CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 456

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merely because the French Ship containing the Coolies put in here for the purpose of making some necessary repairs.

mind

The chief difficulty in

my

arises from the circumstance

that by article 21 of the Treaty

signed at

Seking

on the 24

the

of

سم

الم

October 1860, it is stipulated that

" If criminals, subjects of China,

" shall take refuge in

Hongkong

bound the Brition ships there,

"they shall upon due requisition

" by the Chinese authorities, be

"searched for, and

and on

proof of their

4.

Chinese

"quilt, be delivered up."

So for therefore

are

d the matter is

affected the

subjects

452

toterally free from difficulties, an Ordinance of the Local Legislature having prescribed the course

of

proceeding to be observed, so far as they

are

con

ncerned; but

no provision is made with

regand to foreigners, subjects of who having

NON-

treaty powers, who

committed crimes in China are

afterwards to be found in Hongkong - either abiding there, merely seeking temporang

or

refuge and protection - and the surrender of whom is applied for by the Chinese Government

With

regard

to

such criminals,

-me-

to be

gre

at

there appears to