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Supreme Court and a nicheal advantage, if Foreign Consul were allowed to administer the effects of their deceased Nationals within the Colony
all cases where such
Arrangement
made reciprocal between
Great Britain
and the Minister or
other representative of the nation to which they belong.
It is but seldom that
Foreign Ministers in China and Japan
have Opportunity of sending home
Was, for Vessel of
and the
in a
Trial
Nation which they represent,
in
the colonies and foreign Settlements.
The other subject is anxious to bring Lordship's notice
to your
has reference to the Custody, during their passage through Hong Kong, of Foreign Criminals sent to Europe for Trial or Punishment from
China and Japan
under the Warrant of
or Punishment,
Criminals over whom they exercise in those countries Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction by Treaty. Such Criminals
frequently
sent by Mail Steamers and other merchant Vessels to Hong Kong with instructions to the Consul of the nation to which the Prisoner belongs, to provide for his safe