are made by incompetent authority, "but that it is essentially necessary
ared proper
that the Court itself (now that the Cession is complete) should be newly constituted for the trial of Offences within that Island. This way
be done by an Order of the Queen in Council in Her Legislative Power over
virtue
a ceded Territory, and by the same authority all the necessary Rules and Regulations may be made; and the jurisdiction of the Court within the Island of Hongkong ought not, as it appears to us, to be confined to offences committed
by British subjects; it
should have cognizance,
other
like
any
the Queen's Courts of all offences
committed in that
one
by any
part of
the Queen's dominions which
is within its jurisdiction unless there is anything in the treaty with the
Emperor
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subject
Emperor of China to exclude his subjects from trial before a British Tribunal.
In addition, however, to the ordinary powers which this Court should have of the Queen's Courts within the Queen's dominions, it seems also to be intended that it should be the Court
as one
for the trial of offences committed by British subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China; and if this be so, we think that it will be necessary to provide more Effectually for the exercise of this Jurisdiction and for the detention of offenders within the Chinese dominions and the
the arrest
bringing them before the Court for trial. The Statute 7th Vic. C. 80 confers very extensive Powers on Her Majesty with respect to her subjects in China, and
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