[ { "id": 230675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "qu'il me fasse \n\ne fasse connaître ses intentions aus sujch de cette triste affaire, jo \n\nde réclamer officiellement \n\nde l'autorité \n\nanglaise, \n\nvous. \n\nprid \n\nen onon nond \n\new youS \n\nappuyant \n\nsur la convention d'extradition existant \n\nentre la France et l'Angleterre, la détention préventive) des individus arrêtés \n\nà bord de l'Albert. \n\nJe \n\nvous prie également, Monsieur, \n\nde réclamer de l'autorité anglaise, communication de toutes les pièces \n\nla \n\nle \n\nrattachant à l'instruction judiciaire \n\nqui \n\na eu \n\nlieu à \n\nfaits \n\nHongkong, \n\nsur les \n\nde l'Albert. Il serait à désirer \n\nque ces pièces vous fussent communiquées assez tôt pour pouvoir partir par la prochaine malle. \n\nRecevez, Monsieur, l'assurance \n\nparfaite considération. (Signé) Forth-Rouen. \n\nCette copie conforme \n\nexactement à l'original, (signed) Henry Anthon Gérant €. V.C. d.# \n\n(dignes erant \n\nde ma \n\nRue Copy \n\n\"Colonial Secretary \n\nCopy. \n\nNo. 254. \n\nLir. \n\nthe \n\n32 \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, \n\n12th October, 1850: \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge \n\nreceipt of your letter of the 11th. instant, enclosing copy of one addressed . \n\nto \n\nH. E. the Baron Forth Rouen, \n\nby you by Minister of France) . \n\nWith reference to the detention in \n\ncustody of the persons charged with committing \n\nmurder and \n\nrobbery on board the ships Albert, Law directed by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong to reply to you that they shall be detained, as required by the French Minister, until demanded by a proper authority \n\non the part of the French nation; in accordance with the provisions of the Act 6 & 7 \n\nHenry Anthon, Jr., 649, \n\nActing Vice Consul for France.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "14\n\nthe expenses of the Chinese prisoners be borne by the French Government.\n\nTo the\n\nI have,\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\n(Signed) Henry Anthon,\n\nActing Vice Consul for France.\n\nHon. H. Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nHong Kong\n\netc.\n\nHere\n\nFund for\n\nHongkong, le 14 8th, 1850\n\nJ'ai reçu la copie de la lettre que M. le Gouverneur de Hongkong a fait adresser à vous le 12 de ce mois. Cette lettre est en tout point satisfaisante.\n\nIl vous reste maintenant à fixer l'autorité anglaise, le jour, à partir duquel, par suite des stipulations de la convention d'extradition entre la France et l'Angleterre, les frais de la détention préventive des 49 Chinois arrêtés à bord du navire français l'Albert retomberont à la charge du gouvernement français. Je pense que l'on pourrait arrêter que les deux mois que doit durer cette détention préventive commenceraient à courir soit d'aujourd'hui, soit du 12, date de la lettre que vous a\n\nMonsieur Anthon,\n\netc.\n\nAnthon, Gérant le vice-consulat de France à Hongkong,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252283, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "content_text": "## FAQ \nof the Commander of the Pension \n\nof Vepil to deliver the man up to the Imperial authority, that the Convention between Great Britain & **Impia** for the mutual Extradition of Seamen deserters applies only to the Deserters from the Merchant Service of the two countries.\n\nIn compliance with G.L's instructions, We have the honor to report that.\n\nApering the \"Elbe\" to be an Imperial German Vessel, the Deserter in question is not, nor has he been since he deserted, on British Territory, and \n\nHe was not within the power of the British Municipal authority whilst on board the \"Elbe\".\n\nThe proper course for the United States to adopt is to apply to the Pension Govt. There is no power of interposition on the part of this Country.\n\n## Page 105\nR. Bethell White", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "AGEN\n\nk\n\npolitical offences against: The foot.\n\nHer Hammond was also furnished with copies of the treaty of 1843 referred to as Papers, and the Convention & Proclamation; and to uphold that we would take the matter into our consideration, and favour,\n\nMinion\n\nast\n\nwith our Y.L. Instructions which should be sent to the Governor by H.M.'s allowance.\n\nIn obedience to its command, we have taken this matter into consideration and have the honour to Report.\n\nThat the crimes for the commission of which in China, by Chinese Subjects, the port of that Country has the right to demand the extradition to accord being fugitive at large, are, in our opinion, generally crimes against the municipal law of China.\n\nThe Supplementary Treaty of 1844 (which though abrogated by Article 16 of the Treaty of Tientsin, may properly be referred to as a question of the construction of that Treaty) expressed in terms \"crimes or offences against their law\" (Article 9) and Regulation of 20 March 1850, made per carrying into effect similar language \"crime or offence against the laws of China\".\n\nThis is the term used in the Treaty of Tientsin.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "## 3. that the Chinese Govt. are justified by the Treaty in refusing by jurisdiction and in \"calling in question\".\n\nAbove all, to deal with crimes absolutely.\n\nThis applies to him.\n\nG matter.\n\nGovt 166-23 Sept.\n\nAus? 26 Sep.\n\nSal?\n\nanru? for /15 regarding diplomatic action. De & Recoms tom daß desciala Kau altera in the relient, Han Of the heat, from the reusit. Upudiating dentimit obligations & the same the better.\n\n## 4. that arrangments requisitionary for the Extradition of Criminals, with H.K. Govt are best made by the Jenrl. But (of course) by the Elemtn authorities.\n\nFor this should be included in consideration & convention.\n\n## 5. that time justified by the letter of the Treaty & (as understood by recent statements of M 8.6.) by mutual practice in regard to refusing to give up those who have...\n\nTh Cesseme unda 12-2 to European nation, Chinese Salzit! Freak in no point in Migration Exit Subject oblideen angel 12.\n\nFui up 6. But such an unsound cepen Fem if popites, sad extent to Chinese sulgents! M. 20.\n\ngiua chong trong\n\n**RECE WED SEP20 1865**\n\n**Foreign Office 204**\n\nSeptember 19 1865.\n\nEarl Russell.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary, Cardwell, to acquaint you, for the information of her Majesty's Govt., that he has received a Note from the Peruvian Minister at this Court stating that Don Juan Pastor Sevilla has been appointed Consul General for Peru at Hong Kong, requesting that Her Majesty's Exequatur may be issued to that Gentleman to enable him to act in the above capacity; and I am to request that you will move fur.\n\nCardwell\n\n17. Rogers Bt.\n\nInform \n\n谷", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264062, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "Chinese authorities; and be thankful that the Chinese foot will be eventually approved, if not to alterity, this no Chinese criminal will be delivered up for the future without a sufficient guarantee, in each case he will be fairly tried, and his punishment, if he be found guilty, that be unaccompanied by any kind of physical torture.\n\nBut we all agree thinking that it will be very expedient to endeavour to obtain a supplementary treaty Convention, some modification or explanation of this article which may provide against the delivery up of criminals, liable by Chinese law to such punishments as we justly deem inhuman, without security against the infliction of those punishments and for the purpose we think full advantage may properly be taken of all the uncertainties, and doubtful questions, which may fairly be represented on the Article, as it now stands scarcely susceptible of satisfactory construction.\n\nIt applies only to individuals where \"guilt\" may be proved in Hongkong. But it does not define what shall be considered criminal or what guilt, for this purpose. Its rule, in all our other extradition treaties, is not to regard anything...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272330, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "# Zon for the future.\n\nYou despatch was referred to Lord Stanley, and I have to state that the foregoing minute raises the question of extradition of deserters with reference to the convention between the Lordship to the Government of some foreign state, and I have to request that you will furnish a copy of the report of the law officers of the Crown on the subject for consideration.\n\n70. 11987 Densor, 314-15 and I have to request that you will Zurich &C. within such time as to enable you to state your views on the question of Zena, as when settled it will be communicated to you.\n\n& I have to inform you that I should also wish to be informed whether the provisions of Art 9 of the Chinese Treaty 1843 can be reapplied in the case of deserters from foreign employment in preventing the employment of such deserters.\n\nEnglish desertors & Lord Stanley in replying on the 25 July stated that he inclined to the opinion of the Legal Adviser. In the former case, an ordinance was suggested, and as to what further action should be taken, it was considered that such an ordinance should be extended to cover the case of deserters from foreign ships.\n\nAs directions were given by the detecteren Sormen, I should wish to reply to you that His Majesty's Government is not competent to deal with the matter in the sense of the pause, and that it should be dealt with by the Colonial Office in communication with BAG.\n\nOf the reference to your despatch, I have to state that questions of this kind should be raised by direct communication with His Majesty's Government, and not through the Government of Portugal.\n\nShann \n\n## Page numbering not found in the original text, but \"25/12 M.\" is present.\n\nThe Chinese text was not reversed as there was no Chinese text provided in the input. However, the instruction to reverse Chinese text if it was originally written right-to-left will be followed if Chinese text is present in the future inputs. \n\nThe text has been reformatted according to the given instructions. The original paragraph structure has been preserved, and sentences have been rejoined. Spacing errors have been corrected, and unambiguous OCR spelling errors have been fixed. File references have been formatted as per the instructions. The output is in Markdown format.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867", "content_text": "to the nearest British Consular or Port Officer. Concealment or refuge be afforded\"\n\nIn neither case, shall it be that to the carrying into effect of the provisions of this treaty it may \n\nhe be that to the \"lawless natives of China having committed crimes or offences against their own Govt\" have been treated as including deserters from the Chinese forces; if this should be so, the Portuguese would be entitled under it appears to us the treaty of 1842 to like \"favors and facilities\" with respect to the recovery of Deserters as those conceded to China, &c.\n\nWe think it right to call the attention of the Govt of Hongkong to this point in any communication, which H.M.G. may address to him on the Subject of the desired extradition.\n\nWe have &c.\nB. Hartslet\nC. F. Selwyn.\n\n> \n\n## Convention to for? No. 163-23\nAnswer: 31 Dec /67-\nDel 169.\n\nPost Office\n18228\n346\n9750\n12139-\n\n## RECEIVED\nDEC 12 1867\n928\nForeign Office\n\n\"December 10. 1867.\n\"With reference to your letter of the 23rd of October last, I am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you, to be laid before the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, at Washington, forwarding copies of correspondence with the United States Authorities, respecting the postal convention between the Governor of Hongkong Agents and the United States Post Office & Made Secretary of State Espin &c. Foreign Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "facitly effecting their extradition I be judged by a British Court, even where express Convention exists for the extradition of Criminals, I've never heard of a clause for the surrender to the government of another Italy, of a native-born subject.\"\n\nWhoever is the conclusion he has come to, but, for the satisfaction of His Excellency Sir R. G. Macdonald, may hospitably admit a different opinion, he will await the instructions of Her Majesty's Government and, for that purpose, transmit by the next mail the whole correspondence.\n\nI have …\n\n(Signed) D. J. Robertson\n\nConsul.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nMacdonald, Marine\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278862, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "Hongkong. N758.\n\n21 July, 1869.\n\nGoverno\n\nSir Richard Graves Macdonell to\n\nThe Right honourable\n\nKarl Granville, K.G.\n\nExtradition of Fugitive Criminals. Legislation proposed for and agreed to by Colonies of Hongkong and Macao.\n\nExplanation\n\nAnd\n\n(5 Enclosure)\n\n10117 Hongkong 10248 In 1028/\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nMr Holland. WQ 14/5\n\nSir J. Rogen\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith the draft Convention which has been prepared with great care in anticipation of an early settlement of it in communication with the Portuguese Government.\n\nTo 70.-\n\nRefer them to their letter of the 1st July 1865 stating that this draft which has been prepared in accordance with most nations from home is submitted for Law (Council's) consideration -\n\nAnd that the draft Convention appears to have been generally approved & that it will be unnecessary for me to offer any lengthened comment upon it. But that I touch upon the matters which appear to deserve special consideration, namely whether subjects, & military deserters, or persons accused of the crime of Piracy. Whether their respective Governments should be called upon.\n\nAnd with reference to Article 10 whether it should not attempt to make it clear that the fugitive criminal may not be surrendered without the sanction of the Consular Authorities of the nation to which the fugitive may belong.\n\nPage 428", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "7 437\n\nForeign Countries are justiciable by Funch Tribunals (See Loi du 24 Juin - 3 Juillet 1866. Appendix to Report, p. 96 also Evidence of Mr. Hind 033–832, of Mr Nestor Freit 1332-1372-1377-1334- and of Mr Mullens 1169-1167-1277-1378.\n\nI may mention that in the Maltai Ordinance (Appendix, p. 144) and in the Extradition Treaty with Denmark (Appendix 120) and in the Convention with Prussia of the 5th of March 1864, Art I, not now in operation (App. p.129) Nationals are excepted.\n\n\"within the Territory of Macao\": see post observations on the Schedule held to Triersy juve gentium.\n\nSection 5.\n\nThis Section is drafted mainly from the precedent of our General Act suggested by Sir R. Henry (App. p. 93)\n\nSub Section 3.\n\nWith regard to the necessity of this Provision see the Evidence of Mr. Nestor Treit as to Condamnés par contumace and Condamnés Contradictoires 1306–1928–1339 et seq. also the Evidence of Sir R. Henry 300–309.\n\nSub Section 6.\n\nThe language of this Provision is taken from 29 and 30 Vic. c. 121 (See Resolutions of Select Committee and App. 123)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "444\n\nIf an Order of arrest on foreign territory, nor without the limits of his jurisdiction. It is only by application to a Judge of another for the arrest of a Culprit, and as regards foreign Countries, such requisitions are preferred by the Government Authorities.\n\nThat which is required by paragraph 2. appears to me to be too much. Although absolutely people proceeded against at Macao, the provisions of para. 3 would be acceptable.\n\nParagraph 4 is unjust.\n\nThe difficulties commence at Paragraph 5, which empowers British Courts to decide on evidence the justice of the claim preferred for the surrender of a Culprit, and allows the latter a right to contest such claim under the provisions set forth in paragraphs 6 and 7, as also under paragraphs 8 and 9, referring to Ordinance No.4 of 1844, which latter appears to authorize the delays, and the danger of rendering useless the Requisition of the Governor of Macao, as it is to be apprehended from Article 7 and those preceding, from 7 to 13 especially.\n\nI think therefore, it would be advisable to offer to the consideration of His Excellency The Governor of Hong Kong and his Council the basis of the Treaty of Extradition between Portugal and Spain or the so called Convention of 13th January.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279937, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "41\n\nsubject of extradition : and which would probably not be admitted into any treaty between two great countries. The Seaman's Wives Act applies only to the Mercantile Marine. Perhaps however as between Hong Kong and Macao the objection is slight, and it has been disregarded by the Law Officers.\n\nI furnish it with the objection:-\n\nA clause to require official notice to be given to Foreign Consuls of any application for the extradition of their countrymen;\n\nA prisoner for trial.\n\nH.O. 12726 Hong Kong\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office\n\nNov. I Holland 23. F.O. Memo 23\n\nEarl Granville 26\n\nAnand 576-12 January 1870\n\nthat it should always be allowed to communicate with the Consul representing his country.\n\n12th November 1869.\n\n&L\n\n332\n\n30 Nov. 1869.\n\nI am directed by Earl Granville to acquaint you in accordance with the suggestion made in your letter of the 19th October, that the Draft Convention to provide for Extradition between Hong Kong & Macao from justice claimed by the authorities of Macao was approved by this State for their Home Department, and to transmit to you for consideration a copy of a letter from the Home Office of the 15th November and memorandum enclosed therein.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "# 20127\n\nOffice Individual.\n\nDate.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n1844 Volume II\n\n## Contents\n\n| Subject | Date | Page |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign Office Jou. HM Consul at Manila. | 24 Feb | |\n| \" | 30 \" | |\n| \" | 6 Feb | # |\n| \" | 12 Mar. | |\n| France & Annam. Sale of Arms | | |\n| France & Annam, Cambodia & Annam, Chinese coolie Emigration through French | | |\n| Postal Convention with Japan | | |\n| France & Annam | | 2. April |\n| The French in Tonquin | | 70 |\n| Mortality among Coolies on the \"Rosita mère\" | | 23 |\n| Extradition Treaty | | # |\n| Annexation of Tonquin & Annam by France | | 1 |\n| Speach Mission to explore Tonquin | | |\n| French Proceedings in Tonquin & Annam. | | 19 |\n| Embarkation of free Emigrants | is May | |\n| Proceedings of French on Lorivan & Parish ships | | 23 |\n| French in Tonquin & Annam. | | $ |\n| France & Annam. | $ June | |\n| Deportation of Chinese from Shanghai to Woosung. | | W + |\n| Annam. | $ | |\n| Treaty between France and... | | * |\n| Annex. Konta | | | \n| Coolie emigration from Macao. France & Annam. | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "Office Individual\n\nDate\n\nFreasury\n\n23 Kies\n\nForeign Office 4\n\nSubject\n\nOffice Individual\n\nDate\n\nfubject\n\nReform of the Currency\n\nCommercial treaty between France & Annam\n\nCoolie Trade at Macao\n\nThe 'Shark Piracy base\n\nTreaty between France & Annam\n\nChinese Merchants of Hong Kong & the Chinese Revenue\n\nForeign Office 18 June French treaty with Annam\n\n19\n\n29\n\n20\n\n2\n\n#\n\n40\n\n3 July\n\nbase of Ellis & Mitchell\n\nN\n\nbase of a Belgian Subject shipped on board\n\n25\n\nFrench treaty with Annam\n\n29\n\n20\n\n4 Hel\n\n13\n\n32\n\n3 Mar\n\nFrench Gunboats for service in Rivers of Cochin China\n\nMacao Coolie trade\n\nFree delivery of closed trials between Hong Kong & Batavia\n\nMacau Corbie trade\n\nJava Singapore\n\nOffer of certain of the Pellew Islands by M. Cheyne\n\nFrench Treaty with Annam\n\nProposed Emigration Convention with China\n\nMacao Coolie Traffic\n\nComplaint of merchants against Chinese Revenue Cruizer\n\nFrench treaty with Annam\n\n10\n\n20\n\nlease of the 'Mora Louise'\n\n29\n\nProtest of United States Consul against Spanish decision\n\n12 April French treaty with Annam\n\nCruizers\n\nBranch Phis\n\nMe Field\n\nthe Charterer of the \"Mare Louise\"\n\nFrench treaty with Annam\n\n19 Aug\n\nTreaties with Chiefs of the Palen Islands\n\nSep services rendered to the 'Gwalior' by Governor of Macao\n\nFrench Treaty with Annam\n\n13\n\n22 Oct\n\nClaim of M. W. H. Hodgkins against Spanish Govt\n\nStatus of King of Annam\n\n1 Nov\n\nEstablishment of Emigration Agency at Yedo & Yokohama\n\n26\n\nTreaty between France & Annam\n\n29\n\nOpening of Ports of Hai-phong & Hanoi\n\n7 Dec\n\nBlockade of Hong Kong by Chinese Cruisers\n\n29\n\nCoolie Traffic at Macao\n\n20\n\nClaim of Spain to sovereignty over Caroline Islands\n\nthe \"Spark murderers to Chinese Govt\n\n3 Love Seizure of Cargo of the \"Mare Louise\"\n\n17\n\nServices to the \"Gwalior\" by Governor of Macao\n\nFrench Treaty with Annam\n\nCarriage of American Mails between Hong Kong & Japan\n\nExtradition Ordinance\n\nWar Office to maintain Administration of the Government during absence\n\n26 June Brown's lands leases\n\n29 Nov Military Reserves at Stanley & Sai Wan\n\nSovereignty over wall in front of War Department Property\n\nPage XX\n\n lines are not present in the original text, so I didn't include them. 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No comments were left in the text.\n\nThe output is in HTML format using \n\n tags for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "20 Houghing Road\n\n75253\n\nGovernor\n\nSir A. Kennelly.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n1:2 having 335 5 January 1877\n\nMr. Round 5th Jan 9\n\nMr. Bramston, 4 Mr. Malcolm.\n\nMr. Moende.\n\nMr. Herbert 4\n\nMr. Lowther.\n\nLord Carnarvon,\n\nWith reference to your despatch No. 190 of the 20th of October last, I have the honour to acquaint you that the course you pursued with respect to \"den and of the United States Convention for the surrender of 3 fugitive Criminals accused of murder on board an American ship, on the High seas meets with the full approval of H.M. Government.\n\nI have already informed you by telegraph of this approval of extradition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "# Office \n## DY \n### Individual\n\n难艰 \n\n**Foreign Office** 27 Aug.\n\n5 бере а \n\n\" \n\n## Subject \n\n**Extradition** \nof Haffam from \nNacao. \n✰ \nMutual extraditions que \nCriminals between Aragskong mando.