CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4] — Page 436

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This being the case, I think these prisoners should have been given up to the Chinese Government.

In reply, I would ask you to be so good as to inform His Excellency the Governor that I must respectfully decline to give any opinion whatever on the point to which His Excellency has seen fit to refer to me. To do so would be to exceed the limits of my functions, in this and similar cases, which appear to me to be confined to conveying to the Government of Yongtong the application of His Excellency the Viceroy for the surrender of certain Chinese who are accused of having committed a crime in Chinese territory, and to making known to His Excellency the Governor what I believe to be the value of the Viceroy's undertaking not to torture the Hongkong Chinese criminals given up by arrangement.

I have, &c.,

(signed)

A. R. Hewlett

Consul.

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434 This being the case, I think these prisoners should have been given up to the Chinese Government. In reply, I would ask you to be so good as to inform His Excellency the Governor that I must respectfully decline to give any opinion whatever on the point to which His Excellency has seen fit to refer to me. To do so would be to exceed the limits of my functions, in this and similar cases, which appear to me to be confined to conveying to the Government of Yongtong the application of His Excellency the Viceroy for the surrender of certain Chinese who are accused of having committed a crime in Chinese territory, and to making known to His Excellency the Governor what I believe to be the value of the Viceroy's undertaking not to torture the Hongkong Chinese criminals given up by arrangement. I have, &c., (signed) A. R. Hewlett Consul.

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434

This

case,

I think these prisoners shoulda

given up to the

Chinese

Government.

In reply, I would ack

you

to be

so good as to inform It's Excellency the Governor that I must respectfully decline

to give any opinion whatever

troint

as It's

کی اس سال

such a

His Excellency has seen fit to

refer tome. To dos would be to eveed

the limits of my functions,

of my functions, in this and

similar

cases,

which

appear tome to be

confined to conveying to the Government of Yongtong the application of this Excelling the Viceroy for the surrender of certans chinese who are accused of having committed a crime in Chinese territory, and tomaking known to this Inelency the

Governor what I believe to be the value

of the Viceroy's undertaking not to torture: The Hongkong Chinese criminals giver up by

Ameenment.

I have, te,

(signed)

A. R. Hewlett

Consul.

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