in care of then hostilities _
I would therefore bey to move the Arnoiable the Lieutenant Governor
that the question may
be submitted to the adjudication offer Majesty's Loretary of State for the Colonies in the following Grounds.
That it appears to me with all due respect that the provision above alluded to only applies where a Colony is the seat of War, Martial Law- consequently in force and Civil Authority suspended for the time, a state of things of improbable
here - or semblance of
recurence here
them.
guły Irving for
the present the
This accommen rational
soplonation of the provissie.
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hown of singly presiding in Ser Majesty's Supreme Court of Aoughing having legal c'urisdiction not only in
Colony but throughout the ports of China and being likewise d'udge
the
Af the Vice Admiralty Court - I feel it under all circumstances a moral
bligation to advance
my request
that
the question may reecive consideration in the high quarter inlaid
I have, He.,
by
me.
(Signed) Paul Sterling,
Acting Chief Justice.
True Copy)
Asthillier
Offs Colonial Secretary.