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American for any

other foreigner)

by his Consul at Shanghae, if he

Avere

- found at that port after.

a crime in this

committing. Colony . It seems to me that if

ner committed murder

foreigner

or any other crime in Hong Kong,

and then es.

escaped

ed to a treaty port, he would be beyond our reach and would be safe; unless upon application to the Chinese Authorities they allowed our officers to apprehend the offender, or seized him and

handed him over to our officers. I think on the other hand that the American Consul at Shangha would have a right under the

treaty to demand the rendition of

An American Criminal who

escaped from the Consular. jurisdiction and was found in HongKong: but it would be the duty of the Governor to strictly

out the mode of procedure

carry

-

adopted in England - of which perhaps the most important. element is that the proof of the crime is submitted to the judicial investigation of a Magistrate :- whose certificate of its sufficiency is an indispensable preliminary to the surrender of the fugitive. I would suggest that the case ofor the opinion of the Law Officers