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Furthermore, I believe that before acting before the Mixed Court in the way the British Assessor did, it would be a social duty to present me the question personally or in writing, but it is clear we have not the right to expect every one to keep and follow social obligations.
It is indeed strange that Mr. Blackburn, the British Assessor who belongs to one of the nations administering in Shanghai that he is trying to give strength to anything intending to change or to amputate what has been agreed to by those nations in China, especially when he ought to know that this cannot be done by one of the parties signatories
to the treaty but by the mutual consent of both.
In our Regulations for Proteges being part of the
"Les espanoles y protegides treaty with China (art 3) reads; -
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estan sujeros a la jurisdiction Consular exclusivamente en lo civil como em lo criminal; se rijen en todo por la jurisdiction espanola, disfrutan de cuantos beneficios y recur- ses concede, y de los que autoriza ademas la costumbre local". (Translation) The Spaniards and Proteges are subject exclusively to Consular jurisdiction both in the civil as in the criminal cases they have to conform in all to spanish jurisdiction, they have (Proteges and Peninsulars alike) all the benefits and recourses granted by Spanish Law besides all those authorised by the local customs.
We have definite terms with the Chinese government as to when and where we shall give protection, and the Assessor must learn that any posterior Decree of any of the two goverments do not modify our treaty and that the comparison
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