Cof
185
Municipal Law Of
China.
of
In the supplementary
treaty of 1844 though abrogated by the
18th clause of the Treaty
of Tien-tsin, may, for partly, be referred to in a question of the construction
of the later Treaty)
This was
expressed in
Crimes
against their
Government (Article 9)
and the Regulation
of the 20 January 1850,
made for carrying
out that Treaty, naturally
adopted similar language "crime or offence against the Laws of China."
'Tis true that the terms of the Treaty of
Tientsin (Article 21)
are general, namely "Criminals subjects of
China", but inasmuch
as the crime supposed
must have been
committed
in China
and the criminal must be a person