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well aware

that according to International

Law, cunless otherwise stipulcted by bratios – Concular Officers are aucuable

& jurisdiction

to the civil and criminal,

of the coventry

in which they revide. in the present instance Icid not,

however, intend to discuss this point.

oct

all or to claim for myself the immunities

which

are Conceded

of a diplomatis officer, té Consuls only by special agreement, but reformed ctisticsotly to the Convedar office, the Consulate, not to the personal statues of the Convel. If the latter is

personally

subject to foreign jurisdiction, Iventure to maintain that the Consulate as an

office of a foreign Government is not, and that in his official capacity, for his

only official actions the Convul is auswerable to his own Government. A

long

long

office

as the inviolability of the Conecclar

and its archives, being the property,

of a foreign Govoriacout, is recognised_

and as

av fare

as I know it has never been

dispected_ an order with

regard to

property kopt in seal office or a

to

give

evidence or to produce.

papers belonging to such office, could

not.

ced and

should therefore

4 be enforced be issued. No foreign

Court could

uot

demand from the Concul to divrilge

any

Governmen

evidence belonging to this Tocomment

The had personally to obey

and even

if

the summons, he might be obliged to -refuce to give evidence upon his official actions. His appearance in the witnes

box under such circumstances

would this be a were

form,

ecot in

Concord with the diguity either of the

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