act which, if committed within the Colony, would be an indictable offence
You point out
that the proposed clause would permit of the Company's name being struck off the register for failure to satisfy the Inspector whether the act complained of, if committed elsewhere than in Hongkong, would be any indictable offence, & that it does not provide that any person connected with the Company shall be deemed to have committed the same offence in China in contemplation of the law there in force, before the Company is penalized in the Colony.
3. As regards this I am to observe that it concurred in Lord Elgin's opinion, giving rise to great practical inconvenience if the Colonial Government were required to satisfy itself, and also the Court to which the case might be referred, on points connected with the criminal law of foreign countries, and it appears to their Lordships that there is nothing unreasonable or inequitable in the Colonial Government's laying down the principle that it will not allow a Company