and Sam to request that
move Low Stanty
to
you
will
to have the goodness
Lord Aberdeen with any
favour observations or
may
our
sulich of
I
suggestions which in
to this Lordship
the
B
the inclosed drafts.
be returned to this
30 Jan
The draft of wording hardly related to
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the reference to the Crown Lawyers
by
with
the subject of the prohibition
any of
the Port
in China, except the five enumerated,
any Colonial Subject. But it affects to me impossible that the furtherance of the proposed Order in Council should be enforced "at any British Settlement" or "Position" except Hong Kong. Letter on the Foreign Office
and I we make that remark in
answer
& there
The other proposed reference, about the establishment of a Coal Tribunal at the business of this offer. In right of conquest,
Hong Kong,
or so
By
MOLL
right of
en.
closely r the consequent cession, the Queen in Council has a Legislative may Council. But by the same right of conquest or cession,
however at Hong Kong. As Legislator,
Legislative Order in Council. But
may
mesofnig
H.M.
establish a Court there
by a
The
weat
also constitute a local legislature, which local legislation may
local Tribunals, Civil and Criminal. Both will be required. how
am
further
to request
that the
Queen
the
Drafts may
to this Office
4.
Secretary
274
far
better.
with
you
reply.
I am, Sir,
Your
most obedient
humble servant,
Allehuddington.
have
convenient that the local Legislation
it ? be the Author of the Coal Tribunals, them that those Tribunals should
origin distinct from, and independent of, the power of that legislature. If the time were
Good? in the place ripe for constituting a Just
therefore do that and have everything wise to emanate from it. But
Lord
must still postpone settling with Hong Kong
to the Foreign Office
1972
Q.-4
a
Colony there, all
the subject of this proposed
1
be, first that it will be desirable to confer
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Criminal, and as
well
47
Other
Letter
the contemplated Court Civil, Jurisdiction, for the punishment of
Crimes committed by The Queen's subjects, within the Island of Hong Kong.
being, henceforward, to be regarded
meaning of
Q7 A
British Territory
son
The Statute 3. & 4. Vic II
probably not be within the Secondly, that it would be desirable that the Orders now to be promulgated for the establishment of the proposed Court should be
be
expressly
declared to
the
the various destinations of it
temporary
and provisional only, until Dr. M. C. take order for the permanent Government of the Island, and for regulating Judicial and Administrative. ? Y