.\n\nIn connection with the Hankow case mentioned, I have received a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general, of which a copy is enclosed, regarding representations made by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson to the authorities concerning the circumstances in which the seizure of the opium on board their ship the \"Kutwo\" took place. The facts, as stated in the captain's report, furnish a good illustration of the danger of the present system of attempting to cope with opium smuggled by offering large rewards for seizures. The present case seems to afford fairly strong evidence of collusion between subordinate customs employees and opium smugglers with a view to sharing the reward between the two parties.\n\nIn accordance with instructions in your Lordship's despatch No. 312 of the 23rd March I am addressing a formal official protest on the subject of opium suppression to the Chinese Government, a copy of which I shall have the honour to transmit to your Lordship in a subsequent despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nPeking, June 9, 1921.\n\n[6806 y-1]\n\n### 374",
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        "content_text": "Their being admitted into the country. Also they must show a certificate not older than three months issued by some Colombian or Costa Rican authority showing that they are persons of good character.\n\nImmigrants entering as third-class passengers must deposit the sum of 30 balboas with the National Treasury until such time as they can prove that they have obtained work of a stable character.\n\nThe Government will expel from Panamanian territory all foreigners who abuse the hospitality or violate the neutrality of the country.\n\nAliens who have committed any crime or have in any way been a nuisance or a peril to the republic will be deported before or after having completed the legal punishment applicable to their case.\n\nAliens resident in the country who are suffering from any mental disorder or contagious disease, and who are isolated on this account, will be repatriated at the expense of the Panamá Government if there is a hospital or place in which such persons can be kept in their own country.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSummary of Laws and Regulations Governing Immigration in Force in the Canal Zone.\n\nTHE enforcement of the immigration laws and regulations is in the hands of the quarantine officers at Balboa and Cristobal. So far as practicable the laws of the Republic of Panamá governing immigration are also given effect, because of the ease with which transit may be made between the two territories.\n\nAll persons arriving at ports of the canal zone and the cities of Panamá and Colon must conform to the \"Quarantine Laws and Regulations.\"\n\nThe Governor of the Panama Canal is empowered to exclude, or cause to be excluded, the following classes of persons from the canal zone: idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, the insane, persons who have been insane within five years previous to their attempted entry into the canal zone, epileptics, paupers, criminals, professional beggars, gipsies, persons of notoriously bad character, persons whose presence would be a menace to the public health or welfare of the canal zone, or who would be liable to become a public charge, or who may be suffering from a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, those who have been convicted of felony, anarchists, those whose presence, in the judgment of the Governor, would tend to create public disorder or in any manner endanger the proper working of the canal; and the Governor may expel from the canal zone any person convicted of a criminal offence of the grade of felony, or whose presence would tend to create public disorder or in any manner endanger the proper working of the canal.\n\nThe cost of excluding or deporting persons will be charged to the person or interest responsible for the entry of the undesirable person into the canal zone. In case of deportation, in which no person or interest can be held responsible for the cost, the cost will be paid from the appropriation for the working of the canal.\n\nAny persons falling within any one of the excluded classes who desires to cross the canal zone in order to reach his final destination may be allowed to effect such transit in the custody of a representative of the Panama Canal authorities, provided the owner, or master of, or person, or interest controlling the vessel, upon which such person arrives at a port in the canal zone will agree, in writing, that if such person is rejected at his final destination and returned to the canal zone, his deportation therefrom shall be at the expense of the owner or interest controlling the vessel, in which case the cost of the deportation will be enforced against the owner or interest.\n\nThe owner or interest controlling a vessel bringing a person to the canal zone who is subject to exclusion shall carry such excluded person to his port of embarkation, when required to do so by the Panamá Canal authorities, and when so required, return a certificate to said authorities from the proper officials of the port of embarkation, stating that said excluded persons had been landed at said port.\n\nNo member of a crew of any vessel shall be paid off and discharged at any port of the canal zone without the consent of the Panamá Canal authorities, unless it be shown by the ship's articles that said member of the crew signed said articles at a port in the canal zone.\n\nIt shall be the duty of the owners, officers and agents of any vessel bringing persons excluded as above to the canal zone to adopt due precaution to prevent the landing of any such persons at any time or place other than that designated by the proper officials of the Panama Canal, and any violation of this rule will subject the owner, officer, agent or person in charge of the vessel to a fine not to exceed 500 dollars or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.\n\nThe master or person in charge of a vessel bringing any person subject to exclusion to the canal zone shall be required to receive such person on board, when his or her deportation has been ordered, at any time previous to the advertised date of sailing of the said vessel.\n\nAny excluded person awaiting deportation, or any person held for the determination of his right of entry into the canal zone, may be detained at the canal zone police station or other place designated by the detaining officer, when such action is deemed necessary by such officer.\n\nAll expense incident to the detention, maintenance, transportation of any excluded person, or of any person held for the determination of his right of entry into the canal zone, as well as the cost of deportation of such excluded person, shall be charged to the owner of the vessel bringing such excluded person to the canal zone.\n\nThe penalty for each violation of any of the provisions mentioned above is a fine of not more than 500 dollars or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.\n\nExclusion of Chinese.\n\nNo Chinese person is allowed to enter or remain in the canal zone except as provided by an order which is summarised hereunder. Chinese persons who enter the canal zone with the intention of passing into the Republic of Panamá, in contravention of the laws of the republic, will be deemed guilty of a violation of the canal zone regulations on the subject.\n\nThe master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring into the canal zone and land, or attempt to land, or permit to be landed, any Chinese person, except as described hereunder, shall be punished for each such person. Crews or Chinese persons on board a vessel which is forced to touch at a port of the canal zone, or which touches at such a port on its way to a foreign port or place, may be permitted to land under authority, but they must depart with the vessel on its leaving.\n\nThe master of any vessel from a foreign port must deliver a descriptive list of all Chinese persons on board of his vessel at the time of its arrival in the canal zone; however, if the vessel is passing through the canal without discharging or taking on cargo or passengers, the list will not be required.\n\nChinese persons arriving from foreign ports desiring to enter the canal zone in transit for some other country may be permitted to do so upon such conditions as may be prescribed by the authorities. If the destination of such persons is in the Republic of Panamá, the consent of the Panamanian authorities must first be obtained for their entry into the republic.\n\nNo Chinese member of the crew of any vessel shall be paid off and discharged within a port of the canal zone without the consent of the Panamá Canal authorities, unless the articles show that the said member of the crew signed the articles at a port in the canal zone; seamen or other members of a ship's crew of the Chinese race, when discharged at any port in the canal zone under authority of the Governor, may land and remain temporarily therein until a reshipment is obtained by them, provided a bond in the sum of 500 dollars in each case is executed by such Chinese persons, satisfactory to the shipping commissioner, and payable to the Governor of the Panamá Canal, and conditioned that the principal in the bond will obtain a reshipment and leave the canal zone at the earliest date practicable, to be fixed by the shipping commissioner; and the bond may be forfeited for the full amount if, in the judgment of the district court of the canal zone, the principal fails to comply with the conditions. Diplomatic and consular agents of the Chinese Government are not subject to the restrictions above mentioned.\n\nThe penalty for each violation of any of the provisions mentioned above is a fine of not more than 500 dollars or imprisonment of not more than a year, or both.\n\n136",
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        "content_text": "(Translation.) \n\n2 \n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\nSummary of Paraguayan Immigration Laws and Regulations. \n\nLaw of October 6, 1903. \n\nARTICLE 1 establishes that in respect of this law an immigrant is considered to be \"a foreigner able to work, under 50 years of age, who arrives in the country for the first time for the purpose of establishing himself therein.\" He must prove, in addition to his good conduct, that he is an agriculturist, knows a trade or profession, is an artisan, professor, electrician or engineer in any branch. The proof is established by means of a certificate from the Paraguayan consul or immigration agents in foreign countries issued on the testimony of two responsible neighbours, by certificates from the authorities at the immigrant's place of residence authenticated by the local Paraguayan consul or immigration agent, or by means of legalised deeds or diplomas. \n\nArticle 2 authorises the executive to give preferential encouragement to the particular class of immigration that it considers to be best suited to the country, and to stem by various means any current of immigration that is considered undesirable. \n\nArticle 3. Immigrants that come to the country at their own expense and that possess as a minimum, if single, 50 gold dollars in cash, or, if head of a family, 30 gold dollars for each male adult, are accorded the following privileges:- \n\n1. A free second-class passage from any point on the River Plate or Parana. \n\n2. Disembarkation at the expense of the immigration office, as also that of luggage, utensils and tools. \n\n3. Maintenance during the following eight days at State expense and free medical attention until recovery in case of illness. After eight days the charge for food and accommodation is 0.40 gold dollars a day for each immigrant above 10 years of age and 0.20 gold dollars under that age, unless such have been engaged directly by the State for national colonies, in which case maintenance is free until arrival at destination. \n\n4. Free importation of personal belongings, furniture and domestic utensils, seeds, machinery in general, tools, fine stock for breeding purposes, and a sporting weapon for each male adult up to a value to be fixed by the executive. \n\n5. Free transport to any point in the republic so long as it is situated on railway or river and is easy of access. \n\n6. Free assistance by the immigration office in the way of information and employment. \n\nArticle 4. Persons over 50 years of age, invalids, or those suffering from physical defects are entitled to the benefit of the preceding article so long as they form part of a family containing two qualified immigrants, or have sufficient money to maintain themselves. \n\nArticle 5 grants the same benefits to the wives and young children of immigrants. \n\nArticle 6. Immigrants introduced by private companies or by members of their family already established in the country may enjoy the benefits mentioned in clauses 1 and 4 of article 3, and the minimum amount of capital referred to in the same article is not an indispensable condition. \n\nArticle 7 prohibits immigrants from availing themselves of the facilities provided when their purpose is merely to pass through Paraguay to reach another country. \n\nArticles 8 and 9 establish the procedure to be observed in obtaining tenders for the transport by shipping companies of immigrants and their belongings, and the obligations that such transport involves. \n\nArticles 10 and 11 outline the formalities to be observed in the cases provided for under article 6, viz., the introduction of immigrants by private companies or individuals. \n\nArticles 12 and 13 state that Paraguayan consuls are regarded as information and propaganda agents in foreign countries, and that consuls of whatever status, or special agents, should there be any, may issue on their own account orders for river passages for immigrants to the consuls-general at Montevideo and Buenos Aires so long as they adhere strictly to the provisions of this law. \n\nArticle 14. In no case shall the consulates or immigration agencies issue certificates or immigrants' passages in favour of individuals of the yellow and black races, of those suffering from infectious diseases, of beggars, vagrants or gipsies, nor in favour of convicts or persons subject to the action of foreign courts of justice.\" \n\nArticles 15, 16 and 17 refer to the repatriation of Paraguayans from neighbouring countries and establish the conditions under which they may obtain the same privileges as are granted to immigrants. \n\nArticles 18 to 22 inclusive refer to the organisation of the general office of immigration and colonisation, and article 23 provides that the executive shall regulate this law. \n\nOn the 30th September, 1919, the charge for maintenance of immigrants at the immigrants' hotel was fixed at 10 dollars currency a day for each one over 8 years of age and 5 dollars for children of both sexes under that age. \n\nParagraph 10 of article 4 of Law No. 380 (budget for 1920) authorises the executive to issue 2nd-class passages from the port of Buenos Aires to ports in Paraguay to immigrants proceeding to the agricultural colonies, these passages to be refunded by the interested parties, together with instalments paid for lands granted to them; and decree No.11167 of the 22nd January, 1920, regulates the foregoing authorisation, the main points being as follows:- \n\nArticle 1. To secure the free passage from Buenos Aires to Paraguay every immigrant should be provided with the following documents :— \n\n(a.) A certificate issued by the judicial or police authorities of the country of origin to the effect that he has not been prosecuted for offences against social laws during the five years previous to his arrival, nor for offences meriting punishment of a defamatory nature. \n\n(b.) A certificate from any of the same authorities to the effect that he has not suffered from mental deficiency nor been a mendicant. \n\n(c) A certificate that proves him to be affected by no contagious disease or organic defect that incapacitates him for work. \n\n(d.) A certificate with the photograph of the interested party stamped with the seal of the authority that issued the same, or with that of the Paraguayan consulate at the place of departure. \n\n(e) A certificate proving the agricultural or industrial capacity of the immigrant, to be issued on the testimony of two responsible neighbours and authenticated by the Paraguayan consul in the country of origin, or by duly legalised deed or diploma. \n\nArticle 2. The following may not make use of the free passages, viz. blind persons, deaf-mutes, paralytics, those who lack the use of both arms, of the right arm, or of both legs, or who suffer from other ailment or defect that diminishes their capacity for work; idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, those who have practised mendicancy in the country of origin; single women without resources and with children under 10 years of age, persons over 50 years of age who are not heads of families, gipsies or other persons who might presumably become a charge on public charity. \n\nArticle 3. The certificates required by the present decree will be issued free of charge by the consular agents of the republic. \n\nAsunción, October 18, 1921. \n\n138",
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        "content_text": "I assure you that in my opinion the defalcations were entirely due to Mr. Milton's negligence.\n\nBut the conditions which I have postulated are far from being the case.\n\nIn my letter to you of the 20th September 1917, No. 1176/17, I wrote as follows:-\n\n\"The difference between the Chinese Post office and the agencies at Canton may be taken as a fair example. The Consular Authorities considered that it would be impossible to obtain a conviction against Sam Tu in the Chinese Courts; this question has however now only an academic interest, because Sam Tu has fled, and Canton is in such a state of chaos that all Chinese Courts have ceased to function.\n\n\"I wrote to the agent pressing most strongly for the prosecution of Sam Tu but I had to bow to the opinion of men on the spot that 'in the present state of public opinion in Canton the case was not likely to succeed'. The man Sam Tu was secured in the sum of $1,000 by an old man of over 70 years of age. He is quite unable to pay the amount but is an honest old man and has paid in $100 a month for two months. I have ordered the agent to tell the old man that further payments are suspended until I have received your instructions.\n\n\"The British are not very popular in Canton and I do not wish to reduce an honest old man to beggary simply because the agent had too much Consular work to do to permit him to supervise Postal work.\n\n\"Mr. Jallia the present agent is of course in no way concerned in these defalcations. They took place during the time of Mr. Milton's tenure of office or were possibly handed on to him as a vicious legacy by his predecessor in office. Since January 1921 up to date no less than three men have officiated as agents.\n\n\"Had Mr. Milton been in sole charge of the Agency and had he had no other duties demanding his attention, I should have reported to you... it is almost pathetic.\n\n\"There the Chinese Post Office is housed in a modern up-to-date Post Office, staffed with expert Postal officials and the Commissioner of Posts draws a salary of 1,000 Taels a month with free furnished quarters and handsome allowance. The British agency is housed in one dingy room in the Consulate where three Chinese Clerks attend to the Postal business under such supervision as the Postal Agent, who has multifarious duties as Consular assistant, may happen to be able to give.\"\n\nEverything I then said I believe to be doubly true to-day. Mr. Milton had multifarious duties to attend to; Canton has for a year past been bordering on chaos and the work of the Consular officials has been incessantly laborious and exacting. Under the circumstances I trust that the Postmaster General may see his way to refrain from calling upon Mr. Milton to refund the money which has been stolen.\n\nPage 312.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\n(Sgd.)  \nC. G. Alabaster  \nfor Postmaster General.  \n17th July, 1922.\n\nWith reference to my report dated 11th May on the Postal Agency at Canton, I have the honour to inform you that in accordance with your instructions I left Hong Kong for Canton at 10 p.m. on the...",
