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there made by the bracter
the master and thes
that it had
(
Court finding jurisdiction, and that there was
sufficient
- primâ facie proof against the prisoner. sent him down to Hong Kong for trial not so much under the 8th Section of the Order in Council 1865, as under the Act of 46 Geo: 11 Chapter 54, which declares that such trial shall take
3 place
within Her Majesty's
Magesty's-dominions.
Under these circumstances, it appears to me that the Colony should claim reimbursement from the Home Government and not from your
Legation
as the Court simply acted in conformity with the Act of Parliament
I have to
(Signed) Ernest Hornby
Hornby
Note
I cannot be
quite certain
of the Act as
I have not
it at hand.
right
in the title of means of reference
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1. Gardiner Auction Colonel M'Crory