the Governor General and yours
of the Provinces
coast on
the sea
the shores of the River,
whenever a pirate or other criminal was landed over
by a British authority, the Governor General & Governor of the jurisdiction,
when he had duly ascertained the nature of the crime should
communicate with the Zamen of For. Affairs, which office having informed itself of the particulars of the case, should
represent it to the Throne,
praying the Emperor to decree the summary execution of the criminal.
They would no longer be called on to inflict the punishment of death by slow degrees, prescribed by the standing law.
Mr. Governor said that he was now instructed by Earl Granville to state that the difficulty which prevented the Hongkong Govt in 1880, from acceding to the request of Lin, Gor. Gen.