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        "content_text": "## Report on Postal Agency Inspection\n\nI regret to report that Mr. Guthrie, who is, I believe, an Imperial Post Office Official, temporarily in charge of the agency, did not thoroughly go through the accounts.\n\n3. I regret to inform you that after making a complete check of the stock of stamps, postal matter, paid money orders, oath, and other receipts produced by the Postal Agent and the clerk in charge, I found a deficit of $4,142.56 for which no adequate explanation could be given.\n\n4. Before making any further comment on this unfortunate state of affairs, I should like to place on record that the clerk in charge of the Post Office, Mr. Shu Ta Chieh, informed me that when I went to survey the Postal Agency in 1919, he squared the accounts by borrowing $3,000 and paying it in. The Postal Agent, Mr. Jallis, was aware that Mr. Shu Ta Chieh made this statement. It will be seen from my report of 24.11.19 that I objected to the large amount of cash.\n\n5. The present state of affairs was discovered by the present Postal Agent, Mr. Jallis, when he recently took over from Mr. Hilton, who had been Postal Agent, I believe, for about nine months. Mr. Jallis reported a deficit of $4,500, and on my first survey, I made the deficit considerably more, but later I found that credit for the remittance to Hankow had not been allowed. If I should have missed any further sum for which credit should be given to the agency, I shall be only too pleased to correct my figure, as the accounts produced were somewhat disarranged, and the clerk in charge was more inclined to talk than assist; some receipt might not have been produced, but I think it extremely unlikely.\n\n6. My opinion is that the losses or defalcations have been going on for some considerable time, but I consider that it is extremely unlikely whether any actual charge of defalcation could be made with any hope of success.\n\n7. I should like to be allowed to state that I consider it extremely unfortunate that Mr. Jallis did not go thoroughly into the accounts and explain them when he handed them over to Mr. Hilton in 1921. The accounts are difficult for anyone who cannot give his whole time to them, and it was Mr. Hilton's first appointment when he took over the agency in addition to his Consular duties.\n\n8. I should like to place on record my thanks to Messrs. Wallin and Hilton for the great assistance they gave me.\n\nI have, etc.  \n(Sd.) T. Dallin  \nAssistant Auditor\n\nAssistant Auditor to Auditor, Hongkong  \nAudit Department, Hongkong  \n24th November, 1921  \nNo. 59\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that in accordance with your instructions, I left the Colony at 10 p.m. on the 21st instant on a tour of inspection of the Postal Agency at Canton. I returned to the Colony on the 23rd instant. I have to report that the account books of the Postal Agency have been very badly kept and had not been written up since the 1st November. After a great deal of trouble, the accounts were balanced, and an excess of $43.00 was found, which I requested should be paid to the credit of the Government. The bank account was found to be overdrawn to the extent of $239.19, while the postal clerk had a large sum of money in the safe. I requested that the larger part of the money (i.e., $1000) should be paid into the bank at once. Outstanding unpaid money orders amounted to $3137.46. I have to thank Mr. Jamieson, the Acting Postal Agent, for the great assistance he gave me with the accounts.\n\nI have, etc.  \n(Sgd.) T. Dallin  \nAssistant Auditor  \n731",
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        "content_text": "## Definitions\n\n2\n\n\"**British ship**\" means a ship registered under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), and includes any ship provided with sailing letters from the Governor of Hong Kong, or from His Majesty's Minister in China.\n\n\"**British possession**\" means any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"**British subject**\" includes a British protected person, that is to say, a person who either (a) is a native of any Protectorate of His Majesty, and is for the time being in China; or (b) by virtue of section 15 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise enjoys His Majesty's protection in China.\n\n44\n\n\"**China**\" means so much of the Republic of China as is within the limits of this Order.\n\n21\n\n\"**China Company**\" means a Company limited by shares or by guarantee incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, of the Colony of Hong Kong, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from a place within the limits of this Order.\n\n\"**Companies Ordinances**\" comprises the following Ordinances of the Colony of Hong Kong:\n| Ordinance |\n| --- |\n| The Companies Ordinance, 1911 |\n| The Life Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1907 |\n| The Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Deposit Ordinance, 1917 |\n| and any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same or any of them. |\n\n41\n\n\"**Consular district**\" means the district in and for which a Consular officer usually acts, or for which he may be authorised to act, for all or any of the purposes of this Order, by authority of the Secretary of State.\n\n\"**Consular officer**\" means a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or Pro-Consul of His Majesty resident in China, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of His Majesty so resident.\n\n\"**Commissioned Consular officer**\" means a Consular officer holding a commission of Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul from His Majesty, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State or of His Majesty's Minister in China, as or for such a commissioned Consular officer.\n\n\"**Consulate**\" and \"**Consular office**\" refer to the Consulate and office of a Consular officer.\n\n3\n\n\"**The Court**,\" except when the reference is to a particular Court, means any Court established under this Order, subject, however, to the provisions of this Order with respect to powers and local jurisdictions.\n\n\"**Foreigner**\" means a subject or citizen of a State in amity with His Majesty, including China.\n\n\"**Hong Kong China Company**\" means a Company incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, of the Colony of Hong Kong, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, which carries on some part of its business within the limits of this Order, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place in Hong Kong.\n\n\"**Judge**,\" except where the context intends a reference to the Judge of the Supreme Court only, includes Assistant Judge, and, except where the context intends a reference to the Supreme Court only, includes the officer for the time being holding a Provincial Court.\n\n\"**Judgment**\" includes decree, order, sentence or decision.\n\n\"**Legal practitioner**\" includes barrister-at-law, advocate, solicitor, writer to the Signet, and any person possessing similar qualifications.\n\n41\n\n4\n\n\"**The Legation**\" means His Majesty's Legation in China.\n\n21\n\n\"**Lunatic**\" means idiot or person of unsound mind.\n\n\"**Master**,\" with respect to any ship, includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of that ship.\n\n\"**Minister**\" means His Majesty's Minister in China, and includes Chargé d'Affaires or other chief diplomatic representative.\n\n4\n\n\"**Month**\" means calendar month.\n\n\"**Oath**\" and \"**affidavit**,\" in the case of persons for the time being allowed by law to affirm or declare instead of swearing, include affirmation and declaration, and the expression \"swear,\" in the like case, includes affirm and declare.\n\n\"**Offence**\" includes crime, and any act punishable criminally in a summary way or otherwise.\n\n\"**Person**\" includes corporation.\n\n\"**Prescribed**\" means prescribed by Regulations or Rules of Court.\n\n\"**Prosecutor**\" means complainant or any person appointed or allowed by the Court to prosecute.\n\n\"**Proved**\" means shown by evidence on oath, in the form of affidavit, or other form, to the satisfaction of the Court or Consular officer acting or having jurisdiction in the matter, and \"**proof**\" means the evidence adduced in that behalf.\n\n\"**Record**\" means the aggregate of papers relating to an Appeal to His Majesty in Council (including the pleadings, proceedings, evidence and judgments) proper to be laid before His Majesty in Council on the hearing of the Appeal.\n\n\"**Registrar**\" means Registrar of the Supreme Court.\n\n\"**Rules of Court**\" means rules of Court made under the provisions of this Order.\n\n\"**Secretary of State**\" means one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nPage 2\nPage 130",
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        "content_text": "## Hongkong Port Regulations, &c.\n\n(16.) If a master, mate, or engineer proves to the satisfaction of the Governor, that he has, without fault on his part, lost or been deprived of a certificate already granted to him under this section, the Governor shall, and in any other case may, on payment of such fee, if any, as he may direct, cause a copy of the certificate to which, by the record kept, he appears to be entitled to be delivered to him and such copy shall have all the effect of the original.\n\n(17.) The master of a ship, on signing the agreement with the crew before the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office, shall produce to him the certificates of competency which the master, mates, and engineers of the ship are hereby required to hold.\n\n## Engagement and Discharge of Seamen.\n\n5.-(2.) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of Harbour Master, be shipped to do duty on board a British or Colonial ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office; and the Superintendent shall require such seaman to produce to him his certificate of discharge from the last ship, and, failing to production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof.\n\n(3.) The master of every British ship, and of every Colonial ship exceeding 60 tons, and of every foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony, shall enter into an agreement with every seaman whom he engages in this Colony, and carries to sea as one of his crew, in the form and manner provided by The Merchant Shipping Acts.\n\n(7.)-(a.) No master shall discharge in this Colony any seaman from any ship, British or Foreign, without the sanction of the Harbour Master or of the Consular Officer, if any, representing the nation to which such ship belongs, and unless due provision is made for the subsistence and maintenance of such seamen, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master in the case of a British ship or of a Foreign ship whose flag is not represented in the Colony by a Consular Officer, or to the satisfaction of such Consular Officer in the case of a Foreign ship whose flag is so represented; and any master discharging a seaman in contravention of this sub-section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100 dollars.\n\n(b.) Any seaman being part of the crew of any ship, who wilfully or negligently remains in the Colony after the departure of such ship, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.\n\n(8.) No seaman shall, except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, be discharged from a British or Colonial ship, or any Foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office, and every seaman discharged from a Foreign ship so represented, shall, within 24 hours of being discharged at the office of his Consular Officer, produce to the Harbour Master, or some person deputed by him, a certificate of his discharge, signed by such Consular Officer, and shall in default be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twenty-one days.\n\n(11.) If the master or any other person belonging to any British ship wrongfully forces on shore and leaves behind, or otherwise wilfully and wrongfully leaves behind, in this Colony any seaman or apprentice belonging to such ship before the completion of the voyage for which such seaman or apprentice was engaged, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding 6 months.\n\n## Provisions, Health and Accommodation.\n\n8.-(1.) The owner, agent, or master of every British or Colonial ship navigating between this Colony and any place out of the same shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Board of Trade, and a copy of the book...\n\nPage 74",
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        "content_text": "## Hongkong--Port Regulations, &c.\n\n(1.) The owner, agent, or master of any ship shall provide and keep on board medicines, medical stores, and anti-scorbutics as required by The Merchant Shipping Acts, along with books issued by the said Board containing instructions for dispensing the same.\n\n(2.) The owner, agent, or master, of any such ship who wilfully refuses or neglects to provide, and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions, and anti-scorbutics as are by this section required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 200 dollars.\n\n(4.) The master of any ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Principal Civil Medical Officer, who, on such inspection shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which certificate such seaman shall produce and show to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate there shall be paid the fee of 50 cents, to be paid by the agent or master of the ship in case such seaman proves to be in sound health, or by the seaman himself in case he shall prove to be affected with any contagious disease, or by the Boarding House Keeper with whom such seaman is residing, in case such Boarding House Keeper shall have failed to report the state of health of such seaman in accordance with the requirements of sub-section (5) hereof.\n\n(7.) In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers, or other persons occurring on board of any ship in the waters of the Colony, or of the desertion of any of the crew of any British or Colonial ship or Foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular Officer resident in the Colony, or in the event of the death of any of the crew, or passengers or persons on board of any ship in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the Master of such ship shall, forthwith or on the arrival of the ship in the Colony, as the case may be, report the same to the Harbour Master, and, in default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars for every death or desertion which he shall neglect to report.\n\n(8.) If any ship carrying passengers from any port or place to any port or place in the Colony is found, on its arrival in the Colony, to be in a filthy and insanitary condition, the master of the ship shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Port to inspect every such ship on its arrival in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.\n\n9.—(1.) (a.) If any seaman or apprentice belonging to the crew of any British ship deserts therefrom or absents himself from his duty while the ship is within the waters of the Colony, it shall be lawful for any Police Officer, or for the master or person in charge of the ship, or for any one specially deputed by such master or person in charge to arrest such seaman or apprentice without warrant and convey him before a Stipendiary Magistrate; and in case such seaman or apprentice refuses to return to his duty on board the ship or does not give a sufficient reason for such refusal, the Stipendiary Magistrate may order such seaman or apprentice to be put forcibly on board the ship or to be confined in any gaol or other place of security within the Colony, for any period until he can be put on board the ship at her departure from the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship; Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed 3 months.\n\n(6.) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order-in-Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any Court, justice or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship, shall, on the application of a Consular Officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given on oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship, or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or owner of the ship or his agent to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed.\n\n## \n| Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (2.) | Owner, etc., neglecting to provide medicines and medical stores to be guilty of misdemeanor. |\n| (4.) | Master of ship before shipping seaman may require him to undergo medical Inspection. |\n| (7.) | Death or desertion to be reported. |\n| (8.) | Penalty on master for filthy condition of ship. |\n| 9.(1)(a) & (6) | Seaman or apprentice deserting may be apprehended and put on board the vessel to which he belongs, etc. |",
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        "content_text": "I \n\nEnclosure 1.\n\n484\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.\n\nNo. 556.-The scale of charges for medical treatment in the Government hospitals and asylums published in the Gazette on the 24th day of December, 1909, as Notification No. 820 is hereby cancelled and the following scales are substituted therefor, with effect from the 1st of January, 1927.\n\nSCALE OF CHARGES FOR MAINTENANCE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS (OTHER THAN THE PEAK HOSPITAL) AND ASYLUMS.\n\nNaval small-pox Patients.\n\nNaval officers and men treated in Kennedy Town Hospital are charged $2 a day.\n\nOther naval and military patients are charged in accordance with the following scale for other patients.\n\nPrivate patients....\n\nPATIENTS.\n\nScale of Charges.\n\n  \n    \n    1ST CLASS.\n    2ND CLASS.\n    3RD CLASS.\n  \n  \n    Private patients (Asiatic on European diet)\n    $8.00\n    $5.00\n    $2.00\n  \n  \n    (Asiatic not on European diet).....\n     \n     \n     \n  \n  \n    European lunatics, landed from ships on consular or ship's agent's guarantee\n     \n    5.00\n    0.50\n  \n  \n    Asiatic lunatics, landed from ships on consular or ship's agent's guarantee:~-\n    (a) on European diet\n     \n     \n  \n  \n     \n    (b) not on European diet..\n    2.00\n    0.50\n  \n  \n    Lunatics sent in by Board of Trade :-\n    (a) European and American\n     \n     \n  \n  \n     \n    (b) Asiatic\n    2.00\n    0.50\n  \n  \n    DAILY RATES.\n  \n\nChildren under twelve years of age are charged at half the foregoing rates in each class.\n\nPrivate patients other than Government or naval or military patients charged 1st or 2nd class daily rates for maintenance will be subject to the following additional charges:-\n\n(1) For medical attendance, a charge at the rate of one third of the rate for maintenance.\n\n(2) For surgical operations, such charge, not exceeding $300, as the Principal Civil Medical Officer shall think fit having regard to the nature of the operation.\n\n1",
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        "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929",
        "content_text": "The subject was dated Shanghai August 29th 1928.\n\n80\n\nFrom the foregoing and from the well-known fact that at Wanhsien (with Consular and Naval cognizance), search parties of Chinese, authorised or otherwise, have for the past two years boarded vessels at Wanhsien, collected taxes, exacted fines, removed cargo from vessels as they saw fit, and generally acted as if no such organisation as the Chinese Maritime Customs existed, while at Chungking the Customs were entirely under the domination of the various political parties claiming to be the governing power, and at Ichang, although perhaps in a lesser degree, the same, it appears that the principle of immunity from search by other than the Chinese Maritime Customs, which H.M. Minister fears the British Government may have to forego, has in practice been already conceded.\n\nSo serious did the breaches of recognised Treaty practices become at Wanhsien that we instructed our Ichang Agent to appeal to the British Naval Authorities for assistance, and in reply, our Agent received a communication emanating from Rear Admiral Tweedy, in which he states as a reason for being unable to take action: \"Moreover, in a recent despatch on the subject of the Upper River trade sent to the Foreign Office by H.M. Minister at Peking, the latter expresses the opinion that the matter of detail in trade with a country that abides by no superior law is a question for the traders to arrange with the country concerned.\"\n\nSince then, the Nationalist Government are supposed to have gained control at Wanhsien, but our latest advices are that no cessation of illegal taxation...",
