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pardon

criminals convicted of offences by Her late .. Majesty's Consular Courts in China

were still in

That and Japan,

force. copies of the Letters Patent of 22nd October 1866 and of all other Letters talent issued

et for

for Hong Kong, since that date, were sent,

information.

Aur

That Mr. Fiddes

was to observe that the

-Leters talent expressly empowered the Governor of try tong to exercise the Royal Perogative of pardon in respect of any British subjects

ht

who might

be sent to underge imprisonment

in the Colony under the provisions of the

Japan Order-in-Council, 1865.

China and Japan

That that Order in Council was

he

repeated

by the China and Corea Order-in-Council

1904 but that it was,

587

expressly provided

by section 16y of the latter Order that such repeal should not take away or abridge

any protection or benefit given or to be enjoyed in relation to any of the Orders in Council repeated by the China and Corea Order-in-Council 1984. Further that section by of sub-section 2 of the same order provided that nothing in the Order should affect the King's prerogative of pardon; and that it was conceived that that provision would apply

of

to any delegation of the prorogative.

That in view of those circumstances and the fact that the Letters Patent did not t appear ever to have been specifically repeated,

to cre

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to

write.

disposed to think that they

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1904