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toksin to that effect & decide in concert with the Legal Advisers of the Govt of Hongkong what limit should be placed on the Consular Jurisdiction.
The 13th Article of the Fifteen Articles appended to the Treaty, provides for the intervention of British Authority in certain stages of differences between British and Chinese Subjects, and although the occasion for such intervention in cases of differences between British Subjects and the Subjects of other Powers, besides China has not, as Lord Aberdeen knows, arisen as far as
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The manner in which this Consuls shall exercise jurisdiction is the next point. It would appear expedient to bind the Consuls to a literal observance of the laws and practice of England. Moreover it will be incumbent on them to
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