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to debar the Chinese local autrontier
from pom considering and treating them When found in China, as if they were stite subjects of the Emperor, you wile disabrite the Chinese Government of that impreforces, and call upon them without delay to explain to their lord huthrontier expecially at Canton that there perous whatever their origin may have been have become in fact British subjects by the transfer of Hong Kong, where their permanent domicil at the time of the conclusion of the Heaty of handing waspied, and likewrite any children born to them before or after the capion of The Island to the British Crown.
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though regarded generally But the subjects by Karen place of vite, could not be held to The British subjects against
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But the main difficulty which it is necessary & deal with, turns upon the effect which a literal compliance on the party Great Britain with the Morning of the 21st wrticle of the Treaty as regards the surrender of criminals, may.
under the peculias nature of the Chinese (aws, have on the eventual fate of such criminals. If the engagement, one sided, througle it may be, subsisted betwen two Christine nations, among which
many the