\n\n1 \n26 Oct \nIndependence of Macao. \n1220 \n\nDo \nit \n25 Nov. Supreme Court of Appeal.\n\n2. Dec. Telegraphic communication between Philippines + China.\n\n26 \n20 \nMissionary Disturbances at Hochow. \nRelations between China & French.\n\nwas office. 30 Mar. Praya Wall reconstruction.\n\nNew Granters. 11 Mar. Botanical Gardens \nProposed ... for Hong Kong.\n\nab Oct Postal Convention with Queensland \n\n10 Dec. \nHong Kong Sea Wall. \nPraya the nistes. RD \n\nProposed Statue of Lord Beaconsfield.\n\nAustin J.J. 18 May Presentation of Plate to ... on departure from Hong Kong.\n\nDouglas \nHall. I Lon \nR. 5 Aug. bo. de to.\n\n10 Sept. Importation of Gunpowder into Macao. Action of the Consul at ...\n\nhaish WR 4 Dec. \nApp! as Colonial Secretary & Auditor General.\n\nSmall Sis J. 11 Sept duties of Supreme Court Officials.\n\nOct. Defalcations of Mr Huffam.\n\nHewart 2 15 Nov. Grant-in-aid system of Education. Sharp Tollen & Dec. Mistake of Spoll, Still & Co.\n\nJohnson \n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304021, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 613, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## the consideration of the 3 Commissioners under the Chetoo Convention, viz:\n\nthat referred to in section 6 of the Stoughton proposal, as to the matter mentioned in section 6 of the Convention, precluded my predecessor from taking the final steps in the matter.\n\n8.\n\nOn looking into the question, however, and on consulting the Chinese Merchants and traders, I also found that Her Majesty's Minister in China had named Sir Brooke Robertson Commissioner, Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy had warned Sir James ... Mr Pusey, and the Chinese Authorities were ready to appoint the third Commissioner. Lin Brooke Robertson's illness, however, at the last moment directly concerned in the Junk traffic, felt unable to concur either in the scheme of the local Government or in the personal views of my predecessor as to the extradition of smugglers.\n\n7.\n\nAbout eighteen months ago, I sounded Sir Brooke Robertson with respect to a counter scheme that occurred to me as being more just to the Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "Office.\n\nDale.\n\nSubject.\n\nForeign Office 24 Jan. The Japanese Trade Dollar\n\n#\n\n4 Feb. Letter of introduction given by four to M. Pitman\n\n12\n\n4\n\n4 apps of\n\n\"\n\n17\n\n#\n\n\"\n\nBritish Vice Consul at Macao.\n\nPassage to Japan of W.S. Consul.\n\nhas Caroline to.\n\nSearch warrant. Case of Steamer \"Anadyr\"\n\nBishopric of North China\n\nваля\n\n17 April base of the \"\n\n30\n\nf\n\n\"\n\nM\n\nAnadyr.\"\n\nHavery in Hong Kong.\n\n3. May Immunities to Messageries Maritimes under Postal Convention\n\n4\n\nExtradition between Hong Kong & Macao.\n\nJune Hong Kong Blockade & the Junk \"Sariff\"\n\n4\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n6 July Currency of the Silver Yen.\n\nb\n\n4\n\n\"\n\nJudicial Torture in China\n\n\"\n\nUf\n\nها\n\n\"\n\nTransit of Opium through Hong Kong. Blockade Question.\n\nAstronomical Observations\n\n15 Sept Yokohama Post Office\n\n18 Nov\n\n/\n\n20\n\n1\n\nStatus of Messageries Maritimes\n\nCult\n\nwar Vessels.\n\nWar Office to Feb. Sale of land for building near the Barracks.\n\nA\n\n30 April Houses near the Barracks.\n\nOffice Individual\n\nDate\n\nSubject\n\nwas office. 17 Sept. Land required for Military Reserve.\n\nzy May Opposition to Dinner as Queen's Birthday proposed by Lt. Gov.\n\nto June Proposed enlistment of auxiliary forces.\n\n23 July. Differences between Lt. Gov. & Jul. Donovan\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\nes Sept. Authorised Military Prison\n\n4\n\nDifferences between Lt. Gov. & \"JoC\n\na\n\n19 Oct. Jurisdiction of Col. Gov. over troops.\n\nみ\n\n5 Dec. Relations between Lt. Gov. & Col. Gov.\n\nColonial Office Feb Circulation of Japanese coin\n\n17\n\nTransmission & Printed Papers.\n\nIndo Europeans 6 May Telegraphic communication to Manila\n\nFel Co.\n\nAhong \"Daily Press\"\n\nAug. Central School.\n\nb. S. Comm. 3 Nov. ig. Mitchell. Innes\n\nAyro PR 6 Sept. Complaint against Dr Wharry.\n\nBragg J. 6 Sept. Pension\n\nCorcoran J: 26 Oct. Return to the Colony\n\nGibbons 1.7. 17 Jan. Registrar of Supreme Court!\n\n1:\n\n251\n\nsto\n\n17 Tele System of Account keeping, Supreme Court\n\n3 has. His application for Registrarship of the Army Court 24 Apr. Staff Salary.\n\nHutchinson 23 Mar. Mastership Govt. Central School.\n\nJunes AGM 10 Rec. His attendance at Col. Office\n\nJardine\n\nMashear sto\n\nLanger Sap!\n\n28 Oct Leave required by China Sugar Refining Co.\n\nFeb. Caroline Slu other lands\n\nleten\n\nLording Wit 26 April Superannuation\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note, dated April 21, 1880, in reply to the note which I had the honour to address to you on the 9th of December 1879, acquainting you with the decision adopted by Her Majesty's Government regarding the difficulties which have prevented the conclusion of an Extradition Convention between Portugal and Great Britain.\n\nWith reference to the proposals of the two Crowns at Macau, I have to state that Her Majesty's Government are prepared to empower the Governor of Hong Kong in Council to surrender persons accused or found guilty of the crimes enumerated in the Schedule to the Extradition Act, conformably to the legislation in force in the respective territories.\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's note, I have to inform you that Her Majesty's Government have taken note of the difficulties which have prevented the conclusion of an Extradition Convention between Portugal and Great Britain.\n\nR.B.D. Morier\n\nTranslation\n\nFrugin Dest. Lisbon\n\nPage 226\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format requested (HTML using for paragraphs), and to correct and reformat the original text according to the given rules, the corrected version is:\n\nof An Extradition Convention, be empowered to surrender persons accused or found guilty of the crime enumerated in the Schedule to the legislation in force in the respective territories.\n\nI have to state that Her Majesty's Government are prepared to conformably to the criminal law in the respective territories.\n\nR.B.D. Morier\n\nTranslation\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn reply to the note which Your Excellency did me the honour to address to me on the 9th of December 1879, acquainting me with the decision adopted by your government, regarding the difficulties which have prevented the conclusion of an Extradition Convention between Portugal and Great Britain.\n\nWith reference to the proposals of the two Crowns at Macau, of granting discretionary powers to the Governor of Hong Kong in Council to deliver up to the Governor of Macao,\n\nFrugin Dest. Lisbon April 21. 1880\n\nPage 226", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "deliver up any prisoner of their own motion and without demand. The Ordinance undoubtedly went beyond that and gave power to the Magistrate to make his warrant of committal on such an amount of evidence as would justify commitment for trial of a prisoner for an offence committed in Hongkong, but there had been no requisition by the Chinese Government, and the magistrate therefore had no jurisdiction, as the men were not legally in custody on any other charge, it being clearly the magistrate's duty, after the ruling in the Kwok Asing case, to discharge them at once when according to the evidence of the very first witness they had done nothing in Hongkong which rendered them liable to be proceeded against as dangerous to the peace and good order of the colony. The proceedings were therefore coram non judice. The whole proceedings from beginning to end, including the charge of the police constable that the men were dangerous to the peace and good order of the colony, were a sham, utterly groundless, and for the sole purpose of detaining the prisoners in custody in the hope or expectation that some application might be made by the Chinese authorities.\n\nThe Attorney-General rose to object to this language.\n\nThe Chief Justice said Mr. Francis was only using it arguendo.\n\nMr. Francis continued his argument. He contended that the provisions of section 1 of Ordinance of 1850 as to the commencement of an inquiry by the magistrate when it appeared in the course of another case that a crime had been committed in China could only apply when there was a bona fide case before him, while here there was none, as the magistrate ought to have discharged the men at once when it appeared they had done nothing in the colony.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said he presumed that if the men were murderers in China they would not be peaceable subjects here.\n\nMr. Francis said that point was authoritatively settled by the judgment in the Kwok Asing case, and again cited the passage already quoted. With reference to the other point, the unreasonableness of the length of the detention, he said he did not know that he could add anything to what had already incidentally dropped from their Lordships in the course of the case. The questions their Lordships had asked almost showed their views on the subject. Whatever might be the cause of the delay, whether they were waiting for a proper requisition for rendition or any other reason, there was no power in the Executive to detain them. The necessary conditions did not exist when the men were committed; there was no power to detain them until these conditions were complied with or until such formal requisition had been sent in.\n\nThe Attorney-General said a requisition was not made on oath and would therefore form no part of the proceedings returned by the magistrate on certiorari.\n\nMr. Francis said there were cases which showed that in England the absence of the warrant of the Secretary of State would be fatal.\n\nThe court reserved judgment and remanded the prisoners until Tuesday.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n8th November.\n\nCRIMINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE THE FULL COURT.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF YUNG AKAM AND TWELVE OTHERS, PRISONERS IN VICTORIA GAOL.\n\nThe prisoners were brought up on remand on a writ of habeas corpus.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton and Wotton, appeared for the prisoners, and the Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. E. Sharp), for the Crown.\n\nThe Chief Justice said the court did not propose to deal with the case finally to-day. They had given it a great deal of consideration and they saw there was much that required very careful attention, and as the Attorney-General had offered to produce reasons for the detention of those men for the very long time they had been in gaol, they thought it would be well to give him an opportunity of doing so on affidavit. This was quite within the spirit of the extradition laws of the United Kingdom, because if after the lapse of two months the prisoners were not handed over or discharged, the officers of the Crown had to give the reasons. They thought, following that course, it would be well that the Crown should state by affidavit the reasons for which they had detained those men. The affidavits would be served on the other side, who would have an opportunity of answering them, and, if it should be desired, of cross-examining the witnesses. They therefore adjourned the case to give an opportunity of affidavits being filed and so on. The point was whether the magistrate had power to commit without a requisition from the Chinese authorities.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said that in Ordinance 2 of 1871 it was stated that the Treaty of Tientsin was to be read as though it had been in existence when Ordinance 2 of 1850 was passed, and in the 21st section of the Treaty of Tientsin it stated that \"if criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong, or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese Authorities, be searched for, and on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.\" It apparently made it clear there that before the law was put in motion, there should be a requisition by the nation demanding them. By Ordinance 2 of 1850, the positions were, first, that a complaint or information was made by an officer of the Chinese Government; secondly, that some other case was going on in which the magistrate learned there was some person in the colony who had committed an offence against the laws of China, upon which he issued his warrant; thirdly, there was some person in custody and it appeared there had been an offence committed against the laws of China. The question arose under that third section, could the magistrate get rid of the prisoner by committing him and say, \"I put it now in the power of the Governor to detain him until he gets a requisition from the Chinese.\" While the prisoner was under remand, he was under the control and jurisdiction of the magistrate; could the latter put him out of his jurisdiction by handing him over to the Governor to rendite him before he had got, either directly or indirectly, a requisition from the Chinese Government? because in the second section of the Ordinance it said-In any such warrant of arrest or any subsequent warrant of committal—that was the case here—it shall be sufficient to describe the crime or offence of such person in terms the same as, or similar to, those contained in such complaint, information, or communication aforesaid.\" The question was, did not that contemplate that before there was a final committal warrant, there should be before the magistrate a requisition stating what was the crime said to have been committed in China? That was the point. All the cases he had seen seemed to show that the magistrate had before him a requisition for the surrender of the accused, and where that was not the case, the committal was held to be bad. He could not find that this was clearly decided in the Kwok Asing case; there was a good deal of discussion there in the Chief Justice's judgment, but it was not clear. He understood Mr. Francis to contend that was so.\n\nMr. Francis said that particular point had not struck him, but he thought he saw what was in his Lordship's mind. His contention was that there must be a requisition in every case.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said the magistrate had complete domination over the case as long as it was under remand, but immediately he committed it, it was out of his hands. The point was, whether, if there was no requisition placed before the magistrate, the committal was not bad.\n\nMr. Francis-In other words, whether, though he can detain under the second branch of the section, he can commit without a requisition.\n\nMr. Justice Russell-Yes; whether he can put the prisoner out of his control. In the Kwok Asing case, there was a requisition made through the Colonial Secretary.\n\n530", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "1 \n\nnent.\" In Paley on Summary Convictions, p. 172, the author, in describing the general qualities of a conviction, makes remarks to the same effect. Of course, greater nicety is required in the cases of summary convictions, and where the commitment is in execution, than where prisoners are remanded or committed to prison for further disposal only. But I am of opinion that in cases of rendition, the accused are entitled to the protection of every formality the law throws around them, and that it is the duty of a court before whom they claim their discharge to see that there has been no shortcoming in this respect. After very careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that there was no jurisdiction to justify the commitment of these thirteen men, and that the necessary formalities have not been complied with. There is no complaint, no information, no communication forwarded or made to the Magistrate. The learned Attorney-General refers us to Chitty's Criminal Law, page 11, 113, where it is stated that even if the warrant of commitment is informal, the Court will look at the depositions to see if there was sufficient ground laid to detain the party; and if a various offence is shown, they will not discharge or bail the prisoners. I certainly consider the commitment informal; but if I look at the depositions, I find still greater irregularities. No doubt, there is prima facie proof of murder, but I also find two charges rolled into one, their order being inverted. No information; no statement that the accused were called upon to plead. Above all, it does not appear that they were asked what they had to say in their defence, although they might have been able to show beyond a doubt either mistaken identity or an alibi, or some defence within the province of the Magistrate to hear. No opportunity was afforded them to do so. If the letter of the Chinese officials is to be relied upon to give jurisdiction, there is no proof that they are the persons mentioned in it. The return to the writ of habeas corpus shows that they were committed under names differing from those in the writ, and it is not sufficient that the Magistrate satisfied himself of their identity; proof is required.\n\nI will only add a few words as to the reasonableness of the detention. Nothing can be more opposed to the laws of Great Britain, so jealous of personal liberty, than a lengthened imprisonment pending a penal destination. It is considered oppressive, and under a writ of habeas corpus, a discharge from prison may be obtained unless the accused is brought to trial within a certain time. This does not exactly apply in cases of rendition in this Colony or elsewhere, but the spirit is shown in the French and American Convention Acts, where the accused was protected from a long detention; and in the Extradition Act of 1870, it is provided that in the case of fugitive criminals in British possessions, a judge of any court exercising the like powers as the Court of Queen's Bench exercises in England may exercise the power of discharging a criminal when not conveyed within two months out of such British possession. By a recent Ordinance providing for the mutual surrender of criminal fugitives in Macao and Hongkong, the limit of detention is one month. It is to be regretted that the Extradition Act of 1870 is not extended to this Colony, or that our Ordinance 2 of 1850 is not repealed and re-enacted in clear and precise terms.\n\nI am, however, of opinion that the Court is bound by the provisions of the Ordinance, which makes it lawful for a Magistrate to commit such person (i.e., one who there is probable cause for believing, being a subject of China, has committed a crime or offence against her laws) for safe custody to prison, and to direct the gaoler to detain him until he shall receive some order from the Governor of Hongkong, relative to his further detention, discharge, or transmission. The law, therefore, places the discharge of persons so committed in the discretion of the Governor, who is alone responsible that their detention does not exceed reasonable limits, and I think that the Court has no power to interfere on this ground. I am, however, of opinion that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction; that the proceedings were bad ab initio, and therefore that, however much it may be regretted that persons who have, on the face of the depositions, been guilty of the murder of three of their fellow creatures should escape from the punishment which by the law of our own country is awarded to their crime, the prisoners must be discharged. We, therefore, order them to be discharged.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said—I am likewise of opinion that the prisoners must be discharged on the ground that the return to the writ is insufficient and not according to law, and that the whole proceedings were coram non judice. The jurisdiction given to the magistrate in this case is special, as in all extradition cases, and must appear clearly on the face of the warrant of committal. We cannot, I think, look behind the commitment to sustain it as in other cases (of offences against the laws of our own country—ex-parte Bosset 9 Jurist & G),\n\nBut even if that were possible, nothing is to be obtained here from the conviction or order, for the depositions returned to the writ of certiorari show that the prisoners were illegally before the magistrate in the first instance, being arrested not by a Justice of the Peace but by a Police Constable without any authority from a Justice of the Peace and simply on the information of a Chinese who told him that there were thirteen men in a certain house who had committed murder on the mainland some time before.\n\nReferring shortly to the law warranting the arrest and rendition of refugee Criminals to China, the first provision that we have is contained in the Treaty of the Bogue 1843—art. IX, which is as follows:—\"If lawless natives of China, having committed crimes or offences against their own Government, shall flee to Hongkong or to the English ships of war, for refuge, they shall, if discovered by the English officers, be handed over at once to the Chinese officers for trial and punishment; if it should be ascertained or suspected by the officers of the Government of China whither such criminals and offenders have fled, a communication shall be made to the proper English officer in order that the said criminals and offenders may be rigidly searched for and on proof or admission of their guilt, delivered up,\" (then as to surrender of British Criminal fugitives.). It will be seen that the terms were very wide and that apparently no legal procedure was necessary—and there is no law or Ordinance that I can find for the carrying out that stipulation until Ord. 2 of 1850, which is an Ord. entitled: \"An Ordinance to provide for the more effective carrying out of the Treaties between Great Britain and China in so far as relates to Chinese Subjects within the Colony of Hongkong.”\n\nThe treaty of the Bogue was abrogated in 1858, and the Treaty of Tientsin of that year contained a provision in its 21st Article of a much more guarded description—\"If Criminals, Subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong or on board the British ships there, they shall upon due requisition by the Chinese Authorities be searched for, and on proof of their guilt be delivered up.” Up to the year 1871, the extradition of all Chinese criminals was carried out under the provisions of Ordinance 2 of 1850 and the 21st section of the Treaty, but in that year, the application of the Ordinance to the Treaty was much discussed in the Kwok A-sing case, and it was decided by the Chief Justice that the Ordinance had ceased to have any effect. Ordinance 2 of 1871 was then passed, re-enacting Ordinance 2 of 1850 and declaring it to apply to the Treaty of Tientsin. The position, therefore, is that the provisions of Ord. 2 of 1850 are those which govern the legal tribunals of the Colony in questions of Chinese extradition—assuming for the moment that such provisions are co-ordinate to those of the Treaty.