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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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Thereafter, the jurisdiction of the Guanfu Inspection Office of Xin'an County no longer covered Hong Kong Island, while Kowloon and the New Territories remained under that office.
On 13 December 1843, the Xin'an County Guanfu Office subprefect was reassigned by the Qing government to Kowloon and renamed the Kowloon Subprefect, classified as a 'key coastal post', with Xu Wenshen serving as acting subprefect; the Guanfu Subprefect Office was subsequently abolished and replaced by the Kowloon Subprefect Office, whose jurisdiction covered roughly present-day Kowloon and the New Territories.
From October 1860 to June 1898, the Kowloon Inspection Office of Xin'an County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Qing dynasty, continuously administered the area of present-day the New Territories.
On 24 October 1860, the Chinese and British sides signed the Convention of Beijing, Article 6 of which provided for the cession to Britain of the whole of the Kowloon Peninsula within the Kowloon Sub-district of Xin'an County, that is, the area south of present-day Boundary Street, together with Stonecutters Island.
On 19 January 1861, the Hong Kong Government held a ceremony to take over Kowloon, attended by British Plenipotentiary to China Lord Elgin (accompanied by Governor Robinson), as well as the Qing-appointed Xin'an County Magistrate, the Dapeng Assistant Brigade General, and the Kowloon Inspector.
The 1863-1864 report of the Morrison Education Society noted that literacy within the Hakka community of Xin'an County was extremely limited, with some small villages having only one resident able to read and write.
In May 1866 the Italian priest Simeone Volonteri, working with the Chinese priest Liang Zixin, completed the "San On County Complete Map", the first Chinese-English bilingual map of San On County, which took four years to draw.
Between 1870 and 1889, the villages of Xin'an County were distributed among 101 villages under the County Assistant, 222 under the Kowloon Office, 52 under the Fuyong Office and 54 under the Registrar.
According to documentary records, there were 429 villages within Xin'an County, under the jurisdiction of four offices: the county deputy magistrate, the registrar, the Fuyong Inspection Office and the Kowloon Inspection Office.
According to the Guangdong Tushuo printed by Cuiwen Tang in the 9th year of the Tongzhi reign of the Qing dynasty (1870), there were 429 villages under the jurisdiction of Xin'an County.
On 17 November 1874, the Apostolic Prefecture of Hong Kong was elevated to an Apostolic Vicariate, and its jurisdiction was extended to Xin'an County, Guishan County (present-day Huiyang City) and Haifeng County in Guangdong Province.
The aforementioned system of township and district divisions can also be found in the Guangdong Yudi Tushuo, printed in the 15th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty (1889).
On 13 May 1895, the British Government received a report from the British Colonial Defence Committee proposing the permanent lease of part of the New Territories.
The 1898 Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory provided that Chinese residents of Hong Kong could travel freely between San On County in Guangdong Province and Hong Kong.
On 16 May 1899, on the grounds that officials of Xin'an County had incited New Territories villagers against Britain, the British sent troops together with the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps to seize Kowloon Walled City and expel the Qing government soldiers stationed there.