283
Inclosure in despatch No.1 of 1898.
hope that Chintai may give ear to remonstrances expressing his
Letter from Ato & 4o. Elmesy also
untuned.
be
Copy
h:41.
My Lord,
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong - July 5, 1844.
I lose no time in replying to your
288
of the 26th March,
Lordship's despatch No.30.
on the
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the important subject of Jurisdiction over the Chinese of this Colony
I premise by remarking that the observations of Lord Stanley and of the Law Officers of the Crown, inclosed in Your Lordship's Despatch No.254 of 1843, appear to me so unanswerable as
& the practical impossibility of abandoning our jurisdiction over the Chinese of Hongkong,
without converting
the Sovereignty of the Island into a
that they might decide
were
occupancy,
J.
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.G.
&
the
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