38
Victoria c. 80., the question of
prisdiction
war
in
a state of
of confusion,
and that it would be desirable
that a General Ordinance should be posed to settle the Jurisdiction the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong long and of the Consular Courts.
Advantage of his forge Boubenis presence England last year to frame.
wat
accordingly taken
in
Concert and in communication with
General
him, the draft of such a Ordinance, and that dreft was afterwards submitted to dr Travers
the Civil Law Bar for
Swiss of
revision
svision previously to it's being referred
to the Law Officers.
The draft has since the mouth
th f Lovember last been the subject of
-pleated correspondence between this
Office and the Law Officers; and it
the discusions appearing
in the course of the
that it would be more desirable that it should be paped in the shape of
an Order in Council as
of Laws for
being
a Code
the Government of British
"Subjects in thina and complete in
itself, instead
fists bring transmitted
to China to be paped
as
au
Ordinance by the thief Superintenbent
with