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Attorney General's Office, 17th March, 1877.
Sir,
In the cases of some soldiers charged with committing offences outside of British Territory in China and which have been sent up for trial to the Supreme Court by the Magistrate I have great doubts as to the jurisdiction of the Court for the trial of offences committed on Chinese territory other than the peninsula of Macao.
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His Excellency the Administrator.