\n\nThe first Section of the Ordinance shows three ways in which the magistrate may be placed in the position of having to investigate and commit. (1) If moved, as I read the section, by a complaint; by an information or a communication from a Chinese officer to ask for an order of arrest, or as the Chief Justice prefers to read it, by the \"Complaint\" or \"information\" of any one—or a Chinese officer. (2) If during the investigation of some charge against A, he finds that B, a Chinese subject, is in the Colony, a fugitive criminal, he will issue his warrant for arrest. 3rd—If, whilst investigating a charge against A already in custody, it transpires that A is a Chinese fugitive criminal, then he may investigate the crime that he is charged with in China. Again, under section IV, an order of arrest may be issued by the Governor corresponding to a Secretary of State's warrant under the Act of 1870—which may put the magistrate in motion.\n\nNow, by the terms of the ordinance, if at the end of his investigation, which must be conducted as if it were an indictable offence, the magistrate should find that \"there is reasonable and probable cause for believing &c.\" he is required to commit to prison pending the orders of the Governor; and he is also required to forward to the Governor all the proceedings in the case—Sec. III. It has been pointed out by the learned Chief Justice that the prisoners were not before the Magistrate in any of the four ways warranted by the ordinance, and the papers returned under the writ of certiorari do not show that the proceedings were forwarded.\n\n534", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong stated that the sentence to be passed on the accused persons, if convicted, was being put to death by the \"slow and painful process,\" a form of Chinese torture known in Europe as slicing into a thousand pieces. He also stated that since the use of torture is prescribed by the Chinese Penal Code, no promise not to torture, even when given by a high authority like a Viceroy, could be considered binding. (Consul Hewlett, No. 14 of the 29th April, 1881; Colonial Office letter of the 2nd March, 1882, Inclosure, pp. 35 and 153.)\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong then appealed to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, and I am to invite your attention to Sir T. Wade's letter to Governor Sir J. Pope Hennessy of the 8th November, 1881 (`Colonial Office letter of the 2nd March, 1882, Inclosure, p. 287`), which confirms the opinion expressed by Consul Hewlett.\n\nThe thirteen prisoners were eventually released by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on a writ of habeas corpus due to some informalities in their committal by the magistrate under `Ordinance No. 2 of 1850`, and in the return to the writ. (Ibid., pp. 301 and 347.)\n\nIt appears, however, that another case is now pending in Hong Kong, that of two fugitives whose surrender is claimed by the Chinese Officer Commanding at Kowloon, near Hong Kong, on a charge of piracy.\n\nIn the opinion of the Colonial Attorney-General, the piracy was committed in Chinese waters and is not justiciable by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong as piracy jure gentium. (`Colonial Office letter of the 19th May, 1882, Inclosure, p. 37`) The crime, therefore, is within the Treaty. (`Attorney-General of Hong Kong Kwok-Asing, 5 Law Rep., Priv. Co., 198`) But Consul Hewlett has again reported that the prisoners, if surrendered, will certainly be tortured (`Colonial Office, May 8, 1862`), and it has become necessary to decide what action to take regarding the demand for their surrender and what course to follow in future by Her Majesty's Government with respect to extradition under the Treaty of Tien-tsin.\n\nIn the despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Acting Governor of Hong Kong of the 10th August, 1865 (`Parliamentary Paper, p. 1`), reference is made to a previous despatch, which laid down that the humane administration of justice was an indispensable condition of handing over captured pirates to the Chinese Government for trial and punishment, and, as before stated, it has been the invariable practice since the \"Mo-Wong case\" to require, as a condition of the surrender of a fugitive under the Treaty, an assurance in writing that no torture will be inflicted.\n\nThis promise, however, is not claimable as of right under the Treaty, and the Viceroy, in his letter of the 12th April, 1881, to Consul Hewlett, respecting the case of the thirteen fugitives (`Inclosure in Colonial Office letter of the 2nd March, 1882, p. 207`), observes that \"British officials are bound by unmistakable Treaty provisions to take steps for delivering up Chinese criminals who have taken refuge in Hong Kong\" and that \"as regards the non-employment of torture at the trial and investigation held subsequently to their rendition, this form of procedure was first yielded by the former Viceroy, Jui, by way of concession, and in deference to the wishes of British officials.\"\n\nThe Viceroy, in a further letter dated the 19th December last to Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Canton (`Colonial Office letter of the 19th May, 1882, Inclosure, p. 5`), expressed his astonishment at the release of the thirteen prisoners by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. The reply to this communication will be found in the `Colonial Office letter of the 27th May, 1882`.\n\nIn view of Sir T. Wade's Report, and especially of the statement therein recorded by one of the Ministers of the Yamen, that he could not understand how a Governor-General (meaning the Viceroy) should have given a promise not to do what he must have known Chinese law would require him to do, Lord Granville is disposed to think\n\n## 3\n\nthat unless and until Her Majesty's Minister at Peking can announce the conclusion of a satisfactory arrangement with the Chinese Government, which will relieve Her Majesty's Government from all apprehension as to the risk of fugitives who may be surrendered by the Hong Kong Government being subjected to torture for any purpose, whether of evidence, confession, or punishment, the Extradition Clause of the Treaty of Tien-tsin should be suspended in its operation, and Chinese criminals taking refuge in Hong Kong should be expelled from the island as persons dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. (See `Foreign Office to Colonial Office of the 18th April`, and reply of `Colonial Office of the 5th May`.)\n\nBut before sending instructions in this sense to Sir T. Wade, I am to state that Lord Granville would be glad to be favoured with your opinion as to whether a refusal on the part of Her Majesty's Government to carry out Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, pending such an arrangement between the two Governments as above suggested, would give the Chinese Government the right to denounce the whole Treaty. On this point, I am to refer you to the following passage in `1 Calvo, p. 734, § 613`:\n\n\"En thèse générale, si l'on considère la Convention comme un ensemble indivisible, il faut admettre qu'un semblable refus, ne porta-t-il que sur un seul point, rend caduc le Traité tout entier, et cela en vertu de l'axiome que le principal emporte l'accessoire.\n\n\"La non-exécution peut, d'ailleurs, ne porter que sur une clause relativement secondaire et ne pas impliquer l'intention de se soustraire des autres obligations qui découlent du Traité. Dans ce cas, il n'y a pas nécessairement rupture complète et définitive, mais seulement matière à pourparlers et à négociations, en d'autres termes, un effet suspensif jusqu'à ce que les motifs de refus aient pu être appréciés en due forme.\"\n\nIn the event of your being of the opinion that the proposed suspension of extradition under Article XXI would imperil the whole Treaty, I am to request that you will favour Lord Granville with any suggestions that may occur to you to meet the difficulty which has arisen in the present case, and as regards the course to be pursued in future with reference to this question.\n\n251", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319819, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nThe Under Secretary for the Colonies is directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th of August on the subject of the extradition of Chinese criminals from Hong Kong. I am to express their Lordships' concurrence in the draft convention which one of this natives may hereafter arise; and I have to inform you how his Excellency proposes to surrender to the Chinese Authorities the two bastion prisoners now in custody clays of liray.\n\nOn the assumption that their cases are not cognizable in the Supreme Court of the Colony for Piracy jure gentium, it is understood that the usual formalities are observed and that the customary promise not to apply torture is given by the Chinese Authorities.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nYour obedient Servant, \n...\n\n## MINUTE\nMr. Meade \nMr. Herbert \nMr. Ashley \nMr. Wingfield \n> Mr. Bramston \nLord Kimberley \n\n`13377/83` \n`15399 Hong Kong 82` \n`J-left:52` \n`7.0.` \n`370` \n`Praeson, Sept.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "content_text": "10\n\nREGINA V. LOGAN.\n\nuntil the people told me the foreigner had shot me, and told me to go to him for medicine to care for me, and I then saw that all my clothes were covered with blood. When the people said this to me I went to some taipans and said, \"Taipan, you give me some medicine to cure me, as you have hit me and I am covered all over with blood.\"\n\nMr. Francis—Were they foreign taipans or Chinese taipans?\n\nWitness—It is only the foreigners who are taipans; there are no other taipans here. I followed them to a house; there were several there at the time, but I cannot say how many, as I was giddy and could not notice. When I got there I saw an amah in the house, and they pushed me away. It was a long distance from the place where I was hurt to the foreigner's house. I went to the amah in the foreigner's house, and asked her to let me come in till he cured me, but she would not let me, and told me to go away quickly or he would kill me. I was then taken to another foreign house a few doors further on; the door was open a little, I asked to be taken in, and they let me in; after that I became insensible. I had passed this house going to the other foreigner's house.\n\nMr. Francis—When you went into that street, was there any quarrelling or fighting going on there?\n\nWitness—No, there was not; if there had been I should not have gone; I should not have dared to go, as I have so little courage.\n\nDid you see anything in the hands of any of the foreigners as you were going up the street, either before—\n\nHis Lordship thought it would not be advisable to put the question unless it was absolutely necessary, and it was not put.\n\nThe case was then adjourned till the following day.\n\nTHE \"HANKOW\" AFFAIR.\n\nMr. Francis said he had an application which he wished to make to the court on behalf of the Chinese Government with regard to a man named Dias, a seaman on the articles of the British steamer Hankow, who was charged with murder. The application was made upon two affidavits, one was by Mr. Ewens, solicitor, to the effect that Dias was one of the crew of the Hankow, that his name was on the articles of the ship, and that he believed he caused the death of a Chinese subject named Lo Fan on board that steamer on the 12th inst. The other affidavit was sworn before Mr. Hopkins, the Pro-Consul, and was that of Lee Chu, a servant in the employ of Lang Su Cha, master of a boarding house. Lee Cha stated that on the 10th instant, about six o'clock, he was on board the Hankow lying by the wharf at Canton, and his fellow servant, now deceased,\n\nto\n\nHis Lordship—Who makes the charge now?\n\nMr. Francis—The Chinese Government.\n\nHis Lordship—Does that appear here?\n\nMr. Francis—No, my Lord.\n\nthe moment.\n\nHis Lordship—I do not find any charge for\n\nMr. Francis—I tender the charge here now, Lord. I have no written charge, but I can formulate one in a moment.\n\nCan I issue a warrant on your verbal application?\n\nHis Lordship—Assuming you know this, how\n\nMr. Francis—The charge is made by the affidavits; I think by the rules of the Supreme Court a charge is made by a person, his solicitor, or Counsel, under the heading of Criminalities. Mr. Francis then read an extract from the Code containing that provision, and he submitted that the affidavit supplied the want of a written charge, and no more formal charge was necessary.\n\nHis Lordship—I find in this affidavit no mention of the accused being a British subject, or under British jurisdiction.\n\nMr. Francis submitted that the fact of the act being committed on board a British vessel, of which the man was on the articles, was sufficient to make him a British subject, and in support of this contention he quoted the case of the Queen v. Anderson.\n\nhas\n\nHis Lordship—It does not follow from these affidavits that the man has not been taken by a concurrent jurisdiction and one quite as high or higher than this court, or that he might not at the moment have been taken by the Chinese Government.\n\nof the warrant if we are not able to execute it,\n\nMr. Francis—That will appear by the return\n\nHis Lordship—We do not know where he is, and we might be running all over China for him.\n\nMr. Francis—That might be, my lord, and the warrant might be made in support of a claim for the extradition of the criminal.\n\nHis Lordship—If the warrant is to succeed he would be in British jurisdiction. Can you show me authority for your contention?\n\nREGINA\n\nMr. Francis—I think the case of the Queen v. Anderson is sufficient.\n\n11\n\nV. LOGAN.\n\nposition of a British subject in this case.\n\nwas a matter of international law that a seaman, His Lordship—I am afraid not, for if the as soon as he shipped himself on board a vessel French had chosen to exercise jurisdiction there of some other nationality, and as long as he re- is no question they could have tried him.\n\nmained upon the articles of that ship, was Mr. Francis said that if it were known in amenable to the jurisdiction of the country un- England that a person who had committed a der whose flag he served on the high seas or in crime there had escaped to France or some any ports. It was only under special circum- other country, no question would be raised on stances that there was a concurrent jurisdiction, that account about granting a warrant. The and in Canton there was no other jurisdiction. question was whether he committed the crime His Lordship said there was a concurrent under British jurisdiction.\n\njurisdiction between the power under whose His Lordship—You must bear in mind the flag the steamer was, and the power in whose difference between the authority and power of waters the act was committed. It might be the court in British territory and here. You that that power had renounced jurisdiction, have not established the proposition that I have but it did not follow that it could not resume the jurisdiction.\n\njurisdiction when it pleased. It might be that we could claim jurisdiction on account of the flag under which the man was serving, and China might claim the rights of a territorial power, and it was quite open to argument whether her rights were not on a par with ours.\n\nMr. Francis submitted that by the case of the Queen v. Anderson this man was under the jurisdiction of the court, as he was on the articles of a British ship, on board which the act was committed.\n\nIt did not appear either by what was before his Lordship that the man was a foreigner, and for all there was to show to the contrary he might have been an Englishman.\n\nMr. Francis alluded to the case of Kwok A Sing in Hongkong, where the question was whether the Chinese Government had or had not the power to claim a Chinaman who had committed an offence on board a French vessel on the high seas. It was there denied that China had any right to extradition, because they had no special law like England. He submitted that—putting the case hypothetically—the man was a Portuguese, and his Lordship was not entitled to assume that there was any law in Portugal to punish a man for an offence committed on board an English ship. He contended that if there was no British jurisdiction in this case there was none at all.\n\nChina, had renounced by treaty all jurisdiction over British vessels and crews, which Portugal had not done. He also pointed out that by the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act British law courts had complete jurisdiction over all seamen committing offences on board a British vessel either on the high seas or in the ports of a foreign country. The 267th section gave jurisdiction not only for the time they were on the articles of the ship, but for three months afterwards. He also pointed out that under the provisions of the Code, the jurisdiction of China was transferred to the Supreme Court.\n\nHis Lordship said he would consider the application, but at present he did not think that the affidavit supported the case.\n\nMr. Francis—Will you allow me to amend it?\n\nHis Lordship—I will consider the matter.\n\n26th September, 1883.\n\nTHE FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY AT HONAM.\n\nThe hearing of the case was resumed at nine o'clock, when the following additional evidence was taken:——\n\nPeter Christian Matsen, examined by the Crown Advocate, said—I am a Danish subject, and a clerk in the employ of the Wa Hop Telegraph Company. I have lived at Honam, and I know the prisoner, who lived about four houses from my house, which is next but one to the bridge. Witness here pointed out the positions of the houses on the plan, which he said was correctly marked. I know the position of Mr. Ström's house; it is next door to mine, to the westward. I remember the morning of Sunday, the 12th August, I got up about six o'clock\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324319, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "of the letter might \n\nbe added words Equi-\n\nvalent to the following:\n\n\"with a view to their\n\nextradition under the\n\nusual conditions.\"\n\n4. The original\n\nEnclosures to your\n\nletter\n\nof the 27th ulto are\n\nherewith returned.\n\nRu\n\nsee or Individual\n\nips of free\n\nPate\n\n1883\n\n8 Auf\n\nprevious Paper. M10\n\nme\n\n12881\n\nEastern Extension\n\nconson 16 August 2\n\nu. 181.28 An\n\nT\n\n14232\n\n255771\n\n9\n\nHong Kong No. 13691\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC.O.\n\n1363\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nRECD\n\nAREG OG OR\n\nProposed Cable between Cochin China\n\n& Tonquin\n\nCopy desp from LW Plunkett reporting that Bill confirming a convention relative\n\nhad been thrown out in the Chamber of Deputies\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Bramston\n\nAsk the Company whether they still entertain the project of laying\n\na line from Tonquin\n\nto Hong Kong\n\nin\n\nspite of the rejection of\n\nthe Bill sanctioning their scheme\n\nfor a\n\nline from Cochin China to Tonquin\n\nC-PL\n\n10. Aug. GM 11 Aug\n\nAm 13/8\n\nD.A.15.\n\nE.a.\n\nAug.14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## Contents\n\n| Subject | Date | # |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Explosion in Artillery Magazine at Hanoi - Capture of Sontay | 1 Jan. | 1 |\n| Telegraphs in China | 4 | * |\n| Spirit Trade with Siam | 19 | * |\n| Audience to M. Tricon by king of Siam | 19 | * |\n| Affairs at Hue | | * |\n| Convention between France & king of Cambodia | | * |\n| Proceedings of the French in Tonquin | | 1 |\n| Case of Portuguese Sailor Diaz | 1 Feb. | 12 |\n| Affairs in Tonquin | | # |\n| French telegraphic communication in Tonquin & Indo-China | | 13 |\n| Trial of Portuguese Sailer Diaz | | 19 |\n| Agreements for Regulation of Spirit Traffic | | 22 |\n| Extradition of Chinese fugitives | | L & L &= ~ 26 |\n| Chinese caricature of Japanese troops | | & # |\n| Trial of Portuguese Sailor Diaz | | \" \" |\n| The French and Island of Chusan | | \" \" |\n| Treaty with Korea | 1 Mar. | 5 |\n| French troops at Hanoi | | # |\n| French proceedings in Tonquin | | 8 |\n| Capture of Sontay | | 18 |\n| Affairs in Torquin | | # |\n| | | 14 |\n| | 30 | } + | \n\n# 0.0129/29 \nMy \n## Date \n15 \n19 \n**Hong Kong** \n1884. \n## Volume T (Foreign Office) \n### Contents \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## Date. | Subject.\n22 Mar. | Reports French designs on Siam; Convention between China & Cambodia.\n17 Apr. | French proceedings in Tonquin.\n2 May. | Proposal for new duties on Spirits.\n8 May | Capture of Bac-Ninh.\n13 May | Temporary prohibition of export of arms to Weihaiwei Dist.; Tientsin Convention between France & China.\n27 May | un Sian.\n28 June | Franco-Chinese agreement.\n24 July | Spirit Traffic in Siam.\n7 Aug. | Siamese Spirit Duties.\nSept. | Spirit Traffic in Siam; Chinese Extradition Cases; Hostilities between France & China.\n\n## Date. | Subject.\n2 Sept. \n3 Sept. \n13 Sept. | Surrender of Chinese fugitives; Franco-Chinese Hostilities; The Canton Proclamation.\n27 Sept. \n30 Sept. \n1 Oct. \n2 Oct. \n4 Oct. \n9 Oct. \n10 Oct. \n20 Oct. \n22 Oct. | Extradition of Chinese Fugitives; The Canton Proclamation; Relations between France & China; Alleged searching of British vessels; Hostilities between France & China; Chinese fugitives detained at Hongkong.\n24 Oct. | Refusal of Chinese labourers to work for French ships; The Canton Proclamation; Extradition of Chinese Fugitives; Release of Chinese Fugitives; Siamese Spirit Traffic; Blockade of a portion of Formosa.\n7 Nov. \n18 Nov. | Blockade of ports of Formosa.\n21 Nov. | Chinese boatmen for refusal to work for French ships.\n29 Nov. \n3 Dec. | Remission of fines levied on exportation of rice from Tonquin; Blockade of coasts of Formosa; Relations between France & China; Affairs at Canton.\n6 Dec. \n27 Dec. | The Canton Proclamation; Hostilities between France & China; Plot of Chinese to destroy French Steamers; Relations between France & China; Disturbances caused by the Canton Proclamation; Relations between France & China; Chinese plot to destroy French Steamers; Release of Chinese fugitives.\n9 Dec. \n13 Dec. \n16 Dec. \n23 Dec. | Relations between France & China.