Ordinance 1850,
the
Lam advised
to all practice
Caws
the contrary and precedent in similar
Magistrate will in the present instance expect the Solicitors acting
on behalf of the Chinese Government to produce direct proof (apart
from all
physical or other
Considerations)
that the prisoner is a Chinese subject. Frusting
to the desire, which I doubt not His Excellency cherishes to carry
out the obligations
created by the Tientsin Treaty, I have on behalf of His Excellency the Viceroy of the two Kwang
adopted the course of asking
for the prisoner's detention under the powers conferred by
Section II
of the Regulation Ordinance but wherein
Her Majesty's local Government
desire some ground-way
d ground for the exercise of the powers referred to. I now have the honour to state
for His Excellency's information that I allege that the prisoner Chingtai has committed sundry
crimes against the land of China and that he being Chinese subject has at or near Han fshow within the territory
and territorial jurisdiction of the Emperor of China committed murder and burglary
on the 10th day of October 1883 and has
also at divers other times and
places within the territory of the Emperor of China
committed or aided and abetted in the
committal of other acts of Murder and burglary.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant
W. H. Marsh
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