[ { "id": 317890, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Advertisement\n\n**MANAGER**\nEwen Cameron, Esq.\n\n**LONDON BANKERS**\nLondon and County Bank\n\n## INTEREST ALLOWED\n\nOn Current Deposit Account at the rate 4 per cent per annum on the daily balance.\n\nFor Fixed Deposits :--\n- For 3 months, 8 per cent per annum.\n- For 6 months, 4 per cent per annum.\n- For 12 months, 5 per cent per annum.\n\n## LOCAL BILLS DISCOUNTED\n\nCredits granted on approved Securities, and every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Drafts granted on London, and the chief Commercial places in Europe, India, Australia, America, China and Japan.\n\nT. JACKSON, \nChief Manager.\n\nOffices of the Corporation, \nNo. 1, Queen's Road East. Hongkong, March 22, 1882.\n\n## COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS\n\n(Incorporated 7th & 18th March, 1848.)\n\n**CAPITAL FULLY PAID** £3,200,000. \n**RESERVE FUND** £800,000.\n\n**HEAD OFFICE** - 14, Rue Bergere, Paris.\n\n**AGENCIES and BRANCHES** at: LONDON, BOURBON, SAN FRANCISCO, MARSEILLES, BOMBAY, LYONS, CALCUTTA, HONGKONG, HANKOW, NANTES, SHANGHAI, FooHow, MELBOURNE, and SYDNEY.\n\n**LONDON BANKERS**: \n- The Bank of England.\n- The Union Bank of London.\n- Messrs C. J. Hambro & Son.\n\nThe Hongkong Agency receives Fixed Deposits on Terms to be ascertained on application, grants Drafts and Credits on all parts of the World, and transacts every description of Banking Exchange Business.\n\nF. COCHINARD, \nAgent, Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, February 8, 1882.\n\n## PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICES\n\n### TUESDAY, the 20th of June instant\n\nBy Order of the Mortgagees, ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF GROUND abutting on the Praya, and measured on the North and South sides: on the East and West sides... Registered in the Land Office as LOT No. 223. Together with SHOPS erected thereon and Nos. 104 and 106, WING LOK and Nos. 114 and 115, PRAYA... The PREMISES are held from the Crown for the Residue of the term of... and will be Sold subject to the Tenancies and Lettings thereon. For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to... or to J. M. GUEDES, Auctioneer; BRERETON & WATTON, Solicitors, Hongkong, June 14, 1882.\n\n### THURSDAY, the 22nd day of June, 1882\n\nTHE Undersigned has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction... RECOGNISED by the INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF 30TH MARCH, 1862...\n\n### FRIDAY, the 23rd day of June, 1882\n\nALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF GROUND, Situate at Victoria, Hongkong... measured on the North on a Public Road on the South 38 feet, on the East and on the West side 37 feet; with... Piece or Parcel of GROUND is registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT No. 295. The PREMISES are held from the Crown for the Residue of the term of 900 years from the 17th June, 1868. Together with THREE HOUSES Nos. 10, 12 EAST STREET and TAI-PING-SHAN... For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to... or to J. M. GUEDES, Auctioneer; BRERETON & WOTTON, Solicitors for the Mortgagees, Hongkong, June 14, 1882.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS\n\n### NOTICE\n\nTHE INTEREST and RESPONSIBILITY OF Mr. CHARLES KAHN in our Firm CEASED on the 30th April, 1882.\n\nREISS & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1882.\n\n### NOTICE\n\nWE Have been appointed AGENTS for the MITSU BISHAN KAISHA, of Tokio, at THIS PORT.\n\nGEO. R. STEVENS & Co.\n\nHongkong, February 1, 1882.\n\n## AUCTION NOTICE\n\n(Owing to the expiry of the Lease) The Whole of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and FIXTURES of the CLUB, Also, A THURSTON'S BILLIARD TABLE (Steel Stand), with Balance, &c., A PHELAN'S BILLIARD TABLE, with Balls, &c., complete. 2 Sets of BOWLING ALLEYS, complete.\n\nTERMS OF SALE.-Cash on delivery.\n\nJ. M. GUEDES, Auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, June 14, 1882.\n\n## Testimonial to Mr. Russell from Sir. R. Macdonell\n\nI certify that Mr. James Russell duly passed an excellent examination in Chinese during the course of my administration of the government of Hongkong. On account of the diligence and success with which he had prosecuted his Chinese studies, I appointed him Private Secretary, in which capacity he has been most useful in conducting the communication between myself and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328021, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "397 \n\nsatisfaction to all the British Communities in China and elsewhere in the world perhaps no greater variety of small articles obtainable which cannot well be sent to friends at home otherwise than through the Post. There is a constant endeavour to send such things by Book or Sample Post, and their refusal leads to much disappointment.\n\n3. Taking the Paris Convention: 1880, and all1⁄2 Blackwood's letter of December 11th 1884 as guides, I infer that the Postage on a parcel would be computed somewhat as follows.\n\nHongkong to France | \n--- | \nSea-rate | Fr. 2.10 \nEgypt | .50 \nShare of United Kingdom | 3.00 \n\"United Kingdom\" | 2:10 + 7.70 = Fr. 1.10 per lb.\n\nI would suggest that the postage on parcels exchanged between the United Kingdom and Hongkong be fixed at 1/- per lb in England or 30 cents in Hong Kong. At present rates of Exchange, 30 cents is equivalent to a fraction more than one shilling.\n\n4. (Entirely by P. & O. steamer viâ Suez and Gibraltar) \n\nThese rates compare favourably with those at present charged by the Indian Parcel Post Administration, which are 1/4 per lb to the Straits Settlements, not including free delivery.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "# N. 131-11 DE JUNHO DE 1888\n\nOs direitos serão pagos pelo peso de cada mercadoria, depois de deduzida a tara. Se entre o negociante português e o empregado da alfandega houver dúvidas no fixar da tara, cada uma das partes escolherá um certo número de caixas ou de fardos dentre cada cem da mercadoria em questão, tomar-se-há o peso bruto desse volume, tirando depois a tara de cada um deles, e a tara média que resultar será a adoptada para todos.\n\nNo caso de qualquer outra dúvida ou contestação, aqui não designada, o negociante português poderá apelar para o seu cônsul, e este comunicará a questão ao superintendente da alfandega, e este fará por conciliá-la amigavelmente. A apelação, porém, só poderá ser atendida quando seja feita dentro do prazo de vinte e quatro horas; e, neste caso, até que a dúvida seja resolvida, não se poderá fazer nos livros da alfandega assento algum relativo às mercadorias em questão.\n\n## Artigo XXXIV\n\nAs fazendas avariadas terão uma redução de direitos proporcional à sua deterioração. No caso de haver dúvida, será resolvida como na cláusula deste tratado relativa às mercadorias que pagam direitos ad valorem.\n\n## Artigo XXXV\n\n1. Todo o negociante português que, depois de importar mercadorias estrangeiras em algum dos portos abertos da China e de satisfazer os competentes direitos, as quiser reexportar para qualquer outro dos mesmos portos, deverá fazer delas uma relação qual, para evitar fraudes, mandará ao superintendente da alfandega, que examinará pelos seus empregados se os direitos foram pagos, se as fazendas deram entrada nos livros da alfandega, se conservam as marcas originais e se os assentos dos livros estão em harmonia com o referido na relação. Achando tudo conforme, declarará no certificado de despacho, mencionando também o total dos direitos pagos, e de tudo isto dará conhecimento aos superintendentes das alfandegas dos outros portos.\n\nChegado o navio ao porto para onde conduz as fazendas, ser-lhe-á permitido desembarcá-las sem novo pagamento de direitos quando no exame delas se reconheça serem as mesmas. Quando porém nesse exame se descubra fraude, as fazendas poderão ser confiscadas pelo governo chinês.\n\nSe algum negociante português quiser reexportar para país estrangeiro fazendas que tenha importado com pagamento dos competentes direitos, deverá fazer dela uma relação, satisfazendo às mesmas condições exigidas na reexportação para os portos da China, pelo que se lhe dará um certificado de restituição de direitos (drawback) que será aceito em pagamento de direitos de importação ou de exportação por qualquer das alfandegas chinesas.\n\nOs cereais estrangeiros, que tiverem sido azidos a algum dos portos da China por um navio português, poderão ser reexportados sem embaraço, quando se não haja desembarcado porção alguma deles.\n\n## Article XXXIII\n\nDuties will be paid on the net weight of every kind of merchandise. Should there be any difference of opinion between the Portuguese merchant and the customhouse Officer as to the mode by which the tare is to be fixed, each party will choose a certain number of boxes or bales from among every hundred packages of the goods in question, taking the gross weight of said \"packages, then the tare of each of the packages separately, and the average tare resulting therefrom will be adopted for the whole parcel.\n\nIn case of any doubt or dispute not mentioned herein, the Portuguese merchant may appeal to the Consul who will refer the case to the Superintendent of customs. This Officer will act in such a manner as to settle the question amicably. The appeal, however, will only be entertained if made within the term of twenty-four hours, and in such a case, no entry is to be made in the customhouse books in relation to the said goods until the question shall have been settled.\n\n## Article XXXIV\n\nDamaged goods will pay reduced duty proportionate to their deterioration; any doubt on this point will be solved in the way indicated in the clause of this treaty with respect to duties payable on merchandise at valorem.\n\n## Article XXXV\n\nAny Portuguese merchant, who having imported foreign goods into one of the open parts of China and paid the proper duties thereon, may wish to reexport them to another of the said ports, will have to send to the Superintendent of customs an account of them, who, to avoid fraud, will direct his Officers to examine whether or not the duties have been paid, whether the same have been entered on the books of the customs, whether they retain their original marks, and whether the entries agree with the account sent in. Should everything be found correct, the same will be stated in the export certificate, together with the total amount of duties paid, and all these particulars will be communicated to the custom-house Officers at other ports.\n\nUpon arrival of the ship at the port to which the goods are carried, permission will be granted to land without any new payment of duties whatsoever, if, upon examination, they are found to be the identical goods; but if during the examination, any fraud be detected, the goods may be confiscated by the Chinese Government.\n\nShould any Portuguese merchant wish to reexport to a foreign country any goods imported and upon which duties have been already paid, he will have to make his application in the same form as required for the reexportation of goods to another port in China, in which case a certificate of drawback or of restitution of duties will be granted, which will be accepted by any of the Chinese custom-house in payment for import or export duties.\n\nForeign cereals imported by Portuguese ships into the ports of China may be reexported without hindrance, if no portion of it has been discharged.\n\n## Artigo XXXVI\n\nAs autoridades chinesas adoptarão em todos os portos as medidas que julgarem mais convenientes para evitar a fraude e o contrabando.\n\n## Artigo XXXVII\n\nO produto das multas e confiscações infligidas, no conformidade deste tratado, a súbditos portugueses, pertencerá exclusivamente ao governo chinês.\n\n## Artigo XXXVIII\n\nTodo o súbdito português que transportar para o mercado do interior do país mercadorias, de que tenha pago os competentes direitos de importação em qualquer dos portos abertos, ou que comprar no interior produtos chineses para levar para os portos do Yang-tai-kiang, ou para os portos estrangeiros, deverá observar o regulamento novamente adoptado para com as outras nações.\n\nOs oficiais e guardas empregados da alfandega que não cumprirem o regulamento, ou que exigirem mais direitos do que devem, serão castigados segundo as leis chinesas.\n\n## Article XXXVI\n\nThe Chinese authorities will adopt at the ports the measures which they may deem the most convenient to avoid fraud or smuggling.\n\n## Article XXXVII\n\nThe proceeds of fines and confiscations inflicted on Portuguese subjects, in conformity to this treaty, shall belong exclusively to the Chinese Government.\n\n## Article XXXVIII\n\nPortuguese subjects carrying goods to a market in the interior of the country on which the lawful import duties have been already paid at any of the open ports, or those who buy native produce, in the interior to bring to the ports on the Yangtae-Kiang, or to send to foreign ports, shall follow the regulations adopted towards the other nations.\n\nCustom-house Officers who do not comply with the regulations or who may exact more duties than are due shall be punished according to the Chinese laws.\n\n...\n\n## Artigo XLVI\n\nQualquer das duas altas partes contratantes poderá, no fim de dez anos, pedir uma revisão de tarifa ou dos artigos comerciais deste tratado, entendendo-se que, não sendo feito este pedido dentro de seis meses contados sobre os primeiros dez anos, continuará em vigor a mesma tarifa por mais dez por mais dez anos contados sobre os precedentes dez, e assim de dez em dez anos.\n\n## Article XLVI\n\nIt is agreed that either of the High Contracting Parties to this treaty may demand a 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\n## Artigo XLVII\n\nTodas as questões que se suscitarem entre súbditos portugueses na China, com respeito a direitos de propriedade ou de pessoa, serão submetidas à jurisdição das autoridades portuguesas.\n\n## Article XLVII\n\nAll disputes arising between Portuguese subjects, in China, with regard to rights, either of property, or person, shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of Portuguese authorities.\n\n## Artigo XLVIII\n\nQuando súbditos chineses se tornarem culpados de qualquer acto criminoso para com súbditos portugueses, as autoridades portuguesas participarão às autoridades chinesas para que os acusados sejam julgados segundo as leis da China.\n\nQuando súbditos portugueses se tornarem culpados de qualquer acto criminoso para com súbditos chineses, as autoridades chinesas participarão ao cônsul português, para que os acusados sejam julgados segundo as leis de Portugal.\n\n## Article XLVIII\n\nWhenever Chinese subjects become guilty of any criminal act towards Portuguese subjects, the Portuguese authorities must report such acts to the Chinese authorities in order that the guilty be tried according to the laws of China.\n\nIf Portuguese subjects become guilty of any criminal act towards Chinese subjects, the Chinese authorities must report such acts to the Portuguese Consul in order that the guilty be tried according to the laws of Portugal.\n\n## Artigo XLIX\n\nSe qualquer súbdito chinês, tendo contraído uma dívida para com um súbdito português, se negar a pagar-lhe ou fraudulentamente se ocultar dele, as autoridades chinesas empregarão todos os esforços para o prender e obrigá-lo a pagar, depois de provada a dívida e verificada a possibilidade de pagamento.\n\nAssim também as autoridades portuguesas farão diligências para que seja satisfeita qualquer dívida que um súbdito português tenha deixado de pagar a um súbdito chinês. Mas em caso algum o governo português, bem como o governo chinês, poderão ser considerados responsáveis pelas dívidas dos seus respectivos súbditos.\n\n## Article XLIX\n\nIf any Chinese subject shall have become indebted to a Portuguese subject and withholds payment, or fraudulently absconds from his creditor, the Chinese authorities shall use all their efforts to apprehend him and to compel him to pay, the debt being previously proved and the possibility of its payment ascertained.\n\nThe Portuguese authorities will likewise use their efforts to enforce the payment of any debt due by any Portuguese subject to a Chinese subject.\n\nBut in no case will the Portuguese Government or the Chinese Government be considered responsible for the debts of their subjects.\n\n## Artigo L\n\nQuando qualquer súbdito português tiver de representar à autoridade chinesa do distrito, deverá primeiramente levar a sua representação ao cônsul, que, não a achando inconveniente, a fará entregar, e, no caso contrário, mandará escrevê-la noutros termos ou recusará transmiti-la. Igualmente, quando um súbdito chinês haja de representar ao cônsul de Portugal, só poderá fazê-lo por via da autoridade chinesa, que procederá da mesma forma.\n\n## Article L\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## Artigo LI\n\nTodo o súbdito português que tiver qualquer queixa ou reclamação a fazer contra um súbdito chinês, deverá apresentá-la ao cônsul, que se informará devidamente da questão e empregará todos os esforços para a terminar amigavelmente.