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occasion when

Your

Excellency desired to have

those auttionities informed of the Conditions

undu which the Secretary of State

for

the

Colonies had instructed

you to give effect to

the Treaty Provision affecting the rendition of

Chinese Criminals.

Heer

Abajesty's Government ti represent it-

in its relations with the Chinese Empire.

As regards the form of requisition

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the part of the Chinese Government for the

persons of its subjects who

from

I have myself.

no doubt as to thes

obligations of the Treaty in the matter. Neither

the Authorities of Canton, nov

of

othi

any

province, it appears to me, can be compelled,

may

have escafied)

it's kirisdiction, I shmed have been, and.

1

am stite of opinion that the application of any

Computent provincial anthurity made through

residing

any of the Consuls interested, may be fairly

"due requisition

however desirable on

occasion this

Course

may

the

You

be, to correspond directly with the Government-

of. Heonghing or any other of Her Majesty's dependencies. The definition or interpretation

particularly,

of a clause in the Treaty, move

I think cold only be conveyed to the Chinese

emed

Government through the officer appointed by

in the province

Considered as an

and I beg to submit to

exfordioney of adhering to thrès- Course until the Seentary of

State

for

Foreign Affairs shall have had the opportunity of instructing ther Majesty's Minister on the subzist..

in his letter of

Mr. Alexander, in

the