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o doing to be prosecuted in the Courts of this Country by the British Defendant who might be satisfied with his Award.
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That it was to secure the Consuls from such Consequences for the liege as he is bound by treaty to do in cases where the subjects of China are concerned, and as he will probably have occasion to do there the Subjects of other Foreign Countries are concerned, that it was proposed to insert the clause in Question in the Order now under consideration
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That the idea of empowering the Chief Justice of Hong Kong to try in China offences committed there by British Subjects was suggested by Sir Henry Pottinger who recommended that the Chief Justice should be empowered to visit at the special requisition of the Chief Superintendent any of the Consular Ports to try extreme cases, which cannot be remitted to Hong Kong owing to the witnesses being wholly or partly subjects of China. That the enclosed letter from the