CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 345

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before the thief Magistrate it afferred that widence toubabe Frought to conviet there prismers of reperlet sets of Pericy & of having murdered in Cold blood

thee of their prisoners

bry day preceding

on the

their

mere

Capture - that you forced & the belief, that,

I tried before the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, great muncher. of them

Men

Ja

would have

Capitally convicted

& that there would have

been.

law no grounds to distinguish their cases

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from those of other, whe have suffered the extreme poulty of the dew- and

letty

that there is some

defficently & inconvruceuse

in the administration of the lov in lates of Borney. law

3. A

you by fores no doubt

cases

that the full within thi

jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, Jesume, that, the difficulty and Miconshineuse of which you speak, relate only t

it procedure & not to its light & try the lates. 4. that of this right to cher Sean find nothing in the

3.