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        "content_text": "No 553\n\nauswered Q\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nAned\n\nMy Lord,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n29 JAN 1930'\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\n8\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG, 27th December, 1929.\n\nI have the honour to submit for the\n\nsignification of His Majesty's pleasure the following\n\nOrdinance intituled:-\n\n2.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Arms and\n\nAmmunition Ordinance, 1900.\n\nThe enclosed report by the Attorney\n\nGeneral explains the objects and reasons of the\n\nOrdinance.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD PASSFIELD,\n\n&C.\n\n&C.,\n\n&C.,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nL.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n9\n\nNo. 32 OF 1929.\n\nI assent.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\n20th December, 1929.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Arms and Am-\n\nmuniition Ordinance, 1900.\n\n[20th December, 1929.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :—\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Short title. Ammunition Amendment Ordinance, 1929.\n\n2. Paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Arms and Am- Repeal of munition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following Ordinance paragraph is substituted therefor:\n\n(a) Ammunition includes-\n\n(i) every shell, cartridge case, bomb, hand grenade, or projectile, whether con- taining any explosive or gas or chemical or not, and whether intended to be dis- charged from or by any gun or other propelling or releasing instrument or mechanism or not, except hand grenades which can be used only for the purpose of extinguishing fires;\n\n(ii) every part of any such shell, cart- ridge case, bomb, hand grenade or pro- jectile, whether such shell, cartridge case, bomb, hand grenade or projectile may have been completely formed at any time or not;\n\n(iii) every fuse, percussion cap, or priming cap, which could be used for the purpose of exploding any shell, bomb, hand grenade or other projectile ;\n\n(iv) every bullet or cartridge clip;\n\n(v) an explosive when enclosed in any case or contrivance, or otherwise adapted or prepared so as to form a cartridge, charge, or complete round of small arms, cannon, or any other weapon, or to form any tube for firing explosives, or to form a detonator, a projectile, or other contri- vance than a firework, which can be used either singly or in suitable combinations, as, or in connection with, a missile;\n\n(vi) everything which may be declared by regulation made by the Governor in Council to be ammunition.\n\nNo. 2 of 1900, s. 2 (a), and substitu- tion of new paragraph.\n\nPage 10\n\n3. Paragraph (b) of section 2 of the Arms and Ammu- nition Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the addition of the following sub-paragraph at the end thereof ;—\n\n(v) every gun, pistol, or other propelling or releasing instrument or mechanism, from or by which any shell, cartridge, bomb, grenade, or projectile, containing any gas or chemical,\n\ncould be discharged.\n\n4. Paragraph (d) of section 2 of the Arms and Am- munition Ordinance. 1900, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor\n\n\"(d) \"Exempted person means-\n\n(i) every person in the naval, military, air, volunteer and police forces, district watchmen, members of the volunteer reserve, and members of the police reserve, in respect of arms and ammunition used by them solely in connection with their duties;\n\n(ii) commissioned officers in the army, navy and air forces, and the consular representatives de carrière of any foreign government;\n\n(iii) public officers whose names are approved by the Governor and recorded in a list kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office:\n\n(iv) any person to whom the Inspector General of Police shall have issued, in his discretion, a written letter of exemp- tion, any such exemption being confined in the discretion of the Inspector General of Police to any particular weapons or ammunition mentioned therein.\n\n5. Section 4 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nProhibition\n\n4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub- of carrying sections (2) to (11) inclusive, no person shall, or possessing except under and in accordance with a licence\n\narms or\n\nammunition issued for the purpose under this Ordinance, without & carry or have in his possession or under his\n\nlicence.\n\ncontrol any arms or ammunition.\n\n(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any exempted person.\n\n(3) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which are in the posses- sion of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, or to any arms or ammunition which are the property of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, and which are duly in the possession or under the control of some person on behalf of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong with the knowledge and consent of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, as the case may be.\n\n(4) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any ship which in the opinion of the Governor, as certified by the Colonial Secretary, is a ship of war of any foreign state.\n\n(5) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition consigned to some place outside the Colony and in transitu on any vessel as bona fide cargo and entered on the manifest.\n\n(6) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment shall have been given to the Inspector General of Police at a reasonable time before such transhipment.\n\n(7) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which, having been im- ported, are in course of transhipment to the Government Gunpowder Depot, or are being exported direct from the Government Gunpowder Depot,\n\n(8) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any junk or other similar vessel, if such arms and ammunition are described and enumerated in the licence or clearance of such junk or other similar vessel, and are reasonably necessary for the protection of such junk or other similar vessel.\n\n(9) Sub-section (1) shall not apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel, other than such vessels as are referred to in sub-section (8), from having on board such arms and ammunition as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such vessel, but this exemption shall not apply in the case of any vessel (a) which regularly includes in its ports of call any place on the east coast of Asia between Vladivostok and Singapore inclusive, or any place on any river flowing into the sea on the east coast of Asia between Vladivostok and Singapore, or any place in Formosa, and (b) the naval extreme trading limits of which do not extend beyond the places specified above.\n\n(10) Where arms or ammunition, the property of a licensed or exempted person, are carried by or are found in the possession of his agent or servant, under bona fide instructions so to carry or possess the same for him and on his behalf temporarily for any lawful purpose, such carriage, or possession shall be deemed carriage or possession by the licensed or exempted person,\n\n(11) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from the provisions of sub-section (1) the owner or master of any vessel or class of vessel whatsoever in respect of arms and ammunition which shall be on board such vessel and shall be reasonably necessary for its protection.\n\n6. Section 8 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Amendment 1900, is amended by the substitution of the word \"similar\" of Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, s. 8.\n\nfor the word \"Chinese\" in the third line thereof.\n\n7. The words \"Captain Superintendent of Police\", Alteration wherever they occur in the principal Ordinance, are of title of deleted and the words \"Inspector General of Police\" are Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nsubstituted therefor,\n\n8. Section 28 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Amendment 1900, is amended by the deletion of the words \"or of a of Ordinance Deputy or Assistant Superintendent of Police\" in the No. 2 of 1900, s. 28.\n\ntenth and eleventh lines thereof.\n\n9. The following section is inserted in the principal Insertion of Ordinance immediately after section 32 :—\n\nCertain officers to\n\nhave the\n\nnew s. 33 in Ordinance\n\n32. The Deputy Inspector General of No. 2 of Police, and the Divisional Superintendents, 1900.\n\npowers of the Superintendents, and Assistant Superinten Inspector \"dents, shall have all the powers conferred on General of the Inspector General of Police by or under Police.\n\nthis Ordinance.\n\n10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st Commence- day of January, 1930.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1929.\n\nE. I. WYNNE-JONES,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils,\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "# Amendment of Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, s. 2 (b).\n\n# Repeal of Ordinance\n\n3. Paragraph (4) of section 2 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the addition of the following sub-paragraph at the end thereof;\n\n(v) every gun, pistol, or other propelling or releasing instrument or mechanism, from or by which any shell, cartridge, bomb, grenade, or projectile, containing any gas or chemical, could be discharged.\n\n4. Paragraph (d) of section 2 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor\n\n(d) \"Exempted person\" means\n\n(1) every person in the naval, military, air, volunteer and police forces, district watchmen, members of the volunteer reserve, and members of the police reserve, in respect of arms and ammunition used by them solely in connection with their duties;\n\n(ii) commissioned officers in the army, navy and air forces, and the consular representatives de carrière of any foreign government;\n\n(iii) public officers whose names are approved by the Governor and recorded in a list kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office;\n\n(iv) any person to whom the Inspector General of Police shall have issued, in his discretion, a written letter of exemption, any such exemption being confined in the discretion of the Inspector General of Police to any particular weapons or ammunition mentioned therein.\n\n5. Section 4 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\n4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) to (11) inclusive, no person shall, except under and in accordance with a licence issued for the purpose under this Ordinance, carry or have in his possession or under his control any arms or ammunition.\n\n(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any exempted person.\n\n(3) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which are in the possession of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, or to any arms or ammunition which are the property of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, and which are duly in the possession or under the control of some person on behalf of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong with the knowledge and consent of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, as the case may be.\n\n(4) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any ship which in the opinion of the Governor, as certified by the Colonial Secretary, is a ship of war of any foreign state.\n\n(5) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition consigned to some place outside the Colony and in transitu on any vessel as bona fide cargo and entered on the manifest.\n\n(6) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment shall have been given to the Inspector General of Police at a reasonable time before such transhipment.\n\n(7) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which, having been imported, are in course of transhipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt, or are being exported direct from the Government Gunpowder Depôt.\n\n(8) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any junk or other similar vessel, if such arms and ammunition are described and enumerated in the licence or clearance of such junk or other similar vessel, and are reasonably necessary for the protection of such junk or other similar vessel.\n\n(9) Sub-section (1) shall not apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel, other than such vessels as are referred to in sub-section (8), from having on board such arms and ammunition as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such vessel, but this exemption shall not apply in the case of any vessel (a) which regularly includes in its ports of call any place on the east coast of Asia between Vladivostok and Singapore inclusive, or any place on any river flowing into the sea on the east coast of Asia between Vladivostok and Singapore, or any place in Formosa, and (b) the usual extreme trading limits of which do not extend beyond the places specified above.\n\n(10) Where arms or ammunition, the property of a licensed or exempted person, are carried by or are found in the possession of his agent or servant, under bonâ fide instructions so to carry or possess the same for him and on his behalf temporarily for any lawful purpose, such carriage, or possession shall be deemed carriage or possession by the licensed or exempted person.\n\n(11) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from the provisions of sub-section (1) the owner or master of any vessel or class of vessel whatsoever in respect of arms and ammunition which shall be on board such vessel and shall be reasonably necessary for its protection.\n\n6. Section 8 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the substitution of the word \"similar\" for the word \"Chinese\" in the third line thereof.\n\n7. The words \"Captain Superintendent of Police\", wherever they occur in the principal Ordinance, are deleted and the words \"Inspector General of Police\" substituted therefor.\n\n8. Section 28 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the deletion of the words \"or of a Deputy or Assistant Superintendent of Police\" in the tenth and eleventh lines thereof.\n\n9. The following section is inserted in the principal Ordinance immediately after section 32 :--\n\n33. The Deputy Inspector General of Police, and the Divisional Superintendents, and Assistant Superintendents, shall have all the powers conferred on the Inspector General of Police by or under this Ordinance.\n\n10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1930.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1929.\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nEND",
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        "content_text": "28\n\n\"I am directed by H.M. Consul General to instruct Masters of British Vessels in China waters that only the Chinese Maritime Customs Authorities are permitted to board British ships in search of opium and other contraband. I shall be glad if you will convey this reminder to Masters concerned.\"\n\n(SGD) I. Milton.\n\nVice Consul.\n\nWe accordingly notified all our masters who proceeded to act on the Consular instructions thus given.\n\nAt Hankow, however, the British Consul General there declined to accept the ruling given by the Shanghai Consul General as he had already agreed to allow Anti-Opium officials to search British vessels.\n\nOur Agents' letter to the Hankow Consul General giving all details of this was dated Hankow August 21st, 1928, and a letter from us to your good self on the same subject was dated Shanghai August 29th, 1928.\n\nFrom the foregoing and from the well-known fact that at Wanhsien (with Consular and Naval cognizance) search parties of Chinese authorised or otherwise have for the past two years boarded vessels at Wanhsien, collected taxes, exacted fines, removed cargo from vessels as they saw fit and generally acted as if no such organisation as the Chinese Maritime Customs existed while at Chungking the Customs were entirely under the domination of the various political parties claiming to be the governing power and at Ichang, although perhaps in a lesser degree, the same, it would appear that the principle of immunity from search by other than the Chinese Maritime Customs which H.M. Minister fears the British Government may have to forego has in practice been already conceded.\n\nSo serious did the breaches of recognised Treaty practice become at Wanhsien that we instructed our Ichang Agent to appeal to the British Naval Authorities for assistance and in reply our Agent received a communication emanating from Rear Admiral Tweedy in which he states as a reason for being unable to take action:",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n(b) all rules of construction enacted by the said Act shall have effect as if this Order were an English Act of Parliament;\n\n(c) the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—\n\n\"British ship\" means a merchant-ship being a British ship within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,(a) and, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a ship belonging to any British subject;\n\n\"British subject\" includes a British protected person;\n\n\"Consular officer\" means a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or pro-Consul of His Majesty resident in Egypt, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of His Majesty so resident; and\n\n(a) \"Commissioned Consular Officer\" means a Consular officer holding a commission of Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul from His Majesty, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for such a commissioned officer: \"Uncommissioned Consular Officer\" means a Consular officer not holding such a commission, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for such an uncommissioned Consular officer.\n\n(b) \"Consulate\" and \"Consular office\" mean the Consulate and office of a Consular Officer.\n\n\"The Court\", except when the reference is to a particular Court, means any Court established under this Order, but this construction shall not affect, by implication, the provisions of this Order with respect to powers and local jurisdictions;\n\n\"Egyptian waters\" means the territorial waters of the Kingdom of Egypt;\n\n\"Foreigner\" means a subject or citizen of a State in amity with His Majesty, including Egypt, and \"foreign\" refers to such State;\n\n\"High Commissioner\" means His Majesty's High Commissioner for Egypt, and includes any officer being or acting as His Majesty's Representative in Egypt;\n\n\"Judgment\" includes decree, order, sentence, or decision;\n\n\"Legal practitioner\" includes barrister-at-law, advocate, solicitor, writer to the Signet, and any person possessing similar qualifications;\n\n\"Master\" with respect to any ship, has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894;(a)\n\n\"Minutes\" means the minutes of proceedings ordered to be drawn up by Article 140 hereof;\n\n\"Offence\" includes crime, and any act or omission punishable by criminal proceedings whether summary or otherwise.\n\n\"Pounds\" means pounds sterling.\n\n\"Prescribed\" means prescribed by Rules of Court.\n\n\"Prosecutor\" means complainant or any person appointed or allowed by the Court to prosecute, and includes the Crown Prosecutor.\n\n\"Proved\" means shown by evidence on oath to the satisfaction of the Court or Consular officer acting or having jurisdiction in the matter, and \"proof\" means the evidence so accepted by the Court or Consular officer.\n\n\"Rules of Court\" means Rules of Court made under the provisions of this Order.\n\n\"Secretary of State\" means one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.\n\n\"Ship\" includes every kind of vessel used in navigation, by whatever means propelled, with her tackle, furniture, and apparel, and any other boat or other craft.\n\n\"Treaty\" includes any Capitulations, Convention, Agreement or Arrangement, made by or on behalf of His Majesty with any State or Government, King, Chief, people or tribe, whether His Majesty the King of Egypt is or is not a party thereto.\n\n\"Will\" has the same meaning as in the Wills Act, 1837.(b)\n\n4. The jurisdiction conferred by this Order extends to the persons, matters and things following, in so far as by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means His Majesty has jurisdiction in relation thereto, that is to say:-\n\n(i) British subjects, when within the limits of this Order;\n\n(ii) foreigners, when within the limits of this Order, who are the nationals of or protected by any state or government which by treaty or otherwise has agreed with His Majesty for, or consents to, the exercise of power or authority in regard to them by His Majesty, to the extent of such agreement or consent.\n\nThe persons referred to in (i) and (ii) above are hereinafter particularly described as persons subject to this Order.\n\n(iii) the property and all personal or proprietary rights and liabilities, being or arising within the said limits, of British subjects, whether such subjects are within the said limits or not;\n\n(iv) British subjects outside the limits of this Order on whom a writ of summons or other process may be served in accordance with the Rules of Court;\n\n(v) foreigners in the cases and according to the conditions specified in this Order, and not otherwise;\n\n(vi) British ships and the persons and property on board thereof, or belonging thereto, being within the limits of this Order;\n\n(vii) British aircraft, being within the limits of this Order.\n\n(a) `57-8 V. c. 60`  \n(b) `7 W. 4 & 1 V. c. 26`\n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "# INDEX to the Egypt Order in Council, 1930.\n\n## A.\n\n### ACCUSED PERSONS-\napprehension of, 37, 41. conveyance of, 51, 148. custody of, 42.\n\n(The figures refer to Articles.)\n\nescape or removal of, to another district, 39.\n\n### ACTING-\nAssistant Judge, appointment of, 10. consular officer additional Judge of Provincial Court, 19(1). Judge, appointment of, 9. persons, included in term consular officer, 3.\n\n### AGAINST ACTION BY OR FOREIGNER-\nCourt shall entertain, subject to certain provisos, 153(1). cross action not to be brought against foreign plaintiff except as provided, 153(8). procedure, 153(1) and (2). security for costs and damages in, 153(1). stay of execution, and set-off in, 153(4). submission to Court in, 153(1),\n\n## ACTS OF PARLIAMENT\napplied to Egypt, 30. Judge may make Rules for purpose of, 141. exhibition of, 69(1). publication under, how made, 30.\n\n### ADEN (see Fugitive Offenders).\n\n### ADMINISTRATION (see Probate)—\nconsular officers to obtain notice of deaths of British subjects for purposes of, 109(1). Court may take possession of property and place under seal pending grant of, 110(2).\n\nPage 59-64\n\n### ADMINISTRATION (continued)—\nexecutor administering estate without grant of, guilty of an offence, 111. failure of executor to obtain probate, 113. grant of, has effect through Egypt, 107(3). grant of, valid notwithstanding defect, 107(3). granted in United Kingdom or in any British possession to which Colonial Probates Act, 1892, extends, procedure where, 108. notice of deaths of British subjects to be put up at Court-house and kept there pending grant of, 109(2). person administering estate without grant of, guilty of contempt of Court, 112. property of deceased person vests in Judge of Supreme Court until grant of, 110(1). Provincial Court may grant, in what circumstances, 107(2). unnecessary where estate is under £100, 115.\n\n### ADMIRALTY—\noffences within Admiralty jurisdiction, 40(2) and (3).\n\n### ADMIRALTY OFFENCES (COLONIAL) ACTS, 1849 and 1860–\nto apply as adapted, 40(3).\n\n### ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT, 1926-\napplication of, 103.\n\n### ADVOCATE-\nincluded in \"Legal Practitioner\", 3.\n\n### AFFIRMATION (see Oath).\n\n### AGENT—\nparty suing by, to file power of attorney, 145(2).\n\nPage 113",
