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APR 22
1844
Foreign Office,
April 20, 1844.
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Sir,
I am directed
to transmit to you
by
The Earl of Aberdeen herewith the Draft of
an Order in Council which it is proposed under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act
to issue
of the last Session, authorizing Her Majesty's Consuls and Vice Consuls in China, as well as other Persons therein specified, to exercise jurisdiction
over British
subjects in China in criminal and
in Civil cases; and appointing the Colony of Hong Kong as the British Colony wherein crimes and offences committed by British subjects within the
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Dominions