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Hong Kong Studies: British Parliamentary Papers

British Parliamentary Papers

Administration of Justice and Courts

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 14 May 1858;-- for, a "copy of any charter of justice, or orders in council in the nature of charters of justice, for the colonies of St. Helena and Hong Kong"
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.90
Ordinances issued in the years 1850 and 1852 by the authorities in China
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.55

British Officials

British Garrisons and Military Force

Budget and Public Expenditures

Civil Service and Corruption

Colonial Church Legislation

Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 20 February 1852;--for, "Copies of any petitions to the Queen, and of any representations to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State in the Colonial Department, on colonial church legis
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.54

Commerce

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 26 July 1881;-- for, "copy or extracts of any despatches from the governor of Hong Kong in 1877 and in 1881 respecting restrictions laid upon the Chinese merchants
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.247
Return to an order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 2 May 1864;-- for, a return "of the declared annual value of British produce and manufactures exported to China and Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.144
Further correspondence relating to the complaints of the mercantile community in Hong Kong against the action of certain revenue cruizers in the neighbourhood of the colony
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.223
Correspondence relating to the complaints of the mercantile community in Hong Kong against the action of Chinese revenue cruizers in the neighbourhood of the colony
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.221
Exchange of notes between the government of the United Kingdom and the Chinese government regarding the air service between south-west China and British ports : Chungking, January 24, 1939
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1042
Returns of the trade at Canton and Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.48
Commissions under the Great Seal; Instructions under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual; Commissions providing for the temporary exerecise of the Duties of Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.27
Ordinances passed in the year 1844 by the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.30
Ordinance passed in the year 1845 by the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.34
Return to an order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 12 April 1888;-- for, return for each year since 1870, of the value, computed or declared, of the manufacture, produce, and bullion
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.311
Convention for the Establishment of a Parcel Post Service between the United States and Hong Kong : signed at Washington, November 21, 1903
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.669
Bangkok-Hong Kong civil air transport service : note by the Secretary of State for Air on the principal provisions proposed to be embodied in an agreement with Imperial Airways, Ltd., for the operation by them of an improved air transport service connecti
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1040

Currency

Return to two addresses of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 16 March and 29 April 1858;-- for, (address, 16 March 1858) "copies of any correspondence which has been received at the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office upon the subject of the s
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.89
Hong Kong currency : report of a commission appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1030

Emigration and Coolie Trade

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 14 July 1858;-- for, "copies or extracts of correspondence between the Colonial Department and the Governor of Hong Kong, and between the Colonial Department and the Foreign Office, on the
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.87
Papers relative to the measures taken to prevent the fitting out of ships at Hong Kong for the Macao coolie trade
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.204
Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 19 May 1868;--for, "copies of memorial to the Governor of Hong Kong from the Chief Justice of Hong Kong and the Honourable Mr. Whittall on coolie emigration
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.159
Correspondence respecting the Macao coolie trade, and the steamer "Fatchoy"
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.206

Gambling and Casino Licenses

Legislative Council

New Territories (Hong Kong)

Report on the New Territory at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.563
Convention between the United Kingdom and China, respecting an extension of Hong Kong territory, signed at Peking, June, 9, 1898
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.517
Report on operations in the New Territory during 1900
Call Number: DS703. .B75 no.589

Opium Trade

Parcel Post

Convention for the Etablishment of a Parcel Post Service between the United States and Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.669

Pirates in China Sea

Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 12 April 1866;--for, return "of the number of Chinese pirate vessels captured, or burnt, or otherwise destroyed by Her Majesty's vessels of war in the China Seas
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.157

Plague and Epidemics

Correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.425
Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.426
Bubonic plague, memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.645

Political Refugees and Extradition

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 8 February 1866;-- for, "copy or extracts of all correspondence in the Colonial Office respecting the rendition by the Acting Governor of Hong Kong, Mr. Mercer, to the Chinese authorities
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.151

Prisons and Imprisonment

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 19 March 1858 ... confinement of Chinese prisoners at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.86
Papers relating to the flogging of prisoners in Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.239
Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 1 July 1857;-- for, "Copies of, or extracts from, any papers connected with the confinement of Chinese prisoners at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.65

Prostitution and Sexual Diseases

Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated February 1880;-- for, "copy of report of the commissioners appointed by His Excellency John Pope Hennessy, C.M.G., Governor and commander in chief of the colony of Hong Kong and its depend
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.242
Correspondence relating to the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinances of the colony of Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.246
Further supplementary return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 26 August 1887;-- for, "copies of correspondence, or extracts therefrom, relating to the repeal of contagious diseases ordinances
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.350
Correspondence regarding the measures to be adopted for checking the spread of venereal disease
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.537
Further correspondence relating to measures adopted for checking the spread of venereal disease
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.713

Ship Registers and Chinese Passenger Ships

Correspondence respecting the registration of colonial vessels at Hong Kong
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.69
A bill (as amended by the Lords) intituled, An act for the regulation of Chinese passenger ships
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.62

Slavery and Child Welfare

Papers relative to the Mui-Tsai question
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1020
Report by the governor of Hong Kong on the mui-tsai question
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1022
Mui-tsai in Hong Kong : report of the committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.1039

Treaties between Great Britain and China

Treaties between Her Majesty and the Emperor of China, with rules for trade and tariff of duties
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.114
Convention between the United Kingdom and China, respecting an extension of Hong Kong territory, signed at Peking, June, 9, 1898
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.517

Other Papers relating to the Colony of Hong Kong

Other Papers relating to the affairs in China

Ordinances issued in the year 1847, by the authorities in China; and Commissions to the Chief Superintendent of Trade
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.49
Ordinances issued in the year 1849, by the authorities in China
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.52
Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 14 February 1860;-- for, copies "of letter from the Secretary to the Admiralty, no. 336, dated the 9th day of
Call Number: DS703 .B75 no.95

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