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REGE 27 JAN 12

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong 29th December.....191/ .

Report on Ordinance No. : 64. ... . of 191/ . .

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled

"An Ordinance to further amend the Foreign Offenders Detention

Ordinance 1872.*

am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,

The geographical position of the Colony is peculiar and it often happen

at the subjects of Foreign Governments, who have been accused or convicted crimes committed outside the Colony and have been handed over to the re- Resentatives of such Governments by the authorities of the place where they

ve been caught, have to pass through the Colony in the course of their ansmission for triak or punishment. The Ordinance which justifies their porary detention is defective as it is limited to crimes committed in Ena. It does not for instance provide for the case of German prisoners Ang brought from German Colonies in the South Seas through Hong Kong on

ir way to Germany. Before being introduced the Ordinance was submitted to M. Secretary of State who approved of its terms in His Despatch of the

November,1911. The references to Japan in the Principal Ordinance were

#ted by section 14 of the General Revision Ordinance 1911.