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        "content_text": "# CHARGE IN CRIMINAL CASES\n\nalteration of, procedure on, 55. alteration of, when may be made, 55, 57 (2). alternative, when may be made, 53 (e). effect of, 52 (2). error or omission in, 56 (1), 57 (2). further particulars of, 52 (8). malicious, person making may be ordered to pay expenses, 62 (1). mode of framing, 53. of previous conviction, 57. particulars to be given in, 52. person making, to do so in his own name, 145. separate for distinct offences, 53. when conviction takes place for offence not charged, 53 (c), 56 (2). when more than one person may be charged together, 54. when to be deemed an indictment, 52 (4). when to be tried separately and when may be tried with other charge, 53. where prosecutor not a British subject, may be dismissed if recognisances not entered into, 50 (3).\n\n## CIVIL JURISDICTION\n\nhow exercised, 91. (And see Jurisdiction, Local Court, Provincial Court, and Supreme Court.)\n\n## CIVIL PROCEDURE\n\napplication of English law, 91. (And see Action, Appeal, Arbitration Act, Assessors, Commencement of Proceedings, Execution, Jury, Order, Recognisance, Rehearing, Summons, Time, Trial.)\n\n## COLONIAL PRISONERS' REMOVAL ACT, 1884\n\napplication of, 90.\n\n## COMMENCEMENT OF ORDER\n\n## COMMENCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS\n\ninstrument authorising agent to be filed, 145 (2), (3) and (4). to be in name of party, 145 (1) and (5). who may act for party at, 145 (1).\n\n## COMMISSION\n\nActs of Parliament applying law as to evidence on, 150. issue of, to take evidence, 147.\n\n## COMMISSIONED OFFICER\n\ndefinition, 3.\n\n## CONSULAR OFFICER\n\ncommissioned, Judge of Provincial Court, 18 (1).\n\n## COMMITTAL TO PRISON\n\n(see In Custody).\n\n## COMPANIES REGISTERED IN GREAT BRITAIN OR ANY OTHER PART OF HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS, PROTECTORATES OR MANDATED TERRITORIES\n\nalteration in name or in Charter, Statutes, &c., to be registered, 178. chief local representative, registration of, 175. consular registers to be kept, 171. copies of documents to be filed must be certified, 179. directors, list of to be filed, 172, 174. failure to register, penalty for, 182. jurisdiction over, 181. manager, registration of, 175. non-registration, consequences of, 181, 182. owning newspaper which publishes seditious matter, 74. protection, refusal of, 181. recognition, non-registered companies not entitled to, 181. registers, lists of directors, &c., to be open to inspection, 178. registration, certificate of, 176. documents to be filed, 172. fees on, 177. manner and place of, 171, 172. Secretary of State may order that protection be not accorded, 181. service of writs upon registered representatives, 175. time limit for deposit of documents, 180.\n\n## COMPLAINANT\n\n(see Prosecutor).\n\n## COMPLAINT\n\nplace where cause of, deemed to have arisen, 38.\n\n## CONCILIATION\n\nconsular officers to promote settlement of disputes without litigation, 6.\n\n## CONSTRUCTION OF LAWS\n\naccording to local circumstances, 30.\n\n## CONSULAR DISTRICT\n\nescape or removal of accused person from, 39.\n\n## CONSULAR OFFICE\n\ndefinition of, 3.\n\n## CONSULAR OFFICER\n\ncustomary powers of, not interfered with by Order, 184. definition of, 3. exemption from service on juries, 33 (2). includes persons acting for, 3. may be temporarily attached to Supreme Court, 12 (2). seal of, 18 (5), 20 (6). to promote settlement of disputes without litigation, 6. to register British companies, 171 et seq. British subjects, 161 et seq. to sign Minutes in cases tried before him, 140 (1). to take measures to prevent insults to religion, 75 (3). uncommissioned, Judge of Local Court, 20 (1).\n\n## CONSULAR REGISTRATION\n\nof British subjects, 161 et seq. companies, 171 et seq.\n\n## CONSULAR SALARIES AND FEES ACT, 1891\n\n141 (1) (/).\n\n## CONSULATE\n\ndefinition of, 3.\n\n## CONSULS\n\njudicial notice to be taken of appointment of, 190.\n\n## CONTEMPT OF COURT\n\njurors and assessors not attending guilty of, 35. procedure on, 76. removal of persons guilty of, 76 (3). (And see Offences and Punishments.)\n\n## CONTRABAND\n\nimport or export of, is offence against Order, 70.\n\n## CONVEYANCING (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1874\n\napplication of, 116.\n\n## COPYRIGHT\n\noffences against Statutes, &c., are grave offences against Order, 69.\n\n## CORONER\n\npowers and duties of, discharged by Court, 68 (1). registrar of Supreme Court is, 68 (3). 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        "content_text": "# 280\n\n\n## 90\n\nattach the prestige of the British merchant to the sale of competing products and our sympathy for their difficulties is therefore much diluted. The troublous times in China have undoubtedly weakened the financial strength of our merchants and keen competition has reduced their ability to secure an adequate turnover. But it is not good to increase this turnover by taking on a litter of assorted agencies to which the available staff cannot do justice or to force prices down by cosmopolitan not to say unpatriotic commission hunting.\n\n### 183. \nThe chief need for improvement of our prospects lies in the provision of as many experts as possible not only to sell, but also to educate the buyers in the use of the plant. Experts are also needed to keep close touch with the buyers' engineers, for one ounce of personal touch is worth a ton of correspondence.\n\nOften agents' criticisms, advice or complaints are scantily regarded because they are looked on as inexpert. The presence of a trained engineer with the agent will lead to better understanding. The situation will be helped if some of the attached experts are trained Chinese students who will be able to secure close touch with their compatriots. The gradual introduction of Chinese into our selling organisations not only in this way but also as partners or through subsidiary contracting companies deserves close consideration.\n\n### 184. \nThe use of an agent house in China is the usual method of liaison between manufacturer and customer though large concerns or groups of manufacturers may see sufficient turnover to justify a China office of their own. With direct representation, of course, the conduct of affairs is simpler, but even in these cases there must be sympathetic and generous treatment from head offices and more constant touch should be kept with home developments than appears to be arranged at present. Visits of principals and of supplementary experts to branch offices will have a stimulating effect and similar stimulation is also necessary when agents are employed. Many of our firms would find that their agents were lazy and were sitting in their offices waiting for orders instead of going out after them. Closer touch would either shake the agents up or cause a change of representation. With agents there is great need for co-operation. Manufacturers must realise the highly competitive nature of the market. They must see to it that there is sufficient force of expert assistance and can assure this by bearing much of the expense of this force. When they are unable to see a turnover sufficient to justify the expense it will be necessary to consider grouping and co-operation from home. Manufacturers expect a reasonable amount of advertising by their agents; but when starting an intensive campaign should be prepared to assist in the expense.\n\n## 4\n\n## 91\n\n### 185. \nAnother point in which manufacturers could help, is to be more liberal with consignment stock. Standard lines might be held in China not only to meet deliveries in that country but also for giving quicker deliveries to other agencies in the Pacific area. British co-operative showrooms or sales fairs have been suggested as a good advertising proposition. An extension of this idea to a permanent trade fair established at a suitable place with attached warehouses for stock might be considered. If the contents of the fair were approved by Government commercial officers as well as by local expert committees, the goods so consigned might come under the aegis of the Export Credits scheme to at any rate 60 per cent. of their value. The fair would serve as both showroom and sales room and be replenished from its own warehouses, or from merchants' godowns. The agents are often called upon to act as consulting engineers, in their endeavour to secure business. Often their work of this kind may be wasted and the order go elsewhere, but it is worth trying and manufacturers must help by supplying full particulars in the early stages ungrudgingly. Manufacturers must realise the importance of making their catalogues not only instructive but educational. Special Chinese leaflets and pamphlets could be devised in collaboration with agents.\n\nAgents, if assisted by real experts, could also give advice on such a point as getting some of the heavier or simpler parts of machinery made locally. There are many native shops as well as important works like dockyards or arsenals which could turn out excellent work. The saving in freight might make all the difference in competition.\n\nFinally, the efforts of our Consular and Allied Services might be reinforced by attaching trained consulting engineers to assist in the co-ordination of British engineering interests at home and overseas.\n\nIf all who are interested in the restoration of British trade in China, both there and in Great Britain, will get together and work together in the common interest, the future will be full of hope and of achievement. Only lack of faith in one another can stand in the way.\n\n## THE WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY\n\n### 186. \nThis report is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the Chinese native industry, including the production and export of raw wool, the domestic industry, the making of Chinese carpets and the manufacture of knitted goods. The second part deals with China as a market for wool textiles (yarn and piece-goods), and Great Britain's position therein.\n\n## 28/",
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        "content_text": "98\n\nthe count may\n\nduent\"\n\nAuditors' report and auditors' right of\n\naccess to books and\n\nright to\n\nattend\n\ngeneral\n\nmeetings.\n\n19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23,\n\ns. 134.\n\nInvestiga-tion of\n\naffairs of company by\n\ninspectors. 19 & 20 Gen\n\n6, c. 23,\n\n3. 135.\n\n58\n\n(2) Nothing in this section shall disqualify a body corporate from acting as auditor of a company if acting under an appointment made before the day on which this Ordinance comes into operation, but subject as aforesaid any body corporate which acts as auditor of a company shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.\n\n133.(1) The auditors shall make a report to the members on the accounts examined by them, and on every balance sheet laid before the company in general meeting during their tenure of office, and the report shall state\n\n(a) whether or not they have obtained all the in-formation and explanations they have required; and\n\n(b) whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet referred to in the report is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the company's affairs according to the best of their information and the explans-tions given to them, and as shown by the books of the company.\n\n(2) Every auditor of a company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the company, and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors:\n\nProvided that, in the case of a banking company which has branch banks beyond the limits of the Colony (or, in the case of a China company, if the company has branch banks beyond the limits of the consular district wherein such company has its registered office), it shall be sufficient if the auditor is allowed access to such copies and extracts from such books and accounts of any such branch as have been transmitted to the head office of the company in the Colony (or in the case of a China company, to the registered office of the company within the limits of the China Orders in Council).\n\n(3) The auditors of a company shall be entitled to attend any general meeting of the company at which any accounts which have been examined or reported on by them are to be laid before the company and to make any statement or explanation they desire with respect to the accounts.\n\nInspection.\n\n134. (1) The court may appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and to report thereon in such manner as they direct-\n\n(a) In the case of a banking company having\n\nshare capital, on the application of members holding not less than one-third of the shares issued:\n\n(b) In the case of any other company having\n\nshare capital, on the application of members holding not less than one-tenth of the shares issued:\n\n(c) In the case of a company not having a share capital, on the application of not less than one-fifth in number of the persons on the com-pany's register of members.\n\n59\n\n(2) The application shall be supported by such evidence as the Court may require for the purpose of showing that the applicants have good reason for, and are not actuated by malicious motives in, requiring the investigation, and the Court may, before appointing an inspector, require the applicants to give security, to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars, for payment of the costs of the inquiry.\n\n(3) It shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company to produce to the inspectors all books and documents in their custody or power.\n\n(4) An inspector may examine on oath the officers and agents of the company in relation to its business, and may administer an oath accordingly.\n\n(5) If any officer or agent of the company refuses\n\nto produce to the inspectors any book or document which it is his duty under this section so to produce, or refuses to answer any question which is put to him by the inspectors with respect to the affairs of the company, the inspectors may certify the refusal under their hand to the court, and the court may thereupon enquire into the case, and, after hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on behalf of the alleged offender and after hearing any statement which may be offered in defence, punish the offender in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the\n\ncourt\n\n(6) On the conclusion of the investigation tho inspectors shall report their opinion to the court which shall direct that a copy of the report be forwarded to the registered office of the company. A further copy shall, at the request of the applicants for the investigation, be delivered to them.\n\nThe report shall be written or printed, as the court may direct.\n\n135. (1) If from any report made under the last\n\nProceedings\n\nforegoing section it appears to the court that any\n\nun report by\n\nperson has been guilty of any offence in relation to\n\ninspectors.\n\nthe company for which he is criminally liable, the\n\n19 & 20 Geo.\n\n5, c. 23,\n\ncourt may direct that the matter shall be referred to\n\ns. 136.\n\nthe Attorney General.\n\n(2) If where any matter is referred to the Attorney General under this section he considers that the case\n\nis one in which a prosecution ought to be instituted and, further, that it is desirable in the public interest that the proceedings in the prosecution should be conducted by him, he shall institute proceedings accordingly, and it shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company, past and present (other than the defendant in the proceedings), to give to him all assistance in connection with the prosecution which they are reasonably able to give.\n\nFor the purposes of this subsection, the expression \"agents\" in relation to a company shall be deemed to include the bankers and solicitors of the company and any persons employed by the company as auditors, whether those persons are or are not officers of the company.\n\n(3) The expenses of and incidental to an investiga-tion under the last preceding section of this Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as \"the expenses\") shall be defrayed as follows:-\n\n(a) Where as a result of the investigation a prosecution is instituted by the Attorney General, the expenses shall be defrayed by the revenues of the Colony:\n\n99",
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        "title": "CO129-540-13 Proposal by Chinese Government to establish vice-consulate in Hong Kong 6-6-1932 - 30-12-1932",
        "content_text": "Received\n\n17 SEP 1932\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecode.\n\nMr. Ingram (Peking).\n\n14th September 1932.\n\nD.\n\n(By Wireless) 14th September 1932.\n\nR.\n\n9.00 p.m. 14th September 1932.\n\nNo. 682 (R).\n\nFollowing received from Mission, September 11th, begins:-\n\nAddressed to Peking No. 333, repeated to Commercial Counsellor.\n\nYour telegram 442.\n\nHsu Mo informed me last night that Waichiaopu were strongly opposed to Customs at Kowloon dealing with consular invoices. I gather from him that he would be satisfied if Hongkong authorities would agree to appoint some agent not necessarily proper consular officer who would simply deal with endorsement of invoices.",
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        "title": "CO129-540-13 Proposal by Chinese Government to establish vice-consulate in Hong Kong 6-6-1932 - 30-12-1932",
        "content_text": "Decode.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n13 SEP 1932\n\nCOL.OFFICE\n\n926687\n\n90\n\n15\n\nMr. Ingram (Peking).\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\n9th September, 1932.\n\nD.\n\n(Via W/T)\n\n9th September, 1932.\n\n6.40 p.m.\n\n9th September, 1932.\n\nR.\n\nNo. 656. (R).\n\nFollowing received from Mission, September 6th.\n\nBegins.\n\nAddressed to Peking No.326, repeated to Commercial Counsellor.\n\nYour Telegram No. 435.\n\nI saw Vang today and suggested that Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon, in view of his special qualifications, should deal with question of consular invoices.\n\nHe replied that Commissioner, owing to volume of work, would be quite unable to undertake additional duties and further that such an arrangement would be contrary to whole spirit of regulations and would be quite unacceptable to Chinese Government.\n\nHe stated that any agent appointed by Waichiaopu to Hongkong would only deal with invoice work and would not interfere in any way with other questions.\n\nHe suggested that he might for the sake of appearances be affiliated to Chinese Chamber of Commerce or some other body.\n\nDuring interview Vang showed strongest dislike for Government customs in dealing with consular invoices.\n\nIn my personal opinion compromise might (grp. undec.):\n\n(a) In Waichiaopu seconding official for special duties with customs or\n\n(b)/",
