Colonial Secretary to Mr. Consul Robertson.
(Copy)
No 48 s
Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
481
Hangsing, 26th
1h Jerre, 1865.
your
chaus
I have the honor to acknowledge
letter No 63 of 23th Inolour and to
your for its contents, which make clear the point of jurisdiction referred to
ih
No 29 of 12th April last.
in ours
The Acling Governor
nvas
unwilling
to chiuse that the jurisdiction, disputed
by the Chinese Government (though the only
jurisdiction in
clamudy
aw
question,
as the only
and
was that of a British Court over
offence committed in British Cerritory
This is now made plain by
D. B. Robertson, Egt
A. M's. Consul,
Canton
chic