CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922 — Page 352

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The Mixed Court is a Chinese Court applying

Chinese law to Chinese and non-treaty foreign defendants.

It is for the Mixed Court to determine in each

instance whether any person brought before it is triable by

the Mixed Court or not.

In deciding this point it should be guided by

Chinese law and the treaties made by China with foreign

countries alone.

Under Chinese law a person of Chinese parentage

is a Chinese, even though born abroad, until he has formally

divested himself of his Chinese nationality; and neither

Chinese law nor (so far as I am aware) the treaties admit

the extension of extra-territorial privileges to Chinese.

I have the honour etc.

(Signed) A.D. Blackburn.

Assessor.

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