\n\nDo mesmo modo, quando um súbdito chinês tiver motivo de queixa contra um português, o cônsul ouvirá atentamente a sua reclamação e fará o possível para reconciliar as partes.\n\nSe, porém, a questão for de tal natureza que não possa terminar-se por modo conciliatório, o cônsul português e as autoridades chinesas procederão conjuntamente à investigação do caso e a decidirão com equidade, aplicando cada uma dessas autoridades as leis do seu país, segundo a nacionalidade do réu.\n\n## Article LI\n\nPortuguese subjects who may have any complaint or claim against any Chinese subject, shall lay the same before the Consul, who will take due cognizance of the case and will use all his efforts to settle it amicably.\n\nLikewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to complain of a Portuguese subject, the Consul will listen to his complaint and will do what he possibly can to reestablish harmony between the two parties.\n\nIf, however, the dispute be of such a nature that it cannot be settled in that conciliatory way, the Portuguese Consul and Chinese authorities will hold a joint investigation of the case and decide it with equity, applying each the laws of his own country, according to the nationality of the defendant.\n\n## Artigo LII\n\nTendo a religião católica por fim converter os homens ao bem, as pessoas que a ensinarem ou a professarem receberão igualmente eficaz protecção das autoridades chinesas, que não poderão persegui-las, nem tolhê-las com proibições, quando elas desempenharem pacificamente os seus misteres e não ofendam as leis.\n\n## Article LII\n\nThe Catholic religion has for its essential object the leading of men to virtue. Persons teaching it and professing it shall alike be entitled to efficacious protection from Chinese authorities; for shall such persons, pursuing peaceably their calling and not offending against the laws, be persecuted or interfered with.\n\n## Artigo LIII\n\nA fim de prevenir para o futuro qualquer discussão, e considerando que a língua inglesa, entre todas as línguas estrangeiras, é a mais geralmente conhecida na China, este tratado, com a convenção a ele apensa, é escrito em três línguas: portuguesa, chinesa e inglesa, e assinado em seis cópias, sendo duas em cada língua. Todas estas versões têm o mesmo sentido e significação, mas se por acaso houver divergência na interpretação das versões portuguesa e chinesa, servirá o texto inglês para decidir as dúvidas que se suscitarem.\n\n## Article LIII\n\nIn order to prevent for the future any discussion, and considering that the English language, among all foreign languages, is the most generally known in China, this treaty, with the special convention appended to it, is written in Portuguese, Chinese, and English, and signed in six copies, two in each language. All these versions have the same sense and meaning, but if there should happen to be any divergence in the interpretation of the Portuguese and Chinese versions, the English text will be made use of to resolve the doubts that may have arisen.\n\n## Artigo LIV\n\nO presente tratado, com a convenção a ele apensa, será ratificado por Sua Majestade Fidelíssima El-Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves e por Sua Majestade Imperial o Imperador da China. Em seguida à troca das ratificações, que será feita em Tien-tsin com a maior brevidade possível, deverá o tratado, com a convenção apensa, ser impresso e publicado para que os funcionários e súbditos dos dois países possam ter pleno conhecimento das suas estipulações e as observem.\n\nEm fé do que os plenipotenciários assinaram e selaram o presente tratado.\n\nFeito em Pekim, no primeiro dia do mês de dezembro do ano de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo 1887, que corresponde ao dia décimo sétimo da décima lua do décimo oitavo ano de Kuang-Su.\n\n(L. S.) Thomas de Sousa Rosa.\n\n(L. S.) Ching.\n\n(L. S.) Sun.\n\n## Convenção apensa ao tratado de amizade e comércio celebrado entre Portugal e a China no dia 1 de dezembro de 1887\n\nTendo sido estipulado no artigo 4.º do tratado de amizade e comércio concluído entre Portugal e a China em 1 de dezembro de 1887 que uma convenção será ajustada entre as duas altas partes contratantes para estabelecer as bases da cooperação na cobrança do rendimento de ópio exportado de Macau para os portos chineses, os abaixo assinados, Thomas de Sousa Rosa, enviado extraordinário e ministro plenipotenciário de Sua Majestade Fidelíssima El-Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves em missão especial junto à corte da China, e Sua Alteza o Príncipe Ch'ing, presidente do Tsung-li-Yamen, e Sun, ministro do Tsung-li-Yamen e 1.º vice-presidente do ministério das obras públicas, ministros plenipotenciários de Sua Majestade Imperial o Imperador da China, concordaram na seguinte convenção em três artigos.\n\n## Artigo I\n\nPortugal promulgará uma lei sujeitando o comércio do ópio em Macau às disposições seguintes:\n\n1.º Nenhum ópio poderá ser importado em Macau em quantidades inferiores a uma caixa.\n\n2.º Todo o ópio que se destinar a Macau deverá, logo à sua chegada ao porto, ser manifestado na repartição competente, a cargo de um funcionário público nomeado pelo governo português para superintender a importação e exportação do ópio em Macau.\n\n3.º O ópio importado em Macau não poderá ser baldeado, desembarcado, armazenado, removido de um para outro armazém, ou exportado sem licença passada pelo superintendente.\n\n## Article I\n\nPortugal will enact a law subjecting the opium trade of Macau to the following provisions:\n\n1.º No opium shall be imported into Macau in quantities less than one chest.\n\n2.º All opium imported into Macau must, forthwith upon arrival, be reported to the competent department under a public functionary appointed by the Portuguese Government to superintend the importation and exportation of opium in Macau.\n\n3.º No opium imported into Macau shall be transhipped, landed, stored, removed from one store to another, or exported, without a permit issued by the Superintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368689, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## AT THE COURT AT BALMORAL,\n\nThe 20th day of October, 1898.\n\n**PRESENT,**\n\n**THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.**\n\nWHEREAS by a convention dated the 9th day of June 1898 between Her Majesty and his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it is provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hong Kong, shall be enlarged under lease to Her Majesty in the manner described in the said Convention.\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient to make provision for the Government of the territories acquired by Her Majesty under the said Convention, during the continuance of the said lease.\n\nIt is hereby ordered by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, as follows :--\n\n1. The territories within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention shall be and the same are hereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony.\n\nPage 510\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369949, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "# \n## 1.\n\n## 30\n\nWhereas by a convention dated the 19th day of June 1898 between Her Majesty and his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it is provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hong Kong shall be enlarged under lease to Her Majesty in the manner described in the said convention.\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient to make provision for the Government of the territories acquired by Her Majesty under the said Convention, during the continuance of the said lease.\n\nIt is hereby ordered by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, as follows:\n\nThe territories within the limits described in the said convention shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, part and parcel of Her Majesty's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "417\n\nand for the term of the convention have been declared to be part & parcel of H.M.'s Colony of Hongkong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said colony I should think therefore that the inhabitants\n\nWho do not wish to retain their former nationality\n\nthe Queen. become ipso facto subjects\n\nto allow the inhabitants to choose nationality as e.g. in the Heligoland\n\nwould be a difficult thing to work in ther\n\nNo.\n\n196.\n\nSir,\n\n22256\n\nRece & REP 21 AUG 19\n\nGovernment House, HongKong, 21 July, 1899.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration a copy of a letter from the Acting Registrar General which raises the question as to whether the inhabitants of the New Territory are British subjects and entitled to all the privileges of such.\n\n2.\n\nI also enclose a copy of a memorandum on the subject by the Acting Chief Justice, and a copy of a minute by the Acting Attorney-General.\n\nThe form of colonial lease makes it I think difficult to question on my own\n\nAs advised by the Acting Chief Justice and Acting Attorney-General I have the honour to request that the points raised may be submitted for the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nSterry Allaha GOVERNOR &C.\n\nThe Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &C. &cc.\n\nPage 417\n\n...\n\nEncl: 3.\n\nRefer to Law Officers\n\n8th July, 1899.\n\nCPL\n\n26 Aug\n\nth. H. F. Vhon\n\nSes 26 Aust\n\nmel: 17th July, 1899.\n\nhat this pretent instance as Squeezing giving an opening to\n\ncafe, 14 July, 1899.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nNo. 194\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDESPATCH C. J. 194\n\nParcel Post Convention with France\n\n9.1.0. inf 11 Jan Quod 98.10 April 1080.\n\nL. (75)~39055—15006-12-05\n\nSee (Minutes.)\n\nPrevious Paper: No. 345, 1899 Dec\n\nSubsequent Paper: 95929, Key low 99, 99.00, cir 2200 Dec", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374137, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "33225 208\n\nOrder in Council which had been prepared in the Colonial Office, and was to request consideration, and to us to take the same into our report, Whether the terms of the Draft Order in Council were sufficient and proper for the propose intended.\n\nDraft Order in Council for including Kowloon City within the Colony of Hong Kong\n\nIn obedience to your commands, we have the honour to Report, That in our opinion the accompanying Draft Order in Council, as altered and initialled by us, is sufficient and proper for the intended purpose.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servants, Richard & Webster, Robt B Finlay\n\nWhereas by a convention dated the 9th day of June 1898 between Her Majesty and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China it was provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hong Kong should be enlarged under lease to Her Majesty in the manner described in the said convention.\n\nAnd whereas by an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 20th of October 1898 it was amongst other things ordered that the territories within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention should be and the same were thereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, \nThe 27th day of December, 1899.\n\n### PRESENT,\n**THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY** \n**HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARNE** \n**MR. BALFOUR** \n**MR. RITCHIE.**\n\nWHEREAS by a Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it was provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hong Kong should be enlarged under lease to Her Majesty in the manner described in the said Convention.\n\nAnd whereas by an Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 20th of October, 1898, it was, amongst other things, ordered that the territories within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention should be and the same were thereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong, in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony, and it should be competent for the Governor of Hong Kong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the said territories as part of the Colony.\n\nAnd whereas by Article 4 of the said Order in Council it was provided that, notwithstanding anything in the said Order in Council contained, the Chinese officials at the date of the said Order in Council stationed within the City of Kowloon should continue to... \n\n`C.(29)1566` \nPage 292", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "# DESPATCH \n**147** \nC. O. **7932** \nGovernor. No. **32** 1901 \nDate: **20 Jan 29** \nNo. **4952** \n\n## (Subject.) \n**Marcel Post Convention with France** \n\nPrevious Paper: **7333** \nG. P. O. minute: **4 March** \nDate: **12 Mar** \nNo. **10202** \n\n## (Minutes.) \nSubmitted. \nDate: **4/3** \n\nInitials: {.I} \nDate: **27/111** \nCode: **31 (73) --21009~0037-1900 $1319-90000-11-1000** \n\nSubsequent Papers: \nNo. **20 202** \n\nPage 150\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "# Instructions referred to on page\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nEOC 113 DESPATCH S\n\n## Head 1\nIn the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is entirely on that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.)\n\n## Head 3\nState the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz, Superannuation, Compensation, Compensatory Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which claim is made.\n\n## Head 5\nIf plan tariff service so- been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word “broken” should be added before or after the number of years, months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the breaks or break should be stated under heading 9.\n\n## Head 6\nIf the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the 36 months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the 36 months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\n## Head 7\nA separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the pension or Gratuity. Whenever the value of a house or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes as part of his regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed. \"Papers of Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries; and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\n## Head 8\nIn cases of infirmity if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be bodily shown for discharging the duties of his situation, and farrago showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent. In case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\n## Head D\nAs to \"broken\" service, see Head 5. If the Applicant has had any \"acting service,\" the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not, during the \"Acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\n## Head 11\nIn special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\n## Head 11-7th\nIf Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\n## Head 19\nThe length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n| Governor No. | Date | Previous Paper | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 189 1901 | 17 May | 19879 Straits 318. 26 Sept 33435 369 80. 3. July 2194/20 | R1945 Eastern |\n\nNo. 21459 (Subject.) Parcel Post Convention with France Post equivalent of 50 centimes should be 35 centimes (Mexican) (Minutes.) P.O. LE at once Eum 2416 24/01 See further on 21946 \n\n`178-810AD-SCOV-7-1900` `88511-2000011-100`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE 2\n\n## Extract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" dated 30th June, 1900\n\n### SUPREME COURT\n\n#### 29th June\n\n**BEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON, C.M.G. (CHIEF JUSTICE) AND HIS HONOUR, T. SERCOMBE SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE)**\n\n**THE SHELL CASE-THE JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT**\n\nJudgment was given in the Shell Case. The Chief Justice said-By their petition the plaintiffs alleged that by an agreement dated the 20th December, 1899, the Crown agreed to lease to them a piece of ground covered by the sea and registered in the Land Office of the Colony as Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 for a term of five years from the 7th October, 1899, at the annual rent of $300, and that one of the conditions of the agreement was that the plaintiffs should use the said premises for the purpose only of searching for and obtaining coral or shells from the bed of the sea. They further alleged that on the 12th January, 1900, the defendant trespassed upon the said premises and took therefrom coral and shells, the property of the plaintiffs, and converted them to his own use. And they claimed damages of $100 for the trespass and conversion.