\n30 Dec. \n31 Dec. | Hostilities between France & China; Refitting & provisioning of French warships at Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "# Hong Kong \nNa 21965 \nDOMEST 73 \nC.O. \n21965 \nREC? \nREG 24 JAN 4, \n\nPartes 226. \n\n| Office or Individual | Release Date | Last previous Paper | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign Office | 1884 23 Dec | For 20548 | 7.0. 2000/85 |\n\n**(Subject.)** \nThe eleven Chinese Prisoners \nof th... \nTransmits, for observations, copy of letter from Chinese Minister stating the grounds on which his Excellency contests the validity of the action of Her Majesty's Government and requesting their rearrest & surrender. It is proposed to furnish him with a draft of Extradition Treaty.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nA new draft was prepared. \nMe Meade \nSee also further minute 21800 (Sharks) \nThe Law Officer's opinion on this case (last para. of opinion, enclosed in `16750`) was \"not free from doubt\", and they carefully abstained from saying anything as to the propriety of the direction contained in Lord Derby's telegram of 20 Nov. The instruction that \"the proof of guilt should be such as on the whole to satisfy the minds of the Council\" was, according to Marquis Tsêng's contention, contrary to the XXI section of the Treaty. \n\nI suggest a further reference to the Law Officers on both this legal contention of the Chinese Minister and...\n\nGW.D. 3 Jan; [was delayed for the return of previous papers] \nI think we may support...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329950, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "$13 \n\n271 \n\n11 prisoners & setting the ground in respending the Case, the Item free, on B f the evidence on which alleged insufficiency the Magistrate And previously committed New functions illegally. \n\nthe extradition of Regulation: but there is the Treaty of nothing in Tientsin contention. Great to justify moha Britari, the Treaties of extradition made with Powers has of the reservations with application colonial possemos, Whit she Ras exceeded his Foreign acted \n\nmade regard Le card may to Veri to Nat the her ht \n\nWhere have always from Hong Kong is of a Rad relation to tte peculiar be nature, & shadd да Regulation governed by a special difference of procedure in making the extractions demand bhiuse fugitive criminals", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330061, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "I am inclined to \nagree with the present two Officers, but I presume that H.M. Govt. will adhere to the view hitherto maintained and refuse to surrender the prisoners.\n\nThe answer to the Chinese Minister should be to the effect that H.M. Govt. cannot admit that the Treaty of Tientsin did impose upon H.M. Govt. the obligation to adopt the same procedure prescribed by the Imperial Extradition Acts, and that these Acts only affect extradition to countries to which they have been made applicable by Order in Council.\n\nThey have not been applicable to China, so they do not affect the case.\n\nThe Colonial Ordinances prescribe the manner in which extradition under the Treaty is to be regulated, and H.M. Govt. cannot accept the construction placed upon them.\n\nIn the present case, the Governor, after consulting the law officers, was not satisfied that there was such presumptive proof as required him to surrender the prisoners, and it appears that in taking this course he was acting in conformity with Municipal law and with the Treaty.\n\nThat the reasons for his decision will appear on investigation is not insisted upon.\n\nThe Evidence was taken by the magistrate in the presence of the accused and a solicitor representing the Chinese Government, who cross-examined the witnesses called in support of the prisoner's case and called and examined witnesses in additional defence. (It does not appear whether the examination was held in open Court or with closed doors).\n\nI cannot admit the contention of the Chinese Govt. that in extradition cases the accused is not allowed to produce evidence to rebut the charge, and that the procedure in deciding whether a _prima facie_ case is found is to act merely on the evidence produced in support of it.\n\nI have no doubt that the Governor and Lt. Col. did misunderstand the instructions given to them by report, as directing Mr. Lewd State to decide whether the evidence was sufficient to justify a conviction, and that they did consider that a _prima facie_ case of guilt had been established – merely sending the case on _auf derm_...\n\n## Page 62\n## Page 381 \n\nIt appears that Mr. Raimondi took no part beyond instructing counsel to appear for the prisoners.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## China \n384 \nC. O. 17392 \n`RECO` \n`REGE 5 OCT 85` \nNo.\n\nThe Law Officers of the Crown and Sir J. Deane to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received September 19.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nRoyal Courts of Justice, September 19, 1885.\n\nWE were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Julian Pauncefote's letter of the 20th ultimo, stating that, by direction of the Secretary of State, he had the honour to transmit to us the papers noted in the accompanying list, which related to an application made by the Chinese Minister in London for the rearrest and extradition from Hong Kong of eleven fugitives from justice who were detained originally on an extradition demand, but who were discharged by the Governor of the Colony after a long and careful inquiry.\n\nThat the surrender of Chinese fugitives by the Government of Hong Kong was regulated by Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin (A), and by the Colonial Ordinances No. 2 of 1850 (B) and No. 2 of 1871 (C).\n\nThat the history of the case would be found in the following Reports of the Law Officers of the Crown, and in the documents to which they referred :-\n\n(D) Law Officers' Report of the 14th June, 1882.\n(E) Law Officers' Report of the 18th September, 1884.\n(F) Law Officers' Report of the 6th February, 1885.\n\nThat the demand for the surrender of the fugitives in question, and others, numbering in all thirteen, was originally made in 1881. They were arrested in Hong Kong, but released by the Supreme Court of the Colony on habeas corpus, by reason of some informalities.\n\nThey left the Colony, but subsequently returned, and in 1883 they were rearrested on a fresh demand of the Viceroy of Canton. Two of them were discharged, and the remaining eleven were committed to prison to await the orders of the Governor respecting their extradition, as provided by Ordinance No. 2 of 1850.\n\nThat Sir Julian Pauncefote was to refer us to the Report of the Law Officers of the 18th September, 1884 (E), and to the despatches of the Governor of Hong Kong therein referred to, and transmitted therewith, for a full account of the subsequent proceedings, which resulted in the discharge of the prisoners, on the ground that the \"proof of guilt\" required by Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin was not on the whole such as to satisfy the minds of the Governor and Executive Council.\n\nThat the Chinese Minister thereupon addressed a letter, dated the 8th December, 1884, to the Secretary of State, demanding the rearrest and surrender of the eleven fugitives, on the ground set out in his communication (G). That demand was refused, for the reasons stated in the reply to the Marquis Tseng of the 9th February, 1885, which had been approved by the Law Officers, and a copy of which would be found appended to their Report of the 6th February, 1885 (F). That the Marquis Tseng, being dissatisfied with that reply, addressed a further letter to the Secretary of State, dated the 13th June, 1885, in which he still insists on the rearrest and surrender of the fugitives (H).\n\nThat that letter was referred to the Colonial Office, who, in their reply of the 25th June, 1885 (I), dealt with the arguments of the Chinese Minister, and suggested a further reference to the Law Officers.\n\nThat it appeared to your Lordship that the answer of the Colonial Office contained a satisfactory refutation of the contention of the Chinese Minister on all points, both of law and of fact; and Sir Julian Pauncefote was to request that we would take all the papers transmitted with his letter into our consideration, and that we would favour your Lordship with our opinion as to whether the demand of the Chinese Minister should again be refused, and, if so, whether his letter of the 13th June last might \n\n[375]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## DRAFT MINUTE\n\nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. \nSir R. Herbert. \nLord Dunraven. \nColonel Stanley.\n\nThat in the present case, after consulting the Executive Council, the Attorney General was not satisfied that there was such proof of guilt as would require him to surrender the prisoners, and he accordingly discharged them; and that in taking this course, he acted in accordance with Municipal Law and with the Treaty.\n\nThat the Chinese appear to be under a misapprehension as to the manner in which the investigation was conducted. That the additional evidence was taken by the Magistrate in the presence of a solicitor representing the Chinese, who cross-examined the witnesses called in support of the charge against the prisoners, and who called and examined additional witnesses in support of their case; and that Mr. de Raimondi took no part beyond instructing Messrs. Lower to appear for the prisoners.\n\nThat H.M. Government cannot admit the contention that in fugitive extradition cases, the accused should be allowed to produce before the Magistrate evidence to rebut the charge on which they are being extradited.\n\n| Page 388 | \n|----------|", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "422 \n\nWitnesses were called in support of the prisoners, and who called and examined additional witnesses in support of the charge; and Bishop Raimondi took no part beyond instructing a solicitor to appear for the prisoners.\n\n4. **M's** (or \"His\") Government cannot admit the contention of the Chinese Government that in extradition cases the fugitive should be allowed to produce evidence before the magistrate to rebut the charge.\n\nThe proceedings were conducted...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "Officer. Bake.\n\nSubject:\n\nForeign Office 21 Apl. Extradition of Pirate Chang chi\n\n1/ 1 22 126 tr Violation of Hong Kong territory by a Chintal Quiner Attitude of Chinese Gork towards directors of Sung Wah Hospital\n\n13 May appt. of a Chinese Coment in Hong Kong Roman Coment Service of a process of the Supreme Court on\n\n15 \" 14 25 * 26 17 31 L/ Opium Trade at Hong Kong Opium Commission Privileges to German Mail steamers\n\n3 June Chinese Regulations. ft the on Hong Kong Thugs Actg Attitude of Chinese Fork towards Tung Wah Hospital. The Opium Commission Colonial Parts at which German mail s'kamer's will call Opium Agreement\n\n\" 10 July Service \" 15 Y \" 21 28 29 + ། of German Steamers to the East Franco Chinese Commercial Convention Opiem Commission Franco Chinent Commercial Convention Service of German Steamers to the East appt of a Chinese Coment in Stong Kong Zang. Opium Commission\n\n3 9 20 \" 23 # 126 婆 Franco Chinese Commercial Convention Oprimer Commission -a-chi Extradition of Cheung-a- Extradition of Cheung Ayo Wait served on Acting German Coment Proposals for preventing the Smuggling of opium Extradition Cases of theung a chi and Cheung ayo Service of a writ on German Conent\n\n2 Sent Relations between China and the Vatican ку Service 4 of 24 a writ on German Consul Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Hong Kong Scheme for a national post office post office in China.\n\n8bct. Mt. Bourne's Journey f 12 on the southern frontier of China Proceedings of the Opium Commission Office, re\n\nDate Subject.\n\n2 Foreign Office 26 bct. Attitude of chinese Fork towards the Sung Woh Hospital\n\n18 hod. Franco Chinese Commercial Convention. Dec. Franco-Chinese Convention\n\n# 4 30 \" Rendition of Chinese Fugitives\n\n9 20 23 \" Violation of Hong Kong Territory buy Chinese Officists Expenses in connection with Storage swwharfage. of chiment Guns.\n\nWar Office 20 Jan. Armament for new defence works, 19 Apt Acquisition of land by War Dept.\n\n21 \" Appen for Grant of land for a Wesleyan Church\n\n11 June Governors Power to prevent conversion of bidding 17 July 120. \" on brown hands within Cantonments into chimene Vote for Defence Works Proposed Extension of the Praya Wall\n\n4 Dec Heavy Sus for the Defences Gapantal\n\nLocal 2005 82 24 Jan. Comparative incidence of Cholera upon Chinese & Post Office Jeb. 11 Feb: Simplification of Post Office Accounts Kew Gardens 8 June MF. C. Ford's Application for an increame of pay 9 ang\n\nPost Office 23 \" 4 Proposed national Chinese Post Office 2h00 Supply of Postal boders\n\nBinning, E. Mar. Affiliation Order agst. W. Dickinson Bowen, Sir 9311 Extension heave Olwerth, C. 10 may claim to certain property 23 July 118 hov Ford, C.Feb Application for Increase of Salary this heave His Retirement Passage allowand for himself and family mo Kay, H. # apl Marsh, b. 24 Dic bolly, G. aug Wodehouse, 18.2. 28 GA. Appl. for evt. seapohip. Mawitinə", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "I fancy the cessation of incidents in the East is movement towards Moderation on the parts of the French Consuls & Captains - The Germans will really get nothing by this draft except Civitates; Thane suggested some alterations in pencil especially in the last paragraph but one.\n\nIf prisoners claim this sight to be dealt with, the firm must apply for Extradition.\n\nI expect that Germany will be glad to accept the courtesy extended to them on the terms stated in the Draft, (as altered).\n\nApr 13 1886.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Rosebery to transmit to you the accompanying Draft of a note to the German Ambassador at this Court in reply to a request that certain German mail vessels should be put on the same footing as the French Ressageries Nationales steamers under the Postal Convention with France of 1856; and I am to request you in laying the same before Earl Granville to move the Colonial Office to\n\nPage 16\n\nForeign Office, Apr 13 1886.\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nGR517/4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332865, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "26\n\nprotection of France, upon the official application of the local authorities to the Consul, and upon the particulars of their guilt being ascertained, steps shall be taken to seize and forward them to the Chinese officials for trial and punishment.\n\nIf criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Annam, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities addressed to the French authorities, be searched for, and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up in the manner provided for in the Extradition Treaties entered into between France and the most favoured nation.\n\nIn the event of crimes committed by French citizens or persons under French protection, should the accused take refuge in Chinese territory, the Chinese authorities, upon due requisition addressed to them by the French authorities, and upon proof of his guilt, take steps to secure such person and deliver him to the French authorities for trial and punishment. These persons shall not be harboured or concealed in the smallest degree by either party.\n\nARTICLE XVIII.\n\nIn cases in which provision has not been made in the present Articles for the regulation of the land frontier trade, action shall be taken in accordance with the Chinese Maritime Customs Trade Regulations, or in a manner consistent with the general provisions of existing Treaties.\n\nIn the case of other matters, upon which no arrangement has been determined, the authorities of both countries shall apply to their respective Governments for instructions.\n\nShould any addition to or revision of the foregoing Articles hereafter be found necessary, such additions or revision shall be decided on in consultation at the expiration of ten years from the exchange of ratifications in the manner provided for in Article VIII of the new Treaty.\n\nARTICLE XIX.\n\nThe present trade Regulations shall be published in China, France, and Annam, and shall come into force as soon as they have been ratified by both Governments; and, as before, the ratifications shall be exchanged at Peking, at the latest, within one year from the dates of signature.\n\nKuang Hsü, 12th year, 3rd moon (April 1886),\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\n7.0.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n7.0. Hongki 718\n\n12693\n\nJuly\n\nMr. Johnson & July Sie,\n\nMr. De Robeck\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert\n\n28\n\nMr. Osborne Morgan.\n\nLord Granville.\n\n(1404)\n\n28 Jul, 86\n\nI am directed by Earl Granville to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., forwarding a copy of a despatch from H.M. Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, transmitting translation of the Chinese text of the Franco-Chinese Commercial Convention, signed at Tientsin April last.\n\nPage 28 appears three times at the bottom of this page and three times at the top of the next page, indicating the original page numbering.\n\nPage 28\n\nPage 28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "10\n\nd'accord avec une tierce puissance, pourrait établir sur sa frontière sud-ouest.\n\nL'article 8 est relatif au remboursement, sous forme de bons ou de drawbacks, des droits d'entrée payés pour des marchandises qui seraient ensuite réexportées.\n\nL'article 9 étend aux produits chinois qui passeront par le Tonkin pour se rendre d'un point à un autre du territoire de l'Empire, les règles appliquées dans les ports ouverts. Elles paraissent de nature à faire adopter de préférence la voie du Tonkin pour les marchandises qui seront expédiées des régions limitrophes à destination des ports ouverts de la Chine.\n\nL'article 10 détermine les pénalités applicables aux fraudes en matière de douanes: elles ne pourront d'ailleurs être prononcées que conformément aux règles fixées par le règlement de 1858 qui fait intervenir le Consul de France dans la procédure suivie.\n\nEn consentant à réduire à 4% les droits d'entrée sur nos marchandises, et à 3,33% les droits de sortie du côté du Tonkin, la Chine a vivement insisté en vue d'obtenir des réductions sur le tarif franco-annamite d'importation. Nous n'avons pas cru pouvoir accueillir cette demande : il nous a paru nécessaire de réserver entièrement notre liberté d'action relativement aux droits d'entrée qui seront établis par l'administration du protectorat à la frontière de terre, et une disposition formelle a été insérée à cet effet dans l'article 11. Nous nous sommes seulement engagés à donner communication au Gouvernement Chinois du tarif qui serait établi au Tonkin, à ne percevoir aucun droit de sortie sur les produits chinois qui, après avoir été importés au Tonkin aux conditions du tarif général franco-annamite, seraient ultérieurement exportés, et à ne pas frapper d'un droit spécifique de transit supérieur à 2% de la valeur, les marchandises chinoises qui seraient expédiées de Chine en Chine par le Tonkin. Cette dernière stipulation, qui figure dans l'article 12, a pu être admise facilement, notre intérêt étant de favoriser le transit à travers les territoires placés sous notre protectorat,\n\n11\n\nN° 898 L'article 13 énumère les articles qui seront affranchis de droits en Chine, à l'entrée et à la sortie, lorsqu'ils seront importés en quantités modérées, pour l'usage personnel des étrangers. Nous avons consenti à accorder le même traitement aux articles que les Consuls de Chine au Tonkin feraient venir par la frontière de terre pour leur consommation personnelle. Quant aux particuliers chinois, ils ne pourront passer en franchise à la Douane franco-annamite que leurs bagages et leurs effets d'usage.\n\nAux termes de l'article 14, le commerce et le transport de l'opium sont interdits par la frontière de terre entre la Chine et le Tonkin. Cette clause a été introduite, d'un commun accord, dans l'intérêt des deux pays.\n\nD'autres interdictions sont établies dans l'article 15: ce sont celles que la Chine a fait inscrire dans tous ses traités antérieurs, en vue de prévenir les disettes, d'empêcher le commerce des armes et munitions de guerre, et de protéger les monopoles de l'État.\n\nL'article 16 stipule non seulement que les Consuls de France auront à l'égard de leurs nationaux, dans les localités à ouvrir au commerce, tous les privilèges que leur accorde, dans les ports ouverts, le traité de 1858, mais en outre que leur juridiction s'étendra sur les Annamites. Nous n'avons pas besoin d'insister sur l'importance de cette clause.\n\nLa Chine nous a demandé de consentir, comme l'Angleterre l'a fait pour sa colonie de Hong-Kong, à l'extradition réciproque des malfaiteurs; l'article 17 pose le principe dans des conditions qui réservent entièrement les règles de notre droit public.\n\nEnfin, l'article 18 établit que, pour toute difficulté non prévue par les dispositions qui précèdent, on recourra aux règlements de la douane maritime auxquels nous avons donné notre adhésion et qui sont appliqués dans les ports ouverts. Il est en outre stipulé, conformément à l'article 8 du traité de paix, que la convention pourra être révisée dix ans après l'échange des ratifications.\n\n230", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Confidential\n\nPrepared by the Governor.\n\nThe case at present stands thus:\n\nA trial-lobe made between China and Portugal.\n\nComplete terms:\n\n(1) Sing sovereignty to Portugal.\n\n(2) Officials' cooperation with China to collect dues in subject territory.\n\n(3) Exterritoriality to be given to Portuguese subjects in China.\n\n(4) Extradition of criminals.\n\n26th Aug. 1886\n\nDear Branston,\n\nIn continuation of my letter of the 5th Aug. in re Conventions, I have been told you that Rosa de Macedo has just left for Europe via America to negotiate a convention to be attached to a Treaty between China and Portugal.\n\nHe came to see me at 7:00 in the morning at the \"Austin Arms\" where he was staying with Mr. Marsh in the hill. He wanted to tell me all that he had been doing at luncheon with Sir R. Hart - whom he left there - and the Governor of Macao who had been there.\n\nMr. Marsh showed me a note he was sending by post mail.