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        "content_text": "# Definitions\n\n**British Company** means a Company incorporated in the United Kingdom, or in a British possession, and includes a China Company and a Hong Kong China Company.\n\n**British ship** means a merchant ship being a British ship within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), and includes any ship provided with sailing letters from the Governor of Hong Kong, or from His Majesty's Minister in China.\n\n**British possession** means any part of His Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom.\n\n**British subject** includes a British protected person, that is to say, a person who either (a) is a native of any Protectorate of His Majesty, and is for the time being in China; or (b) by virtue of section 15 of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise enjoys His Majesty's protection in China.\n\n**China** means so much of the Republic of China as is within the limits of this Order.\n\n**China Company** means a Company limited by shares or by guarantee incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, of the Colony of Hong Kong, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from a place within the limits of this Order.\n\n**Companies Ordinances** comprises the following Ordinances of the Colony of Hong Kong:-\n| Ordinance |\n| --- |\n| The Companies Ordinance, 1911 |\n| The Life Insurance Companies Ordinance, 1907 |\n| The Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Deposit Ordinance, 1917 |\nand any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same or any of them.\n\n**Consular district** means the district in and for which a Consular officer usually acts, or for which he may be authorised to act, for all or any of the purposes of this Order, by authority of the Secretary of State.\n\n**Consular officer** means a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Consular Agent, or Pro-Consul of His Majesty resident in China, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for a Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of His Majesty so resident.\n\n**Commissioned Consular officer** means a Consular officer holding a commission of Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul from His Majesty, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State or of His Majesty's Minister in China, as or for such a commissioned Consular officer.\n\n**Consulate and Consular office** refer to the Consulate and office of a Consular officer.\n\n**The Court**, except when the reference is to a particular Court, means any Court established under this Order, subject, however, to the provisions of this Order with respect to powers and local jurisdictions.\n\n**Foreigner** means a subject or citizen of a State in amity with His Majesty, including China.\n\n**Hong Kong China Company** means a Company incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1911, of the Colony of Hong Kong, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, which carries on some part of its business within the limits of this Order, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place in Hong Kong.\n\n**Judge**, except where the context intends a reference to the Judge of the Supreme Court only, includes Assistant Judge, and, except where the context intends a reference to the Supreme Court only, includes the officer for the time being holding a Provincial Court.\n\n**Judgment** includes decree, order, sentence or decision.\n\n**Legal practitioner** includes barrister-at-law, advocate, solicitor, writer to the Signet, and any person possessing similar qualifications.\n\n**The Legation** means His Majesty's Legation in China.\n\n**Lunatic** means idiot or person of unsound mind.\n\n**Master**, with respect to any ship, includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of that ship.\n\n**Minister** means His Majesty's Minister in China, and includes Chargé d'Affaires or other chief diplomatic representative.\n\n**Month** means calendar month.\n\n**Oath and affidavit**, in the case of persons for the time being allowed by law to affirm or declare instead of swearing include affirmation and declaration, and the expression \"swear\", in the like case, includes affirm and declare.\n\n**Offence** includes crime, and any act or omission punishable criminally in a summary way or otherwise.\n\n**Person** includes corporation.\n\n**Prescribed** means prescribed by Regulations or Rules of Court.\n\n**Prosecutor** means complainant or any person appointed or allowed by the Court to prosecute.\n\n**Proved** means shown by evidence on oath, in the form of affidavit, or other form, to the satisfaction of the Court or Consular officer acting or having jurisdiction in the matter, and **proof** means the evidence adduced in that behalf.\n\n**Record** means the aggregate of papers relating to an Appeal to His Majesty in Council (including the pleadings, 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        "content_text": "## C. S. O. M.F. 237.\n\nThe Dominion of Canada cordially associates herself with the Crown Colony of Hong Kong by participating in the British Empire Fair which is opening to-day. It is gratifying to the Canadian Government, and particularly to myself, as Minister of Trade and Commerce, that Canada has been accorded such excellent facilities for thus displaying before the citizens of Hong Kong and South China samples of her natural products and manufactures, with a view to further extending inter-Imperial trade between these two sections of the British Commonwealth of Nations. It is particularly fitting that this Fair should open on May 24th, the anniversary of the \"Mother of the Empire\", the late Queen Victoria, and a day celebrated throughout the British Empire as indicative of its solidarity and its devotion to the Crown.\n\nThe Crown Colony of Hong Kong and the Dominion of Canada have much in common. It was in 1841, during the reign of Queen Victoria, that Hong Kong became a Crown Colony and began to flourish under the Union Jack. It was in the same year that Canada had its first democratic government. Direct steamship services between Canada and Hong Kong provide a means of greatly increasing the volume of trade between, and linking closer together, these at one time distant parts of the Empire. Their products and manufactures are to a large extent complementary, and it is to the advantage of both countries that this trade should be considerably increased. Hong Kong is at the spearhead of a large and practically unexploited trade territory which will, when the existing difficulties have passed, provide Hong Kong with a market for many of Canada's products and which in return may provide for many of Canada's wants.\n\nIt is natural that Hong Kong, due to its location and the unexcelled facilities offered by its harbour, should serve as a centre of distribution for Canadian products which will eventually be consumed in the Southern part of the Chinese Republic. It is our hope that the importers of Hong Kong will give the fullest consideration to the opportunities offered to them by Canadian producers.\n\nIt was with the object of promoting greater trade between Canada and this territory that the appointment of a Trade Commissioner was made in 1929. It is to the advantage of Hong Kong importers to prepare for the future. Canada can provide them with many of their requirements and since it is to their advantage to cultivate a trading partnership with that Dominion.\n\nI congratulate the Chairman and Committee on their efforts to make the Fair a success and feel sure that they will be fully justified by the results obtained.\n\n**N.Z's. BEST WISHES.**\n\nMr. Williamson read the following message from Mr. Masters, the Minister of Industries and Commerce in the New Zealand Government:- Please express best wishes of the New Zealand Government for the success of the Empire Fair and appreciation of the efforts of Government, committees, Hotel company and others to further Empire trade. Also express our thanks for the assistance rendered to New Zealand in this connection.\n\n**FROM AUSTRALIA.**\n\n**Prime Minister's Cable Of Appreciation.**\n\n\"EVERY SUCCESS.\"\n\nMr. J. A. Tonkin delivered the following message from the Minister of the Commonwealth Government of Australia:\n\nOn behalf of the Commonwealth Government, I wish the Empire Fair every success and hope it will mark the opening of many new avenues of inter-Empire trade. Appreciation is expressed to the Government of Hong Kong for the encouragement and assistance in launching the Fair, and to the Fair Committees, the Hotel Company, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, and those organisations and associations whose activities have been responsible for this display of Empire products. Your Fair will be successful and beneficial to all British and Dominion participants.—Lyons, Prime Minister.\n\n## THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.\n\n**Trade Commissioner From Home.**\n\n**WHAT OF TARIFFS?**\n\nFormally declaring the Fair open, H.E. the Governor said:- Mr. Paterson, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very pleased to have the privilege to-day of opening the second Empire Products Fair held in Hong Kong. As you know, the idea was started last year as the outcome of a letter addressed by Mrs. Amery, the wife of a former Secretary of State for the Colonies, to my wife, in which among other things she suggested an all-British food day.\n\nThe proposal to have an Empire Products Fair was taken up with great enthusiasm. My wife assisted in the preliminary stages, but to our regret we were unable to be here for the Fair itself. We were however greatly interested in the accounts which were sent to us. There was no doubt that it was a great triumph, and I take this opportunity of congratulating all those who helped to achieve that success.\n\nIt was indeed so successful that it was quite rightly decided that another Fair should be held this year, and there is no need for me to say that that decision has been amply justified, and that this year's Fair will greatly surpass that of last year.\n\nSuch Fairs have been instituted in many parts of the Empire. The British Industries Fair was started in a modest way in London soon after the War, and has grown to be of the greatest commercial value. Another Fair of the same kind has been held at Birmingham for the last fourteen years and yearly gains increasing popularity. Many of the colonies participate in that held in London, Fiji being one of the latest notable additions; and I hope that at no distant date Hong Kong will be able to participate, showing the people at home that this Colony is developing valuable industries of its own.\n\n**Local Industries.**\n\nIn a recent edition of a very interesting journal called \"The Crown Colonist\", I noticed in a map showing the various sources of Empire products that Hong Kong was marked \"Local industries and trans-shipment for China”. A few years ago the words \"local industries\" would probably not have been written, Hong Kong then being considered very little more than a mere transit port. Industries are now growing up in this Colony, one of the most notable perhaps of recent ventures being the brewing of beer! Only recently I was informed by the head of a well-known Hong Kong firm that they had a very large order from England for rubber-soled shoes manufactured here.\n\nThese Fairs are great factors in the commercial life of the Empire, and help to make us realise what a great Empire is capable of producing. It is wonderful how little many of us know of its great resources. I had an opportunity of visiting the Fair in London in 1928, and I must confess to great surprise at many of the things I saw there.\n\nThe British Empire has held a high position in trade, but owing perhaps to over-confidence has tended to sink in a slough of conservatism, in spite of considerable technical advances in industry. Where we really have to some extent failed is in actual trading.\n\nWe have been inclined to stand on a past reputation of the excellence of our goods, which has always been high, and have been extraordinarily unwilling to investigate changes in demand. Suppliers seem to hold the view that they should decide on what the consumer should take, ignoring the adage that he who pays the piper has the right to call the tune. This tendency, as far as the Far East is concerned, was recognised by the Economic Mission which visited the Far East over two years ago, and also by Mr. Beale, now Commercial Counsellor to our Peking Legation, who drew attention to it in a report which he wrote on trade in Malaya some years ago, when I first met him there. There is no doubt that many of our large suppliers have followed fortuitous methods, and have not appreciated the necessity of studying their markets. I think that I can truthfully say that great improvements have now been made in our methods. The quality of our goods has always been of a high standard and with a better realisation of the customers' needs, I feel that there is every prospect of a considerable increase in trade. If however suppliers wish to achieve a maximum of success I think that they should employ what I might term special Trade Commissioners of their own to carry out continuous investigation of the needs and desires of those whose custom they wish to retain and develop.\n\n**British Commissioner.**\n\nAt the same time I must say that I think that it is time that we had something in the nature of a British Trade Commissioner here to represent the Home Country and those parts of the Empire which are not at present represented, and I am in hopes that such an appointment may materialise in the not far distant future.\n\nMajor Duclos, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, has been with us for some time, and I congratulate him on the success which he has made of his appointment. I also would like to offer him our especial thanks for the very great assistance he has given both at last year's Fair and this Fair. He has indeed been a tower of strength to the organisers.\n\nWe greatly appreciate the friendly message from the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of the Department of Trade and Commerce in Canada, which Major Duclos has just read. It is a message which indicates that true Empire spirit and desire for co-operation at the development of which we should all aim. I think there is a great deal to be done in fostering trade between Hong Kong and Canada, and I agree with Mr. Stevens that we have many interests in common. I passed through Canada on my way Home last year, but had very little time to study conditions there. I was impressed however in particular by three products which I thought could with advantage be exported on a larger scale to Hong Kong, namely motor-cars, fruit and beer. However with the establishment of a local brewery perhaps I had better not extol the value of Canadian liquor!\n\n**Advertising British Goods.**\n\nTrade between Australia and New Zealand and this Colony is growing, and I congratulate Mr. Williamson, who has acted as honorary agent for those Dominions, on this successful development. I also thank him for his valuable assistance in connexion with this Fair.\n\nWe greatly appreciate the friendly messages from Australia and New Zealand which he and Mr. Tonkin have just conveyed to us. I take this opportunity of welcoming to Hong Kong Mr. Tonkin who has just arrived as the representative of the Commonwealth of Australia.\n\nIf the whole Empire will buy British goods, things will become easy and less effort be necessary.\n\n**Tariff Question.**\n\nOur great Empire must be nearly self-supporting, and certainly should be capable of being made so. In spite of the old tradition of free trade, we have been driven to some extent to tariffs, but there is a school, and a very powerful one, which is not satisfied that that is the proper line to follow. At all events I have no hesitation in saying that the imposition of tariffs must not be allowed to depreciate efficiency and economy in production. Fundamentally it is most important that we should learn to produce goods which can compete successfully with similar goods of other countries, and at an economic price to the consumer. Tariffs would be entirely bad if they were to militate against this.\n\nHong Kong, while undoubtedly growing industrially, is still mainly a transit port, and there is no doubt in my mind that tariffs would on the whole therefore probably do more harm than good. It would be fatal to impose tariffs to help one or two industries, if by surrendering the principle which we have followed for many years we for the sake of one or two industries were to ruin the main trade of the port.\n\nMoreover it must be remembered that this Colony is not, except to a small extent, a primary producer and that in regard to its industries it is largely dependent on imported material. In these circumstances I need hardly stress the danger and difficulty of tariffs.\n\nI have not yet had an opportunity of seeing the exhibits to-day, but from what I have learnt there is no doubt that this Fair affords considerable evidence of what can be obtained from Empire sources, and also what this Colony is capable of producing.\n\n**New Territories.**\n\nI am very glad that there is such a fine exhibit of produce from the New Territories, and I trust that substantial purchases will be made. One cannot but be struck by the great local industry and ability of the agriculturist in producing what he does. The Territories have long been noted for producing some of the finest rice in the world, and to-day they are able to produce many varieties of fruit and vegetables, but more requires to be done in the direction of proper marketing, and I should like to see the principles of co-operation developed in this respect. It has been proved that pineapples can be successfully grown, and I should like to see an up-to-date canning factory for this form of fruit developed in the Colony. To compete however with the canned products of other countries such as Hawaii and Malaya, improved methods must be introduced and new strains of pineapple imported.\n\nIn the matter of advertisement, too, we British have been behind other nations. Lulled perhaps by an excessive feeling of confidence and faith in our own products and achievements, we have tended to consider it unnecessary to advertise and push those products. In these days however it must be conceded that if we are to capture the markets, it is necessary to advertise our goods.\n\nIn opening this Fair to-day, I appeal for a greater support for British products, and in that term of course I include the products of this—a British Colony. The number unemployed at home and in other parts of the Empire is very large, due partly to economic depression and partly to the fact that new inventions often diminish the need for man-power. It is necessary therefore, in order to cope with this problem, to develop to the full the resources of the Empire. Team work is called for and we should realise that in supporting British industries we make a valuable contribution to the solution of a difficult Imperial problem. It is essential however that such industries should aim at efficiency and economy and not allow themselves to be lulled into a wrong sense of security under the impression that if the whole Empire buys British, they will be safe.\n\nThe industrial tendency is undoubtedly growing in this Colony, and in spite of the slump and the fact that some factories have had to close.\n\nIt would take too long to mention by name the many residents who have helped towards the organisation of the Fair, but I desire especially to thank the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels for again allocating to the Fair such a large amount of space in the Peninsula Hotel. Mr. Taggart has helped in innumerable ways towards the successful organisation of the Fair, and the Hotel staff has co-operated in every possible way.\n\n**Prime Movers.**\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson has ably presided over meetings, but on the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga and his sons, Mr. H. Braga and Mr. A. M. Braga, has fallen the brunt of the work of organisation of exhibits, to which they have given a great deal of their time for months past. In this they have been supported by Mr. Key as Honorary Secretary. The Military authorities have greatly assisted the Committee to keep down expenses by lending a considerable quantity of military equipment which has been used for the erection of stalls. In this connexion I would especially mention the help of Mrs. Borrett, Mrs. Kinnaird Watson, Mrs. Hoare and the numerous ladies who are working under their leadership. The organisers of the several sections—the list is again too long to permit of individual mention—deserve our thanks.\n\nThe necessity of building two large pavilions on the adjoining land has involved special electrical difficulties, in handling which the China Light and Power Co., Messrs. Callender's Cable and Construction Co. Ltd., and Messrs. Wm. C. Jack & Co., have most helpfully collaborated in a way that has placed the Committee under a great obligation. To-night you will see the attractive lighting effects which have been installed.