CESSION OF KOWLOON

CESSION OF KOWLOON

4.-CESSION OF KOWLOON.
CONVENTION of Peme and Friendship between Great Britain and China.
Signed at Peking, 21th October, 1860.

her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and ireland, and his Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of Chium, being alike desirous to bring to an
end the misunderstanding at present existing between their respective

government and to secure their relations against further interruption,
have for this purpose appointed plenipotntiaries, that is to say :-
her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ircland, the Earl of elgin
and Kincardine;

And his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, his Imperial high-
ness the Prince of King;

Who, having met and communicated to each other their full powers,
and finding these to be in proper form, have agreed upon the following
Convention in nine Articles

VI-With a view to the maintenance of law and order in and about the
harbour of Hongkong, his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China agrees
to cede to her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and to

her heirs and successors, to have and to hold, as a dependency of her
Britannic Majesty's Colony of hongkong, that portion of the township of
Kowloon, in the Province of Kwang-tung, of which a lease was granted
in perpetuity to harry Smith Parkes, esquire, Companion of the Bath, a
member of the allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britannic
Majesty's government by Lan tsung Kwang Governor General of the
Two Kwang.

It is further declared that the lease in quebtion is hereby cancelled
that the claims of any chinese to any property on the said portion of
Kowloon shall be duly investigated by a mixed Commission of British.

and Chinese Officers and that compensation shall be awarded by the
british Government to any Chinese whose claims shall be by the said
Commission. established, should his removal be deemed by, the
British Government.

Done at peking, in the Court of 1he Board of Ceremionies, on the 24th
day of October, in the year of our Lord one thonsand eight hundred and
sixty.

cession of part of Kowloon leased; lease cancelled.

cession of part of Kowloon leased; lease cancelled.

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