CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843 — Page 14

China, shall be held at Hong Kong. and that the Cant shall have Jurisdiction

mer Offences Committed within Hong Kong itself, as well

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within the Chinese Dominion, and theit the Superntendant shall be the Suage of that Court.

N. 12. The live tfth Document extends to the Trade carried on by British Subjects at the four Chinese Ports & at present in Military occupation, the powers formerly given to the Superintendant. reference to the Trade of British Subjects at Canton

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China, shall be held at Hong Kong, and that the Court shall have jurisdiction

over offences committed within Hong Kong itself, as well

as within the Chinese Dominion, and that the Superintendent shall be the Judge of that Court.

N. 12. The fifth Document extends to the Trade carried on by British Subjects at the four Chinese Ports & at present in Military occupation, the powers formerly given to the Superintendent in reference to the Trade of British Subjects at Canton

It does not appear

to me necessary

to trouble your Lordship with Criticism on

the forms by which the authority of the Governor of Hongkong is

thus

established and

defined. They will probably be found quite sufficient for the immediate purpose. Few of the Residents,

as that place will be dispersed, and fewer still will be able to comment on the foundations of the authority over them,

and

no one will resist it. But before long Lawyers will make their appearance in the place, and

that intuit will perhaps say

except

by Commission from the Queen Herself, no one is entitled to exercise the delegated authority of the Crown for the Government of the Queen's subjects - a mere Despatch from a Secretary of State.

and that a

valid substitute

for such a Commission. The practical inference is that a

Commission