CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 78

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. 6465/12.

and address-

The Under-Secretary of State.

Foreign Oflice,

London.

C O 5723

FIES FORRIAN, GREICE

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77

February 23, 1912.

Sir:-

10.

With reference to your letter No. 3046/12 of the 13th.

instant enclosing a report from the Law Officers of the Crown

on the subject of the Prerogative of Pardon in the case of

consular prisoners at Hongkong, I am directed by Secretary

Sir E. Grey to state that he would be glad to learn the terms

of Reference to the Law Officers, the reply to which was en-

closed in the Colonial Office letter, before giving his

opinion as to whether or not it would be desirable that new

Letters Patent should issue, in order to enable the Governor

of Hongkong to exercise the prerogative of pardon in the case

of British Subjects or protected persons convicted in Corea

or of protected persons convicted in China.

I am,

sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

Wranglen

Ipl

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.