pardon
criminals convicted of offences by Her late .. Majesty's Consular Courts in China
were still in
That and Japan,
force. copies of the Letters Patent of 22nd October 1866 and of all other Letters talent issued
et for
for Hong Kong, since that date, were sent,
information.
Aur
That Mr. Fiddes
was to observe that the
-Leters talent expressly empowered the Governor of try tong to exercise the Royal Perogative of pardon in respect of any British subjects
ht
who might
be sent to underge imprisonment
in the Colony under the provisions of the
Japan Order-in-Council, 1865.
China and Japan
That that Order in Council was
he
repeated
by the China and Corea Order-in-Council
1904 but that it was,
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expressly provided
by section 16y of the latter Order that such repeal should not take away or abridge
any protection or benefit given or to be enjoyed in relation to any of the Orders in Council repeated by the China and Corea Order-in-Council 1984. Further that section by of sub-section 2 of the same order provided that nothing in the Order should affect the King's prerogative of pardon; and that it was conceived that that provision would apply
of
to any delegation of the prorogative.
That in view of those circumstances and the fact that the Letters Patent did not t appear ever to have been specifically repeated,
to cre
you
Med
to
write.
disposed to think that they
wver E
1904