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11.
merely because the French Ship containing the Coolies put in here for the purpose of making some necessary repairs.
mind
The chief difficulty in
my
arises from the circumstance
that by article 21 of the Treaty
signed at
Seking
on the 24
the
of
سم
الم
October 1860, it is stipulated that
" If criminals, subjects of China,
" shall take refuge in
Hongkong
bound the Brition ships there,
"they shall upon due requisition
" by the Chinese authorities, be
"searched for, and
and on
proof of their
4.
Chinese
"quilt, be delivered up."
So for therefore
are
d the matter is
affected the
subjects
452
toterally free from difficulties, an Ordinance of the Local Legislature having prescribed the course
of
proceeding to be observed, so far as they
are
con
ncerned; but
no provision is made with
regand to foreigners, subjects of who having
NON-
treaty powers, who
committed crimes in China are
afterwards to be found in Hongkong - either abiding there, merely seeking temporang
or
refuge and protection - and the surrender of whom is applied for by the Chinese Government
With
regard
to
such criminals,
-me-
to be
gre
at
there appears to