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25.
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well aware
that according to International
Law, cunless otherwise stipulcted by bratios – Concular Officers are aucuable
& jurisdiction
to the civil and criminal,
of the coventry
in which they revide. in the present instance Icid not,
however, intend to discuss this point.
oct
all or to claim for myself the immunities
which
are Conceded
of a diplomatis officer, té Consuls only by special agreement, but reformed ctisticsotly to the Convedar office, the Consulate, not to the personal statues of the Convel. If the latter is
personally
subject to foreign jurisdiction, Iventure to maintain that the Consulate as an
office of a foreign Government is not, and that in his official capacity, for his
only official actions the Convul is auswerable to his own Government. A
long
long
office
as the inviolability of the Conecclar
and its archives, being the property,
of a foreign Govoriacout, is recognised_
and as
av fare
as I know it has never been
dispected_ an order with
regard to
property kopt in seal office or a
to
give
evidence or to produce.
papers belonging to such office, could
not.
ced and
should therefore
4 be enforced be issued. No foreign
Court could
uot
demand from the Concul to divrilge
any
Governmen
evidence belonging to this Tocomment
The had personally to obey
and even
if
the summons, he might be obliged to -refuce to give evidence upon his official actions. His appearance in the witnes
box under such circumstances
would this be a were
form,
ecot in
Concord with the diguity either of the
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