No. Title Date
1 China : return to two addresses of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 3 August 1843; for extract of any letter or despatch from Lord Auckland, Governor-General of India in 1841, proposing to send reinforcements, naval and military, from India to China; with the date at which such letter or despatch was received in London and extract of the answer sent thereto; - returns of regiments or detachments, native or British, sent from India or from the United Kingdom to China in 1841 and 1842; stating the dates of their departures from their respective stations, and the dates of their arrival at the places in China to which they were sent, together with the names of those places; and, of the ships of war dent from India and from the United Kingdom to China in 1841 and 1842 (stating, with regard to those sent from the United Kingdom, the dates when they were put in commission, and the dates when they were reported fit for sea); together with the dates of their depature for China, and the dates of their arrival at their respective stations in China, and the names of those stations
2 Chinese immigration : return to an address of the Hon the House of Commons dated 19 August 1853, for "copies or extracts of despatches relating to Chinese immigrants recently introduced into the colonies of British Guiana and Trinidad"
3 Opium (Hong Kong) : return to an address of the Hon the House of Commons dated 8 August 1859; for "copies of the ordinance (no 2 of 1858) passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council, for 'licensing and regulating the sale of prepared opium', specifying the date of its confirmation by Her Majesty's Government", "Of the grants thereunder made of the sole privilege of preparing opium and selling the same within Hong Kong", "Of the report and minutes of a committee of the said counsil upon certain circumstances conencted with the first grant of such privelege, and the minte o council adopting report", "and of all correspondence relating to the matters aforsaid"
4 Ecclesiastical grants (colonies) : Return (in part) to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 8 May 1873; - for, "Copy or extracts of despatch or despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor or Governors of any of the west India colonies, setting forth the views of Her majesty's Government in regard to ecclesiastical grants, and to the establishment of religious equality in such colonies (in continuation of Parliamentary paper no. 269 of session 1871);" "And similar return for the other colonies, or any of them." Colonial Office ... E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen. (Mr Charley.) Part III. Mauritius.
5 Map of the colony of Hong Kong
6 List of Colonial Office records, preserved in the Public Record Office
7 Opium (Hong Kong) : return to an address of the honourable the House of Commons dated 22 April 1847 : "for copies of ordinance no. 21 of 1844 for licensing the sale of opium within the colony of Hong Kong dated 26th day of November 1844", "of the regulations for the sale of opium by retail, made by his excellency the governor of Hong Kong, dated 28th day of February 1845, or any other regulations on the subject", "of dissent in Legislative Council of Hong Kong by R. Montgomery Martin, on the proposition for licensing the retail consumption of opium in Hong Kong"