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Provisions or Fittings or Coolies out of this Colony with intent that they should be put on board foreign Coolie Ships are all instances of acts which may be made punishable by a Local Ordinance.
It is unnecessary to say that bare intent cannot be made punishable unless it be coupled with some completed act and that the act must be committed within the Jurisdiction.
This Legislature cannot make Laws affecting British Subjects in respect of acts committed by them out of Jurisdiction of Hongkong except under the special authority given to it by Section II of the Imperial Act 18 and 19 Vic: c:104 ("The Chinese Passengers Act 1855").
I wish to draw attention, however to Article 159 of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the 9th day of March 1868 for the Government of Her Majesty's Subjects in China and Japan. It is as follows:-
The Supreme Court of Hong Kong may take Cognizance of offences committed by British Subjects within the Peninsula of Kowloon and of suits originating there when the party offending or the party sued comes or is...