CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8] — Page 130

in care of then hostilities _

I would therefore bey to move the Arnoiable the Lieutenant Governor

that the question may

be submitted to the adjudication offer Majesty's Loretary of State for the Colonies in the following Grounds.

That it appears to me with all due respect that the provision above alluded to only applies where a Colony is the seat of War, Martial Law- consequently in force and Civil Authority suspended for the time, a state of things of improbable

here - or semblance of

recurence here

them.

guły Irving for

the present the

This accommen rational

soplonation of the provissie.

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hown of singly presiding in Ser Majesty's Supreme Court of Aoughing having legal c'urisdiction not only in

Colony but throughout the ports of China and being likewise d'udge

the

Af the Vice Admiralty Court - I feel it under all circumstances a moral

bligation to advance

my request

that

the question may reecive consideration in the high quarter inlaid

I have, He.,

by

me.

(Signed) Paul Sterling,

Acting Chief Justice.

True Copy)

Asthillier

Offs Colonial Secretary.