\n\nThe Telephone Company has gone to considerable expense and trouble to install the Public Address System which greatly helps speakers in this large building and will doubtless be found useful to exhibitors for broadcasting announcements within the Exhibition area.\n\nSeveral firms and Public Companies—both British and Chinese—have given transport facilities and many more have distributed advertisements all over the Colony. All the English newspapers and several Chinese newspapers, have rendered essential assistance by placing their columns freely at the disposal of the Committee. I may perhaps conclude this incomplete resume by thanking the many exhibitors on whose combined support the Fair depends.\n\n**Canton Visitors Welcomed.**\n\nI extend a very hearty welcome to H.E. Mr. Lin Yun-koy and our other Canton friends, who have done us the honour of coming here to-day to attend this Fair. Their presence here affords further proof of the excellent relations which exist between Canton and this Colony. This Fair is primarily held on behalf of British products, but many of these, I am happy to say, are purchased by Canton. In some things there is a healthy trade rivalry between Canton and Hong Kong, but speaking generally our interests are closely interwoven, and the prosperity of the one is largely dependent on the prosperity of the other. It is a matter for congratulation therefore that the friendship between the two places is so happily maintained.\n\nI have much pleasure in declaring the Fair open and in wishing it great success.\n\n## C. S. O. M.F. 237.\n\n### SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933.\n\n**OFFICIAL OPENING.**\n\n**'GOVERNOR'S PLEA FOR GREATER EMPIRE CO-OPERATION.**\n\n**WELCOME TO OFFICIAL GUESTS.**\n\nWith full ceremonial, the Empire Fair was officially opened by the Governor, Sir William Peel at noon.\n\nThe Governor and Lady Peel were welcomed at the main entrance of the Hotel by the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Chairman of the Committee, who escorted them through a guard of honour comprising Boy Scouts and Girl Guides to the first floor.\n\nHis Excellency entered with Mr. Paterson, while Lady Peel was accompanied by the Vice-chairman of the Fair Committee (Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga). Then came Mr. S. T. Williamson (honorary agent for the Australian and New Zealand Governments), Major Duclos (Canadian Trade Commissioner), the Hon. Dr. Kotewall, Mr. M. F. Key (Secretary of the Fair Committee) and Capt. Walter, A. D. C. to the Governor.\n\nThe Chairman was supported on the dais, on the right, by H.E. the Governor, the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government (Mr. Liu Yun-koy), H.B.M. Acting Consul-General (Mr. E. G. Jamieson, C.B.E.), Mr. J. A. Tonkin (representing the Department of Commerce of the Australian Commonwealth Government), Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga (Vice-Chairman and principal organiser of the Fair Committee). On the left were Lady Peel, the Mayor of Canton (Mr. Liu Chi-wen) and Mrs. Liu Chi-wen, Major V. E. Duclos (Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong), Mr. S. T. Williamson (Hon. Agent for New Zealand) Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. (Vice-Chairman).\n\nOthers present included the General Officer Commanding, Major-General O. C. Borrett, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., C.B.E., and Mrs. Borrett, H. H. the Chief Justice and Mrs. J. R. Wood, representatives of the Consular Body, officials from Canton, the Commodore and Mrs. Marrack, members of the Executive Council, Government officials, members of the General Committee of the Fair, and exhibitors.\n\nA tableau, representing Britannia was staged behind the dais.\n\nWhen we found, however, that we were going to put up a show four or five times as large as before, covering an area of over an acre, we felt that we need not be quite so modest. Seeing that the Empire goods shown to-day are all intended for the great market of South China, we invited the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, Mr. Lin Yun-Koy; the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Liu Chi-Wen and Mrs. Liu Chi-Wen; the Inspector-General for Foreign Affairs for Kwantung, Kwangsi, etc., Mr. Kan Chieh-Hou and Mrs. Kan Chieh-Hou; the Commissioner of Public Safety, General Ho Lok; the Counsellor to the 1st Group Army Headquarters, Colonel C. W. Leung, the Municipal Counsellor and Secretary to the Mayor, Dr. Wu Paak-Shing and Mrs. Wu Paak-Shing; the Secretary to the Chairman of the Kwantung Government, Mr. Chow Hok-Tong and the Secretary to the Commissioner of Public Safety, Mr. W. S. Lun, to accept our hospitality and be present here to-day.\n\nTherefore it is my privilege this morning, in the first place, to welcome His Excellency the Governor, who has taken the greatest interest in this project and who kindly promised some months ago to perform the Opening Ceremony. Secondly, as this is, I think, the first large gathering which Lady Peel has attended since her recent illness, I am sure you would wish me to express on your behalf our congratulations on her recovery and our pleasure that she is here to grace the occasion.\n\n**Canton Guests.**\n\nNext I wish to thank, in the name of the General Committee of the Empire Fair, the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, the Mayor of Canton and the other distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen from Canton who have honoured us to-day by accepting our invitation to the Fair. We trust that what they see here will be of great interest to them and that their visit will further strengthen the friendly relations between South China and Hong Kong.\n\n**Mr. Paterson's Welcome.**\n\nAddressing the gathering, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson said:- Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: The first Empire Fair in Hong Kong, held a year ago, though it called for a great deal of work from organisers, was smaller than the Fair we present to you to-day. We made the Opening Ceremony a local affair. I believe His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton was the only visitor from the outside world.\n\nThe Kwangtung Provincial Government, the Mayor of Canton and the other distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen from Canton who have honoured us to-day by accepting our invitation to the Fair. We trust that what they see here will be of great interest to them and that their visit will further strengthen the friendly relations between South China and Hong Kong. As the Fair has so greatly outgrown the space which the Hotel Company has so generously placed at our disposal, I have to express my regret that it is impossible to provide seats for all who are present. The best amends I can make is to be brief. Let me therefore extend a cordial welcome to His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Canton, Mr. Jamieson and to our local guests. In particular I wish to take this opportunity of expressing, in all sincerity, grateful thanks to the hundreds of workers and exhibitors for their support. I want also to thank Mr. Taggart and the Directors of the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd., for their invaluable assistance, the general public for their attendance and to express the hope that \"dividend warrants will soon be ready\" in the shape of a large increase of British trade as the result of this Fair.\n\nI will now call upon Major V. E. Duclos, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, to read a message from the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of the Department of Trade and Commerce of the Dominion of Canada.\n\n**CANADA'S MESSAGE.**\n\n**Minister's Greeting Read By Major Duclos.**\n\nMajor Duclos then read the following message from The Hon. H. H. 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        "content_text": "## \n\nOn behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty\" should be inserted after the words \"some part of His Majesty's dominions\" in lines 4 and 5 of Section 9(d) of the Ordinance. In view of the fact that there are British protectorates, protected states, and mandated territories which are not part of His Majesty's dominions, and in which there are no British Consular Officers, but in which there are, nevertheless, officials who are authorised to grant British visas,\n\n### \n\nInsert overleaf\n\nYou think it proper to suggest to the ...\n\nAs regards Section 6 of the Ordinance, it is not clear whether the liability of the master, owner, agent, etc., is intended to be joint or joint and several. It is proposed to suggest to you that, in order that this may be made clear, the words \"all or any of the following persons, that is to say\" should be inserted between the words \"board\" and \"the master\" in line 5.\n\n### \n\nThe Secretary of State proposes to request any observations that Sir John Gilmour may have to offer on the Ordinance, and to amend it in the manner indicated above. In the first instance, it would be glad to be informed by the Governor of any proposed amendment to the Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "CIP \n\nL. \n\n1. Extract from monthly review that interesting. ? Put by of P. Roges Chimese 12/X1. R Li recad. Seen chame's MV A14/11 Farmin Can b su This 15/4 M. Gant. 12 al 50055/37 Straits See S. 10.\n\nMr. Cowell has minuted on another file with regard to these regulations as follows:-\n\n\"These Rules and Principles drawn up under Chinese law purport to give Chinese consular officers powers of control, arbitration, etc., in British territory. We shall have to watch this carefully. The precedent of the Indian Agent is not in point; he does not purport to enforce Indian law in Malaya, but only to assist Indians to obtain the protection given them by Malayan laws. We should have the observations of Legal Adviser and consider whether to make any representations to F.C. This can be done on suitable file\".\n\nI am not sure whether any representations are called for, and perhaps Mr. Duncan would say whether he considers this to be necessary on legal grounds.\n\nP. Roger 25.XI.37.",
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        "content_text": "192\n\nAuditors' report and auditors' right of access to books and right to attend general meetings. 19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23, s. 134. Investigation of affairs of company by inspectors. 19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23, s. 135.\n\n58\n\n(2) Nothing in this section shall disqualify a body corporate from acting as auditor of a company if acting under an appointment made before the day on which this Ordinance comes into operation, but subject as aforesaid any body corporate which acts as auditor of a company shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.\n\n133.-(1) The auditors shall make a report to the members on the accounts examined by them, and on every balance sheet laid before the company in general meeting during their tenure of office, and the report shall state-\n\n(a) whether or not they have obtained all the information and explanations they have required; and\n\n(b) whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet referred to in the report is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the company's affairs according to the best of their information and the explanations given to them, and as shown by the books of the company.\n\n(2) Every auditor of a company shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the company, and shall be entitled to require from the directors and officers of the company such information and explanation as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the auditors:\n\nProvided that, in the case of a banking company which has branch banks beyond the limits of the Colony (or, in the case of a China company, if the company has branch banks beyond the limits of the consular district wherein such company has its registered office), it shall be sufficient if the auditor is allowed access to such copies and extracts from such books and accounts of any such branch as have been transmitted to the head office of the company in the Colony (or in the case of a China company, to the registered office of the company within the limits of the China Orders in Council).\n\n(3) The auditors of a company shall be entitled to attend any general meeting of the company at which any accounts which have been examined or reported on by them are to be laid before the company and to make any statement or explanation they desire with respect to the accounts.\n\nInspection.\n\n134. (1) The court may appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and to report thereon in such manner as they direct-\n\n(a) In the case of a banking company having share capital, on the application of members holding not less than one-third of the shares issued:\n\n(b) In the case of any other company having share capital, on the application of members holding not less than one-tenth of the shares issued:\n\n(c) In the case of a company not having a share capital, on the application of not less than one-fifth in number of the persons on the company's register of members.\n\n59\n\n(2) The application shall be supported by such evidence as the Court may require for the purpose of showing that the applicants have good reason for, and are not actuated by malicious motives in, requiring the investigation, and the Court may, before appointing an inspector, require the applicants to give security, to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars, for payment of the costs of the inquiry.\n\n(3) It shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company to produce to the inspectors all books and documents in their custody or power.\n\n(4) An inspector may examine on oath the officers and agents of the company in relation to its business, and may administer an oath accordingly.\n\n(5) If any officer or agent of the company refuses to produce to the inspectors any book or document which it is his duty under this section so to produce, or refuses to answer any question which is put to him by the inspectors with respect to the affairs of the company, the inspectors may certify the refusal under their hand to the court, and the court may thereupon enquire into the case, and, after hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on behalf of the alleged offender and after hearing any statement which may be offered in defence, punish the offender in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the court.\n\n(6) On the conclusion of the investigation the inspectors shall report their opinion to the court which shall direct that a copy of the report be forwarded to the registered office of the company. A further copy shall, at the request of the applicants for the investigation, be delivered to them.\n\nThe report shall be written or printed, as the court may direct.\n\n135. (1) If from any report made under the last foregoing section it appears to the court that any person has been guilty of any offence in relation to the company for which he is criminally liable, the court may direct that the matter shall be referred to the Attorney General.\n\n(2) If where any matter is referred to the Attorney General under this section he considers that the case is one in which a prosecution ought to be instituted and, further, that it is desirable in the public interest that the proceedings in the prosecution should be conducted by him, he shall institute proceedings accordingly, and it shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company, past and present (other than the defendant in the proceedings), to give to him all assistance in connection with the prosecution which they are reasonably able to give.\n\nFor the purposes of this subsection, the expression \"agents\" in relation to a company shall be deemed to include the bankers and solicitors of the company and any persons employed by the company as auditors, whether those persons are or are not officers of the company.\n\n(3) The expenses of and incidental to an investigation under the last preceding section of this Ordinance (in this subsection referred to as \"the expenses\") shall be defrayed as follows:-\n\n(a) Where as a result of the investigation a prosecution is instituted by the Attorney General, the expenses shall be defrayed by the revenues of the Colony;\n\n193",
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        "content_text": "## NO DISTRIBUTION\n\n**Telegram (en clair) from Mr. Blunt, (Canton)**\n\n3/5\n\n**No. 1. SAVING.**\n\nD. January 3rd, 1939.\n\nR. January 13th, 1939.\n\nAddressed to Governor, Hongkong, savingram No. 1 of January 3rd.\n\nYour despatch No. 98 of December 20th, 1938, to Consul-General, Shanghai, and your telegram No. 386 of 1938 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe mortgage held by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on the Sincere Company Limited was never registered at this Consulate-General, nor was the fact that this mortgage existed ever brought to my notice until it was mentioned, inter alia, in a letter which I received from the Bank's Canton agent on August 12th, 1938, in reply to an enquiry as to the extent of genuine British interest in non-British concerns in the Canton Consular District. I then asked what had happened regarding the Sincere Company at Shanghai, but heard nothing further.\n\n2. With the imminent occupation of Canton by the Japanese army, on October 18th the Hongkong and Shanghai, and Chartered Banks both requested my sanction to fly the British flag on the premises of the Sincere Company and Sun Company respectively on the grounds that they had mortgages on the properties. I refused sanction, but as far as the Sincere Company's building was concerned, both officially and unofficially I took every step possible to call the attention of the Japanese military authorities to the Bank's interest and to secure such protection as they were able to give. The Sun Company's building was destroyed in the Canton fires.",
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        "content_text": "## \n2. was initially occupied by 500 troops only, and that during the earlier and worst days of intense looting, no Japanese forces were available to protect property against looting.\n\n3. Prior to the receipt on December 2nd of a letter from the Bank's Canton agent, it had never been suggested to me that the Sincere Company claimed British Consular protection. Certainly no such claim as regards the Canton branch had ever been made to me either by the manager (a returned British student) or by any individual, and still less by the Chinese authorities. To make absolutely certain on this point, I telegraphed to His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai and received the expected reply that British protection in China had been withdrawn from this company by direction of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in September, 1937.\n\n4. The answers to the three questions propounded in paragraph 4 of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn's letter of December 16th to the Colonial Secretary are therefore as follows:\n\n(1) Presumably because there is no genuine British interest in the company (apart from the Bank's mortgage) and because they were regarded, and regarded themselves, as a Chinese concern in China. It will be appreciated that I have no definite information on this point, but the exact reasons can, of course, be supplied by His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai.\n\n(2) See China Order-in-Council of March 17th, 1925, Article 221, which reads as follows:-\n| Clause | Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | A company shall not be entitled to be recognised or protected as a British company unless it is registered under this Order, but shall, although not so registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Courts in China. |\n| (2) | ... |",
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        "content_text": "**the Colonial Office No.52 of 25th February 1938**).\n\n3. The most convenient method of doing this would presumably be for the Company's Agent in Hong Kong to inform the Japanese Consular authority in the Colony, as this would save both time and trouble, and though, as you will see, the Air Ministry think that it is undesirable that it should be left to the Company to communicate direct with the Japanese, we believe that we should not vary that procedure, both for the reason of expedition and for the purpose of maintaining the unofficial character of the arrangement.\n\n4. Perhaps you would let me know whether you agree. I am sending a copy of this letter to Burkett at the Air Ministry.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**c) B. J. GENT**\n\n67",
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        "title": "CO129-588-22 China- British territorial rights; negotiations with China 28-12-1942 - 10-11-1943",
