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" construed as applicable to offences committed. " within the jurisdiction of the Colony, and " that this need not be expressed.
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That th: High seas in the neighbourhood of Hong long and the waters adjoining and within three : miles of the Chinese Coast, were not
unfrequently the scene of piratical. cutrages committed by Chinese upon Chinese That those crimes were often attended with the murder of. two individuals sometimes of nearly the whole crew and passengers to the number of twenty or more.
one or
That
the perpetrators of such offences had been from time to time apprehended in the Colony, and when the locality of the
proved to have been more
crime was
Have three miles from the nearest Chinese Territory the Supreme Court
had been in the habit of hearing and.. determining the matter as a case of piracy jure gentium. That if the locality appeared to be within the Chinese three mile limit, the bourt had dismissed the case for want of jurisdiction.
6.
That it had also happened
that Junks captured by Pirates
high
on
the
Seas from Chinese subjects resident
in China, and articles the property of Chinese resident in the Colony and taken by Pirates from Colonial Junks on the high
seas had been afterwards found in the Colony, and in such cases the persons in possession had been tried and punished under Ordinance 1 of 1868 section 6: and it was of the greatest importance to the Colony that some such power should exist in order to check the prevalence of "Piracy in
had
the