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "whatever to do with this case. If you believe the evidence of Chan Ayut you have a right to call upon the prisoners for their defence, but you have no right to adjourn this case from week to week till the other case is finished. These defendants have nothing to do with that case. These three men before your Worship are on trial for their lives, and their case ought to be conducted in a legal, formal, and proper manner; and I submit, with all respect to your Worship, that the case is not being conducted in such a manner when it is being adjourned from week to week. If your Worship believes the evidence of Chun Ayut, if your Worship believes that Dr. Hartigan, Mr. Chun Kai Ming and Ho Ki have all gone into the box and told deliberate falsehoods, the prisoners will make their defence, but if not I submit there is no case against them. Your Worship has been a long time in this colony, and you know how difficult it is for a man to defend himself against officials who are in pay of the Chinese Government, because it is almost impossible to get witnesses to come forward and give evidence when they know that their relations are in the power of the Chinese Government, and the witnesses themselves may be spirited away before they can go down to the Supreme Court. I can assure your Worship that numbers of people have spoken to me in the street, knowing that this was a trumped-up charge, but who are unwilling to come into this court and give evidence, because they know that their relatives would pay the penalty with their lives. If you believe the evidence of Chun Ayat then the case ought to be proceeded with at once and the prisoners allowed to make their defence. The defence which I intend to make will be the proving of an alibi, and if this case is again adjourned fresh charges may be brought by the Chinese Government which it will be impossible for me to disprove, when the Government know exactly where the defendants were at such and such a date.\n\nHis Worship—I cannot agree in any way, with the statement made by Mr. Dennys with regard to the promises I have made during the hearing of the case. The action I have taken throughout these proceedings I have made public, and if I pass over what Mr. Dennys has said with regard to the promises I have made, it is not that I agree with him, but because I do not consider them worthy of further notice. I have here before me in writing the course that was pursued:—“Mr. Dennys applied to have Li Loi arrested on charge of subornation of perjury and Leung Ayow for perjury. Mr. Caldwell applied for time to bring rebutting evidence. The Magistrate declined to take any action in the matter but granted time to allow the solicitors for the defence to take what action they thought fit. The case to be remanded till the following day. In the interval action taken by a private individual, and Li Loi and Leung Ayow charged with subornation of perjury and perjury. Mr. Dennys asks for release of defendants. The Magistrate declines to take any action until the case against Leung Ayow is concluded and proposes to adjourn the case from week to week. Case came on again. Mr. Quincey states that perjury case is still proceeding. The case again remanded. Mr. Dennys on behalf of second and third defendants, and Mr. Holmes, on behalf of first, ask for their discharge. The application refused. Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Holmes ask for bail. Caldwell objects. Bail refused. The Magistrate, in reference to the application of Mr. Francis to be allowed to bring further evidence, in the event of Leung Ayow being convicted of perjury, gives formal notice that should such event occur, he will consider that a prima facie case has been made out.” I am now informed that the €430 is no prima facie case. I am now committed for trial. I cannot believe that the solicitors for the defence think that the other case is yet concluded.\n\nA criminal case is not concluded until the prisoner is either found guilty or acquitted. I shall therefore wait until the case is concluded and remand this one until Monday, April 4th, at 10 o'clock.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\n29th April.\n\nTHE RENDITION CASE.\n\nChing Sam and Tsang Chun, whose rendition is asked for by the Chinese Government on a charge of burglary and murder, were brought up on remand.\n\nMr. Caldwell appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Dennys for the second prisoner, and Mr. Holmes for the first.\n\nMr. Caldwell stated that Mr. Francis, Q.C., who had appeared for the prosecution on the last occasion, had been called away to Shanghai.\n\nIt was decided to proceed in Mr. Francis's absence.\n\nInspector Quincey gave evidence as to the death of Shap, a prisoner in the same case, who committed suicide in the gaol on Wednesday night.\n\nMr. Dennys then addressed the court on the points of law raised by Mr. Francis on the last occasion and afterwards proceeded to analyse the evidence for the prosecution, his address occupying two hours and a half. With reference to the contention of the prosecution that the court had merely to satisfy itself that a prima facie case was made out and could not enter into evidence for the defence he argued that the Magistrate was bound to satisfy himself absolutely that the prisoners were guilty before committing them to gaol pending the Governor's orders, the Governor being in this matter merely an executive officer and bound to deliver the prisoners up if the Magistrate found them guilty; that the Magistrate was bound to hear and take into consideration the defence if there was any case to answer; but that in the present case the prosecution had utterly broken down and that the prisoners were therefore entitled to their discharge. With regard to the first point he said he thought it was utterly impossible to find any precedent outside Hongkong that would exactly guide his Worship, but several cases were heard here last year in which a man named Chung Chee was claimed by the Chinese authorities for various offences. The prosecution in the first case was conducted by Mr. Ewens, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Wotton. Evidence was there gone into on behalf of the prisoner in the case in which Mr. Ewens prosecuted, and the prisoner was discharged, or at any rate he was not given up on the charge investigated by the Magistrate. Mr. Caldwell appeared for the prosecution in the other cases brought against the same prisoner, and those cases he believed were proved to the satisfaction of the Magistrate. In those cases the Magistrate allowed the witnesses for the prosecution to be cross-examined, and witnesses to be called on behalf of the prisoner. In this case it had been contended that the Magistrate could not accept on behalf of the prisoner any evidence whatever, and a very eminent authority on extradition, Clark, was quoted. Nothing could be stronger than the law as laid down by Mr. Clark, and he (Mr. Dennys) would quite agree with all that had been said by the learned counsel (Mr. Francis) with regard to that if this case came under the extradition law as applied in England under the act of 1870 and the extension of that Act in 1873. But section 17 of the Act said the Act might be applied with certain modifications by Order in Council to any British possession. That had not been done with regard to Hongkong, and the law by which the court was governed was contained in Ordinance 2 of 1850 and the explanatory Ordinance 2 of 1871. Before going into those Ordinances he would ask his Worship's attention to the Treaty referred to in the second Ordinance. By the Treaty of Tientsin, section 21, two different things were provided for, one referring to criminal subjects of China who take refuge in Hongkong, and the other to Chinese offenders who take refuge on board British ships at the open ports of China.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "Office, &c.\n\nDate\n\nBoard\n\nof\n\nSubject\n\nGrade 4 Feb. Erection of a lighthouse on Dap Rock\n\nBill to amend Stamp Ordinance\n\nTreasury\n\n1 Dec\n\n12 Jan Use of Hong Kong subsidiary coins outside the\n\nOffice, 40\n\nDate\n\nSubject.\n\nForeign Office 19 May Opium Ordinance\n\n28\n\n1\n\n31.\n\n2\n\n[ with Peking Legation.\n\nCommunication of Chamber of Commerce direct\n\n8 June the Lonquin and Burmah Frontiers of China\n\nHong Kong\n\nAl\n\n20\n\nIM\n\n\"\n\n1:\n\nRate of Exchange for Dollar and\n\nRupee\n\n\"\n\n22\n\n杂\n\n!\n\n查\n\n19 July Offer of Japanese Govt to coin silver yen for the\n\nTang.\n\n\"\n\nq\n\n4\n\nbrdel se\n\nNon-corporation Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking\n\n27 Sept offer of Japanese Govt to coin silver yen for the Colony\n\n206 Rates of pay for Gun Lascaris\n\nForeign Office Jan Proceedings of the Opium Commission\n\n\"\n\n*\n\n11\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n\"\n\n11\n\n\"\n\n15\n\n14\"\n\n244\n\n4\n\nChefoo Convention\n\nProceedings of the Opium Commission\n\nchi\n\n1 Feb. Smuggling of Opium into China from Macao Extradition of Chang Yeh and Chang the Frade Franco-Chinese Commercial Convention: Effect\n\n10\n\n\"\n\n15\n\n红\n\nOpium Traffic at Macao\n\nOpium Agreement\n\nFranco-Chinese Commercial Convention.\n\n26. Seizure of a Chinaman within Hong Kong waters\n\nAdditional Article of the Chefoo Convention\n\n28.\n\n15 Mar Seizure of a Wo a Fung within Colonial Waters\n\nTreaty between Portugal and China re Macao\n\non Opium under Chefoo Convention negotiations between Portugal and China\n\n1/0\n\nJ\n\n122\n\n4\n\nLikin Anti\n\n1 Apr. Opium clauses of Chefoo Convention\n\nOpium negotiations between Portugal & China\n\n2 May Rendition of,\n\n\"\n\n16\n\n4\n\n40 Chinese Criminals\n\nRendition of a Chinese now undergoing\n\nsentence at Hong Kong\n\n14\n\n\"\n\nJune of H.\n\nOffer of Japanese Govt to coin silver Yen for the\n\nAmt \"Espoir\" of\n\nExtradition of one Markham\n\n5 July Privileges of Foreign mail steamers\n\nApply of Spanish Govt. for privileges for\n\nlu\n\nC\n\n18\n\n19\n\n\"\n\n22\n\ntr\n\n26\n\n30\n\n#\n\nSpanish mail steamers\n\nArrangements re: lunatic I.P. Kennelly Opium Ordinance\n\nExtradition of Markham\n\nNational\n\nProposed Chinese National Post Office\n\nOpium Ordinance\n\n18 Aug Vagrancy Ordinance\n\n23\n\n14\n\n\"\n\nFi\n\nExtradition Treaty with China\n\n24 Sept. Mt. Bourne's Journey in SW. China\n\n24\n\nY but\n\n14\n\n25\n\n13/\n\naffairs\n\nOpium negotiations between Portugal & China Petition of Lan Far to the Secy of State for Foreign\n\nPro steamers\n\nPart one's payable in third by Proposed Extradition Treaty with China Likin on Kerosene bill shipped to Canton Additional Convention between China & France. Likin on Kerosene bill shipped to Canton.\n\n14 Dec. Portuguese Comml. Treaty with China\n\nadditional Convention between China and France\n\n8 hor\n\n241\n\n26)\n\nfr\n\nHome Office 14 July\n\nExtradition Cust\n\nof\n\nBar Office 9 Mar Supply of\n\n16\n\nit\n\nMz. A. W. Markham\n\nnew heavy armament for H. Kong.\n\n7\n\n16 June Acquisition of land in Hong Kong\n\nMaj Genl Gordon's non-\n\nnon-effective pay\n\n24\n\nif\n\n1\n\nts\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335666, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "he has been directed to \n\nuse his discretion as \n\nヒ\n\nthe instructions \n\nacting \n\nsent to him. \n\nthe 3rd \n\ninstant in regard to the \n\nadditional article \n\nChepos Convention. \n\nthe \n\nJan, fir, \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nhumble servant, \n\nPWfurin \n\nice or Individna). \n\nEmma. Illion offers \n\nDate. \n\n2768 \n\n1887 \n\n5 Mar \n\nprevious Paper. \n\n9536 \n\nPatby \n\nsubsequent Paper. \n\n39 \n\n17420 \n\nHong Kong No. 4283 \n\n(Subject.) \n\nDOMESTIC. \n\nC. C. \n\n4 293 \n\nPEC? \n\nEGE 7 MAT 87 \n\n279 \n\nSeizure of Wo a Fung within El Waters \n\nTransmits copy dash to \n\nMinister at Peking \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nM. Bramston \n\n? Wait \n\nC.P.L \n\nM. Branston \n\n3 \n\nMarch \n\n? Shall be ask the P.0. if they \n\nhave heard \n\nany \n\nmore on this cased? \n\nor Put By the latter I think. \n\nWe have had \n\na \n\nbig \n\nextradition case", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "## Office, &c. \n## Date \n## Subject \n\n| Office, &c. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| (China Bank | 14 June | Supplemental charter of the India, London and China Bank |\n| Treasury | 21 July | Redemption of Worn Coins |\n| \" | 28 July | Supply of subsidiary Coins |\n| \" | \" | Supply of Subsidiary Silver Coins |\n| Foreign Office | 9 Jan. | Extradition with China. |\n| \" | 25 Feb. | Extradition of ho In Chi |\n| \" | 1 Mch. | Importation of Kerosene bill into China |\n| \" | 12 Apl | Boundary between Sonquin and China |\n| \" | 23 May | Vagrancy Ordinance |\n| \" | 23 July | Treaty between China and Portugal |\n| \" | 9 Aug. | |\n| \" | 26 Oct | Extradition of Chinese Criminals |\n| \" | 22 Dec. | Samshu Spirit Convention. |\n| War Office | 10 Feb. | Cost of Transport of Stores for Defence Works |\n| \" | 23 Mch | |\n| \" | 18 Apl. | Additional Barrack Accommodation. |\n| \" | 24 \" | Construction of a breakwater on Kellett's Bank |\n| \" | 14 July | Compensation for damage caused by firing of guns |\n| \" | 8 Aug. | Reservation of sites for Defences |\n| \" | 13 \" | Military Contribution |\n| \" | 15 \" | Damage caused by firing heavy guns |\n| \" | 30 \" | |\n\n## Office, &c. \n## Date \n## Subject \n\n| Office, &c. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Post Office | 5 Jan | New mail Contract |\n| Five Offices Ctte | 24 Apl | Stamp Duties Amendment Ordinance |\n| Local Govt Bd | 26 \" | Public Health Ordinance |\n| Kew Observatory | 3 July | Magnetic Observations |\n| Greenwich | 19 \" | |\n| C. S. Commission | 21 Sept. | Assignment of Me and Brewin to a cadetship |\n| Trinity House | 9 Nov. | Proposed lighthouse on Gap Rock |\n| London Chamber of Commerce | 22 Dec. | Privileges of Foreign mail Steamers |\n| Adams, D.W.S | 8 Feb. | His Claims to a Pension |\n| \" | 20 Mch | Resignation of post of Health Officer |\n| Ackroyd, E.J. | 3 Feb | Apply for appt. as Puisne Judge |\n| Bosman, W. | 12 \" | Apply for permission to defer his departure |\n| Douglas, R.K. | 20 July | Mr Thomson's Instruction in Chinese |\n| Lister, A. | 6 Nov. | Apply for passage allowance |\n| Mitchell Innes, | 16 May | Apply for appt. as Asst. Col. Secretary |\n| O'Malley, & | 16 June | Apply for Chief Justiceship of Ceylon |\n| \" | 24 Oct. | \" |\n| Phillippo, G.K. | 29 May | Apply for appt. as clerk to Puisne Judge |\n| Phillippo, Sir G | 13 July | His Pension |\n| \" | 23 \" | Restrictions on height of buildings on certain lands |\n| \" | 16 Nov | Cost of Transport of Stores for Defence Works |\n| \" | 16 \" | Major General Gordon's Retired Pay |\n| \" | 21 \" | Building Restrictions on land south of Kennedy Road for Defence Works. |\n| \" | 22 Dec | Cost of Transport of Stores |\n| \" | \" | Increase of native Artillery Force |\n| \" | 1 \" | Retirement on Pension |\n| \" | 16 Aug | His Pension |\n| Stephens, M.J.D. | 16 Jan | Lease of marine lot 184 |\n| Thomson, D | 23 \" | Retirement on Pension. |\n| Thomsett, M.G. | 9 May | His Pension |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "## EN. 131-1 DE JUNHO DE 1888\n\n4.* Os importadores e exportadores de opio em Macau deverão ter (por forma de escrituração, segundo o modelo que lhe será fornecido pelo governo) uma indicação exacta e clara da quantidade de opio que tiverem, a quantidade e depósito.\n\n5. Só o arrematante do exclusivo do opio em Macau e as pessoas que tiverem licença para vender opio a retalho poderão conservar em seu poder opio em quantidades inferiores a uma caixa.\n\n6. Os regulamentos para execução d'esta lei em Macau serão equivalentes aos adoptados em Hong Kong para semelhante fim.\n\n## Artigo II\n\nAs licenças para exportar opio de Macau para os portos chinezes, depois de expedidas, serão comunicadas pelo superintendente ao comissário da alfandega de Kung-pac-nan.\n\n## Artigo III\n\nAs estipulações d'esta convenção poderão, em qualquer tempo, ser alteradas por mútuo acordo das duas altas partes contratantes.\n\nE em fé do que os plenipotenciários assignaram e sellaram a presente convenção.\n\nFeita em Pekim no primeiro dia do mez de dezembro do anno de Nosso Senhor Jesus Christo de 1887, que corresponde à data chineza do dia decimo setimo da decima lua do decimo terceiro anno de Kuang-Sü.\n\n(L. S.) Thomás de Sousa Rosa. (L. S.) Ching. (L. S.) Sun.\n\n4. The importers and exporters of opium in Macau must keep a register according to the form furnished by the government, showing with exactness and clearness the quantity of opium they have imported, the number of chests they have sold, to whom and to what place they were disposed of, and the quantity in stock.\n\nOnly the Macau opium farmer and persons licensed to sell opium at retail will be permitted to keep in their custody raw opium in quantities inferior to one chest.\n\n6. Regulations framed to enforce in Macau the execution of this law will be equivalent to those adopted in Hong-Kong for a similar purpose.\n\n## Article II\n\nPermits for the exportation of opium from Macau into Chinese ports, after being issued, shall be communicated by the Superintendent of opium to the Commissioner of customs at Kang-pac-man.\n\n## Article III\n\nBy mutual consent of both the High Contracting Parties, the stipulations of this convention may be altered at any time.\n\nIn faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and Sealed this convention.\n\nPeking this first day of December in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, corresponding with the Chinese date the 17th day of the 10th moon of the 13th year of Kwongsu.\n\n(L. S.) Thomás de Sousa Rosa. (L. S.) Ching. (L. S.) Sun.\n\nE tendo bem visto, considerado e examinado tudo o que no mesmo tratado e convenção se contém, e havendo encontrado um e outro em harmonia com o protocolo ajustado em Lisboa, aos 26 de março de 1887, e aprovado pelas cortes gerais, tendo presente o artigo 2.º da carta de lei de 13 de julho de 1887, ratifico e confirmo o sobredito tratado e convenção apponso, assim no todo, como em cada uma de suas clausulas e estipulações, e pela presente os dou por firmes e validos para haverem de produzir o seu devido efeito, prometendo observal-os e cumpril-os invariavelmente, e fazel-os cumprir e observar por qualquer modo que possa ser.\n\nEu, em testemunho e firmeza do sobredito, fiz passar a presente carta, por mim assignada, passada com o sello grande das minhas armas e referendada pelo ministro e secretario d'estado abaixo assignado. Dada no paço da Ajuda, em 1 de fevereiro de 1888. — EL-REI (com rubrica e guarda). — Henrique de Barros Gomes.\n\nHei por bem confirmar e ratificar o convenio celebrado em Pekin, no dia 1 de dezembro de 1887, entre Bernardo Pinheiro Correia do Mello, secretario da nossa missão especial àquela corte, e Sir Robert Hart, inspector geral das alfandegas maritimas imperiaes chinezas, para resolver algumas questões que têm relação com a cooperação dada por Portugal à China na cobrança dos direitos do opio, e bem assim fixar as regras a que ficarão sujeitos os juncos chinezes que commerciarem com Macau, o qual convenio vai junto a este decreto, e d'elle fará parte, a fim de que tenha pleno vigor.\n\nO ministro e secretario d'estado dos negocios estrangeiros o tenha entendido e faça executar. Paço da Ajuda, aos 7 de junho de 1888. — EL-REI. — Henrique de Barros Gomes.\n\n## Convenio\n\nTendo sido fixadas pela convenção apponso ao tratado de amizade e commercio entre Portugal e a China, assignado em Pekim no dia 1.º de dezembro de 1887, as bases da cooperação dada por Portugal à China na cobrança dos direitos do opio exportado de Macau para os portos chinezes, e sendo conveniente resolver algumas questões que têm relação com a rapida cooperação, e bem assim fixar as regras a que ficarão sujeitos os juncos chinezes que commerciarem com Macau, os abaixo assignados Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, secretario da missão especial de Sua Magestade Fidelissima em Pekim, devidamente autorizado por S. Ex.ª o Sr. Thomas de Sousa Rosa, chefe da referida missão, e Sir Robert Hart, K. C. M. G., inspector geral das alfandegas maritimas imperiaes chinezas, munidos das necessarias instruções do governo chinez, concordaram no seguinte:\n\n1. No territorio chinez e em logar conveniente será estabelecida uma repartição a cargo de um comissario da alfandega, delegado pelo inspector geral das alfandegas maritimas imperiaes chinezas, para vender aos negociantes de Macau certificados de pagamento de direitos sobre qualquer quantidade de opio que elles desejem exportar. O referido comissario administrará tambem os postos fiscais proximos a Macau.\n\n2. Todo o opio que for acompanhado de tais certificados, à razão de 110 taeis por pico, ficará isento de qualquer outro imposto e terá todos os beneficios estipulados no artigo adicional da convenção de Chefoo entre a China e a Grã-Bretanha, com respeito ao opio que já tenha satisfeito os direitos n'um dos portos da China. Este opio poderá ser acondicionado em pacotes sellados à vontade do comprador.\n\n3. O comissario das alfandegas chinas que administrar os postos fiscais investigará e decidirá qualquer queixa que os negociantes chinas fizerem contra os postos fiscais ou contra os cruzeiros aduaneiros.\n\nO governador de Macau, quando o julgar conveniente, poderá delegar um funccionario para tomar parte nessa investigação, e se não houver accordo entre os dois funccionarios será a questão submettida à decisão combinada das suas auctoridades respectivas em Pekim.\n\n4. Os juncos que commerciarem entre os portos chinezes e Macau, bem como as suas cargas, não ficarão sujeitos a nenhuns direitos ou taxas além d'aquelles a que estão sujeitos os juncos que commerciarem entre portos chinezes e Hong Kong, bem como as suas respectivas cargas. Do mesmo modo, os juncos que, procedentes dos portos chinezes, forem para Macau, ou que de Macau se destinarem a portos chinezes, não ficarão sujeitos a nenhuns direitos ou taxas além das que tiverem sido pagos ou forem pagaveis nos portos de sua procedencia ou destino. Os productos chinezes que tiverem já pago, antes de entrar em Macau, os direitos aduaneiros e a taxa, ficarão isentos, quando reexportados para portos chinezes, de pagar novamente aquelles impostos, ficando sómente sujeitos ao pagamento da taxa denominada Sino-Hue.\n\nEm testemunho do que foi este convenio escripto em inglez e portuguez e assignado em duplicado em Pekim, no 1.º de dezembro de 1887. — Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, secretario da missão especial de Sua Magestade Fidelissima. — Robert Hart, inspector das alfandegas maritimas chinezas.