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American for any
other foreigner)
by his Consul at Shanghae, if he
Avere
- found at that port after.
a crime in this
committing. Colony . It seems to me that if
ner committed murder
foreigner
or any other crime in Hong Kong,
and then es.
escaped
ed to a treaty port, he would be beyond our reach and would be safe; unless upon application to the Chinese Authorities they allowed our officers to apprehend the offender, or seized him and
handed him over to our officers. I think on the other hand that the American Consul at Shangha would have a right under the
treaty to demand the rendition of
An American Criminal who
escaped from the Consular. jurisdiction and was found in HongKong: but it would be the duty of the Governor to strictly
out the mode of procedure
carry
-
adopted in England - of which perhaps the most important. element is that the proof of the crime is submitted to the judicial investigation of a Magistrate :- whose certificate of its sufficiency is an indispensable preliminary to the surrender of the fugitive. I would suggest that the case ofor the opinion of the Law Officers