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"the Hongkong Regulations."
Such matters are therefore regulated by Article
1
XXI of the Treaty of Tientsin of June 26th, 1858, of
which Article a copy is enclosed. It will be observed
that it only contemplates rendition of Chinese Crimi-
nals from Hongkong to China, but not to the converse
case. There is no Treaty obligation on the part of
the Chinese to surrender their subjects to Great Bri-
tain or to British Possessions. It was this Treaty
that
provision, as will be seen from the correspondence
which passed with your Department at the time,
precluded the surrender to Hongkong of the man Chung
who murdered Hung Tsun Fuk in that Colony, and whose
trial consequently had to take place at Canton, wit-
nesses proceeding thither from Hongkong with the re-
sult that Chang was sentenced to be executed in the
Spring of 1904.
1
In September, 1899, the Law Officers of the Crown
expressed the opinion that persons inhabiting the
leased territory at the time of its cession, as well
as persons born therein during the continuance of the
leuse
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