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succession _ to immoveable - property, and - whatever regards the alienation. of it, should be regulated by English and not- by
Chinese. Lawrs."
deskto
Thirdly, As to Laws derogatory to the-
Sovereignty of Her Majesty
The Despatch. Nd enjoins that
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even with regard to the. Chinese-inhabitants
recognized - which -
no rule or
Law-can be
would - derogate - from the Queen's Soversighty over the Island". This was the occasion-
of
the clause-
being.
inserted in Ordinance No 15,
but the description of Her Majesty as only "Queen of England " oversight.
was
certainly
an-
Fourthly, As to the infliction of Chinese-
punishments.
In Despatch . Nr. 8 it is observed
that
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that in
Hongkong
it will be
necessary
that for the Government of the Chinese-
reciding
there the Laws and customs
of
China should. supersede the Laws and -
of England." The Chief Justice.
Customs
obzerves, "The power to punish Chineee aconding
their own laws for offences
to
committed in
Hongkong, had always
previously evicted and been acted-upon in the Magisterial department, and the Legislative founeil deemed it advisable to invect the Supreme fourt with this power. -
It is
is
one however
r neven.
and the
by the fourt and
likely to be exercised - I therefore better.
expunged -- in which it might be Chinese- punishment
- perhaps in which it
The only ease perhaps
expedient to inflict a would be in the case
of female offenders
sentenced to imprisonment, but who cannot like the male prisoners be put - to hard labour. Here the application of the langue
or Wooden
Collar