30 March 1843. Letter to.
203. Hay Ray
REC
C.0.
1849
Foreign Office,
March 22, 1843.
164
I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen
to request that You will acquaint Lord Stanley that His Lordship thought it advisable to take the opinion of the
Law Officers of the Crown on the question of the Jurisdiction to be exercised over Chinese in Hong Kong, referred to in my
other letter of this day, and that the
Draft of that Letter was at the same
time submitted to them.
I am now to inclose a copy of their report; and I am to request
"James Stephen Esq.