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Her Privy Council,

to appoint the Colony of Hong Kong as the British Colony wherein

crimes and offencer committed by british Subjects within the

Dominiour of The Superor of China, which it may be Expedient should be inquired of, tried, determund and punished within

Her Majesty's Dominion,

shall be so

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of, tried, determined and

punished, and that Her

Majesty's Consuls, Vice

Consuels,

or other Persons

provisionally acting

ad

such under Warrant

from the Chief Super- xintendent of British trade.

in China, shall have authority to

to cause

any British Subject charged with the Commission of

any

crime or offence

the cognizance where of may at any time appertain to them or any

of them, to be sent for

trial