\n\n## Agreement\n\nThe basis of the cooperation to be given to China by Portugal in the collection of duties on opium conveyed from Macao to Chinese ports having been fixed by a Convention appended to the Treaty of Amity and commerce concluded between China and Portugal on the 1st December 1887, and it being now convenient to come to an understanding upon some points relating to the said cooperation as well to fix rules for the treatment of Chinese junks trading with Macau, Sir Robert Hart, K. C. M. G., Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, provided with the necessary instructions from the Chinese Government, and Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, Secretary of the Special Mission of His Most Faithful Majesty in Peking, duly authorised by His Excellency Thomas de Sousa Rosa, Chief of the said mission, have agreed on the following:\n\n1. An office under a commissioner appointed by the foreign inspectorate of the Chinese Imperial Maritime customs shall be established at a convenient spot on Chinese Territory for the sale of opium duty certificates, to be freely sold to Macau merchants and for such quantities of opium as they may require. The said commissioner will also administer the customs stations near Macau.\n\n2. Opium accompanied by such certificates at the rate of not more than 110 taels per picul shall be free from all other imposts of every sort and have all the benefits stipulated for by the additional article of the Chefoo Convention between China and Great Britain on behalf of opium on which duty has been paid at one of the ports of China, and may be made up into sealed parcels at the option of the purchaser.\n\n3. The commissioner of Customs responsible for the management of the Customs' Stations shall investigate and settle any complaints made by Chinese merchants of Macau against the Customs' Stations or revenue cruisers.\n\nThe Governor of Macau, if he deems it advisable, shall be entitled to send an officer of Macau to be present and assist in the investigation and decision. If, however, they do not agree, a reference may be made to the authorities at Peking for a joint decision.\n\n4. Junks trading between Chinese ports and Macau and their cargoes shall not be subject to any dues or duties in excess of those leviable on junks and their cargoes trading between Chinese ports and Hong-Kong, and no dues whatsoever shall be demanded from junks proceeding to Macao from ports in China or coming from Macao to ports in China over and above the dues paid or payable at the ports of clearance or destination. Chinese produce which has paid customs duties and the _li_ tax before entering Macao may be re-exported from Macao to Chinese ports without paying those duties and _li_ tax again, and will be subject to the payment of only the tax named Sino-Hue.\n\nIn witness whereof this agreement has been written in Portuguese and English and signed in duplicate at Peking this the First day of December 1887. — Robert Hart, Inspector General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. — Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Mello, Secretary of His Most Faithful Majesty.\n\n## MINISTERIO DAS OBRAS PUBLICAS, COMMERCIO E INDUSTRIA\n\nAttendendo a que me foi representado pelos ministros e secretarios d'estado dos negocios da fazenda e das obras publicas, commercio e industria; hei por bem decretar o seguinte:\n\nSendo varios cidadãos querendo honrar a memoria do fallecido ministro e secretario d'estado, Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho, pelos valiosos e importantissimos serviços por elle prestados ao paiz, especialmente no tocante à instrucção technica, iniciando no instituto geral de agricultura o ensino da microscopia e nosologia vegetal, creando no instituto industrial de Lisboa a cadeira de arte de minas e metalurgia, e estabelecendo um curso pratico de correios e telegraphos; abriram para isso uma subscripção, e desejam que com o seu producto se crie um fundo cujo rendimento seja applicado a premiar os alumnos mais distinctos d'aquellas disciplinas, designando-se estes premios com o nome de «Saraiva de Carvalho».\n\n## Artigo 1.º\n\nÉ o ministerio da fazenda autorizado a receber da commissão encarregada da subscripção para commemorar o nome do fallecido ministro e secretario d'estado, Augusto Saraiva de Carvalho, o producto da mesma subscripção, que será convertido em titulos de divida publica perpetua, averbados a favor da fazenda nacional.\n\n§ unico. Os juros d'estes titulos serão descriptos como receita no orçamento geral do estado.\n\n## Artigo 2.º\n\nO producto liquido dos titulos de divida publica, de que trata o artigo 1.º, será dividido annualmente em quatro partes iguaes, constituindo-se com cada uma d'ellas um premio denominado «Saraiva de Carvalho», que será conferido em cada um anno lectivo, a contar do anno de 1888.\n\n[R&S (31,7350) 4000 7-8]\n\n## reign office\n\nDate. 1888\n\n260d\n\nLast previous Paper. 13389\n\nHong Kong No. 21259\n\n## Extradition\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC. DOMESTIC. 21 250\n\n(EEG) 20 001 88.\n\n## Chinese Criminals\n\nConcurs generally in Co. views.\n\nProposes the insertion in the Ord... of provisions with regards to opposition to Ord... for discharge. Suggests that the draft thus with proposed amendments be submitted to show effect.\n\n## Attorney General to Ordinance\n\nBalticen Ianner\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nM. Wingfield S.W. 9.30/10\n\na copy of the draft Ordinance\n\n15 Amended 9-1575\n\nPra worth in accordant ter\n\n18460 and their letter\n\nC. latter I have made for\n\nhot bitired\n\nclature (x Badd corrin sonce purther amendments\n\nin the correspondence.\n\nI have added Sabadham Art (570) regarding provision (as in that the magistrate to test a committed pugiter Criminal other right to apply for a writ of habeas Corpus.\n\nclaus X\n\nX1 and XI are taken (with some from 17 of the Hrusken, Maras Petradition Endmine 1851 (869) as supported 7 7.0. taken from the Extradition Art. 10/0 from bengucut Fapor. hew) cleane XV\n\na committed Mugide for the derclage of\n\nif hat darren docetu Phi leam in\n\nwithin this or iníky\n\ncommitted pepition In the Macas\n\none month and I own michued to think it is by enough\n\nm_the_", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "is attached to his opinion, deliberately come to after consideration of the evidence, - and that the Chinese subject is practically tried by an alien court.\n\nLord ... of His Excellency's arguments appear to me to be not devoid of some force.\n\nAs to the limitation of extraditable offences, I have already pointed out to him that this is an universal rule of International Law, in accordance with which the treaty is naturally interpreted. That the Chinese text differs from the English is unfortunate, but it is expressly agreed that the English text rules. The expression \"upon proof of their guilt\" is doubtless somewhat vague; but it appears to me that the Hong Kong Government is thereby empowered to decide, of course reasonably, what proof shall be required to secure extradition.\n\nAdmitting all the other objections His Excellency raises to the present system of preliminary investigations, I cannot see how, without a special supplementary Convention between the Governments of Great Britain and China, His Excellency's proposal can be accepted in 1880. But in view of the importance of joint action against the large criminal class in this part of China, I hope that some modification may be found possible.\n\nMeanwhile I am inclined to think that the Viceroy might be satisfied with the following concession:- That neither the accused nor the Chinese Government should be represented by lawyers at the preliminary investigation. This would not only save expense to the Chinese, but would also be in accordance with the normal Law as to criminal trials. The Chinese are also firmly convinced that rendition has been more than once refused solely on technical points of procedure. In this connection I may add that their ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365027, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "Exportation and importation of \n\nmunitions of war prohibited. \n\nSalt, cash, rice, \n\npulse, grains, \n\nopium, and spirituous liquors. \n\nMines. \n\nNavigation of the Irrawaddy. Railways. \n\nConsuls. \n\nPassports. \n\n4\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nThe following articles, being munitions of war, shall neither be exported from Burmah into China, nor imported from China into Burmah, save at the requisition of the Government desiring their importation; neither shall they be sold to parties other than those who have been duly authorized by their respective Governments to purchase them:--\n\nCannon, shot and shell, cartridges and ammunition of all kinds, fire-arms and weapons of war of every description. Saltpetre, sulphur, brimstone, gunpowder, dynamite, gun-cotton, or other explosives.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nThe exportation from Burmah into China of salt is prohibited.\n\nThe exportation from China into Burmah of cash, rice, pulse, and grains of every kind is prohibited.\n\nThe importation and exportation across the frontier of opium and spirituous liquors is prohibited, excepting in small quantities for the personal use of travellers. The amount to be permitted will be settled under Customs Regulations.\n\nInfractions of the conditions set forth in this and the preceding Article will be punishable by confiscation of all the goods concerned.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nThe British Government, wishing to promote frontier trade between the two countries by encouraging mining enterprise in Yunnan and in the new territorial acquisitions of China referred to in the present Convention, consent to allow Chinese vessels carrying merchandise, ores, and minerals of all kinds, and coming from or destined for China, freely to navigate the Irrawaddy on the same conditions as to dues and other matters as British vessels.\n\nThe Chinese Government agrees hereafter to consider whether the conditions of trade justify the construction of railways in Yunnan, and, in the event of their construction, agrees to connect them with the Burmah lines.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nWhereas by the original Convention it was agreed that China might appoint a Consul in Burmah, to reside at Rangoon; and that Great Britain might appoint a Consul to reside at Manwyne; and that the Consuls of the two Governments should each within the territories of the other enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consuls of the most favoured nation, and, further, that, in proportion as the commerce between Burmah and China increased, additional Consuls might be appointed by mutual consent, to reside at such places in Burmah and Yunnan as the requirements of trade might seem to demand.\n\nIt has now been agreed that the Government of Great Britain may station a Consul at Momein or Shunning-fu, as the Government of Great Britain may prefer, instead of at Manwyne, as stipulated in the original Convention, and also to station a Consul at Ssumao.\n\nBritish subjects and persons under British protection may establish themselves, and trade at these places, under the same conditions as at the Treaty ports in China.\n\nThe Consuls appointed as above shall be on the same footing as regards correspondence and intercourse with Chinese officials as the British Consuls at the Treaty ports.\n\nARTICLE XIV.\n\nPassports, written in Chinese and English, and identical in terms to those issued to foreigners at the Treaty ports in China, shall, on the application of the proper\n\n5\n\nBritish authorities, be issued to British merchants and others wishing to proceed to China from Burmah by the Chinese Consul at Rangoon or by the Chinese authorities on the frontier; and Chinese subjects wishing to proceed to Burmah from China shall, on the application of any recognized Chinese official, be entitled to receive similar passports from Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shunning or Momein or other convenient places in China where there may be a British Consular officer.\n\nARTICLE XV.\n\n270\n\nShould criminals, subjects of either country, take refuge in the territory of the other, they shall, on due requisition being made, be searched for, and, on reasonable presumption of their guilt being established, they shall be surrendered to the authorities demanding their extradition.\n\n\"Due requisition\" shall be held to mean the demand of any functionary of either Government possessing a seal of office, and the demand may be addressed to the nearest frontier officer of the country in which the fugitive has taken refuge.\n\nARTICLE XVI.\n\nWith a view to improving the intercourse between the two countries, and placing the Chinese Consul at Rangoon in communication with the high provincial authorities in Yünnan, the High Contracting Parties undertake to connect the telegraphic systems of the two countries with each other as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made; the line will, however, at first only be used for the transmission of official telegrams and of general messages for and from Burmah and the Province of Yunnan.\n\nARTICLE XVII.\n\nIt is agreed that subjects of the two Powers shall each within the territories of the other enjoy all the privileges, immunities, and advantages that may have been, or may hereafter be, accorded to the subjects of any other nation.\n\nARTICLE XVIII.\n\nIt is agreed that the commercial stipulations contained in the present Convention being of a special nature and the result of mutual concessions, consented to with a view to adapting them to local conditions and the peculiar necessities of the Burmah-China overland trade, the advantages accruing from them shall not be invoked by the subjects of either Power residing at other places where the two Empires are conterminous, excepting where the same conditions prevail, and then only in return for similar concessions.\n\nARTICLE XIX.\n\nThe arrangements with regard to trade and commerce contained in the present Convention being of a provisional and experimental character, it is agreed that should subsequent experience of their working, or a more intimate knowledge than is now possessed of the requirements of the trade, seem to require it, they may be revised at the demand of either party after a lapse of six years after the exchange of ratifications of the present Convention, or sooner should the two Governments desire it.\n\nFailing agreement as to the terms of revision, the present arrangements shall remain in force.\n\nSPECIAL ARTICLE.\n\nWhereas on the 20th day of January, 1896, the Tsung-li Yamen addressed an official despatch to Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking informing him that on the 30th day of December, 1895, they had submitted a Memorial respecting the opening of ports on the West River to foreign trade, and had received an Imperial Decree in approval, of which they officially communicated a copy.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "Viscount Enomotto, who appeared to resent somewhat the excessive interference of the Privy Council with a draft to which he had already signified the assent of his own Department, readily agreed to restore the original text of Articles VI and XI, which he informed me the Privy Council had authorized him to do if he should think it necessary.\n\nHaving given way on these two points, his Excellency trusted no objection would be raised to the remaining emendations of the Privy Council, consisting of additions to the list of crimes and offences in Article II, of one or two purely verbal changes, and of a slight correction of the text of Article I, bringing it into agreement with the prevailing practice of surrendering fugitives, not to the \"authorities\" of the country claiming the surrender, but to the person, usually a police officer, designated to take the fugitive into custody, and convey him to the place where his crime or offence is to be judged.\n\nAfter some further discussion, Viscount Enomotto again signified to me, through Mr. Kurino, Chief of the Political Section of the Japanese Foreign Office, his full acceptance of my emendations, and the draft herewith inclosed would have been forwarded to your Lordship's Department on the 9th August, as the form in which it had finally commended itself to the Japanese Government, but for the intervening change of Ministry, which brought to the front a set of Japanese statesmen determined to stretch to the utmost their own interpretation of the Treaties.\n\nIn the special matter of the arrest and surrender of fugitive offenders, Mr. Mutsu is an emphatic supporter of the doctrine that exterritoriality in Japan is limited to jurisdiction in respect of offences committed within the country. He and his colleagues hold that in no case can a fugitive from justice taking refuge in Japan from abroad be arrested and held on the warrant of the Court of his own nation established in Japan; that, in the absence of a Treaty of Extradition it is in the interest of Japan to arrest, on a Japanese warrant, and to hold for eventual surrender to the person designated to take charge of him, any such fugitive from justice whose rendition may be fairly claimed by the Diplomatic Representative of his own country; and that, in the case of an American demand for extradition, they are bound by the terms of the American Extradition Treaty of 1886 to insist on what they regard as their full right to arrest, and surrender for trial in America, any fugitive offender whatever, regardless of his nationality and the possible claims of other countries to exercise jurisdiction over him in Japan, against whom a prima facie case has been established in the opinion of the Japanese Ministry of Justice.\n\nHolding strongly to this interpretation of their powers of jurisdiction, the Japanese Cabinet and Privy Council are dissatisfied with an arrangement which seems to shrink from going the lengths of the American Treaty, and in the Memorandum herewith inclosed in copy it is sought to induce Her Majesty's Government to negotiate a Treaty which shall indorse the Japanese contention that the place in which a crime or offence has been committed, and not the nationality of the fugitive from justice, should determine to what Power the fugitive should be surrendered.\n\nThe Memorandum may be paraphrased as follows:\n\n\"The number of foreigners subject to Japanese jurisdiction is increasing. It has quite recently been swollen by the assumption of jurisdiction over Portuguese subjects, and it is probable that, in future, such non-Treaty foreigners will seek occasionally to evade justice by flight, e.g., to Hongkong or some other British dependency.\n\n\"But the draft Rendition Arrangement leaves Japan without the means of obtaining the surrender of such fugitive offenders for trial in Japan.\n\n\"An ordinary Extradition Treaty would meet the case, and would redound to the advantage of both countries.\n\n\"Again, under the draft Arrangement, to take a specific case, a Chinese subject having defrauded a British firm in Hongkong, and taking refuge in Japan, would escape surrender and punishment, whereas a British subject who had defrauded a Chinese subject in Hongkong and escaped to Japan would be liable to surrender and conveyance to Hongkong for trial.\n\n\"This is an unfair discrimination against British subjects.\n\n\"But the real objection of Her Majesty's Government to a comprehensive Treaty is understood to arise out of their reluctance to admit the principle that Japan has the right to surrender a Treaty foreigner to any third Power. It is hoped, however, that Her Majesty's Government will see their way to conceding what Japan believes to be a right inherent in her sovereignty, and unaffected by the Treaties.\n\n\"There is no danger that British subjects will ever be surrendered by Japan to a third Power except on charges sanctioned by the existing Extradition Treaties between Great Britain and other nations.\n\n\"Her Majesty's Government may therefore recognize, in perfect safety, the principle for which Japan contends.\n\n\"If, however, their objections should prove insurmountable, the Japanese Government will not refuse, seeing the importance of a settlement, to continue the negotiation on the original basis.\"\n\nIt is this final concession which has made it necessary for me to go into the details of the negotiation with Viscount Enomotto, which may still have to be proceeded with from the point it had reached when that Minister left office.\n\nI have strongly and repeatedly expressed to Mr. Mutsu my belief that Her Majesty's Government will be deterred by the fear of raising awkward complications with other Treaty Powers from concluding a Treaty with Japan on the desired basis, but Mr. Mutsu has insisted on making an attempt in that direction, and I can only place his wishes before your Lordship.\n\nHis Excellency informs me that Viscount Kawase is instructed to support his arguments in favour of a comprehensive Treaty, and to endeavour to secure Mr. Fraser's co-operation.\n\nA copy of my reply to Mr. Mutsu is likewise inclosed herewith.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) M. DE BUNSEN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Rendition Agreement, with Comments.\n\nTHE Undersigned having, in pursuance of instructions received from Her Majesty's Government, discussed with his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs the conditions of an arrangement by exchange of notes for the mutual surrender by the Governments of Great Britain and Japan of fugitive offenders, being the subjects respectively of the two countries, has the honour to submit in writing the stipulations of the arrangement which, having been approved by the two Governments, shall regulate the question in future.\n\n1. Any person, being a subject of Great Britain, who, being accused or convicted in the dominions or within the jurisdiction of Her Britannic Majesty of any of the crimes or offences specified in clause 2, shall be found within the territory of Japan, shall, under the circumstances and conditions hereinafter stipulated, be arrested and delivered up by the Japanese authorities for rendition to the place where the crime or offence is justiciable; and similarly any person, being a subject of Japan, who, being accused or convicted in the dominions or within the jurisdiction of His Imperial Majesty of any of the crimes or offences specified in clause 2, shall be found within the territory of Great Britain, or in any of the Colonies or possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, shall, under the circumstances and conditions hereinafter stipulated, be arrested and delivered up by the British authorities for rendition to the place where the crime or offence is justiciable.