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and jurisdiction of the Judge and Courts of Justice
Justice established.
in the said Colony; Her Most Faithful Majesty The Queen
Commands, through the Secretary of State for the affairs of War
and the Colonies, that it be
intimated to The Chancellor
the Governor of the Province
of
Macao, Timor, and Solor, that
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in Her Majesty's Government having required from that of Her Britannic Majesty an explanation
of the province
of the
in question, insisting
declaration that it had
been
Reference to the Portuguese Establishment
of Macao, the latter Government
lately
in
declares, as is recorded
in a note from
the Earl of
Aberdeen, Her Britannic Majesty's
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Principal Secretary of State for
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Foreign Affairs, dated the 24th July last, that the said Ordinance,
approved by the British Government,
in no way infringed the rights of Her Most Faithful
Majesty
in
the
City of Macao, as its sole object was
to provide that all British subjects resident in China,
as well as
in the
said City,
could be
tried by the Courts of the Island
of Hongkong.
on the
same principle as by British Law, especially Act 17th Geo III Chapter 34, section 7,
British
Subjects
are
tried by the Courts
liable to be
tried by the Courts of Great Britain
for certain offences
committed in
Foreign Countries, without this, however, in any way preventing the said British subjects from