\n\nBy his answer the defendant set up several defences, the principal of which, and the one most relied on at the hearing, was that, from a time exceeding the limits of living memory, Chinese fishermen had, without hindrance and in exercise of their lawful rights, taken by dredging the natural products of the sea, well from the leased premises as from the adjacent and surrounding waters and the land beneath such waters; that the said premises are situate within the district leased to Her Majesty the Queen by His Majesty the Emperor of China by and subject to the conditions contained in the Convention dated the 9th June, 1898; that it is a term of the Convention that there shall be no expropriation of the inhabitants of the leased district; and that the defendant was an inhabitant of the said district and had a right to take the natural products of the sea, including coral and shells, from the said premises.\n\nAt the hearing the facts of the case were for the most part not in dispute. The plaintiffs seemed to have been engaged in the business of procuring dead shells, dredged up from the waters of the sea, for the purpose of lime-burning for some time before they obtained the agreement for a lease which is referred to in their petition. This agreement-which, by the way, purports to be executed by the plaintiffs, but is not so executed-was intended to place them in possession, for the purposes already mentioned, of a submarine area, measuring nearly three miles in length by about a mile and a half in breadth-inclusive, however, of a considerable island-close to the little island of Chan Kung, on the eastern side of the large island of Lantao. It is admitted that this area is within the limits of the territorial waters of the leased district. From this area the plaintiffs took marine shells for use in their business, by means of junks and boats engaged by them for the purpose. They also gave permission to the owners of other junks and boats to take shells from the leased premises, on condition of their being paid one Caudareem per picul for all shells so taken. Finding their alleged exclusive rights of dredging invaded by others without permission obtained from them, the plaintiffs in January last made complaint to the Police authorities, with the result that on the 12th January Sergeant Kerr, of the Water Police, found five junks dredging for shells within the limits of the area under lease. Of one of these junks the defendant was the owner and master. After ascertaining that the junks were dredging without the permission of the plaintiffs, Sergeant Kerr took the junks with the persons on board of them to the Police Station at Tsim Sha Tsui. There it was found that the junks had on board greater or less quantities of dead marine shells, the defendant stating that his junk carried 14 piculs. Mr. Slade admitted that these shells had been dredged up by the defendant from the leased premises to be used in the burning of lime. The persons in charge of the junks were charged with stealing the shells, but in the result they were discharged at the Police Court, and their junks and the shells in question were subsequently delivered up to them. Civil proceedings were then instituted against them by the plaintiffs, and it was arranged between the parties that the alleged exclusive right of the plaintiffs should be tested in the present suit.\n\nAt the hearing, evidence was given by Mr. Bruce Shepherd, the Land Officer, that claims had been made at the Land Office in respect of similar leases to the one now in question, alleged to have been granted by the Chinese authorities. It was said that these claims had been substantiated by documentary evidence-grants by the Chinese Government-which had been lodged in the Land Office. Mr. Shepherd said that these claims had been noted, but there had been no recognition of them beyond the receipt of rent in respect of them. The documents spoken of were not produced, and no further evidence was forthcoming as to their authenticity, their terms, or their effect. In these circumstances I am unable to think that there is any satisfactory evidence before the Court to show that, prior to the cession of the leased district, the Chinese Government claimed and exercised the right of granting within the district leases of a similar character to that the validity of which is now challenged in this suit.\n\nOn the other hand, in the course of the hearing the parties agreed upon and filed the following admission of fact: \"It is admitted that Chinese fishermen have been in the habit of dredging for shells and coral, for the purposes of lime-burning, from Lantao Marine Lot No. 2 openly and believing themselves entitled as of right so to do, without interference by anyone, from the limits of living memory until the granting of the lease of the above Lot.\"\n\nI am satisfied by the evidence before the Court that the defendant is a Chinese fisherman and also that he was, at the time of the alleged trespass, an inhabitant of the leased district. Further, I find that, as such fisherman and inhabitant, he was, at the time of the execution of the agreement, in the enjoyment without hindrance, in common with other Chinese fishermen, of what he and they believed to be a right to win from the leased premises coral and shells and to appropriate them to his own use as material for lime-burning.\n\nThe parties, then, standing in this relation to one another so far as the facts are concerned, it remains to determine what are their legal relations as arising out of these facts.\n\nBy the Order of the Queen-in-Council of the 20th October, 1898, it was declared that the territories within the limits and for the term described in the Convention should be part and parcel of the Colony. Apart then from the question raised by the defence of the pre-existent right to dredge for and remove marine shells from the leased premises, it may be taken-although, as will be seen hereafter, the matter is not free from doubt-that it was competent for the Crown to let the submarine area in question to the plaintiffs, subject, however, to the rights of free naviga...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381174, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 702, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "。No.1 in Mr.Bratman's 81.No.1 of Jany. 14th. \"01. Postal charges at Chefoo between Mr.Forsyth J.P.\n\nCopy\n\nVenc. English Baptist Mission.\n\n2010 696\n\n10 AUG 01\n\nChefoo.\n\nNovember 9th.1900.\n\nTo the Chinese Imperial Postmaster\n\nChefoo.\n\nDear Sir\n\nI beg to formally protest against the payment of Five dollars and forty cents on six parcels from England. I believe the charge to be oppressive and illegal.\n\nYours faithfully\n\n(signed)\n\nE.C.Forsyth.\n\nImperial Post Office\n\nChefoo. Nov 9th.1900\n\nReplying to your note of today's date containing protest against payment by yourself of five dollars and forty cents charged by this Office on six parcels to your address from England.\n\nI have to say that correspondence as laid down in article 7 of the Convention Principale de l'union Postale Universelle comprehended letters, cards, prints, commercial papers and samples, but not parcels,\n\nIn the case of correspondence the postage collected is retained entirely by the office of origin, whereas, in the case of parcels the postage collected is divided between the offices taking part in the transport.\n\nThe I.P.O. being outside the Postal Union does not receive a share of the postage collected on parcels to or from abroad and consequently must either refuse to carry parcel at all or charge its own rates.\n\nThe charge fixed for the I.P.O. for parcels is 10 cts per lb. The charge of five dollars and forty cents is according to that rate perfectly just and in order.\n\nThe public are perfectly free to make most arrangements they think best for the forwarding of their parcels to & from the mail terminus (Shanghai) and they need not use the I.P.O. unless they wish. But if they do send their parcels through the I.P.O. they must abide by its rules.\n\nI have the honor to be,Sir,\n\nyour obedient servant\n\nF.C.Forsyth\n\nActg F/O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383594, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "Address reply to- \"The Secretary, General Post Office,\n\nquoting Registered No. 192593.\n\nSir,\n\n56369\n\n129\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,\n\n23rd\n\n24 SEP C\n\nSeptember, 1901.\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your letter of the 3rd of July, No. 21945, Ceylon enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the equivalent in the Colonial currency of the unit of fifty centimes the basis of the postage to be collected\n\nunder the provisions of Articles 3, 4 and 5 of the Anglo-French Convention for a direct parcel post between France and Ceylon, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe Acting Postmaster General is understood to have advised His Excellency that, though 10 cents of a dollar in Colonial currency were fixed as the equivalent of 25 centimes by the Detailed Regulations of the Convention of Washington, the parcel post payments having to be made at the rates of the day, the equivalent of 50 centimes would be more properly fixed\n\nat 25 cents of a dollar.\n\nIt would appear, however, that during the year ended 30th June 1900 the exchange value of the Mexican dollar at Hong Kong averaged 1/11.63, and that during the last six months of 1900 it was always over 2/- and often stood at 2/1¼. Early in 1901 it receded to 2/-; and, when His Excellency's despatch was written, it was 1/11.63.\n\nThe recommendation was no doubt made in anticipation of\n\na further material fall; but this fall has not taken place; and, although there has recently been a temporary fall to 1/11, the exchange during the last six months (i.e. three months before and three since the date of the despatch) shows a\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nGeneral\n\nCOLONIAL\n\nOFFICE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Governor. No.\nHong Kong\nNo 5044\nC. O.\n50443\nto 480\n1902\n4 Nov\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n(Subject.)\nDirect Parcel Post with ...\nSuggests that FO be approached with a view to the execution of a convention for ...\n\nCopy PC care ...\n2 Janjo\nCopy So. 25 Mar 03 933/0.\nmo 07/02.3\n(WB & L(78)—50951-0000-12-01\n30419-8000-SDL\n\nSubsequent Paper.\nGoo 57635\n1978\n\nDESPATCH.\nHusa\n\n(Minutes.)\n? Send y (not to Po for cons: LF.\n7/12 Nov.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# No.489.\n\n**Hongkong**\n\n**All**\n\n**C.O.**\n\n**5.443**\n\n**193**\n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 4th November, 1902.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the correspondence noted in the margin and to point out the large pecuniary advantage, estimated by the Postal Agent in Amoy at $10,000 annually, which will accrue to this Government in the event of the establishment of a Parcel Post with the United States of America direct instead of via London.\n\n| No. | Date | From | To |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | 3 October, 1902 | Secretary, General Chamber of Commerce, Amoy | General Post Office, Hongkong |\n| | 3 October, 1902 | | |\n\n2\\. The authority under which parcels for the United States of America can be accepted by the Hongkong Administration at all is the arrangement between the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and this does not permit of the despatch of such parcels otherwise than through London. To allow of such a direct exchange as is suggested by the Chairman of the Amoy General Chamber of Commerce, it would be necessary to execute a new Convention with the United States Government. Such conventions have been made with other British Colonies, as for example the Parcels Post Convention between the United States of America and the Windward Islands signed at Washington on the 24th February, 1892, and I would suggest that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs be approached.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "# From Hong Kong, 1902\n\n## Contents\n\n| Subject | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| China & Japan Tel Co. | Tramways |\n| Post Office | Brit. Postal Agencies in China |\n| Post Office | Parcels Post Convention with France. Tramways |\n| Post Office | Brit. Postal Agencies in China. Penny Postage |\n| Post Office | Sale of stamps at foreign postal agencies |\n| Post Office | Penny postage at postal agencies |\n| Pharmaceutical Chemist | Asst: Apothecary & Analyst |\n| Chartered Bank of India | Leave |\n| Pharmaceutical Chemist | Asst: Apothecary & Analyst |\n| Post Office | Brit. Post-Office at Sientui |\n| Chartered Bank of India | Holiday |\n| Audit Office | Salary of Mr. Snesser |\n| Audit Office | Audit Dept. in new Govt. Offices |\n| Cambridge University | Bar to Fellow Masters at Queen's College |\n| Royal Humane Society | Award to A. Counsell |\n| Post Office | Despatch of French mails to Canton |\n| Post Office | Revenue Expenditure |\n| Post Office | Auxil-Office |\n| Post Office | Appointment of burning officer |\n| Post Office | Direct-Parcel Post with Usa Individuals |\n| Blake, Sir H. | Cholera in Canton |\n| Statues | King & Prince of Wales |\n| Chinese Customs | |\n\n## Entries\n\n1. China & Japan Tel Co. - Tramways\n2. Post Office - Brit. Postal Agencies in China\n3. Post Office - Parcels Post Convention with France. Tramways\n4. Post Office - Brit. Postal Agencies in China. Penny Postage. 18 Apl. Sale of stamps at foreign postal agencies 25-Apl. Penny postage at postal agencies 25-Apl.\n5. Pharmaceutical Chemist - 29. Asst: Apothecary & Analyst\n6. Chartered Bank of India - 10 May. Holiday. Leave\n7. Pharmaceutical Chemist - 15. Asst: Apothecary & Analyst\n8. Post Office - 11 June. Brit. Post-Office at Sientui\n9. Chartered Bank of India - 15-Aug. Holiday\n10. Audit Office - 19. Salary of Mr. Snesser\n11. Audit Office - 2 Oct. Audit Dept. in new Govt. Offices\n12. Cambridge University - Fellow Masters at Queen's College\n13. Royal Humane Society's Award - 30. To A. Counsell\n14. Post Office - Despatch of French mails to Canton\n15. Post Office - 18 Dec. Revenue Expenditure 101\n16. Post Office - Auxil-Office. Col bursing officer. 2. Aptt. of burning officer\n17. Post Office - Direct-Parcel Post with Usa Individuals\n18. Blake, Sir H. - 3 Mar. Cholera in Canton\n19. Statues - King & Prince of Wales\n20. Chinese Customs\n\n#1 Financial Instruction\n\n## Post Office\n\nBrit. Postal Agencies in China. Auxil-Office. 18 Dec. Revenue Expenditure 101\n\n## Post Office\n\n31. **Brit. Postal Agencies in China**. Direct-Parcel Post with Usa Individuals\n\nPage 1\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n\n### Office or Individual.\n\nNo. 9989 \nC.O. \n0050 \n**Parcel Post Convention with France** \n\nYou are informed that the last provisions Paper, Musestraux 20 uent, has been adopted by thoug as equivalent of 50 centuries. Steps will be taken to draw up detailed regulations for carrying out the same.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nMaytów 103A \nSexpres Regnota Ming - 14 Mch Astrauts 19. \nAned mar \nCopy letter or more copy Regis to albe \n26-вим \nWB (79)-30652~20000-19-01 \n\n### Next subsequent Paper.\n\nMr Johnson \n? Send 3 copies of the Regulations to each of the colonies concerned, sending also to Hongkong a copy of this letter, L.F.F. and acknowledge saying copies of the Regns are being sent. \nR.E.S. \n14/3. \nX has to go, Dy \nThis was overlooked. Further to L7 KHK. sending copy now herewith pug 17/3.\n\ndespatched \nAg fremor, on receipt of your under acknowledgement-letter stating what the order must be rescinded at once.\n\n6 \nАли itu take this opportunity of forwarding for ch 4 \nPing edy of a despatch a copy from the acting Governor on the subject of the establishment of French Offices at Canton & Amoy.\n\n| Date | Reference | \n| --- | --- | \n| 1902 | 11 Inch | \n| ... | ... |\n\nPage 18 \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` \n`XCR(85)72`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## XIII.\n\n1. Each Administration shall cause each of its exchanging offices to prepare monthly for the other Administrations concerned a statement of the parcels exchanged with them during the preceding month. These statements shall be drawn up on forms conforming to the model `AV 7` and shall be forwarded not later than the 15th day of the month following that to which they relate, to the Administration to which the office belongs.\n\nwas not present, so continuing with the rest of the text:\n\nthe re-directing country and that of the new destination are not adjacent, the first intermediary office which receives a re-directed parcel shall credit itself with the amount of its quota and with that of the re-directing office by charging them to the office to which it delivers the parcel; and the latter in its turn, if it is itself only an intermediary, shall charge its own quota against the next office with the addition of what has been credited to the preceding office. The same operation will be repeated between the several offices taking part in the conveyance, until the parcel reaches the delivering office. But if the amount chargeable for the further conveyance of a re-directed parcel shall have been paid at the time of its re-direction, the parcel shall be dealt with as if it had been addressed direct from the re-transmitting country to the country of destination, and delivered without any postal charge to the addressee.