FO 83 Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors
Subtitle: Political and other departments : general correspondence before 1906, Great Britain and General. Cases : Legal. Law officers' reports
Series: China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West part II, 1865-1905; China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West part II, 1865-1905
Publisher: Gale, a Cengage Company
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Subjects: Sources; Foreign relations; History; Politics and government; Great Britain. Foreign Office; Great Britain
Description: The seven selected volumes from this series are composed of correspondence between British representatives in China and the Law Officers in London from 1833-1876. Bound separately from the general correspondence represented in FO 17, they are here reunited with that series to allow researchers a more complete picture of the legal and judicial issues around the British presence in China. The subjects covered in these volumes range from piracy and shipping to property ownership and land rights, the creation of law courts, the rights of British subjects and companies, the responsibilities of consuls, and the treatment of criminals. These volumes have also been opened up to scholars with the use of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology, as well as item-level information manually transcribed from the Foreign Office Indexes in series FO 605.
Notes: Date of documents: 1833-1876.

Reproduction of the originals from The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom).