14.

454

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

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