\n\n3. Undelivered insured parcels may only be re-directed as insured. The insurance fee and the charges and fees provided for in the preceding paragraph are collected on delivery.\n\n4. The senders of parcels which cannot be delivered shall be consulted as to the manner in which they wish to dispose of them. Communications on the subject shall be exchanged direct between the two central Administrations.\n\nArticles liable to deterioration or corruption may, however, be sold immediately, without previous notice or judicial formality, for the benefit of the right party. An account of the sale shall be drawn up.\n\nIf, within six months after the despatch of a letter of inquiry, the office of destination has not received sufficient instructions, the parcel shall be returned to the office of origin.\n\nParcels which have to be returned to the sender shall be entered on the parcel bill with the addition of the word \"Undeliverable\" in the column for observations. They shall be dealt with and taxed like articles re-directed in consequence of the removal of the addressees.\n\n5. Any parcel, the addressee of which has left for a country not participating in the exchange of postal parcels, shall be dealt with as undeliverable, unless the office of the first destination be in a position to forward it to the addressee.\n\n6. An insured parcel may only be re-directed to a country participating in the exchange of articles of this kind.\n\n7. If one of the prohibitions provided for in Article IX of the Convention is brought to light in the course of post, the parcel shall without other formality be returned to the despatching office in the manner provided for in section 1 of the present Article.\n\n## XIII.\n\n1. Each Administration shall cause each of its exchanging offices to prepare monthly for... \n\n10 \n11 \n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387405, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "\"Address reply to-\"The Secretary, General Post Office,\" \n\nquoting Registered No. 590,224.\n\nCopy\n\nC.O.\n27\n157\n\n**GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON** \n3 December 1902.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, No.50443, forwarding, by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, who advocates the establishment of a direct Parcel Post between that Colony and the United States.\n\nThe Postmaster General sees no objection in principle to a parcel post service between a British Colony and the United States. Such a service already exists, as Sir H. Blake points out, between the United States and the Windward Islands; and there are other arrangements of the kind between the States and British Colonies, e.g., the Leeward Islands and Newfoundland.\n\nIf the scheme meets with the Secretary of State's approval, there are two courses of procedure open. A Parcel Post Convention between Hong Kong and the United States might be negotiated diplomatically, through the intervention of the Foreign Office, and a direct exchange of parcels with the United States Post Office secured, like the exchanges already carried on between that Office and the British Colonies referred to above. Or a private arrangement might be arrived at between the Hong Kong Post Office and some Express Company in the United States, like that recently concluded between this Department and the American Express Company.\n\nIf the Government of Hong Kong should be successful in carrying out the first alternative, and obtain the consent of the Under Secretary of State,\n\n**COLONIAL OFFICE.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Hongkong, 11th February, 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your Despatch No. 6 of the 2nd ultimo, on the subject of a direct Parcels Post Service between this Colony and the United States of America, I have the honour to inform you that the course which should in my opinion be adopted by Hongkong is the first of the two alternatives suggested by the Postmaster-General in the letter of 31st December last, of which you have furnished me with a copy—namely, that a Parcel Post Convention between Hongkong and the United States of America should be negotiated diplomatically through the intervention of the Foreign Office. I have therefore to request you to be so good as to lay the proposal before the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient\nHumble servant,\n**Henry A. Blake**\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389069, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 576, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "## No. 320.\nHongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 27th June, 1903.\n\n30 JUL 1903\n\nIn reply to your Despatch No. 193 of the 22nd ultimo on the subject of the proposed Convention for a Parcel Post between Hongkong and the United States, I have the honour to state that the suggested alterations in the Windward Islands Agreement are in my opinion improvements with the exception of the reduction in maximum weight to 2 kilograms. If the United States have determined to adhere to such reduction I do not wish to object, but the maximum of 5 kilograms is almost universal in other countries and is therefore preferable.\n\n2. I have already informed you in my Despatch No. 240 of the 4th ultimo that 3 cents was suggested as the equivalent of the American one cent for the purpose of the Convention. On further consideration the Postmaster-General now suggests that it would be more convenient if the rates per pound were rounded off into multiples of 5 (e.g., 35 cents Hongkong-12 cents United States; 70 cents Hongkong-24 cents United States), because 35 and 70 cents will only require 2 adhesive stamps against 3 for 36 and 72 cents. I leave the...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391167, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "FOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nSir:\n\nMay 16, 1903.\n\n75630\n\n124\n\nHubert\n\nAury 5, 1903.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, a copy of a Despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington relative to the proposed conclusion of a Parcel Post Convention between the United States and the British Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nIt will be seen that the United States Postmaster General is prepared to conclude a Convention similar to the one in force between the United States and the Windward Islands, with certain modifications; and I am to enquire whether Mr. Chamberlain would desire that Sir M. Herbert should be authorized to sign such a Convention, substituting the Colony of Hong Kong for the Windward Islands.\n\nI am to request that the original enclosure in\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nSir", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391170, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 131, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "PJ.\n\n127\n\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE,\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\nMay 1st, 1903.\n\nThe memorandum of the British Embassy of April 16th last was communicated to the Postmaster General, who, on the 27th of last month, wrote that his Department is prepared to conclude with the Government of Hongkong a Parcels Post Convention similar to the one in force between the United States and the Windward Islands, modified as indicated in pen and ink in the printed copy of the last named Convention herewith enclosed.\n\nMr. Payne says that all Parcels Post Conventions concluded hereafter with countries of the Eastern Hemisphere will be drawn on the lines indicated in the enclosed copy of the Windward Islands Convention.\n\nThe only material difference between those conventions and the conventions now in force being that in the new conventions the maximum weight of a parcel will be fixed at two kilograms or four pounds six ounces, instead of at five kilograms or eleven pounds, as in the old conventions.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "Most Immediate\n\nC.\n\n393\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and with reference to his letter of 2nd September (317782) and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the information of Mr. Secretary, a copy (as marked in the margin) of a telegram from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington relating to the proposed Parcel Post Convention between the United States and Hong Kong.\n\nAnd begs to enquire what answer should be addressed to Mr. Raikes.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nNovember 1895.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "The scene when no easm lur Raikes simed not b Ampere red it once to sign the Parcels Post Convention when Haughing of the USA. Lawor\n\nImmediate\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [REG 10 NOV 03] presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and with reference to his letter of the 5th instant (10213) and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the information of Mr. Secretary Lyttelton the accompanying copy of a paraphrase telegram as marked in the margin from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington respecting the Parcel Post Convention between the United States and Hong Kong; and to inquire what answer should be sent to Mr. Raikes.\n\nForeign Office, November 10, 1903.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391444, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "401\n\nParaphrase of a telegram from Mr. Raikes. Washington 7th 10:03\n\nWith reference to your telegrams of the 6th instant respecting the Parcel Post Convention between the United States and Hongkong, I am agreed that the Convention shall come into force on the 1st of January next.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391450, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "with satisfaction that in United States.\n\nnatives of the Kingdom will be defrayed by Office or Individual.\n\nImperial Funds.\n\nForeign, 1903 4 Nov\n\nest previous Paper.\n\nHON NG\n\nNo. 41798 (Subject.) DOMESTIC.\n\nC. O. 41798 407\n\nRED Re 17 NOV 03,\n\nParcel Post Convention with U.S.A.\n\nSecret copies of two despatches from Washington on subject for Collins\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n2 a copy\n\nPage ...\n\nNesta subsequent Paper.\n\nSR Colonial Office\n\nAt ASC\n\n2\n\n \nPage 128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "Likes\n\nTreaty\n\nSeptember 31.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nC0.\n\n41708\n\n17 NOV 03\n\nNovember 14, 1905.\n\n408\n\nSir,\n\nIn reference to your letter of the 22nd of September (Tily 82) and to subsequent correspondence,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, copies of two despatches marked in the margin, from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaire at Washington, respecting the Parcel Post Convention between United States and Hong Kong.\n\nWhen Colony & State Colonial Office\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nCharles Hardinge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391462, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "418\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nC.O\n\nifice or Individual.\n\nforegi\n\n1903\n\n10-Dec.\n\nast previous Paper.\n\n(00\n\nNo. 44556\n\n(Subject.)\n\n4450\n\nkes 12.20 05\n\nMarcel Post Convention with ast\n\nCopy deck from Washington enctoria's\n\nsendo cope to retum proposes to publish:\n\ndebion 3902/04.\n\nky\n\nSo Far 45.\n\n_ L (75) ~~]#31—2-2007-11-\n\n123:2-8000-10-2\n\next subsequent Paper.\n\n15723\n\nBut Collins\n\nit\n\n?\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nAs the 70.\n\nI have not\n\nAgna\n\nhave compared.\n\nto publication &\n\nretum conventio.\n\nAnd it that\n\nM\n\nwith\n\n12112\n\nby\n\nfor win hand\n\nwith epis\n\nwily faith will\n\nMy\n\nん\n\nmi\n\nAn\n\nAle", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391463, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "419\n\nRaikess\n\n10 34\n\nmention\n\noff to returned\n\nЮ\n\nSir:-\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, 4th December 1903.\n\n12\n\nC 03\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 23rd ultimo, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Lyttelton, a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, enclosing the Convention establishing a Parcel Post Service between Hong Kong and the United States of America, which he signed with the United States Postmaster-General on the 21st ultimo.\n\nThe Convention has been checked by this Department, and has been found to correspond with the text of the Parcel Post Convention concluded between the Windward Islands and the United States of February 24th, 1892. I am to enclose it for inspection and return, and to state that Lord Lansdowne now proposes, with Mr. Lyttelton's concurrence, to publish it as a Parliamentary Paper in the Treaty Series.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nCharles Harding.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 591, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "? And F.O.\n\n14\n\n8/10\n\nWait another with\n\nth\n\nAll\n\nAddress reply\n\nquoting Registered No.\n\nto \"The Secretary, General Post Office,\"\n\nTrapsy\n\n590.224/02.\n\nSir,\n\n1762\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,\n\n585\n\n15 August 1903.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 5th of this month,\n\nNo. 28171/1903, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposed Parcel\n\nPost Convention between that colony and the United States of\n\nAmerica, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint\n\nyou, for the information of the Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies, that no objection is seen to the adoption of a\n\nConvention based upon the existing agreement between the\n\nWindward Islands and the United States, subject to the\n\nalterations indicated by Sir H. Blake.\n\nIt may interest the Secretary of State to know that for\n\nsea conveyance from Hong Kong to San Francisco the rate, if\n\nfixed in accordance with the International Parcel Post\n\nConvention, would be 3 francs per parcel. Hong Kong and the\n\nUnited States are not, of course, parties to the International\n\nConvention; and the arrangements for the conveyance of parcels\n\nbetween them are, under article VIII of the proposed convention\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 464, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "462\n\nsuspended during 1902 and 1903 pending the consideration of proposals for restricting the operations of the British Postal Agencies in China and instituting a system of Penny Postage between China and the British Empire. These proposals, which had no result, were dealt with in Sir Henry A. Blake's Confidential Despatch of the 19th June, 1903, and in Mr. Chamberlain's of the 28th July, which are referred to in your Despatch under reply.\n\n4. The terms of the Agreement into which it is now proposed to enter are practically identical with those of the Franco-Chinese Convention, the only difference being in Clause VIII dealing with Parcel Post; it is considered desirable that this Post should be the subject of a separate arrangement.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nM. Nathan\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]", "content_text": "468\n\nan annual settlement between the two Administrations, to be\n\ncalculated on the basis of statistics taken annually under the\n\nrules laid down in the Conventions of the Postal Union in force\n\nat the time. These statistics will be taken each year during the\n\nfirst 28 days of the months of May and November alternately.\n\nArticle VIII.\n\nParcel Post.\n\n1. The exchange of parcels, as also the exchange of money orders,\n\nletters with declared value of contents, &c., will be made the\n\nsubject of special arrangements as soon as the principal Arrange-\n\nment is put in force.\n\nArticle IX.\n\nResponsibility and Liability.\n\n1. In case of the loss of a registered article of correspondence\n\nor of a closed mail, the Administration which has undertaken its\n\ntransport and cannot account for its delivery or transmission to\n\nthe other Administration will be held responsible for the lost\n\nregistered article or the registered articles contained in the closed mail, within the limits of Article 8 of the \"Convention Principale\" of Washington and of Article XXIII of the \"Règlement\n\nd'Ordre et de Detail\" thereto appended.\n\n2. The loss or spoliation of a parcel will give right to an indemnity, which may amount to the equivalent of the loss or damage suffered but can in no case exceed 25 francs for non-\n\ninsured parcels or 1,000 francs for insured parcels.\n\n3. The protection granted above to registered articles and parcels will not extend beyond the working limits of the postal services of the contracting Administrations, and will not cover losses or damages arising from cases of force majeure, such as tempest, shipwreck, war, brigandage, etc.\n\nArticle X.