\n\n[380]\n\nAdded at request of Japanese Foreign Office, to cover the ground of Article IX,\n\n23\n\nAfter Japanese authorities the words \"to the British authorities\" are omitted, because, according to the general practice and to the form of Japanese warrants of surrender, fugitive offenders are surrendered not to the authorities representing the fugitive's country, but to the person duly authorized to receive the fugitive—generally a police officer from the place in which the crime or offence was committed.\n\n* Added to cover the ground of Article\n\nAfter \"British authorities\" the words \"to the Japanese authorities\" are omitted for reasons given above.\n\nIX.\n\n23\n\n\"For rendition to the place,\" &c., substituted for \"for rendition to Japan,\" to cover Article IX.\n\nB\n\n317", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "ARTICLE XVII,\n\nThe present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties at any time on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention to do so.\n\nThe Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.\n\nNo. 4.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Fraser.\n\nIN the first place, as to \"the considerations which seem to make the conclusion of a regular Extradition Treaty with Japan unobjectionable.\"\n\nI had the honour to explain in an official despatch from Tôkiô in 1889 the difficulties I had met with in attempting to obey Her Majesty's Order in Council and carry out the provisions of the \"Fugitive Offenders' Act,\" under the authority of the British Treaties with Japan, in the case of Campos, a fugitive from Hong Kong, in consequence of the adoption by the Japanese Government of an American reading of those Treaties, whereby they were construed to limit the Japanese cession of jurisdiction over British subjects in Japan in favour of the British Consular authority, to cases of offences committed within Japanese territory only. The jurisdiction thus claimed by the Japanese is of very slight extent. It serves only to cover the case of a fugitive from another country, and to exclude the actual faculty of extradition from the Consular attributes; whilst to the Consul himself the duty of pursuing, arresting, and delivering fugitives to justice, is extremely onerous and difficult—one, in fact, that it is materially impossible for him to undertake without a complete understanding with the native authorities—nor is there now any reason to object to sanctioning the exercise of so much jurisdiction as this over British subjects, on the part of Japan, on the score of barbarity. As all this is on record already, I need not, perhaps, rehearse it any further, nor allude either to the unfortunate necessity for the arrest of Campos by a British constable in the house of a native Japanese without the proprietor's leave, or to the case of Zoilo Nieves, the Spanish fugitive, whose detention in the British Consular gaol at Yokohama, by request of the Spanish Consul, caused that establishment to be watched by Japanese detectives and blockaded for months together.\n\nAt the time when this Campos case occurred, a negotiation was going on between Great Britain and Japan for a revision of Treaties, involving an ultimate abandonment of Consular jurisdiction in Japan, and therefore I was instructed to complete the task of concluding the new Treaty first, and then only to think about an Extradition Treaty as its corollary; but the Japanese Ministry immediately broke up, and Treaty revision was suspended. I made the best arrangement I could for the moment in regard to the arrest and surrender of fugitives without danger of collision; and some time afterwards a monstrous demand made on the part of Russia to Japan for the surrender of a British vessel, the \"Arctic,\" and her crew, on a charge of scaling in Russian waters without licence, enabled me to propose to the Japanese Government the conclusion of a more definite compact upon this rather dangerous question. Her Majesty's Government sanctioned an exchange of notes for the purpose, but that of Japan desired a reciprocal arrangement which should include the surrender of Japanese fugitives from the British possessions to Japan. They desired, in fact, an arrangement almost too complicated for conclusion in the proposed form; and, finally, after another change of administration, have announced their preference for a regular Convention upon the model of that which they contracted with the United States of America in 1884.\n\nSecondly, as to the Treaty itself, I do not think the Japanese are entitled to insist upon the use of their own forms in a reciprocal Agreement, though no doubt they will be disposed to do so. Nor do I see anything to object to in the list of crimes laid down in the proposed draft, as regards the special case of Japan. Neither can I at this moment suggest any addition to it.\n\nArticle III. The stipulation as to non-surrender of nationals is usual and proper. Yet one should, perhaps, guard against any idea that the Japanese Government can possibly demand the surrender of a British subject to be tried and punished by Japanese Courts so long as Consular jurisdiction in regard to offences committed in Japan—the only kind of offence for which such a surrender could be demanded—still exists. Excess of caution is a perfectly right thing, but it is best that we should have an entirely clear view of our own strength as well as of our points of weakness. I do not, of course, say this by way of objection to the stipulation, very much to the contrary, nor even to insist upon any opinion of my own, but merely in order to recommend the establishment of a very clear preliminary understanding upon all similar points.\n\nArticle IV. I quite agree that this provision is absolutely essential at present. Nor does it seem worth while to anticipate an objection to it on the side of the Japanese, as part of a reciprocal Convention, if its necessity and authority are carefully explained to them. Although they are more than sufficiently reckless of quarrels, they will yet hardly care to risk the embarrassment that must result, for instance, from a demand for the surrender of a German, or Frenchman, or Russian to the Hong Kong Government, so long as the States to which the accused might owe allegiance claimed exclusive jurisdiction over him.\n\nThat danger has existed in regard to America, it is true, for some years past, but the immediate vicinity of the British Colony would produce an indefinitely more acute pressure.\n\nThe stipulation that Japan shall not surrender a British subject to a third State without the consent of Great Britain is, I am afraid, hopeless; and the fact that it cannot be made reciprocal encourages me to recommend its being altogether abandoned. My own inquiries upon this point, made in connection with the project of an exchange of notes for the mutual delivery to justice of subjects of either party only, led to the conclusion that, although the Japanese Government would certainly defer to any objection that might be stated on the part of Great Britain to the surrender of a particular British subject to a third State, they could not be induced to give any formal assurance to that effect, and this for two reasons, lest they should compromise a right to jurisdiction which, however slight, they still valued, considering it to be inherent and not ceded, and lest they should contract an engagement contrary to their existing obligations.\n\nPerhaps a little further consideration may show this stipulation to be less needful than it has appeared at first sight to be. And here, what has been already said in regard to Japan may be repeated more strongly still in regard to the suggestion of a possible Extradition Treaty between Japan and China, to the danger of British fugitives taking refuge in Japan after having offended against the Chinese Empire. There is no possibility of a demand on the part of China for the surrender of a British subject for an offence committed within the Chinese jurisdiction, since no British subject can be made answerable to China herself for an offence committed within that jurisdiction, nor any likelihood at all that the Japanese Government would at any time comply with such a demand if it should be made. In case of an offence committed in the interior of China by a foreigner who absconded, the Chinese authorities would demand his punishment either of the nearest Consul or of the Minister in Peking, and if the demand were unsuccessful the occurrence would be put down to the national account. The same thing may be said in regard to Corea. I do not think any Treaty providing Consular jurisdiction at all has ever been so imperfectly worded as to leave room for any doubt as to authority in respect of offences committed in the country admitting Consular Magistrates. If they were so we should have heard of it before this.\n\nThe other countries to be thought of in this connection are Russia, chiefly, and Spain in a secondary degree on account of the Philippine Islands; but their cases have been already, no doubt, fully considered by Her Majesty's Government.\n\nIn conclusion, it should be remembered that the Japanese demands for surrender are likely to be addressed much more often to the neighbouring British Colonies and to India than to Great Britain herself, and the Japanese are likely to feel more anxiety in regard to the Colonies than in regard to the more distant mother country.\n\nHUGH FRASER.\n\nExmouth, November 28, 1892.\n\n(Signed)\n\n[380]\n\nE\n\n322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "fugitive offenders of British nationality whose surrender is applied for by their own authorities in Japan, the position may be misconstrued to our prejudice by the foreign journalists who are retained by Japan to espouse her cause against foreign Powers, and more especially against Great Britain.\n\nJ. H. GUBBINS,\n\nLondon, December 5, 1892.\n\nMinutes.\n\n(Signed)\n\nThese arguments seem to strengthen the view that we should have a Treaty. 1. It seems very unfair that whilst Japan is ready in her own way to extradite our criminals, we should refuse to give up hers, under proper safeguards. We cannot now give them up without a regular arrangement containing the restrictions of the Extradition Act.\n\n2. I do not see how the desire of Japan to regulate the matter by Treaty can fairly be considered an encroachment; it is certainly an advance, but one which seems to me, subject to Mr. Fraser's opinion, to be of a conciliatory and enlightened character.\n\nH. G. B.\n\nI do not think that Mr. Gubbins' conclusions, though quite just in themselves, and perfectly natural as coming from a person of his special experience, need be held to militate against the proposed Convention.\n\nDecember 8, 1892.\n\nNo. 6.\n\nMinutes.\n\nH. FRASER,\n\nI HAVE kept these papers (which involve to my mind a very serious and important question of principle) until now in the hope that I might find an opportunity of going thoroughly into them and of writing a Memorandum which might deal with the subject in some detail.\n\nThe amount of current and pressing work, however, makes this chance become daily more remote, and as I hear that Mr. Fraser is becoming impatient, it will, I think, be best that I should now send these papers on with such few general observations as I can offer, without any further and more careful consideration.\n\nI still entertain the objection I have already expressed to the extension of Extradition Arrangements and machinery, which are only meant to be applied between this country and civilized nations, to countries in which Her Majesty possesses extra-territorial jurisdiction. The existence of such extra-territorial jurisdiction is incompatible with the full recognition of the country in which Her Majesty exercises it as a civilized nation either by Her Majesty's Government or by the Governments of other European Powers, and the continuance of a system of extra-territorial jurisdiction is really only to be justified on the same ground as that upon which it was originally assumed, viz., that the code or system of law and its methods of administration prevailing in the country is unsuited to European ideas of justice and is not such as Her Majesty can permit her subjects to be justiciable under.*\n\nAs far as Japan is concerned it may doubtless be said that she is now practically a civilized country. I agree; and it is precisely for that reason, as it seems to me, that we have already agreed, and that other Great Powers have already agreed, that so soon as Japan shall have adopted a legal system based broadly on the general principles which are common to the legal systems of civilization, we will surrender our extra-territorial jurisdiction and allow British subjects to become solely justiciable by the Japanese national Tribunals.\n\nWhen this comes to pass, then, as it seems to me, will arrive the natural moment for concluding an Extradition Treaty with Japan.\n\nThat it is likely to come to pass shortly is the more reason for not lightly creating an inconvenient precedent to which Turkey, China, and other Eastern nations can appeal if we grant to Japan, under present circumstances, that which they—although technically still on a similar footing with Japan—do not possess.\n\nSir H. Bergne says that the principle against which I am protesting has been already conceded in the case of China. It appears that informal negotiations, with the details of which I am not familiar, did take place between this Office and the Chinese Legation. My objections, if and so far as they are sound ones, apply with equal force to these negotiations and would certainly have been stated if the matter had earlier come to my notice. I think it not unlikely, moreover, that if and when the draft Treaty had come before either the Law Officers or the Lord Chancellor (which it never did) they might possibly have raised objections of a similar kind. I should certainly have thought that it would have been prudent to consult them—and thus to make sure that the ground was clear of legal obstacles—before commencing negotiations; and I think that before we proceed further with the Japan negotiations it will be wise to take the present Law Officers' opinion.\n\nI had an opportunity of discussing this question in the abstract (without reference to the particular case of Japan) with Mr. W. E. Hall a little time ago and I am confirmed in the view I had already expressed by finding that he entirely concurred in it. His opinion was of course given practically off hand, but I know no one to whose view on such a matter I should attach greater weight.\n\nI have little doubt that the Legal Advisers of the Japanese Government at the time of the Campos case (who they may have been I have no idea) attached great importance to the considerations to which I have adverted. The Japanese Government were then most persistent in their endeavours to get us to admit that the fugitive offender was handed over by them to us in extradition and not returnable by mere process of English Municipal Law under the Fugitive Offenders Act.\n\nTheir object seems to me to have been sufficiently plain, as will be seen from my Minutes on that case as soon as I saw the papers, which was at a very late stage of the affair, however.\n\nThese Minutes were naturally quite inconsistent with the idea that we had admitted any such principle as Sir H. Bergne suggests we did by our negotiations with China. I was at the time quite unaware that we had even informally discussed the matter with China; the negotiations were never mentioned in connexion with the discussion of the Campos case, and it is impossible for me to know of these things unless I am told of them.\n\nThere is one other consideration—entirely on the practical aspect of the affair—which it may be worth while just to mention.\n\nWhat advantage shall we get by concluding such an arrangement with Japan under present circumstances? So far as I can see, the only result will be that Japan will be able to demand in extradition from Her Majesty's dominions a Japanese criminal fugitive from Japan. This will be the total result, unless, and until the extra-territorial jurisdiction now exercised by the various Great Powers in Japan have been surrendered. Moreover, even in the solitary case mentioned, the extradition will be subject to all the various safeguards specified in our Extradition Act, and I presume also that in all offences which are capital by the present law of Japan, we shall have to stipulate that the criminal must not be allowed the privilege of \"Hari-Kari,\" a proceeding which according to our ideas constitutes a crime in itself, namely, the crime of Felo de Se.\n\nI don't know how often such a unilateral Convention would be utilized, but I should imagine very seldom indeed. I cannot help thinking that it is for the admission of the principle that the Japanese are primarily contending; not for any practical benefit in the actual administration of criminal justice which they think is likely to result from its concession.\n\nAs far as I am aware, the only actual precedent for an extradition Convention of the kind now suggested is to be found in Article IV of the Treaty between Great Britain [Tonga], which was signed on the 29th November, 1879, and which was subsequently made subject to the restrictions contained in our Extradition Acts by a Protocol dated the 3rd July, 1882.\n\nThe Treaty is in many respects a very peculiar one, and I doubt whether this solitary Article embedded in its midst—the genesis of which I don't know—affords very satisfactory or firm ground for further and more extended arrangements with China, Japan, Turkey, or Persia.\n\nI have confined myself entirely in these observations to adducing reasons contra to the present proposal; but I do not doubt that there are many reasons pro which Sir H. Bergne will be able to state, and which may possibly outweigh the objections.\n\nF [380]\n\n324", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "18\n\n19\n\nBut I do think that the matter is somewhat more complicated than seems to have been originally supposed, and that it ought to be carefully considered from all sides before we commit ourselves to any formal propositions to the Japanese Government on the subject.\n\nApril 10, 1893.\n\nW. E. D.\n\nThe reasons which, on the whole, incline me in favour of a Treaty are :- 1. It would remove a cause of irritation, and render secure the recovery of British fugitives in Japan, which is now rendered precarious by existing circumstances.\n\n2. It is, I think, a great disadvantage to this country, especially in our Eastern and American Colonies, to be unable under any circumstances to get rid of a Japanese fugitive criminal. A man who has committed a murder or a fraud in Japan is a dangerous and undesirable visitor, but without a Treaty we cannot send him away to be punished.\n\n3. I do not undervalue the objections raised by Mr. Davidson, and think it very likely the Japanese attach more importance to the admission of the principle than to the practical usefulness of a Treaty. Still, there is something to be said for the Japanese contention, that our exterritorial jurisdiction—which is the creature of Treaties—does not embrace the power to deal with persons for offences committed outside Japan, a matter which is not expressly stipulated for in any Treaty.\n\nIt is further to be observed that we do not propose to allow British subjects to be tried and punished by Japanese justice. British subjects, fugitives from Japan, would not be given up under the proposed Treaty to be tried and punished in Japan. But the only effect of it, so far as British subjects are concerned, would be that if, after committing crimes in Her Majesty's dominions, they take refuge in Japan, they will be handed over by the Japanese to the British authorities in accordance with the formalities prescribed by law or custom in Japan, instead of being at once seized by the British authorities without the courtesy of asking permission. The effect in this respect would be identical with the arrangements now in force, but the national feeling of Japan in regard to the right of asylum would be conciliated.\n\nI think, then, that the abstract justice and practical utility of a Treaty should be allowed to outweigh the political considerations to the contrary, which do not seem to me to be very strong, and will probably become less so every year.\n\nSir T. Sanderson,\n\nNo. 7.\n\nMinutes.\n\nH. G. B.\n\nI THINK I sent in to you about a month ago these papers, which you had ordered to be printed, but have not heard anything further since.\n\nFraser was asking to-day how the matter stands.\n\nJune 6, 1893,\n\nH. G. B.\n\nI have read them. My feeling is that in the present condition of Japanese politics, and their very uncertain attitude as regards Treaty revision, it is undesirable for us to raise this question, and that we had better wait if we can.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nT. H. S.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Fraser on the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Great Britain and Japan.\n\nI REGRET to give farther trouble to the Foreign Office on a matter in regard to which much prompt and efficient help has already been afforded me; but I am so strongly impressed by a consciousness of the inconvenience and danger that must result from allowing the question of the mutual surrender of fugitive offenders between Great Britain and Japan to remain indefinitely in the precarious situation to which circumstances have unfortunately relegated it for four years past that I feel compelled to offer some remarks\n\nin answer to Mr. Davidson's latest Minute on this subject, in the hope that I may possibly succeed in dispelling some of the very natural prejudices that have hitherto served to impede its arrangement.\n\nThe whole argument of the Japanese Government in support of their objection to continue to surrender foreign fugitives, charged with offences committed abroad, unconditionally to their respective Consuls, has been for a long time before Her Majesty's Government, and I need not rehearse it; nor do I wish to waste time by repeating any of the considerations in favour of concluding an Extradition Treaty with Japan, in order to meet this difficulty, which have been already stated by me, or by others far more able than myself, in the correspondence or notes upon the case.