        "content_text": "## \nif any discrimination is found to exist, \ntake steps for its removal.\n\n3.\n\nArticle 7 of the Treaty deals with the appointment of Consular Officers by one High Contracting Party in the territory of the other, \nand the facilities which are to be afforded to \nthe Consuls to communicate with their Nationals \nand companies. You will observe also that in accordance with this Article, Chinese Consuls \nare to be informed immediately when any of their Nationals are arrested or detained, and I should \nbe glad if arrangements could be made to arrange for this to be done.\n\nThe obligation does not, of course, apply to \npersons of Chinese origin who are British subjects, \neven though they may still be regarded by the \nChinese Government as possessing Chinese nationality.\n\nI appreciate the Chinese Consuls are actually resident \nin very few of the overseas dependencies, but this \nobligation will be discharged if the Chinese Consul \nor Consular Agent for the area within which the territory is situated, is informed by mail of \nthe arrest or detention of Chinese Nationals.\n\nThe enclosed List gives the address of the \nappropriate Chinese Consul in respect of each \nterritory.\n\nI have, etc.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-3 Entry of Chinese into Hong Kong 9-1-1941 - 7-11-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-590-3 Entry of Chinese into Hong Kong 9-1-1941 - 7-11-1941",
        "content_text": "3\n\n!\n\n5. 70.\n\n6. 7.0.\n\n7 M.K.\n\n7.98/98/10 7.168/98/10\n\nTel. 39\n\n8.20 Scott (7.0.) (^)/c^7) compo\n\nve aft\n\n13.1.41\n\n13.1.41\n\n14.1.41\n\n15.1.41\n\nI attach (No. 7) a telegram just received from Hong Kong. The difficulty of visas for Chinese visiting Hong Kong was stated in the Chungking telegram, No. 52 on the -/40 file. The Governor of Hong Kong in No. 1 in this file expressed no objection to the cancellation of the arrangement for British subjects to be exempted from obtaining visas to enter Chinese territory, but preferred, under a misapprehension that H.M. Ambassador in China had suggested it, a mutual waiving of visa requirements for holders of Chinese and British passports. On the Ambassador pointing out that he had not suggested this, the Acting Governor, in No. 7, agrees that he was under a misapprehension and accepts the Ambassador's suggestion that it may be necessary now to impose a visa requirement on Chinese passports. There will be visa difficulties for both Chinese and British since, in present circumstances, in China it will be even more difficult in some areas for Chinese to obtain British visas before starting on their journey to Hong Kong. Also it will be difficult for British residents in Hong Kong to obtain a Chinese visa since there is no Chinese Consul in the Colony.\n\nhas told me.\n\nI am\n\nSir John Brennan that when the Chinese Ambassador saw Mr. Butler (see No. 6) he also mentioned to him the possibility of reviving the proposal for the appointment of a Chinese consular representative at Hong Kong. The F.O. will report that to us officially in due course. inclined to think that we should telegraph to Hong Kong the substance of the points in para. 3 of No. 6. and ask for categorical replies for communication to the Chinese Ambassador. We should also ask how it is proposed that British residents in Hong Kong should obtain visas for China and whether the Hong Kong Govt. would, if necessary, see any strong objection to the posting of a Chinese consular representative in Hong Kong for this purpose principally, who should not perhaps have the title of Consul but should nevertheless be officially recognised by the Colonial Govt. as an accredited agent of the Chungking authority.\n\nSeen\n\n1474\n\n9 % Gov. Hong Kong\n\n9.\n\nsu\n\n-1576\n\nMent\n\nal-grush\n\n14. 1.41.\n\ntel. 34 Important\n\n15. 1. 41.",
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        "title": "CO129-590-3 Entry of Chinese into Hong Kong 9-1-1941 - 7-11-1941",
        "content_text": "942. I shall also be glad to learn how it is preferred that British Residents in Hongking should obtain exequaturs for China (see your Z.N°34) and whether this my long Government will, if they may strongly object to the recognition of a Chinese Consular representative at Hongkong for this purpose practically.\n\nIn Air. 11 be recognised by specially Hongkong Govt as an accredited agent for China thing authentic.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949",
        "content_text": "No. 31 of 1911.\n\n(s. 39-A\n\nINTERPRETATION.\n\nINTERPRETATION.\n\nNo. 31 of 1911.\n\nPage 13\n\ncontd.]\n\nCrown Agents.\n\nAdmiralty.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (4).\n\nPrivy Council.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (5).\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63,\n\ns. 12 (8).\n\nImperial Parliament.\n\nConsul.\n\n(5) \"Crown Agents\" means the person or persons for the time being acting as Crown Agents for the Colonies in England, or any one of them.\n\n(6) The Admiralty means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.\n\n(7) \"Privy Council\" means the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; and Order in Council means an Order made by His Majesty in his Privy Council.\n\n(8) \"Board of Trade\" means the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.\n\n(9) \"Imperial Parliament\" and \"Parliament of the United Kingdom\" mean the Parliament...\n\n(10) \"Consul\" and \"consular officer\" include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent and any person for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul-general, consul or vice-consul.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 12 (20).\n\nLegislative Council.\n\n52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 18 (7).\n\nTreasury.\n\nJustice of the peace.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\n(11) \"Legislative Council\" and \"legislature\" mean the Legislative Council of the Government of Hong Kong; and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hong Kong, mean the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession.\n\n(12) \"The Treasury\" and \"Treasurer\" mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respectively, and \"Treasurer\" includes the Financial Secretary and the Accountant-General.\n\n(13) \"Justice of the peace\" means a person appointed by the Governor to act as justice of the peace for the Colony.\n\n(14) \"Clerk of Councils\" means the person appointed by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the Legislative Council and includes any person appointed by the Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nB.-Colonial definitions.\n\n(s.39 contd.)\n\n\"The Colony\" or \"Hong Kong\"\n\n(1) means the whole area of land and water lying between the following boundaries—\n\nOn the south-The parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north between the points where it is intersected by the meridians of longitude 113° 52′ east and 114° 30′ east of Greenwich;\n\nOn the north-A line drawn from the point where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay to the said south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay; thence along the high water mark upon the shore of Deep Bay to the estuary of the Sham Chun River;\n\na line drawn as described in the agreement delimiting the northern frontier of the New Territories signed by James Haldane Stewart Lockhart and Wong Ts'ün-shin at Hong Kong on the 19th day of March, 1899, and following the high water mark in Mirs Bay to the point where the meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich intersects the mainland;\n\nOn the east-The meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the mainland and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north;\n\nOn the west-The meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north: Provided that, between the points on the north and south coast of Lantao where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the island, the boundary follows the western coast-line of Lantao and includes the waters appertaining thereto.\n\n(2) \"Kowloon\" means that portion of the peninsula of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of China on the 24th day of October, 1860.\n\n(3) \"The New Territories\" means the additional territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898.\n\n(4) \"New Kowloon\" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan...\n\nPage 36\n\nPage 50",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n14\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n15\n\n[s. 6 contd. | Master may direct; and every such keeper shall, on the morning of Monday in each week, send to the Harbour Master's office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of the seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularize in such list the seamen who wish for immediate employment, and place opposite to the names of those last named the names of the ships from which they were last discharged; and the Harbour Master shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in a conspicuous part of the Mercantile Marine Office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required to do so, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters may furnish. Any infraction of this sub-section shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\nCertificated officer may Lodge elsewhere.\n\nRelief of seamen belonging to vessel registered in the Colony.\n\nPayment of expenses incurred in the Colony for relief of such seamen.\n\nRepayment of expenses incurred elsewhere than in the Colony.\n\n(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates or engineers of ships from boarding elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.\n\nDistressed seamen.\n\n7.—(1) All expenses incurred under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts in the relief of distressed seamen who, at the time of such relief being granted, have last served in a ship registered in the Colony, and all expenses incurred in the United Kingdom in relieving and returning to the Colony all distressed seamen who last served in such ship, shall be borne by the revenue of the Colony.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out of the general revenue of all expenses incurred in the Colony for the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said Acts or of any regulations in that behalf which may be made by the Governor in Council.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the repayment out of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of the said Acts by the Imperial Government, or by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society or by the Government of any British colony, or by any British consular officer in any foreign country, in and about the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, and such sums shall be refunded in such manner as the Governor may think fit or as a Secretary of State may direct.\n\nHealth and accommodation.\n\nin accordance with\n\n8.(1) The owner, agent or master of every British ship navigating between the Colony and any place out of the same shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines, medical stores, etc., and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Board of Trade, and a copy of the book or books issued by the said Board containing instructions for dispensing the same, and also a sufficient quantity of anti-scorbutics, to be served out to the crew, of proper quality and in accordance with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Acts.\n\n(2) The owner, agent or master of any such ship who wilfully refuses or neglects to provide and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions and anti-scorbutics as are by this section required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\nOwner, etc., neglecting to provide medicines and medical stores to be guilty of misdemeanor.\n\n(3) It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Port to inspect the medicines, medical stores and anti-scorbutics of any British ship navigating between the Colony and any place out of the same, and, if such articles are deficient in quantity or quality or are placed in improper vessels, he shall give notice to the master of the ship and to the Harbour Master; and the Harbour Master shall, before granting a clearance to such ship, require a certificate from the Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and, if such certificate is not produced, the ship shall be detained until the certificate is produced, and if the ship proceeds to sea, the owner, consignee or master of the ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n(4) The master of any ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Director of Medical Services, who, on such inspection, shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which certificate such seaman shall produce and show to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate there shall be paid the fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the agent or master of the ship in case such\n\n228\n\nPage 310\n\nPage 311",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n341\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n10\n\n[8.9 contd.] period, until he can be put on board the ship when the ship leaves the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed three months.\n\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 238.\n\nShip or house may be searched for deserter.\n\nPenalty on person harbouring deserter.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any court, justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. Every person who harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted or concealed, on board any other ship, boat or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a magistrate, to be dealt with as is hereinbefore directed.\n\n(3) Every person who-\n\n(a) harbours, conceals, employs or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony,\n\nknowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded or absented [s. 9 contd.] himself from duty; or\n\n(b) causes, induces or persuades, or attempts to cause, induce or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate or to attempt to violate any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship; or\n\n(c) knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding or absence from duty of any such seaman,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\ndeclaration\n\n(4) The Harbour Master, before granting a port clearance Harbour\n\nMaster to any ship, may, if he has reasonable grounds for believing that\n\nmay require any deserter is concealed on board such ship, proceed on board master to thereof, and then and there require the master to institute due search for suspected and diligent search for such deserter, and further, if he deems deserters, it necessary, require the master to make a statutory declaration and to make that to the best of his knowledge and belief, after due and of search. diligent search, no such deserter is concealed within or about his ship; and every master of a ship who refuses or unnecessarily delays to comply with such requisition shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every master of a ship who makes any such statutory declaration containing any false statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n(5) Every Seaman lawfully engaged, and every apprentice Offences to the sea service, who commits any of the following offences against\n\ndiscipline. within the waters of the Colony, shall be liable to be punished as follows:—\n\n(a) if he deserts from his ship, he shall be guilty of the 57 & 58 Vict. offence of desertion, and be liable to forfeit all or any part of c. 60, s. 221. the effects which he leaves on board and of the wages which he has then earned and also to satisfy any excess of wages properly paid by the owner or master of the ship to any substitute engaged in his place at a higher rate of wages than the rate stipulated to be paid to him; and also he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve weeks;\n\n(b) if he neglects, or refuses without reasonable cause, to join his ship or to proceed to sea in his ship, or is absent without leave at any time within twenty-four hours of the ship's\n\n342",
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        "content_text": "307\n\n44\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n[s. 17 contd.] equipment and cargo, and may require the unloading or removal of any cargo, ballast or tackle.\n\n[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 730.] Application to foreign ships of provisions as to detention.\n\n[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 462.]\n\n(d) The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts with respect to persons who wilfully impede an inspector shall apply as if those provisions were herein enacted, with the substitution for the inspector of any member of the Court of Survey, assessor or surveyor who, under this section, has the same powers as an inspector or has authority to survey a ship,\n\nUnsafe foreign ships.\n\n18. When a foreign ship whilst in the waters of the Colony is unsafe by reason of the defective condition of the hull, equipment or machinery, or by reason of overloading or improper loading, the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to the detention of ships shall apply to that foreign ship as if such ship were a British ship, with the following modifications-\n\n(1) a copy of the order for the provisional detention of the ship shall be forthwith served on the consular officer for the state to which the ship belongs, and, if there is no such consular officer, on the master of the ship;\n\n(2) where a ship has been provisionally detained, the consular officer on the request of the owner, agent or master of the ship, and, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent or master of the ship, may require that the person, if any, appointed by the Governor to survey the ship shall be accompanied by such person as the consular officer, or the owner, agent or master, may select; and in such case, if the surveyor and such person agree, the Governor shall cause the ship to be detained or released accordingly; but if they differ, the Governor may act as if the requisition had not been made, and the owner, agent or master shall have the like appeal to the Court of Survey touching the report of the surveyor as is hereinbefore provided; and\n\n(3) where the owner, agent or master of the ship appeals to the Court of Survey, the consular officer, on the request of such owner, agent or master, or, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent or master, may nominate any competent person or persons to be members of the Court of Survey, not exceeding two.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899,\n\n45\n\n18A. Nothing in the provisions of sections 13, 14, 16 and 18 shall affect any foreign ship not bound to the Colony which comes into the waters of the Colony for any purpose other than that of embarking or landing passengers or taking in or discharging cargo or taking in bunker coal.\n\n6 Edw. 7, c. 48, s. 6.]\n\nPART V.\n\nMARINE COURTS AND COURTS OF SURVEY.\n\nMarine Courts.\n\n19. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever occasion may arise, by warrant under his hand and the seal of the Colony, to form a court (which shall be called the Marine Court) to make investigations as to casualties affecting ships, or to inquire into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates or engineers of ships.\n\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 478.\n\n(2) Such court shall consist of not more than five or less than three members, of whom one shall be a magistrate and president of the court, and at least one shall be a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy, and the remainder masters of the British mercantile marine, or such persons of nautical, engineering or other special skill or knowledge as the Governor may appoint: Provided always that, where any investigation involves or appears likely to involve any question as to the cancellation or suspension of the certificate of a master, mate or engineer, the court shall include not less than two members having experience in the merchant service.\n\n(3) Each of the unofficial members of such court shall be paid the sum of ten dollars a day, or such other sum as the Governor may, in any special case, direct, during each day that the court sits.\n\n(4) For the purpose of an investigation under this Part, a casualty shall be deemed to occur-\n\n(a) when on or near the coasts of the Colony any British ship is lost, abandoned or materially damaged;\n\n(b) when on or near the coasts of the Colony any British ship has been stranded or damaged, and any witness is found in the Colony;\n\n* As amended by No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35].