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394666, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "CO 129/326\n\nFrom dong trong 1904.\n\nDali Voe 5. Contents\n\nSubject\n\nForeign Office 19 Jan. China Trade\n\n26. Postal agreement with China 1706. Parcel Post convention with US.\n\n14 24 15° n 14 16 *1 19 119 23 25- \" 25 * 29.\n\nblina Grade Surcharging of Chinese Stamps. in S. China. China Trade Hankson-Caution Rly. Murder of a Chinaman. Affairs in Kwangri.\n\n1 Russian sailors on Italian Vessels. Opening of Chinese Port- Consular protection for Anglo-Chiniese to hear. Contraband of War.\n\n19 +1 18 18 ** 18 30 # 翩 bhina Frady Affairs in S.W. China Burmah China Frontier.\n\n5 Apl. Part of banning; 7. Protection of Anglo Chinese. Deportation of hiss Garrett. China Trade Brit, bounul for French Judo-China 25. blina Trade 26. Japanese Gumboot \"Fushimi\" Exofort of sugar to French Indo-China. China Trade 26 27 30 ** • Stamps used by Br. Postal Agencies 6 heay Warlike material for Japan.. 13 13 21 S.W. blina. huurder of Chinese reformer. blinia Grade\n\n \nPage 14\n\n...\n\nPage 14\n\n...\n\nPage 14\n\nsome content in the middle\n\nPage 14\n\n...\n\nPage 14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "that this deposition was taken on the 9th of July 1903.\n\nhas the Governor of Hong Kong decided to enter into a Parcel Post Convention with the US, which is not desirable.\n\nIndividual correspondence regarding the Postal arrangements was carried out with Courtenay, who referred to a letter from Sir Robert Hart.\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nHONG KONG, 25 FEB 1904\n\nNo. 370\n\n[REG 2 FEB 04]\n\n(Subject.) Parcel Post Convention with US\n\nPrevious Papers: send 6 copies!\n\nSubsequent Papers: 66557\n\nLibrary\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nShall we send these Treaty papers to all Colonies?\n\nMr. Stubbs: No. We should only send them to the Colonies directly affected. In this case, you propose to send them by despatch (see 44556) and I assume 20 copies are required for that purpose.\n\nMr. Collins: Send 20 copies; we will want a good number as the various agencies have not been supplied.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 2\n\n2/2\n\n2/Z", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Sir,\n\n70\n\n00556\n\n03\n\n3703\n\n(Red 2 FEE 04\n\nForeign Office,\n\nFebruary 1st 1904\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 26th December last, I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Lyttelton, copies, as published in the Treaty Series, of the Parcel Post Convention between the United States and Hong Kong signed at Washington November 21, 1903.\n\nFurther copies if required may be obtained from His Majesty's Stationery Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396478, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "# 550 \n\n## 12 \n\n### Revenue of the Postal Service\n\nThe net profit of the Postal Department after deducting $316,756.56 as Expenditure, amounted to $91,702.36 being an increase of $11,012.56 more than that realized in 1903.\n\nBooks containing 1, 2 and 4-cent stamps to the value of $1 were available from the beginning of the year and were purchased to the number of 3,040. A direct exchange of money orders with the Transvaal Post Office was arranged. British Postal Orders are now cashed in Hongkong and the British Postal Agencies in China.\n\nThe Parcel Post Convention concluded with the United States of America came into force at the beginning of the year.\n\nAll branches continue to show an increase over the return for the previous year.\n\n## XI—MILITARY FORCES AND EXPENDITURE\n\n### (a.) REGULAR FORCES\n\nThe following return shows the number and composition of the Forces employed in the Colony during 1904--\n\n| CORPS | EUROPEANS | INDIANS | CHINESE | TOTALS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| General Staff | Officers, Warrant Officers, N.C.O.'s & Men | | | 5 |\n| Garrison Staff | 3 | | | 3 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery | 17 | 625 | | 642 |\n| Hongkong-Singapore Bi. R. G. A. | 10 | 9 | 389 | 415 |\n| Royal Engineers | 13 | | 196 | 209 |\n| Chinese S. M. M. Co., R. E. | | | 64 | 64 |\n| 1st Sherwood Foresters | | 446 | | 457 |\n| Army Service Corps | 4 | | 20 | 24 |\n| Royal Army Medical Corps | 11 | | 51 | |\n| A. O. Department and Corps | 7 | | 31 | 38 |\n| A. P. Department and Corps | 8 | | 11 | |\n| 110th Mahrutta L. I. | | 693 | | 720 |\n| 93rd Burna Infantry | | 712 | | |\n| 114th Mahrattus | | 711 | | |\n| 2nd Royal West Kent Regiment | 48 | | | |\n| Totals | 17 | 105 | 1,426 | 49 | 2,466 | 69 | 4,115 |\n\n### (b) COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION\n\nThe Colony contributed $1,270,741.03 (being the statutory contribution of 20 per cent of revenue) towards the cost of the maintenance of the Regular Forces in the Colony and Barrack Services.\n\n### (c.) VOLUNTEER CORPS\n\nThe total establishment of the Corps is 426 of all ranks. The strength on the 31st December, 1904, was 272, made up as follows: Staff, 8; two Garrison Artillery Companies, 202; one Engineer Company, 32; Band 3; Troop 27.\n\nA small mounted Corps was formed in the latter part of the year under the designation of the Hongkong Volunteers Troop, for purposes of scouting and to act as orderlies in time of war.\n\nAn association called the Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association was also formed. Members who must be over 35 years of age are required to make themselves proficient in rifle shooting and undertake to enrol themselves under the Volunteer Ordinance in the event of hostilities. The Association numbered ninety-six members at the close of the year.\n\nThe expenditure on the Volunteers, which is entirely borne by the Colony, was $44,032.13.\n\n## XII.—GENERAL OBSERVATIONS\n\nThe outbreak of war between Russia and Japan on the 8th February was not without effect on the shipping trade of Hongkong. The percentage of British to total tonnage entering and clearing which had fallen continuously from 75 to 59 in the previous 10 years, rose to 70 in 1904 owing to causes already given in this report. The war brought in its train various questions, involving recourse to the law courts of the Colony, relating to its effect on charter parties and to the refusal of duty by seamen on ships carrying contraband. Speculation in blockade running resulted in some heavy losses to the Chinese and there was tightness of money at the end of the year. After the naval action at Chemulpo on the 9th February some Russian wounded were treated in the Hongkong Hospitals pending removal to Europe and the attention paid to them was duly recognized by the Russian Government. Later 4 Officers and 61 men from a Russian torpedo boat destroyer, who had taken refuge at Weihaiwei, were transferred to Hongkong and arrangements for their maintenance here made in consultation with the Russian Consul.\n\nAn attempt was made in the latter half of the year to start the shipment to South Africa via Hongkong of indentured labourers recruited in the Kwang Si and Kwang Tung Provinces on similar conditions as regards terms of engagement and arrangements for transport to those embodied in the Convention for shipment of labourers to South Africa from the Treaty Ports, which was signed in London on the 13th May, 1904. An agreement was made by the Acting Consul General at Canton with the Viceroy of the Two Kwang for despatching to Hongkong labourers recruited at Wuchow by the Chinese officials. The class of recruits obtained in this manner was not satisfactory nor were the numbers obtainable from the two Provinces, in the face of opposition from persons interested in recruiting for other countries, sufficient to justify the maintenance of the depot here. The attempt was therefore abandoned after 1,746 labourers had been despatched.\n\nA rebellion in Kwang Si, which died down towards the end of the year, enabled Hongkong to render a service to China by rigorously maintaining restrictions on the export of arms and ammunition from the Colony.\n\nThe construction of a railway from Canton to the frontier of the territory under British jurisdiction, for which the British and China Corporation had made a preliminary agreement with the Chinese Government on the 28th March, 1899, formed the subject of discussion in London with the Directors of the Corporation with a view to an arrangement being made for working this railway with one to be constructed from the frontier of the New Territories to the sea at British Kowloon. The strong feeling of the Government and of the entire commercial community of the Colony as to the importance of the complete undertaking to the prosperity of Hongkong was expressed in the Report on the Blue Book for 1903.\n\nDuring the year the work of the New Territories Land Court, established in 1900, and subsequently reconstituted, was completed. 354,277 separate lots had been demarcated and their ownership determined at a cost of $143,615. Appropriate titles to these lots have since been issued.\n\nThe rice crops in the New Territories were good, and an increase in the number of houses in nearly all the villages evidenced increased prosperity. The peasants appeared to appreciate the greater security they derived from adequate police protection and showed willingness to assist in improving road communications.\n\nBuilding activity in old Kowloon and Yaumati gives hope that in time the considerable available area on the mainland south of the hills will furnish relief to the congested districts of Victoria. This relief will probably be accelerated when the proposed railway is in hand.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "422 \n\n35 \n\nwhich a sum of $4,000 is provided, is a less detailed enumeration than the decennial one, but is held by the Principal Civil Medical Officer to be necessary in connection with determining for sanitary purposes the distribution of the population in the different parts of the City. \n\nIt has been customary to take such a census between those of the first year of each decade. \n\nThe Mail Bags and Parcel Posts Receptacles hitherto used by the Hongkong Post office have been those belonging to other administrations. This is not in accordance with the Postal Convention nor convenient, and the item of $3,500 is for the purchase of our own bags and receptacles. \n\nThe advisability of improving the lighting of the entrance to the fairway into the harbour was brought up on the 3rd November, 1904, by the Member of the Legislative Council who represents the Chamber of Commerce and was supported by the Harbour Master. \n\nThe item of $15,400 inserted in the Estimates is for three light-buoys, of which one will be spare, constructed on a design prepared at Trinity House. \n\nThe necessity for accurate reports of all Judgments and of the Pleadings in important cases was urged on me by Sir Francis Piggott as required for the proper administration of justice and is partly provided for by the item of $2,100 for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414062, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# X.—POSTAL SERVICE\n\nThe total Receipts paid into the Treasury in 1907 by the Postal Department amounted to $586,575 from which sum $110,954 was transferred to other heads of General Revenue under which fees and duties are paid in stamps, which are now sold exclusively by the Post Office, leaving the sum of $475,621 as Revenue of the Postal Service. The total expenditure amounted to $366,452, which being deducted from the Revenue of $475,621 leaves a profit of $109,169.\n\nA direct exchange of Money Orders with Kiachau came into force on 1st July.\n\nA new Parcel Post arrangement with Japan came into operation on 1st October.\n\nThe Postal Convention of Rome which was signed on 26th May, 1906, came into operation on 1st October, 1907; the principal changes introduced being the raising of the unit of weight of letters from 3 oz. to 1 oz. in the case of letters posted in Hongkong and Liu Kung Tau and from 4 oz. (14.17825 grammes) to 20 grammes at the other agencies—and the exchange of International Reply Coupons with the principal countries included in the Postal Union.\n\nThe Tientsin Agency availed of the opportunity to send direct mails to Europe overland via Harbin from 17th October.\n\n## XI—MILITARY FORCES AND EXPENDITURE\n\n### (a) REGULAR FORCES\n\nThe following return shows the average number and composition of the Forces employed in the Colony during 1907 :-\n\n| CORPS | EUROPEANS | INDIANS | CHINESE | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Officers | Warrant Officers | N.C.O.'s & Men | Native Officers | W. O. | N. C. O's & Men | X. C. 0.8 & Men | |\n| General Staff (Officers only) | 5 | | | | | | | 5 |\n| Garrison Staff (W. O., N. C. Officers only) | 5 | | | | | | | 5 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery | | | 633 | | | | 435 | 660 | 1,068 |\n| Royal Engineers | | | 259 | | | | | 67 | 326 |\n| Army Service Corps | | | 28 | | | | | 4 | 32 |\n| Royal Army Medical Corps | | | 43 | | | | | 8 | 51 |\n| Army Ordnance Dept. and Corps | | | 30 | | | | | 6 | 36 |\n| Army Pay Department and Corps | | | X | | | | | 1 | 1 |\n| H. K. & S. Br. R. G. A. | | | 11 | | | | 7 | | 18 |\n| 3rd Middlesex Regiment | 16 | | 426 | | | | | 441 |\n| 119th Infantry | 10 | | 748 | | | | | 778 |\n| 129th (D.C.0.) Baluchis | 11 | | | 734 | | | | 745 |\n| Indian Subordinate Medical Department | | | | | 5 | | | 5 |\n| TOTAL | 113 | 1,438 | 37 | 1,921 | 55 | 3,564 |\n\n### (c) VOLUNTEER CORPS\n\nThe total establishment of the Corps is 443 of all ranks. The strength on the 31st December, 1907, was 289 made up as follows :--Staff 7; two Garrison Artillery Companies, 199; one Engineer Company, 45; Troop 38.\n\nThe members of the Corps are now all armed with the new M.L.E. short rifle and the latest pattern equipment.\n\nThe period for the annual Camp of Instruction was again 16 days, it was held in October, 1907, and was well attended.\n\nThe Mounted Troop Camp was held at Fan Ling in the New Territories. The Camp took place during the Christmas Holidays. Much useful work was done.\n\nThe Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association numbered two hundred and twenty-eight members at the close of the year, a decrease of 23 members, as compared with 1906.\n\nMembers of this Association, who must be over 35 years of age, are afforded opportunity to make themselves proficient in rifle shooting, and undertake to enrol themselves under the Volunteer Ordinance in the event of hostilities.\n\nA small Cadet Corps was commenced in May, 1906, with boys from the Victoria British School, there are now 18 in the school and 4 others. The Cadets are instructed in squad drill and semaphore signalling. They attended Camp, and many are already very efficient signallers.\n\nThe New Headquarter Building was opened in December, 1906, and is already very popular. A well-equipped Gymnasium has been installed, and classes are held regularly. The cost of the building has been entirely defrayed and no debt remains.\n\nThe expenditure on the Volunteers, which is entirely borne by the Colony, was $45,253, compared with $47,351 in 1906.\n\n### (d) COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION\n\nThe Colony contributed $1,214,340.05 (being the statutory contribution of 20 per cent. of the Revenue) towards the cost of the maintenance of the Regular Forces in the Colony including Barrack Service and Defence Works.\n\n## XII—GENERAL OBSERVATIONS\n\nThe year was characterised by continued severe depression in trade.\n\nThe Colony appears to have recovered from the over-speculation indulged in in anticipation of the conclusion of the War between Russia and Japan, and her trade has resumed a healthier condition, though the volume is still restricted. The large stocks accumulated during the speculative period have taken a long time to work off, and fresh imports have been small; because for various reasons, one of which was caution induced by previous over-speculation, China has imported a smaller quantity of merchandise.\n\nThe assessment made in July for the year 1907-1908 showed that the rateable value for the whole Colony had decreased by 2.52%. In the Hill District, Shaukiwan, the Hongkong villages, and in Kowloon except in the important District of Yaumati, the assessment showed an increase ranging from 1.07% to 11.76%. But in the City of Victoria a decrease of 3.42% and in Yaumati a decrease of 5.65% were shown. In New Kowloon a remarkable increase from a rateable value of $38,930 to one of $61,835 or an increase of 58.83% was shown.\n\nIn the New Territories continued progress has been observable in the making of several roads by the private enterprise of villagers, and by the erection of new houses. The Crown Rent (Land Tax) was paid with an alacrity that was almost inconvenient; and there was a marked decrease in crime in spite of the large numbers of coolies employed on the Railway Works.\n\nThe loss and inconvenience caused by the depreciation of the subsidiary currency by the over-issue of small coins by the Mint in Canton continued.