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Comity of Nations, "The Governor of "Hongkong had the power to cause
and
the apprehension of "Surrender Juan Pastor Subject, then in
a
to
(
Peruvian
Hongkong who
had
committed
a
capital plony
in the Empire of China, and
For whose
whose surrender application
had been
nor General
made
Laou,
by the four-
ow, acting
on
hhalf of the Emperor of
"China? As however the exercise of
lead
to
this power may complications with Foreign
Nations, - and
n ~
as I ente stain
considerable doubt in the
matte
am
~-
anxious, not
only with reference to the present
case,
but for
my guidance
on
fehere
occasions, to have the opinion of
the law officers of the brown
on the whole question and particularly
on these two points.
Was the Governor of Hongkong
the power to surrender to the
on application,
Chinese Government
if he shall think proper, =
may
be
any foreigner who found in Hongkong after
having
committed
a
so
murder
on other plony in the Empire of China, - although by Treaty between Great
Pritain and China, the