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or in Chinese Ships.

on

the high

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Murder having

been

Committed

bond

on

would be within

the

the meaning of Treaty, but that

in

the particular ense before them the

murder on boud

the "Nouvelle Penelope "

" having been come

" mitted within French

4

Devritory, ought to be

"Created as

4

an

offence

against French Lan,

" and not

as

offence against Chinese

"Law" _

case

In the present.

therefore the

Murder

the "Spark" a British

ship should be

considered

مة

an

offence against Birlish Law and not

against Chinice Law, for the purposes

In

of the Freaty. England this question

of concurrent puis- diction has been

disposed of by

the late Extinctation Amendment Act 1873 Sec. 2 which

provides that Criminals

may