CO129-236 - Others - 1887 — Page 117

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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be Jucci's Road Centra Hongkong 17 fine 1387

We have the honour to acknowledge

your letter of

the 15th June with reference to

Leung a Ful and

in reply beg to state

that five still wish our better of the 3

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orwarded to the Secretary of State for

May forw

loves as when the accused was

The Holovices

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liberated by the Supreme Court the latter hela that the works on

proof of quilt new G in the Treaty of Dentein and incorporated:

48 of being in Ordinance 2 of 1871 simply meant upon such a prinda facie case

a for shave out as would

tify the Mccarties in committing a prssoned for buck at the Supreme Court. As we cannot bring ourselves to adieve that the framers of the Freaty of Fientsin intenfud to put a pinta trial before a Chinese Mandarin when torture his not only permissable but nicessary unless bo prisoner admits his quilt upon a ball with a British Court fof Justice where a man has all the

before

of somethion from this Colony to China is one well- worthy of attention from Ster Majesty's Government in England.

fvantages

of tudo be

think this whole subject

We have also the honourr to

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Aating fotonice I caretary-

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