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "532\n\n8\n\nArt. 70. Articles which are prohibited to be imported into or exported from China may neither be sent by postal parcels.\n\nII.-Special Rules.\n\n(A.) Parcels sent to China.\n\nArt. 71. Parcels addressed to places in China must be accompanied by Customs declarations in duplicate, on the lines given in the Parcel Post Rules of the Rome Convention (Detailed Regulations, Article 6 (1)).\n\nArt. 72. In the declarations must be given place of dispatch, denomination of contents, form of packing, gross and net weight, value of contents, place of destination, and name of addressee.\n\nPogranitchnaya,\n\nArt. 73. On arrival of the parcels at the stations \"Manchuria\" and \"Pogranitchnaya,\" the Postal Department hands in to the custom-house a list of parcels in duplicate, together with two copies of the corresponding declarations. In the list the parcels must be grouped together as far as possible according to their place of destination.\n\nArt. 74. The custom-house either demands the presentation of all or a part of parcels for examination, or sends an officer to examine them at the post-office, or, on the strength of declarations, passes the parcels without examination.\n\nArt. 75. The amount of duty, if any is due, will be marked on the declarations and in the list, of each of which the custom-house retains one copy, and returns the duplicate copies of the list and declarations to the post-office.\n\nArt. 76. Parcels not liable to duty will be marked in the list and on the declarations \"duty free.\"\n\nArt. 77. If addressees of parcels are in a place where there is a custom-house, they are to pay the duty to the custom-house, which issues receipts, on the presentation of which the post-office delivers the parcel. Duty may also be paid to the post-office, which in such cases transmits the sum collected to the custom-house,\n\nThe issue of parcels for which duty had been fixed by the Customs is not to take place before the presentation of the Customs receipt, or until the amount of duty had been paid to the post-office.\n\nArt. 78. Parcels addressed to other places in China where there are no other custom-houses are to be sent to the post-office nearest to the place of residence of the addressee, accompanied by declarations, and with a remark, \"duty free,\" or \"duty amounting to roubles copecks, to be collected before delivery\" (which resembles trade charges for the amount of duty due).\n\nArt. 79. Sums collected by post-offices from the addressees of parcels are to be remitted by them to the entering Customs concerned, or to the Harbin custom-house, in full, at the expense of receivers of parcels.\n\nArt. 80. For the execution of such Customs formalities, the Postal Department has a right to exact from addressees a commission at the rate fixed by international or Russian postal regulations.\n\nArt. 81. In case of a refusal of the addressee to pay the duty, parcels will be dealt with in accordance with the existing postal regulations, but if it be decided to sell such parcels the duty assessed must be paid by the purchaser.\n\n(B.) Parcels sent from China.\n\nArt. 82. Parcels to be exported from China and dispatched from the stations \"Manchuria\" and \"Pogranitchnaya,\" or from places where there is a custom-house, must first be presented to the Customs for examination and payment of duty, whenever such is due, and to receive a permit, without which the post-office will not accept parcels (for transmission).\n\nArt. 83. When conveying such duty-paid parcels through the stations \"Manchuria\" and \"Pogranitchnaya,\" a list of parcels, together with one copy of Customs declarations, is to be presented by the Postal Department to the custom-house concerned. Parcels of this category must as far as possible be packed up separately from other parcels which have not paid duty. Such packages, at the option of the Customs, will travel under seals of the custom-house which levied duty as far as the frontier station, where the seals will be removed by the leaving Customs.\n\n9\n\nArt. 84. Whenever parcels are to be sent from places where there is no custom-house, a Customs declaration in triplicate must simultaneously be handed in to the post-office and duty paid at the rate of 5 per cent. on the value declared. The amount of duty is to be simultaneously forwarded to the leaving Customs at the expense of the sender.\n\nArt. 85. On arrival of such parcels at the frontier station a list in duplicate, together with Customs declaration in triplicate, is to be presented to the Customs. The amount of duty levied and remitted must be marked in the list and on declarations.\n\nArt. 86. The custom-house either demands the presentation of all or a part of passing parcels for examination, or sends an officer to examine at the post-office (or in the postal car), or gives permission for the parcels to be sent on without examination, and retains one copy each of the list and declarations.\n\nArt. 87. If at the examination a discrepancy between the contents of a parcel and the declaration be discovered giving grounds to suspect intention to defraud the Customs, such parcels will be liable to confiscation.\n\nArt. 88. In case of too low a declaration of the value on the basis of which duty was levied by the Postal Department at the place of dispatch of the parcel, the release of such parcel for abroad may be deferred by the Customs until the deficient amount has been paid up.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418408, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "content_text": "(8)\n\n352\n\nappealed to the then Secretary of State for the Colonies with the result that Leases for 999 years were granted for these Lots.\n\n8. With this precedent before us, we venture to express the hope that, endorsing our contention that these Shaukiwan Lots are part and parcel of the Dockyard Establishment over the whole of which uniform conditions as regards duration of Lease should prevail, your Lordship will be pleased to invite the Government of Hong Kong to reconsider its decision, and to give instructions that 999 year Leases, both for Shaukiwan Inland Lot 408 and for Shaukiwan Marine Lots 2 to 10, shall be granted us, for we are advised that, in inviting the public to apply for Mortgage Debentures which will be secured on all the land owned by the Company which is to be formed to take over our Dockyard Works, we should be prejudiced if a small portion of the land were held on a short Lease while the large part consists of land held for 999 years.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour Lordship's most Obedient Servants,\n\nJohn Swire & Sons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "OP Y.\n\n(1). Universal Postal Union Payments.\n\n-$40,704.88\n\n(2). Mails for Europe via Siberia.\n\n$47,288.39\n\n(3). Mails for London by British packets via Suez.\n\n$2,506.94.\n\n(4). Mails exchanged through intermediary of Chinese Post Offices.\n\n$1,457.65.\n\n(5). Mails for United States and Ports of Call.\n\n$404.28\n\n(6). Mails from Canton.\n\n$1,286.16\n\n(7). Parcel Post on actual parcels despatched.\n\n$1,360.04.\n\n(8). Gratuities to Shipmasters;\n\n$897.71.\n\n308\n\nOn basis of Statistics taken during November 1st. to 28th. 1907, in accordance with Home Convention. (Sea conveyance by British packets excluded).\n\nSpecial Statistics of May 1st. to 28th., 1908, under Rome Convention.\n\nItalian and French transits only (special train) monthly accounts with the United Kingdom.\n\nAnnual Statistics.\n\nPayment made to Pacific Mail S.S. Company at $170 per rail.\n\nPayment based on biennial Statistics.\n\nAt 2 cents a letter and 1 cent other article.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\nArticle 3 is one of the most important articles of the convention in that it marks the formal adoption of a new principle of international commercial law, which, although in this case applies to opium, was recognized by all the delegates as applicable by future conferences to all commodities in international transit. By article 3 the contracting powers pledge themselves to take measures (a) to prevent the exportation of raw opium to countries which have or may prohibit its entry, and (b) to control the exportation of raw opium to countries which regulate or may regulate its importation. This article conventionalizes resolution 4 of the International Opium Commission, which was pressed by the American delegation and finally adopted by that commission. China had for 50 years or more contended against the exportation of Indian opium to China, frankly avowing first by protest and then by legalization of the traffic that she was unable to wholly prevent the inroad of the drug. That contention had been scorned by some of the greatest statesmen and economists of their day, the generally accepted view being that it was the business of a country prohibiting the entry of any drug or commodity to prevent its importation, an exporting country not being greatly concerned with the destination of the exported article.\n\nUpon the ratification by the various Governments of the present convention, by virtue of article 3, it will become an accepted principle of international commercial law that where a country has prohibited the importation of a drug or commodity, it is the business of a producing country to prevent the exportation of such products to the prohibiting country, or to prevent the exportation of such products unless the exporter conforms to the importation regulations of a regulating country. All the delegates recognized that this principle, though by this convention specifically applied to the opium traffic, could nevertheless be made applicable to any obnoxious or dangerous commodity in international trade. The adoption of this principle is of great credit to those opium-producing countries vitally affected by it. As concerns the United States and its possessions, in which no opium of any amount is produced, it is of great practical value, and when it becomes effective, will enable the preventive service of the customs to effectually exclude opium except for medicinal purposes, as provided for by the opium-exclusion act approved February 9, 1909, proposed legislation to strengthen that act, and Philippines legislation having the same object in view.\n\nBy article 4 of the convention the contracting powers pledge themselves to enact legislation or issue regulations providing that every package containing raw opium intended for export shall be marked so as to indicate its contents provided the shipment exceeds 5 kilograms. It was an object of the American delegation to secure that every package of opium for export should bear such marks. But as by Treasury regulation issued under the authority of the opium-exclusion act of February 9, 1909, delivery is made by the customs service of packages of opium containing not less than 100 pounds, it may be said that this article, as adopted by the conference, marks a decided advance on American practice.\n\nBy article 5 the contracting powers shall permit only duly authorized persons to import and export opium. In practice this will mean that all persons importing and exporting opium must eventually receive governmental authorization.\n\n# THE OPIUM EVIL.\n\n## 19\n\nChapter II of the convention is of striking importance, as it provides for the obliteration in a short time of the manufacture, exportation, importation, and use of opium for smoking purposes, and, in the meantime, for the confining of such manufacture and use to territories where such manufacture and use now obtain by totally forbidding the export of this form of opium to countries which have prohibited its entry and use or to countries which propose in the future to prohibit its entry and use.\n\nThe first paragraph of Chapter II defines the substance known as opium prepared for smoking, and by article 6 the contracting powers pledge themselves to take measures for the control, and ultimately effective suppression of the manufacture, domestic traffic in, and use of this form of opium.\n\nWhen it is recalled that not 10 years ago there was a large and influential body of public officials and others here and abroad who saw no harm, economic, moral, or otherwise, to oriental peoples, in opium smoking, the importance of article 6 will be recognized. It marks the right-about of such opinion, and a recognition by the Governments and peoples concerned that the opium-smoking vice is generally degrading beyond all benefits to revenue that may accrue from the manufacture, importation, exportation, and use of this form of opium, and a determination on the part of those Governments and peoples to bring the vice to a speedy conclusion.\n\nBy article 7 the contracting powers pledge themselves to prohibit not only the importation of the smokable form of opium, but also its exportation—thus conforming to one of the principles embraced by the opium exclusion act of February 9, 1909, and the proposed amendment thereto.\n\nBy article 8 of the convention the contracting powers which are not yet ready to prohibit the exportation of opium prepared for smoking are pledged to restrict the number of places through which such opium may be exported; to prohibit its exportation to countries which now or hereafter may prohibit its importation; in the meantime to forbid the shipment of any prepared opium to a country that wishes to restrict its admission, unless the exporter complies with the regulations of the importing country; to take measures to have each parcel exported bear a special mark indicative of the nature of its contents, and allow none but specially authorized persons to export this pernicious form of the drug.\n\nIt might seem from a hasty reading of article 8 that a general international traffic in prepared opium is sanctioned. But such is not the case, for it should be borne in mind that where it had become necessary every country represented at the conference had prohibited the importation, and in some cases the exportation and use of this form of opium, and the colonies and possessions of all of the countries except Portugal had passed strict laws forbidding the importation and in most cases the exportation of prepared opium. The notable instance of this not having been done is in the Portuguese Colony of Macau on the China coast, where large quantities of this form of opium have been and are still manufactured both for use in the colony and for exportation, the object being colonial revenue. The great mass of this opium is intended for Chinese and other consumers in the United States, the Philippine Islands, Canada, and Mexico. By the opium exclusion act of February 9, 1909, the importation of this form of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "# No.1661/General London/No.25.\n\n**COPY**\n\n**MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS, CHINA**\n\n205 | 12296\n4 APR 14\n\nDirectorate General of Posts, \nPostmaster General's Office, \n**PEKING, 17 February 1914.**\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to inform you that the Chinese Government has notified the Swiss Federal Council of the adhesion of China from the 1st March next to the Universal Postal Convention of Rome of the 26th May 1906 and the Detailed Regulations for the execution of this Convention, with full effect from the 1st September next. I hope that through this happy event, which will doubtlessly be shortly notified to your Administration by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, the existing postal relations between your country and China will be still further strengthened and intercourse fostered to the benefit of Great Britain and China.\n\nConsequent upon China's entry into the Union, the Postal Arrangement concluded between this Administration and the Administration of Hongkong on the 12th/29th December 1904 must be considered as abrogated from the 1st September next in accordance with Article 29 of the Universal Postal Convention, and as China intends to also shortly notify her adhesion to the Parcel Post Convention.\n\nThe Postmaster General, \nTo \nLondon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "206 \n\nThe same remark applies to the Parcel Post Agreement concluded between Hongkong and China on 22nd June 1909. \n\nMeanwhile, mutual consultation may be proceeded with between our two Administrations conformably to Article 3.1 and 20.1 of the Universal Postal Convention and Article II of the Detailed Regulations for the execution of that Convention, regarding the exchange of mails and parcels. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\n(Sd) T. Piry. \n\nPostmaster General. \n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451856, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "203 \n\nSeptember next; but he directs me to point out that, as the Post Office of Hong Kong is not a party to the Parcel Post Convention of the Postal Union, the adhesion of China to that Convention does not necessarily involve the determination of the existing Parcel Post Agreement between your Administration and the Post Office of Hong Kong. In these circumstances you will perhaps consider it unnecessary to disturb the present arrangements in this connexion.