CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 305

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the Island

In refly I

Directes

by the Secretary of State

to requaint you that

by the third article of

the treaty of peace botan Great Britain and thing, signed at Nankin

the 29th of August, 1862,

His Imagest the Emperon

of China ceded to H. M.

the Lucem of Great Britan

the Island of Hong Kong, to be possessed in

perpetuity by H. Britannic Majesty, her heirs and successons, and to be

governed by suctions

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and regulations as Her bungest should su

to direct

This treaty

at Hong Kong

was

fit

ratified

on the 26th

June, 1843; and the first

Governor of Hong Kong

"having been

appoints by letters Patent of the 5th April

in the same

am

year

I are further to

by the Hong

state that

Kary

onde 22 15 of

1844, 49, it was exac that " the Law of England should be expancased in full force in the color of

Hong Kong, except where

the same should be

inapplicable is the

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