to
the Canten Goo? to send back lo
Ang tag for Fical Clines, who,
Hang
Laving committed crimes in the Colony have escaped in from its
Jurisdiction.
Mr Mercer asks mysid in
representing to the central Gov = State
this refusal.
is a denial of H. Ins Sovereign Rights; but as YL. will perceive, I
slami
ani barred by a very.
pertiment precedent from taking
the action Mr Mercer desires. Lienti
Mr. Costan auch Foye
at Hongkong
Foyer
were Murdered
im 1849 by a
Chinese_named_Tom " Apo, and
dence with
after a long Correspondence the Imperial Commissioner, to
persistently
denied our right to
clain
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claim the criminal, Lie George Bontann, then Governor of
Grey
Gove
Hong Kong, reported to last the refusal of the Chinese Goud di acognize our right of Juris
was to the effect that
420 uply
Jurisdiction
the demand could not be.
sustained, It was given, Busung
on the advice of the Law Offices of the Groom. If it was not, this point
t is the
which, Tentmit, it
is desirable should not be left
in doubt.
I am most un
illing
Aah it
opinion
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stould be thought that the opini
I have expressed regarding