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n**(Sa) E. W. Farnall**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "No. 63588/12296/694\nGE 4 APR 14 209\n\nCOPY.\n\nREGA\n\n**GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.**\n\n2 April 1914.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to send to you herewith a copy of a letter which has recently been received from the Chinese Post Office notifying the adhesion of the Republic of China to the Universal Postal Union on the 1st of last month.\n\nIt will be observed from this letter that, as the result of this step taken by the Chinese Government, the postal arrangement concluded between your Administration and the Chinese Post Office on the 12th/29th of December 1904 must be considered as abrogated as from the 1st of September next.\n\nAs regards the contention of the Chinese Post Office that the Parcel Post Agreement concluded between Hong Kong and China in June 1909 must likewise be regarded as abrogated so soon as the Chinese Government carries out its intention of notifying its adhesion to the Parcel Post Convention of the Postal Union, the Postmaster General has informed the Chinese Administration that, as your Office is not a party to the Parcel Post Convention of the Postal Union,\n\n**The Postmaster General, HONG KONG.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451858, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## 210\n\nThe Union, the adhesion of China to that Convention will not necessarily involve the determination of the existing Parcel Post Agreement between Hong Kong and China; and he has suggested that, in these circumstances, the Chinese Post Office will perhaps consider it inadvisable to disturb the present arrangements in this connexion.\n\nThe Postmaster General has also enquired whether the application of the regulations of the Postal Union Convention will be confined to the postal service in the 18 provinces of China proper, or will be extended to include Manchuria and the outlying territories. If any information on this point has been received in your Office, the Postmaster General will be much obliged if you will be so good as to acquaint him with its purport.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Sd) E.W. Farnall.\n\n## 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453473, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Enclosure \nNo 116 \n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 30th March, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that this Government was notified by the Postmaster-General, Chinese Post Office, Peking, of China's adherence to the Universal Postal Union on the 1st March, 1914, to take effect on 1st September, 1914.\n\nAt the same time the local General Post Office was notified of the proposed abrogation of (1) the Postal Agreement of 29th December, 1904, and (2) the Parcel Post Agreement concluded on 22nd June, 1909, between this Colony and China with effect from the 1st September, 1914.\n\n2. After a series of consultations with representatives of the Chinese Post Office who were sent to Hongkong to discuss matters with the Postmaster-General here, it was agreed to renew the Parcels Agreement with a few minor alterations. The special arrangements entailed by the abrogation of the Postal Agreement and the substitution therefor of the terms of the Rome Convention, and also the question of the treatment of correspondence between the two administrations were then considered and the attached proposals for the establishment of a Chinese Postal Agency in Hongkong were brought forward by the representatives of the Chinese Post Office. Summarized, these proposals involved the establishment of a foreign Post Office on British soil, a great convenience to the Chinese Post Office to the detriment ...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P., &c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n49732 REC\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46308]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nREG: 9 February 26.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n289\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, February 26, 1917.\n\nSir William Collins asked the President of the Board of Trade the total amount of morphia and morphia salts of British manufacture that was exported to Japan, including Formosa and the leased territories in China, during 1913, 1914, and 1916, and the value thereof; whether he has official information showing that the amount so exported is required for medical and legitimate purposes only as prescribed by the International Opium Convention, 1912; if not, whether he has evidence to show its destination and the other uses to which it is put; and whether the Government will proceed to put into force the Opium Convention, which was ratified by Great Britain in 1914?\n\nAnswer.\n\nThe quantities and value of morphia and morphia salts of British manufacture recorded as exported to Japan (including Formosa and Japanese leased territories in China) during the years specified amounted to 252,110 ounces, valued at £118,794, in 1913; 352,130 ounces, valued at £143,975, in 1914; and 204,742 ounces, valued at £136,059, in 1915. These figures do not include exports by parcel post, respecting which no figures are available. With regard to the eventual destination of this morphia, and the uses to which it was ultimately put, these are questions which concern the Japanese Administration, but are outside the competence of His Majesty's Government. His Majesty's Government are of opinion that it would not be desirable to put the Opium Convention into force pending the deposit of ratifications by all the signatory Powers.\n\n[2662 cc-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.\nHongkong, 11th January, 1918.\n\nS. B. C. Ross, Esq.,\nPostmaster General, Hongkong.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nMAILS & PARCEL POST\n\nWith reference to my representative's call upon you in August last, my Directors informed me under date 19th June that the Company's Contract obligation with the Post Office was reduced to the Mail Service between the United Kingdom and Bombay and that for any service outside this mail obligation the Post Offices making use of the Company's ships will pay the Company as non-contract carriers under the terms of the Postal Union Convention.\n\nMy Directors now write under date 22nd October last that it is quite wrong in assuming that payment for the Service which the Company performs on the China Line will be made to them through the London Post Office and have requested that proper payment is made at this end from all Post Offices making use of the service.\n\nThey further advise the rate which is allowed under the Postal Union Convention is quite inadequate for the service to be performed as it only works out at about 29/- per ton of 40 cubic feet and therefore the Company's Agents are instructed to charge the rate of freight which is current.\n\nMy Directors add that as the Company's ships are under requisition and are being worked for the benefit of the Ministry of Shipping, it is only right that space should be taken up in the ships at this rate.\n\nThe current rates hence from the 1st July last are as follows:-\n\nHongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "## Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee\n\nFor promoting the Objects of \n**THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION**\n\nPresident—**LORD POLWARTH** \nChairman of Executive—**A. H. F. BARBOUR, Esq., M.D., LL.B.**, 4 Charlotte Square \nHon. Treasurer—**T. S. Mantin, Esq., C.A.**, 19 Dean Park Crescent \nHon. Secretary—**Rev. G. S. Mu, M.A.**, Braid Road \n\n## The Drug Traffic: The Peace Treaty: and Smuggling\n\nThe Covenant of the League of Nations (Article 23) \"entrusts the League with the general supervision of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs.\" Article 295 of the Peace Treaty runs thus: \"Those of the high contracting parties who have not yet signed or not yet ratified the Opium Convention, signed at the Hague on 23rd January, 1912, agree to bring the said Convention into force, and for this purpose to enact the necessary legislation without delay,\" &c. This is, so far, satisfactory. Special recognition is due to Lord Robert Cecil for his efforts in the matter. Are anti-opium operations, therefore, no longer necessary? By no means. The traffic is deeply rooted. It has many roots and branches. Only continued vigilance can ensure its extirpation. We must see that our own and other Governments apply the Hague Convention in both letter and spirit.\n\nThe kindred agitation against the West African Liquor Traffic has suffered disappointment. From utterances of the Colonial Office, it was expected that the import of all foreign alcoholic liquors would be prohibited, but only the \"trade gin\" has been banned, and this can easily come in under other names. Our Government are not indifferent to the drug peril, but they have hitherto worked on altogether wrong lines. They have been content to regulate distribution instead of controlling and restricting production. In 1917, they made a beginning by supervising the export of morphia direct to Japan. But the dealers had only to send their consignments by way of France or America, and now similar arrangements have been made with those two countries. Only licensed parcels may be sent there. But other routes can be used. And when all legitimate outlets are guarded, the illicit traffic will still flourish. It is like labouring to empty the trough while leaving the tap running. With destructive poisons so bulkless and scentless, it is a futile policy.\n\nTo land a cask of gin, or its equivalent in 36 dozen quart bottles, is difficult. When the victims are reached, only about 4000 of them can be intoxicated, allowing a gill to each. This is bad enough. But two ounces of heroin in an envelope will narcotise as many thousands, and a seven-pound parcel, easily sent by post under another name, will debauch nearly 200,000 bodies and souls, at a quarter of a grain to each. Now, from 20 to 30 tons of morphia and heroin are being secretly sent into China every year. Opium, some of it from India, is also being smuggled in. The methods of the smugglers are countless.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496987, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "## Resolution and Letter\n\nIt was by the Fifth Committee considered as urgent that both Conferences should be held as soon as possible, the more limited Conference concerning the Far East to be held first, while the other should follow, if possible, immediately after the former.\n\nIn accordance with the above considerations, the Fifth Committee recommends the Assembly to pass the following resolutions:\n\n### Resolutions\n\n#### Resolution I\nThe Assembly expresses its deep appreciation of the very valuable work done by the Advisory Committee on Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Drugs, adopts its report and resolutions, taking note of the reservations contained therein, and asks the Council to take the necessary steps to put these resolutions into effect.\n\n#### Resolution 2\nThe Assembly, in view of Turkey having agreed, by the Treaty of Lausanne, to adopt and to enforce the International Opium Convention of 1912, and in view of its importance as an opium-producing country, expresses the wish that the Turkish Government be invited to nominate a representative to serve on the Advisory Committee on its ratification of the Convention and signature of the final Protocol of 1914.\n\n#### Resolution 3\nThe Assembly asks the Council to repeat its request to the Governments of Albania, Argentine, Colombia, Costa Rica, Lithuania, Paraguay, Persia, and Switzerland, that they should take all possible measures with a view to the prompt ratification and application of the Opium Convention.\n\n#### Resolution 4\nThe Assembly, taking note with regret of the fact that a number of countries have not yet adopted the import certificate system as recommended by the Assembly in 1921 and 1922, reiterates the opinion expressed by the Assembly in 1922, that this system is the most practical method yet suggested for controlling the import and export of the drugs in accordance with the provisions of the International Opium Convention and that its success depends on its adoption by all countries engaged in importing or exporting the drugs: and in view of the serious difficulties created by the non-adoption up to the present, of the system by several important countries, requests that the Advisory Committee may be instructed to proceed with the consideration of the suggestion contained in the second resolution adopted by the Assembly in 1922, and to report specially to the next Assembly on the whole situation.\n\n#### Resolution 5\nThe Assembly approves the proposal of the Advisory Committee that the Governments concerned should be invited immediately to enter into negotiations with a view to the conclusion of an agreement as to the measures for giving effective application in the Far Eastern territories to Part II of the Convention and as to a reduction of the amount of raw opium to be imported for the purpose of smoking in those territories where it is temporarily continued, and as to the measures which should be taken by the Government of the Republic of China to bring about the suppression of the illegal production and use of opium in China, and requests the Council to invite those Governments to send representatives with plenipotentiary powers, to a conference for the purpose and to report to the Council at the earliest possible date.\n\n#### Resolution 6\nThe Assembly, having noted with satisfaction that, in accordance with the hope expressed in the fourth resolution adopted by the Assembly in 1922, the Advisory Committee has reported that the information now available makes it possible for the Governments concerned to examine, with a view to the conclusion of an agreement, the question of the limitation of the amounts of morphine, heroin, or cocaine and their respective salts to be manufactured; of the limitation of the amounts of raw opium and the coca leaf to be imported for that purpose and for other medicinal and scientific purposes; and of the limitation of the production of raw opium and the coca leaf for export to the amount required for such medicinal and scientific purposes, requests the Council, as a means of giving effect to the principles submitted by the representatives of the United States of America, and to the policy which the League, on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, has adopted, to invite the Governments concerned to send representatives with plenipotentiary powers to a conference for this purpose, to be held, if possible, immediately after the conference mentioned in Resolution 5.\n\nThe Assembly also suggests, for the consideration of the Council, the advisability of enlarging this conference so as to include within its scope all countries which are Members of the League, or Parties to the Convention of 1912, with a view to securing their adhesion to the principles that may be embodied in any agreement reached.\n\n### Letter\n\nDear Paskin,\n\nHotel Metropole,\nGeneva.\n29 September, 1923.\n\nI got your letter of the 27th. Just in time to enable me to act on it.\n\nI have accordingly sent off, addressed to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, a huge parcel in the British Consul's bag to the Foreign Office; it contains twenty copies each of the Minutes and Report of the Advisory Committee, of the Fifth Committee's Report to the Assembly, and of the Resolutions adopted by the Assembly; you did not ask for the last two, but they may be useful.\n\nYours ever,\nM.E. Antreno.\n\nP.S. I shall be back at the Office on the 8th; if there is anything else that you want to know, in any case, I will look in and see you.\n\nPage 227", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498539, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## \n207\n\nM. Bourgois desires that Articles 10, 12 and 13 of the Opium Convention of 1912 should become imperative. Moreover, he wishes measures taken against smuggling, which is now made possible by a lack of control of transhipment, bonded warehouses, free ports, free zones and export by parcel post. \n\nIn order to reach his goal, M. Bourgois submits a draft arrangement (Annex IV) in which the Contracting Parties bind themselves to give a strict application to Articles 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Opium Convention as completed by the stipulations of the present draft. The provisions of his Draft are the following:\n\n1. The receptacles used for the despatch of the drugs referred to in Chapter 3 should carry labels which should show the name and quantity of the product and the name of the consignor and consignee.\n2. The use of the system of \"acquit à caution\" when importing.\n3. The use of export permits in duplicate: one copy to accompany the drug to its ultimate destination and the other to be sent to the diplomatic agent of the importing country in the exporting country; on the first copy is to be recorded all movements and inspections to which each receptacle has been subjected.