\n\n368",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n[s. 6 contd.] Master may direct; and every such keeper shall, on the morning of Monday in each week, send to the Harbour Master's office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of the seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularize in such list the seamen who wish for immediate employment, and place opposite to the names of those last named the names of the ships from which they were last discharged; and the Harbour Master shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in a conspicuous part of the Mercantile Marine Office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required to do so, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters may furnish. Any infraction of this sub-section shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.\n\nCertificated officer may lodge elsewhere.\n\nRelief of seamen belonging to vessel registered in the Colony.\n\nPayment of expenses incurred in the Colony for relief of such seamen.\n\nRepayment of expenses incurred elsewhere than in the Colony.\n\n(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates or engineers of ships from boarding elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.\n\nDistressed seamen.\n\n7.—(1) All expenses incurred under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts in the relief of distressed seamen who, at the time of such relief being granted, have last served in a ship registered in the Colony, and all expenses incurred in the United Kingdom in relieving and returning to the Colony all distressed seamen who last served in such ship, shall be borne by the revenue of the Colony.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out of the general revenue of all expenses incurred in the Colony for the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, under the provisions of the said Acts or of any regulations in that behalf which may be made by the Governor in Council.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor to order the repayment out of the general revenue of all sums expended under the provisions of the said Acts by the Imperial Government, or by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society or by the Government of any British colony, or by any British consular officer in any foreign country, in and about the relief of such seamen as aforesaid, and such sums shall be refunded in such manner as the Governor may think fit or as a Secretary of State may direct.\n\nPage 14\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n15\n\nHealth and accommodation.\n\n8. 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        "content_text": "423\n\n18\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n[3.9 contd.] period, until he can be put on board the ship when the ship leaves the port or until he is demanded by the master of the ship: Provided always that the said period of confinement shall not, in the absence of such departure or demand, exceed three months.\n\n57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 238.\n\nShip or house may be searched for deserter. Penalty on person harbouring deserter.\n\n(b) If any seaman or apprentice deserts, when within the waters of the Colony, from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any foreign country to which an Order in Council has declared that section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply, any court, justice, or officer who would have had cognizance of the matter if the seaman or apprentice had deserted from a British ship shall, on the application of a consular officer of the foreign country, aid in apprehending the deserter, and for that purpose may, on information given upon oath, issue a warrant for his apprehension, and, on proof of the desertion, order him to be conveyed on board his ship or delivered to the master or mate of his ship, or to the owner of the ship or his agent, to be so conveyed; and any such warrant or order may be executed accordingly. Every person who harbours or secretes any deserter liable to be apprehended under this sub-section, knowing or having reason to believe that he has deserted, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.\n\n(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate, on complaint of the master of any British ship to the effect that he has reasonable cause to believe that any seaman who has deserted while such ship is within the waters of the Colony is harboured, secreted or concealed, or suspected to be harboured, secreted or concealed, on board any other ship, boat or other vessel or in any house or place whatsoever, to issue a warrant directing a constable to search such ship, boat or other vessel, or such house or place, and to lodge such seaman in any police station; and every such seaman shall, with all convenient speed, be brought before a magistrate, to be dealt with as is herein before directed.\n\n(3) Every person who—\n\n(a) harbours, conceals, employs or retains, or assists in harbouring, concealing, employing or retaining, any seaman belonging to the crew of any British ship who has deserted therefrom or otherwise absconded or absented himself from duty, while such ship is within the waters of the Colony,\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n19\n\nknowing such seaman to have deserted, absconded or absented [8. 9 contd.] himself from duty; or\n\n(b) causes, induces or persuades, or attempts to induce or persuade, any such seaman in any manner whatsoever to violate or to attempt to violate any agreement which he may have entered into to serve on board any such ship; or\n\n(c) knowingly connives at the desertion, absconding or absence from duty of any such seaman,\n\nshall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.\n\nand to make declaration of search.\n\n(4) The Harbour Master, before granting a port clearance Harbour Master to any ship, may, if he has reasonable grounds for believing that may require any deserter is concealed on board such ship, proceed on board master to thereof, and then and there require the master to institute due search for suspected and diligent search for such deserter, and further, if he deems deserters, it necessary, require the master to make a statutory declaration that to the best of his knowledge and belief, after due and diligent search, no such deserter is concealed within or about his ship; and every master of a ship who refuses or unnecessarily delays to comply with such requisition shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every master of a ship who makes any such statutory declaration containing any false statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n(5) Every seaman lawfully engaged, and every apprentice Offences to the sea service, who commits any of the following offences against discipline. within the waters of the Colony, shall be liable to be punished as follows:\n\n(a) if he deserts from his ship, he shall be guilty of the 57 & 58 Vict. offence of desertion, and be liable to forfeit all or any part of c. 60, s. 221. the effects which he leaves on board and of the wages which he has then earned and also to satisfy any excess of wages properly paid by the owner or master of the ship to any substitute engaged in his place at a higher rate of wages than the rate stipulated to be paid to him; and also he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve weeks;\n\n(b) if he neglects, or refuses without reasonable cause, join his ship or to proceed to sea in his ship, or is absent without leave at any time within twenty-four hours of the ship's\n\n424",
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        "content_text": "449\n\n44\n\nNo. 10 of 1899,\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n[s.17 contd.] equipment and cargo, and may require the unloading or removal of any cargo, ballast or tackle.\n\n[r/. 57 & 58 Viet. c. 60, s. 730.]\n\nApplication to foreign ships of provisions as to detention.\n\nLet. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 462.]\n\n(d) The provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts with respect to persons who wilfully impede an inspector shall apply as if those provisions were herein enacted, with the substitution for the inspector of any member of the Court of Survey, assessor or surveyor who, under this section, has the same powers as an inspector or has authority to survey a ship.\n\nUnsafe foreign ships.\n\n18. When a foreign ship whilst in the waters of the Colony is unsafe by reason of the defective condition of the hull, equipment or machinery, or by reason of overloading or improper loading, the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to the detention of ships shall apply to that foreign ship as if such ship were a British ship, with the following modifications :—\n\n(1) a copy of the order for the provisional detention of the ship shall be forthwith served on the consular officer for the state to which the ship belongs, and, if there is no such consular officer, on the master of the ship;\n\n(2) where a ship has been provisionally detained, the consular officer on the request of the owner, agent or master of the ship, and, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent or master of the ship, may require that the person, if any, appointed by the Governor to survey the ship shall be accompanied by such person as the consular officer, or the owner, agent or master, may select; and in such case, if the surveyor and such person agree, the Governor shall cause the ship to be detained or released accordingly; but if they differ, the Governor may act as if the requisition had not been made, and the owner, agent or master shall have the like appeal to the Court of Survey touching the report of the surveyor as is hereinbefore provided; and\n\n(3) where the owner, agent or master of the ship appeals to the Court of Survey, the consular officer, on the request of such owner, agent or master, or, if there is no such consular officer, the owner, agent or master, may nominate any competent person or persons to be members of the Court of Survey, not exceeding two.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n45\n\n7, c. 48, s.\n\n18A. Nothing in the provisions of sections 13, 14, 16 and Exceptions. 18 shall affect any foreign ship not bound to the Colony which ef. 6 Edw. comes into the waters of the Colony for any purpose other than 6.] that of embarking or landing passengers or taking in or discharging cargo or taking in bunker coal,\n\nPART V.\n\nMARINE COURTS AND COURTS OF SURVEY.\n\nMarine Courts.\n\nMarine\n\n19. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever Governor occasion may arise, by warrant under his hand and the seal of may appoint the Colony, to form a court (which shall be called the Marine Court. Court) to make investigations as to casualties affecting ships, or\n\n57 & 58 Vict. to inquire into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the c. 60, s. 478, part of masters, mates or engineers of ships.\n\n*\n\n(2) Such court shall consist of not more than five or less Constitution than three members, of whom one shall be a magistrate and of Court. president of the court, and at least one shall be a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy, and the remainder masters of the British mercantile marine, or such persons of nautical, engineering or other special skill or knowledge as the Governor may appoint: Provided always that, where any investigation involves or appears likely to involve any question as to the cancellation or suspension of the certificate of a master, mate or engineer, the court shall include not less than two members having experience in the merchant service.\n\n(3) Each of the unofficial members of such court shall be Unofficial paid the sum of ten dollars a day, or such other sum\n\nas the members of Governor may, in any special case, direct, during each day that the court sits.\n\ncourt to be remunerated.\n\n(4) For the purpose of an investigation under this Part, a Enuniera. casualty shall be deemed to occur→\n\ntion of\n\ncasualties.\n\nc. 60, s. 464.\n\n(a) when on or near the coasts of the Colony any British 57 & 58 Viet. ship is lost, abandoned or materially damaged;\n\n(b) when on or near the coasts of the Colony any British ship has been stranded or damaged, and any witness is found in the Colony;\n\n* As amended by No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35].\n\n450",
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        "content_text": "78\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n483\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n79\n\nsular officer where proceedings taken in respect of a foreign ship under Merchant Shipping Act, 1892, as extended to Colony.\n\n22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 69.\n\nPenalty for offences not specially provided for.\n\nService of documents. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 696 (1).]\n\nObstructing service. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 696 (2).]\n\nPower to detain ship in certain cases.\n\nas extended to the Colony, and where any proceedings are taken under that Act against the master or owner of any such ship, notice shall forthwith be given to the nearest consular officer for the country to which the ship belongs, and such notice shall specify the grounds on which the ship has been detained or the proceedings have been taken.\n\n(4) Where no penalty is specially attached by this Ordinance to the breach or infringement of any provisions contained therein, the same shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.\n\n(5) (a) Where, for the purposes of this Ordinance, any document is to be served on any person, that document may be served-\n\n(i) in any case by delivering a copy thereof personally to the person to be served, or by leaving the same at his last place of abode; and\n\n(ii) if the document is to be served on the master of a ship, where there is one, or on a person belonging to a ship, by leaving the same for him on board that ship with the person being or appearing to be in command or charge of the ship; and\n\n(iii) if the document is to be served on the master of a ship, where there is no master, and the ship is in the Colony, on the managing owner of the ship, or, if there is no managing owner, on some agent of the owner residing in the Colony, or, where no such agent is known or can be found, by affixing a copy thereof to the mast of the ship.\n\n(b) Every person who obstructs the service of any document on the master of a ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and if the owner, agent or master of the ship is party or privy to such obstruction, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n(6) Where under this Ordinance it is enacted that, under certain conditions, a ship shall not leave the waters of or any port of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, under such conditions, to detain the ship until he is satisfied that the provisions of the law have been fulfilled. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 692 (3).]\n\n(7) Where under this Ordinance a ship is authorized or ordered to be detained, if the ship, after such detention or after service on the master of any notice of or order for such detention, proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea before having been released by competent authority, the master of the ship, and also the owner or agent, and any person who sends the ship to sea, if such owner, agent or person is party or privy to the offence, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.\n\n(8) Where a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea, when on board thereof in the execution of his duty, any officer authorized to detain the ship or any surveyor or officer appointed by the Governor, the owner and master of the ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of and incidental to the officer or surveyor being so taken to sea, and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or, if the offence is not prosecuted summarily, not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day until the officer or surveyor returns or until such time as would enable him, after leaving the ship, to return to the port from which he was taken, and such expenses may be recovered in like manner as the penalty. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 692 (2).]\n\n(9) Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse or qualification in relation to any offence under the Merchant Shipping Acts or under this Ordinance, whether it does or does not accompany in the same section the description of the offence, may be proved by the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in any information or complaint, and if so specified or negatived, no proof in relation to the matter so specified or negatived shall be required on the part of the informant or complainant. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 697.]\n\n(10) In any proceeding in court against any person for a breach of the provisions of this Ordinance, all entries in the official log and the articles of agreement shall be received in evidence, subject to all just exceptions. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 239 (6).]\n\n474",
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        "content_text": "## INTERPRETATION\n\n(5) \"Crown Agents\" means the person or persons for the time being acting as Crown Agents for the Colonies in England, or any one of them.\n\n(6) The \"Admiralty\" means the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom for the time being or the Commissioners for the time being executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.\n\n(7) \"Privy Council\" means the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; and \"Order in Council\" means an Order made by His Majesty in his Privy Council.\n\n(8) \"Board of Trade\" means the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.\n\n(9) \"Imperial Parliament\" and \"Parliament\" mean the Parliament of the United Kingdom.\n\n(10) \"Consul\" and \"consular officer\" include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent and any person for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul-general, consul or vice-consul.\n\n(11) \"Legislative Council\" and \"legislature\" mean the Legislative Council of the Government of Hong Kong; and when used with reference to a British possession other than Hong Kong, mean the authority, other than the Imperial Parliament or His Majesty the King in Council, competent to make laws for such British possession.\n\n(12) \"The Treasury\" and \"Treasurer\" mean the Colonial Treasury and the Colonial Treasurer respectively, and \"Treasurer\" includes the Financial Secretary and the Accountant-General.\n\n(13) \"Justice of the peace\" means a person appointed by the Governor to act as justice of the peace for the Colony.\n\n(14) \"Clerk of Councils\" means the person appointed by the Governor to be Clerk to the Executive Council and the Legislative Council and includes any person appointed by the Governor to be Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n## INTERPRETATION\n\n### B.-Colonial definitions.\n\n(1) \"The Colony\", \"this Colony\" or \"Hong Kong\" means the whole area of land and water lying between the following boundaries—\nOn the south—The parallel of latitude 22° of north between the points where it is intersected by the meridians of longitude 113° 52′ east and 114° 30′ east of Greenwich;\nOn the north—A line drawn from the point where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay to the said south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay; thence along the high water mark upon the shore of Deep Bay to the estuary of the Sham Chun River; thence by a line drawn as described in the agreement delimiting the northern frontier of the New Territories signed by James Haldane Stewart Lockhart and Wong Ts'ün-shin at Hong Kong on the 19th day of March, 1899, and following the high water mark in Mirs Bay to the point where the meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich intersects the mainland;\nOn the east—The meridian of longitude 114° 30′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the mainland and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north;\nOn the west—The meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich between the points where it intersects the parallel of latitude touching the extreme south-west point of the shore of Deep Bay and the parallel of latitude 22° 9′ north: Provided that, between the points on the north and south coast of Lantao where the meridian of longitude 113° 52′ east of Greenwich intersects the island, the boundary follows the western coast-line of Lantao and includes the waters appertaining thereto.\n\n(2) \"Kowloon\" means that portion of the peninsula of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain by the Emperor of China on the 24th day of October, 1860.\n\n(3) \"The New Territories\" means the additional territories leased to Great Britain by the Emperor of China under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898.\n\n(4) \"New Kowloon\" means that portion of the New Territories which is delineated in red and shown upon a plan...",
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