CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862 — Page 66

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

reciting so much of the Fring Jurisdiction Act and of the

Order in Council issued

under that Act as

would

to make the

the recessary

Letters Patent intelligible.

not,

The letters Patent would

fened

His frace conceives her

in Virtue of the

Foreign Jurisdiction act

but in Virtue of

Her Majestig

Ordinary prerogative of

Exerceding

delegating

63 concurrent

that the proposed power of pardon may

6

Some

lead

inconvenience unless

its exercise

by

is

guarded

matructions calculated

to prevent conflict of authority

It is frace would suggest

with this object

that the punishment of

offences

committed in

China

should be in practice be

remitted

ady by bett Mi

Minister in Chiria

by him

and

at his

sole.

Jower to pardon her

Subjets convicted by any

%

Her Courts of Justice

homever constituted

.

hourou

His grace is apprehensive

discretion

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long

Umain

as

the convicts were beyond

British territory, but that

pere ons

mee

brought within

the Colony of Hongkong

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