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"found within the jurisdiction "of that Court; but that Court shall not have power to issue "any Warrant or Writ to be "executed or served within that "Peninsula"..
It would be satisfactory to obtain the Opinion of the Secretary of State as to whether the word 'offence' in that article, would extend to acts declared to be offences by the Colonial Legislature only as distinguished from offences against Imperial Acts which follow British Subjects wherever they may be...
It seems to me that, inasmuch as the Governor cannot make Laws affecting British Subjects in respect of Acts committed by them outside the jurisdiction (save under the Chinese Passengers' Act), the word 'offence' in that article of the Order in Council must be limited to offences against the Common Law or the Statute Law of England..
Before the passing of the Act in Council, the Supreme Court exercised jurisdiction over all British Subjects in China and Japan, but I apprehend that a British subject could not at that time have been punished ratione loci delicti" for an act committed in