\n4. No transhipment without permit.\n5. Drugs to be stored in a bonded warehouse only by duly authorised persons who will be responsible for any movement of the warehoused articles. No import allowed without \"acquit à caution\". No export to other countries without export permits. To abolish the system of free bonded warehouses as far as drugs are concerned.\n\nPage 210 \nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "-31- \n\n6. Consignments by parcel post to be dealt with in the same manner as other consignments.\n\n7. Raw opium or any drug falling under Chapter III of the Convention found in the possession of an unauthorised person to be seized and the person on whom it is found to be liable to either imprisonment or fine, or both in conjunction.\n\n8. Mutual and complete exchange of information between the centralised authorities in different countries.\n\n9. The inclusion of coca leaves and synthetic cocaine in the Opium Convention of 1912.\n\n## XII.\n\nThe objections against the French proposal were the following:\n\n1. It discarded completely the object of the Second Conference, which was to consider the possibility of limiting the manufacture of drugs to definite amounts corresponding to legitimate requirements. All the discussions in the Advisory Committee had been conducted on this assumption and 21 Governments had already transmitted an approximate estimate of their total requirements for internal consumption. Moreover, the Resolution of the Assembly, under which the Conference would be convened, clearly defined such limitations as the object of the Conference, whilst these proposals aimed merely at the improvement of the provisions contained in Articles 9 to 13 of the existing Hague Convention.\n\n2. It seemed to be ineffective from the international", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498552, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## -7- \n## 220\n\nproduction and export figures, both in regard to the raw material and the worked up product. This publicity is likewise to include transport by parcel post.\n\nThe Powers not included in the agreement proper affecting restriction, should extend their co-operation also in other respects. They should all be members of the Convention or of the extension given thereto and should all of them apply the import certificate system. If these demands are not put forward and if some countries are holding aloof, the latter will soon become the centres of a lucrative contraband traffic, against which no boycott will be of any avail; on the contrary, as already stated, this illicit trade will flourish to a large extent under universal restrictive regulations.\n\nFinally, as a supplement to the arrangements made in respect of coca leaf and raw cocaine, it is essential to fix by treaty to what countries the raw material can be exported for the purpose of being worked up into cocaine.\n\nA curtailment of the manufacture of cocaine is automatically obtained in the way stated above. But in like manner as for coca and for the very same reason, it is necessary to lay down also for cocaine a condition which should be universally observed, viz., that no other countries (or their colonies, etc.) shall proceed to the production of cocaine as long as the agreement shall be in force, unless it be for home consumption and from home-grown leaf, in so far and to the same extent as this production is being carried on at the present moment.\n\nAdding two draft treaties in outline, the one marked I to be concluded between Peru and the Netherlands and the other marked II to be entered into by all Powers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "# \n-12- \n266 \n\nIn this respect, the report by Mr. Chapman, submitted in 1923 to the sub-Committee over which I had the honour of presiding, is a special question which can be solved apart from the rest, and can be utilised profitably.\n\n5.- It will be necessary to come to a special agreement with the international parcel post bureau in Berne on the subject of the circulation and control of parcels post.\n\n6.- It will also be indispensable to provide special regulations for transport by sea, river, canal, land and by air. Special obligations will have to be imposed on transporters (shipping companies, railways, automobile companies and air services).\n\n7.- It will be indispensable to revise any existing international convention on the subject of transit so as to exclude the raw stuffs and drugs covered by the convention except under the guarantees which will have been agreed upon.\n\nBy these measures of simple control but of a total and effective control, if there is added the good faith which must always be supposed in any human enterprise, especially when pecuniary interests and morals are equally involved, and the patience which is necessary, the end we all have in view will certainly be achieved.\n\n(Signed) **HENRI BRENIER**. Geneva, July 12th, 1924.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## 271 \n\n5.\n\nThe first condition for securing an effective limitation of production is that all countries should adhere to the Opium Convention and should accept the import certificate system. Countries will also have to undertake to communicate without delay all data relating to the area under coca cultivation and to imports and exports (including consignments by parcel post), with a view to facilitating mutual control. It will also be necessary to ensure that countries which do not at present cultivate coca do not undertake its cultivation in the future. The problem might be more easily solved if coca cultivation could be stopped in Formosa, Ceylon and the other districts in which it is as yet in its infancy. Its suppression in those places might prove necessary in view of the fact that the cultivation in other countries will have to be reduced to a much greater degree.\n\nWe shall then have to consider whether the cultivation of coca leaves for home consumption in Peru and Bolivia should be left unregulated, and, if so, whether the secret exportation of the coca leaf and of raw cocaine could be prevented - a much more difficult question.\n\nAn attempt must be made to establish an equitable proportion for the allocation between producing countries of the quantity of coca leaf to be employed in the manufacture of cocaine. In view of the varying cocaine content of the coca leaf in different countries, and in different harvests in the same country, this proportion must be based not only on the quantity of coca leaf but also on its cocaine content.\n\nCare will have to be taken that notwithstanding the restrictive measures which may be taken in the cultivation of the coca leaf, the world market remains sufficiently profitable for production to be maintained. Moreover, should cultivation be limited to certain countries, measures will have to be taken...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## \nprincipally to the Netherlands, \n\n11 1920 \n* 1921 \n* 1922 \n1,397,020 615,282 915,990\n\n## \nT 1920 \nT 1921 \n1 1922 \n205,438 452,634 378,307\n\nA large proportion of the coca leaf imported into the Netherlands is re-exported chiefly to Germany, but also to France, Switzerland, and America.\n\nThe first condition for securing an effective limitation of production is that all countries should adhere to the Opium Convention and should accept the import certificate system. Countries will also have to undertake to communicate without delay all data relating to the area under coca cultivation and to imports and exports (including consignments by parcel post), with a view to facilitating mutual control. It will also be necessary to ensure that countries which do not at present cultivate coca do not undertake its cultivation in the future.\n\nThe problem might be more easily solved if coca cultivation could be stopped in Formosa, Ceylon, and the other districts in which it is as yet in its infancy. Its suppression in those places might prove necessary in view of the fact that the cultivation in other countries will have to be reduced to a much greater degree.\n\nWe shall then have to consider whether the cultivation of coca leaves for home consumption in Peru and Bolivia should be left unregulated, and, if so, whether the secret exportation of the coca leaf and of raw cocaine could be prevented - a difficult question.\n\nAn attempt must be made to establish an equitable proportion for the allocation between producing countries of the quantity of coca leaf to be employed in the manufacture of cocaine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "content_text": "See 14, 19 & 20.\n\n- the above file\n\nWe were of the opinion that military necessity made \n(1) ∞ `33744/34`, \nthe continuation of British jurisdiction in the City \nessential to the defence of Hong Kong.\n\nFrom the point of view of the Colonial Government \nthe continuation of British jurisdiction is not so much \na matter of military as of administrative necessity. \nThe old City of Kowloon is now an integral part of Kowloon, which, again, is part and parcel of \nHong Kong. It is a city of large buildings with \nmilitary and naval establishments and contains, also, \nthe chief docks and the terminus station of the Canton \nRailway. It appears impossible that an administration \nenclave under foreign jurisdiction, should be allowed \nin the middle of an area which is essentially all part \nof the Port of Hong Kong. Quite apart from any \nquestion of military necessity, though I presume the \nsame arguments as were expressed in 1934 still apply, \nunless they can be avoided by a gentleman's agreement \nwith the Chinese Government, as suggested by the \nAmbassador in (12) on this file such an enclave would \npresent an impossible problem in everyday administration. The case of Weihaiwei which the Ambassador \nquotes does not seem to me to present any parallel, \nsince it was a small town in a rural area whose total \npopulation amounted to less than 200,000.\n\nI do not know quite what the legal position is. \nThe Foreign Office and the Ambassador have doubts as \nto our legal rights and consider that if the case \nwent to the Hague it might well be decided against us. \nI presume that we should do everything possible to \nprevent the case being referred to the P.C.I.J. since \na decision against us there might have most serious \neffects on British prestige in China. I mean that \nour right to alter the terms of an international \nConvention by unilateral action is, to say the least, \n\nPage 10\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553048, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "content_text": "See page 17 of State Papers 1897-98.\n\n(flagged red below See 5(a) on `53552/35` helaw) doubtful.\n\nThe Convention are agreed that Chinese Officials should continue to exercise jurisdiction within the City of Kowloon, except so far as may be consistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Order in Council of the 20th Oct. 1898 gave effect to this agreement in Article 4. When, however, the Hong Kong Administration took over the new Territory they were met with armed resistance and it was decided that any retention of Chinese jurisdiction in the City of Kowloon was incompatible with the defence interests of the Colony. The history of the affair is summarised in Mr. Gent's memorandum, noted in the margin. To give effect to the abolition of Chinese jurisdiction a new Order in Council was passed on the 27th December, 1899, which revoked Article 4 of the previous Order and declared that the City of Kowloon should be part and parcel of H.M. Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nend\n\nIt may prove difficult to define our position if the Chinese Government should appeal to the P.C.I.J. Whether or not such an appeal takes place, refusal to allow the admission of Chinese jurisdiction may have serious effects on our relations with the Chinese Government and on our commercial activities in Southern China, as the Ambassador fears. (See 12).\n\nUnless these considerations are judged to be overriding, however, it does appear most undesirable that foreign jurisdiction should be allowed in the middle of a large commercial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "content_text": "statements do not tally fully with the actual facts.\n\nSetting aside the question of the time limits fixed earlier by the authorities of Hongkong, I beg to refer to their decision of most recent date, as mentioned in the Ministry's memorandum of November 28, that the evacuation should be completed by the end of the year. As to the alleged acceptance by the inhabitants of the terms offered by the Governor, it is at least open to doubt in view of the petitions they addressed repeatedly both to this Ministry and to our Commissioner at Canton, imploring protection of their legitimate interests.\n\nWith regard to treaty stipulations, it will be readily seen, even after a cursory examination of the Convention of June 9, 1898, that the measures contemplated by the Hongkong Government are irreconcilable with the provisions of the said Convention, as it is clearly not within the competence of British Authorities to exercise jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon which is expressly reserved for the Chinese officials.\n\nOn the part of the colonial authorities, it might be contended that their assumption of jurisdiction was based on the Order in Council of December 27, 1899 declaring the city of Kowloon to be part and parcel of the Colony of Hongkong. Without delving into the argument that the exercise of jurisdiction by the Chinese officials in the city of Kowloon was inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong and the circumstances under which the Chinese officials were ousted from the said city and control over it was taken by the British Government notwithstanding the repeated protests of the Chinese Government, I cannot resist the conclusion that the Order in Council referred to does not seem to rest on sufficient legal grounds in the light of the Sino-British Convention of 1898.\n\nAt a time when Sino-British friendship is daily increasing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "content_text": "## - 2 -\n\nauthorities of Hongkong, I beg to refer to their decision of most recent date, as mentioned in the Ministry's memorandum of November 28, that the evacuation should be completed by the end of the year. As to the alleged acceptance by the inhabitants of the terms offered by the Governor, it is at least open to doubt in view of the petitions they addressed repeatedly both to this Ministry and to our Commissioner at Canton, imploring protection of their legitimate interests.\n\nWith regard to treaty stipulations, it will be readily seen, even after a cursory examination of the Convention of June 9, 1898, that the measures contemplated by the Hongkong Government are irreconcilable with the provisions of the said Convention, as it is clearly not within the competence of British Authorities to exercise jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon which is expressly reserved for the Chinese officials.\n\nOn the part of the colonial authorities, it might be contended that their assumption of jurisdiction was based on the Order in Council of December 27, 1899 declaring the city of Kowloon to be part and parcel of the Colony of Hongkong. Without delving into the argument that the exercise of jurisdiction by the Chinese officials in the city of Kowloon was inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong and the circumstances under which the Chinese officials were ousted from the said city and control over it was taken by the British Government notwithstanding the repeated protests of the Chinese Government, I cannot resist the conclusion that the Order in Council referred to does not seem to rest on sufficient legal grounds in the light of the Sino-British Convention of 1898.\n\nAt a time when Sino-British friendship is daily increasing and the relations of the local authorities at...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-7 Administration of government amendments to Letters Patent 19-1-1939 - 17-7-1939", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-576-7 Administration of government amendments to Letters Patent 19-1-1939 - 17-7-1939", "content_text": "## END \n\n28 of Article 1 of the Order in Council of 20th October, 1898, make it clear that the limits of British territory as enlarged by the Peking Convention of that year are part and parcel of the Colony, and any implication to the contrary seems undesirable.\n\n4. I have no other comments to make on the draft.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n**And. horthants** should be corrected to a likely intended name, but as per the rules, the original text should be preserved. Thus, it remains as is.\nAnd. horthants\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-7 Administration of government amendments to Letters Patent 19-1-1939 - 17-7-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]