CHINESE BRITISH SUBJECTS, The following is a copy of the Documents which are posted up at the British Consulate with reference to the British subjects of Chinese descen Diflioulties having arisen with regard to the claims to British protection of British jects of Chinese origin within the empire it has been arranged that they should wear a distinctive dross, and a government notification to that effect has accordingly been published at Hongkong.
The following circular fom His Excollouey Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.0.B., with its enclosure, relative to British subjects of Chin i i Chinese territory, is published for general information, J. Ganprver Avstix, Colonial Secretary administering the Government. Government Office, Hongkong, 2nd November, 1808. ular No, 10.
Peking, 7th October, 1868, Sim,—Pursuant to instractions from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Fairs, L have issued the enclosed notification regulating the conditions under which persons of Chinese descent, who are British subjects, may reside or travel in China under British protection, You will observe that it is left entirely optional to such persons to claim the status of British subjects within the Chinese territories or not, as they may see fit. But in the event of their electing to sink their
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