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the Commission of the 13th October 1863
which cites that Order
and which empowered
the Govenor of
the
Colony to Pardon purowers casind denne
Prisoners would not
in account of offences com. mitted in theme in the Chines has we not also
become mioperative. 4. an adsind 8. Merce further that V: Pat suggested, that, as the $13.008. 1819 an
en fun, Still in fom, bed
notwith-
Expedient
A
Order in Council for that it in sutwit - China and Japan Handigarh se ihre
the of putter 2.0.
prithin hower of sending Foral andoul Consular Prisoners to in this head,
(sec 79) reserves
Also to Intera
th
Hong Kong to undergs en Maide then imprisonment
i d
visted in It Gourme it of H.K. Coffee
committed in Japon.
it was a matter for consideration whether the powers vested in the Sovenior should not also be reserved
and continued.
The
questions to Ruined
were at once submitted
for the consideration of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who
obtamed the opinion of the Law Offices of
the Crown on the
subject. They reported it to be then opinion
that it would be expedient
to