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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 41.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1877.

VOL. XXIII.

No. 193.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint A. B. JOHNSON, Esquire, to be Acting Crown Solicitor, vice E. SHARP, absent on leave.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th September, 1877.

No. 194.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Despatch from The Right Honourable the Earl of CARNARVON, and its enclosure, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial ecretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th September, 1877.

HONGKONG. [No. 92 ]

CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

30th July, 1877.

SIF I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a Despatch which has be addressed by the Earl of DERBY to Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Pekin, in relation to the amount of protection to be afforded by a Consul in China to naturalized British subjects of Chinese descent.

Governor HENNESSY, C.M.G.,

I have, &c.,

CARNARVON.

&c.,

(Copy.)

&c.,

&c.

The Earl of Derby to Mr. Fraser.

[No. 80.]

FOREIGN OFFICE,

July 17th, 1877.

SIR, I have had under my consideration your Despatch No. 94 of the 25th of April last, upon the subject of your correspondence with Her Majesty's Consul at Amoy as to the amount of protection that should be afforded by a Consul in China to naturalized British subjects of Chinese descent; and I have to state to you, in reply, that under the Naturalization Act of 1870, such persons are not. entitled to British protection in China, even if naturalized in England, unless by their naturalization they have ceased to be Chinese subjects.

The same rule applies with still greater force to Chinese naturalized in the Colonies, since Colonial naturalization only operates within the limits of the Colony which grant the naturalization.

With regard to Chinese who are British subjects by birth, they can only claim British protection in China when they have complied with the Regulations laid down in Sir R. ALCOCK's Circular of

October 7th, 1868.

H FRASER, Esquire,

fc.,

&c.,

fc.\

I am, &c., (Signed,)

DERBY.