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in strict accordance with the Treaty. Thereld.
any
Your Excellency demand members of the
Triad Society, refugees in Menghong, they will be delivered up in like.
You have only
MAUNUNUA..
to mention their names, and I will hunt them.
but and give
to
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them up The Colony of Hong Kong by Treaty is
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be popepoed in perpetuity by Thea Britannic Majesty, to be governed by such laws, and regulations
as Her Majesty the Queen of Great. Britain. Se shall see fit to direct. No Chines ure compelled to reside here they may retire
choose when dissatisfied. but there, who cheer to make. it their wiede of their non pox will, have exactly the
a
same
privileges and protection
as
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~ British subjects; and, if they offend against the British Law, must have the same. punishments.
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• The fundamental. Laws of
England.
govern
even
the
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England are Supreme, und
of the nation. I cannot control the judge
rulers
of
in the administration of those laws which are in the statute books. At. "Henghong, the Chinese
form by far the larger part of the Population, and must therefore be governed by the lows of the Colony. It would be imposible to rule it many
other terms.
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In the five Ports of Trade. it is different British Subjects are not allowed to approach any other part of China they reside only in particular spots, and are very few in number not one in a thousand of the population. Waving also been very formen years,
it was
ill treated at Canton in for all these
reasons settled
can.
by treaty that they should be governed by their. own Consuls. In Canton, & British subjects not. get enter the City, though. (by our nocords) Your Excellency informed his Henry Pollingen. that ce time would shortly warive when they might
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do