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the Commission of the 13th October 1863

which cites that Order

and which empowered

the Govenor of

the

Colony to Pardon purowers casind denne

Prisoners would not

in account of offences com. mitted in theme in the Chines has we not also

become mioperative. 4. an adsind 8. Merce further that V: Pat suggested, that, as the $13.008. 1819 an

en fun, Still in fom, bed

notwith-

Expedient

A

Order in Council for that it in sutwit - China and Japan Handigarh se ihre

the of putter 2.0.

prithin hower of sending Foral andoul Consular Prisoners to in this head,

(sec 79) reserves

Also to Intera

th

Hong Kong to undergs en Maide then imprisonment

i d

visted in It Gourme it of H.K. Coffee

committed in Japon.

it was a matter for consideration whether the powers vested in the Sovenior should not also be reserved

and continued.

The

questions to Ruined

were at once submitted

for the consideration of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who

obtamed the opinion of the Law Offices of

the Crown on the

subject. They reported it to be then opinion

that it would be expedient

to