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for upwards of five years appeals from Consular decisions
in China have lain and been
made to this Supreme
Court
and Criminals have been
sent from Consular
in China to this Colony both for imprisonment and
for trial.
It shocks me that either
we have been
carrying out wrong
in such sections in
the China Order in Council
without a special Ordinance
on the subject, or that
such Ordinance is not
required to carry provisions
of the
"the Japan
Ordinance.
If it be legislation on the subject
it would be unwise to do
so in an incomplete
manner.
And I would suggest that the directions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies
should be obtained as to whether such legislation
should embrace the Order in
Council for China as well as that for Japan.
It appears to me that question depends
on
the Act 6 & 7 Vict: Cap: 94