\n\nMr. Davidson's Minute lays down the following objections to the conclusion of a regular compact:-\n\n1. That the continued existence of Consular jurisdiction in Japan is incompatible with its full recognition as a civilized State;\n\n2. That no compensating advantage seems to be offered to Great Britain in return for her recognition of the principle contended for by the other party; and\n\n3. That we should not be justified in surrendering any fugitives liable to be compelled to kill themselves. A reference of the whole matter to the Law Officers of the Crown or to the Lord Chancellor is also suggested,\n\nIf there are any definite points upon which a high legal opinion ought to be obtained before permission to negotiate can be given, I would venture to beg that they may be stated and submitted, as quickly as possible, to the competent authorities; but I should hesitate to say the same thing in regard to the larger question whether it will be right or wrong to negotiate at all, for that appears to me to be one which the law cannot answer. It is hardly to be doubted that if any high legal authority should be asked whether an Extradition Treaty ought or ought not to be contracted with a State in whose territory Consular jurisdiction is at the same time exercised, his reply will be in the negative. That is the traditional maxim in England, as it also continues to be in Europe generally, though it is no longer very firmly maintained, and an entirely different opinion prevails in America. No doubt a particular case, presenting special features and offering new arguments might possibly be differently answered; but no reply upon the matter, whatever may be its sense or its authority, will be a statement of actual law.\n\nIf the policy of Her Majesty's Government should unfortunately be determined by an opinion in consonance with that which is expressed in Mr. Davidson's Minute, I am bound to say that the result must be an undignified and dangerous deadlock. For this traditional maxim, which has no longer the force of universal admission, affords no answer at all to the Japanese contention. And, speaking always with entire deference, it is impossible not to deprecate most strongly any recommendation that Her Majesty's Government should pass formal pleas by unheeded in order to contest, upon general and doubtful grounds, the claim of an independent State to exercise, within its own territory, an authority, neither unreasonable in theory nor vexatious in practice, which it is evidently able not only to sustain by argument, but also to put in force of its own accord.\n\nThe advantage of effecting a proper arrangement of the matter in dispute seems a sufficient inducement to conclude the proposed Convention. A special compensation would imply substance and value in the claim abandoned. The claim in question is not supported by the text of the Treaty. It rests upon implication. I have already said that I think it will be an advantage, rather than an injury, to Her Majesty's Consuls to relieve them from the duty of pursuing fugitives in a foreign country; and there is no doubt that it will serve to guard us from many and serious risks of collision with the native jurisdiction to which we must remain subject so long as the present state of things is allowed to subsist.\n\nThe only remaining question is that of the fitness of the Japanese Government to perform its proper part of an Extradition Treaty.\n\nThere is no reason now to apprehend that foreigners, who may be arrested in Japan by the Japanese authorities, and kept in custody for delivery to foreign justice, will be subjected to any barbarous usage. On the contrary, such persons have always, within my experience, been treated with care and humanity. It is no new thing for foreigners to be arrested and kept in custody provisionally by the Japanese police, but a common usage and custom for many years past. Nor, as regards the surrender of Japanese fugitives by Great Britain to their natural jurisdiction, can exception be now taken either to the habitual treatment of prisoners in Japan or to the character of the judicial punishments. The objection of \"customary barbarity\" finds no application on either side of the question.\n\nThe Japanese have long since abolished the excessive punishment and abandoned the\n\n[380]\n\nG\n\n325", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "2\n\nupon the proposed negotiation the draft prepared by Sir Henry Bergne might serve as a basis,\n\nI venture to add the following observations --\n\nIn Articles I and V it would be useful to insert in their proper place the words, \"or within the jurisdiction,\" the addition of which to the \"Draft Rendition Agreement\" was proposed by the Japanese Foreign Office to cover cases of offences committed by subjects of each State in the dominions of a third Power where extra-territorial jurisdiction had been conceded by Treaty.\n\n2. Is it necessary to make the non-surrender of nationals absolute? Would not a stipulation that neither Power should be bound to surrender its own subjects be sufficient for the purpose while the present Treaty remains in force. This might be framed in some such form as Article VII of the Extradition Treaty between the United States and Japan of 1886. (\"State Papers,\" Vol. 77.)\n\n3. The IVth Article the late Mr. Fraser and Mr. Gubbins considered to be essential. But if it is adhered to we may find ourselves in the position of having to ask the Chinese Government to consent to the extradition from Japan to Hong Kong of a Chinese fugitive offender, which would, to say the least of it, be inconvenient.\n\nAs regards paragraph 2 perhaps it might be so worded as to admit the surrender of British subjects to any third State which had made a similar agreement with Japan in respect of its own subjects, and as to other States reserving the consent of Great Britain to the surrender. The United States, in the face of its own Treaty, could not claim the right of refusing to allow Japan to extradite a United States' citizen to Great Britain, while Powers which maintained their right to be consulted beforehand could not complain if as regards themselves a similar reservation were made by us. The clause might possibly be framed in the following manner :-\n\nJapan undertakes not to surrender a British subject to a third Power unless that Power acquiesces in the surrender of its own subjects by Japan to a third Power.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess Saionji,\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nTokió, November 26, 1895.\n\nAS telegraphic application has been made to me by the Colonial Secretary of Singapore to obtain the arrest of an individual named Kam Quen Sean, who has absconded from that Colony, being charged with the embezzlement of 100,000 dollars belonging to his employers, the Netherlands Trading Society, and is supposed to have fled to this country, I am disposed to think that it would be found convenient if the precedent set in two cases that occurred respectively in 1889 and 1891 were followed in this instance.\n\nOn those occasions it was arranged that the Japanese police authorities should effect the arrest of the fugitive, and hold him in custody until the arrival of the warrant of arrest should enable him to be handed over to the British police. That course was taken in accordance with the wishes of your Excellency's Government, and my predecessor's proceedings in connection therewith were approved by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.\n\nIn the present case, accordingly, I have the honour to ask whether the Government of the Emperor will be disposed to give orders for the arrest of the individual above mentioned, supposing him to have reached this country, and his detention in custody pending the arrival of a warrant, and the completion of arrangements for his transport back to the Colony of Singapore.\n\nAs the matter is one of urgency, and believing that there are grounds for anticipating a favourable reply, I have the honour further to add below the description of Kam Quen Sean.\n\nI take, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\n3\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nThe Marquess Saïonji to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nTokió, November 29, 1895.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 26th instant, in which your Excellency states that you have received a telegram from the Colonial Secretary of Singapore requesting you to obtain the arrest of an individual named Kam Quen Sean, who is supposed to have stolen 100,000 dollars belonging to the Netherlands Trading Society at Singapore, and to have fled to this country; and you, accordingly, inquire whether, in this instance also, the imperial Government will issue instructions for his arrest in accordance with the precedents for the rendition of criminals set in two instances which occurred in 1889 and 1891, in order that he may be handed over to the officials carrying the warrant for his arrest who will be dispatched from Singapore.\n\nHaving taken the circumstances of the case into consideration, the Imperial Government have issued the necessary instructions for the arrest of the individual in question, and, as in the event of his arrest, he will be detained and held for extradition in accordance with the procedure adopted in previous cases, I have the honour to request that your Excellency will give me further detailed information as to the date on which, and the place at which, he will arrive, and the name of the ship on which he is a passenger.\n\nThe measures taken by the Imperial Government in this instance are, in view of the absence at present of any Convention for the extradition of criminals between our two countries outside the scope of the provisions of the Regulations for the rendition of fugitive offenders, and, therefore, must be regarded as an Act of State.\n\nThe Imperial Government are, accordingly, not desirous that the present case should be considered as a precedent in the future.\n\nI take, &c.\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed)\n\nNo. 2.\n\nForeign Office to Home Office.\n\nSAÏONJI KIMMOCHI.\n\nForeign Office, January 20, 1896.\n\nI AM directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir Matthew Ridley, the accompanying copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Tokio, inclosing a copy of correspondence with the Japanese Government, respecting the surrender of a fugitive criminal from Japan to Singapore, and suggesting that formal negotiations should be reopened with the Japanese Government for the conclusion of an Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Japan.*\n\nThe question of extradition between Great Britain and Japan was very fully considered in 1892 and 1893; and I am to transmit to you, for Sir Matthew Ridley's information, the accompanying printed correspondence on the subject. It will be seen that the Legal Adviser to this Department expressed an opinion unfavourable to the principle of concluding Extradition Treaties with countries in which Her Majesty exercises extra-territorial jurisdiction; and that, after some discussion, the proposed negotiation with Japan was abandoned, on the ground that it would be inexpedient to proceed in the matter while the question of Treaty revision was in suspense. That question is now settled by the conclusion of the Treaty between Great Britain and Japan of the 16th July, 1894, but British Consular jurisdiction in Japan will not be terminated until the expiration of at least five years from that date.\n\nLord Salisbury is disposed to think that the question might now be reopened by Her Majesty's Minister at Tôkiô; but, before issuing instructions to Sir E. Satow in that sense, his Lordship would be glad to be favoured with any observations which Sir Matthew Ridley may have to make on the subject.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nFRANCIS BERTIE,\n\nKam Quen Sean.\n\nAge 35, thin, height 5 feet 7 inches. Sallow complexion, long face.\n\n• No. 1.\n\n† Confidential Paper No. 6417.\n\n328", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \n127 \n\nbut the vagueness of the provision is rather an advantage) \n\nNo expropriation or expulsion \"the inhabitants : land for public purposes to be bought at fair price. \n\nExtradition of criminals to be dealt with. If cases occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hongkong regulations\" \n\nConvention to come into effect July 1. To be ratified and ratifications to be exchanged in London, subject to Y.M.'s approval, I shall proceed to signature in a few days' time.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe Ministers were naturally not disposed to give way without opposition, and they met my demands by sundry counter-proposals, such as that Great Britain should have full liberty to erect fortifications on the Kowloon mainland, and station troops at any points she pleased with full freedom of movement. I answered by demonstrating the inconveniences of such an arrangement, and the only point on which I agreed to consider the possibility of some arrangement was the retention of Chinese jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon. On this I shall make some remarks later on.\n\nIt took more than one discussion to secure the consent of the Yamên to the lease of so great an area as that shown in the chart, and when they had accepted it, the discussion of details began and supplied material for several more interviews. Instead of describing these in detail it will, I think, be more convenient to make observations on the various points included in the inclosed draft Convention, taking them in order as they appear in it.\n\n1. The Preamble was accepted without objection as an adequate basis.\n\n2. The question of the nature of our title to the extension of territory was more troublesome. I tried to obtain an absolute cession, but could not resist the force of the argument that all other nations who have obtained leases of territory would follow suit, which might be inconvenient for ourselves. The principle of a lease having been admitted a term of ninety-nine years seemed sufficient.\n\n3. The only part of the new boundary needing survey is the line connecting Mirs Bay with Deep Bay.\n\n4. The retention of Chinese jurisdiction within Kowloon city was the point on which the Yamen showed the greatest determination, and the concession made to them went far to reconcile them to the general demand. Apart from the fact that there were Japanese, German, and Russian precedents for such an arrangement, the Ministers, of whom two of those chiefly concerned in the negotiations were Cantonese, showed considerable anxiety as to the effect on public opinion in the Canton Province of any sudden and conspicuous change in existing conditions. If the administration of law in Kowloon city were transferred to the Hong Kong Government, the latter would, of course, be obliged to enforce a number of rules to which the population are at present not liable, and I think it probable that the Yamên was right in anticipating that this would lead to trouble.\n\nIt is not to be supposed that the city of Kowloon will long remain outside British jurisdiction with the surrounding district subject to it, but I think that no harm can result from allowing it to do so for a few years longer, and that little inconvenience will be caused by it, especially as the authority of the Chinese officials will be exercised subject to the stipulation that it does not interfere with military requirements. I should recommend that every effort be made by the Hong Kong authorities to work smoothly with these officials—at all events at first—and to induce them to cordially co-operate in all matters where their assistance is needed. I do not, as I have already said, expect the Chinese jurisdiction in the city to be of long continuance, but I should be sorry, for the sake of general British interests in China, if, after the Chinese have met our wishes in so friendly a spirit, we were at once to set to work to obtain a further concession.\n\n5. The provision for free use of the road from Kowloon city to the mainland was inserted at the Yamên's request, though I told them that the movements of Chinese officials were in no way restricted in British Colonies.\n\n6. The reservation of the existing landing place near the city was a point on which they laid much stress. I accepted it with reluctance, and it may possibly prove inconvenient, but it was necessary to make some concession in order to obtain our main demand without great friction and under pressure of threats. I hope that in view of this consideration the inconvenience, if any, will be tolerated as long as possible.\n\n7. The railway clause was introduced at a late stage in the negotiations. The Ministers said that the Chinese Government contemplated building a line from Canton to Kowloon city, and they asked for a promise that this should be allowed, on the ground that the line would not pay if it stopped some miles short of Kowloon. I said that very possibly we should build a line from Kowloon to the frontier which might meet the Chinese line, but in any case it was impossible to allow a line under Chinese control to run through territory under British jurisdiction. The Ministers then altered their draft clause to the form in which it now stands.\n\nIt is so vague as to be almost grotesque, and I thought of making it clearer by stating that the arrangements to be considered were for the extension to Kowloon, but on reflection the vagueness seemed not without advantage. It may be that the Chinese Government will build the suggested line out of their own funds, but if they try to get a foreign Syndicate to undertake it the vagueness of this clause will have a deterrent influence, whereas an English Syndicate could make an arrangement with the Colonial authorities.\n\n8. and 9. The clauses providing against expulsion or expropriation of the inhabitants, and for dealing with extradition cases need no comment.\n\n10. The last clause, regarding the use of Mirs and Deep Bays by Chinese men-of-war, is one for which I am still awaiting your Lordship's sanction.\n\nAs explained by telegraph the concession was necessary to make the Yamên agree to the lease to us of the whole waters of those bays. I had, as already explained, placed the whole territorial demand before them in a map several weeks before, and they were naturally reluctant to make at the eleventh hour the additional concessions laid down in your Lordship's telegram No. 183 of the 20th May. Moreover, they had been counting on Mirs Bay as a harbour for their southern squadron when it comes into existence.\n\nI explained to them the withdrawal of our Western frontier somewhat to the eastward as induced by our desire to give no foreign Power a pretext for interference with Treaty ports or the approaches thereto. They seemed to appreciate this, though at first inclined to suspect our magnanimity to be intended to induce them to give far more on the east side.\n\nThe American squadron in these waters made Mirs Bay their base after the declaration of war necessitated their leaving Hong Kong. I do not know whether they still use that base, but, if so, the coming into force of this Convention on the 1st July may, as I have suggested to your Lordship by telegram, be inconvenient.\n\nI have also ventured to recommend that before the Convention is signed a pledge should be given by the Hong Kong Government that they will take proper measures for the policing of Mirs Bay, and the other territory placed under their control, and for the prevention of smuggling.\n\nNo definite agreement has been made on the point with the Chinese Government, but it was understood that such measures should be taken.\n\nPrevious to the inclusion of Mirs Bay in the lease I was authorized by the Colonial Office, through your Lordship, to promise an energetic enforcement of existing arrangements, and with that inclusion the necessity for the assistance of the Colonial authorities in preventing smuggling becomes much greater. Protection of the revenue of China is not primarily the duty of the Colonial Government, but that duty is morally imposed on them by the circumstances under which they obtain an increase of territory, for our demand was based on, and justified solely by the necessity of providing for the better protection of Hong Kong.\n\nI do not mean to suggest that the Hong Kong Government would be slow to do whatever can be rightly expected from them, but I think that by pledging themselves before the extension of territory is actually assured they may find it more easy to reconcile the local public to measures otherwise perhaps distasteful.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nCLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Draft Convention for the extension of Hong Kong.**\n\nWHEREAS it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony, it has now been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged, under lease, to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map.*\n\nThe exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments. The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years.\n\nIt is at the same time agreed that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction.\n\nChinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hsin-an.\n\nIt is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon city shall be reserved for the convenience of movement of the officials and people within the city.\n\n*Not printed.\n\n| Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels come and go and lie there at their pleasure. The convenience of which... |\n## 3\n262", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369092, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory\n\nWhen hereafter China constructs a railway to the boundary of the Kowloon territory under British control, arrangements shall be discussed.\n\nIt is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price.\n\nIf cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1898, being the 13th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang Hsu. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (4 copies in English and 4 in Chinese) the 9th day of June, 1898, being the 21st day of the 4th moon of the 24th year of Kuang Hsu.\n\nIn witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present agreement.\n\n| File Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| `F.O. 17706` | |\n| `J & L (78) --399-19000-12-97` | |\n| `50-1005-06` | |\n| `Hous No. 17009` | |\n| `GR...` | Not present in original text, but `XCR(85)72` and `GR1178/1922/32(III)` were mentioned in formatting rules |\n\nPage 4 \n\nDOMESTIC. \nNL CO \nBoundaries extension \n1 \n16 2415 \nyour of Kuang Hai.\n\nK \nce or Individual. \nKony \n\n... \n263 \n17000 \n\n6 July \nprevious Paper. \nSughsh \n120 \nin the year off \n16895 \nbop, deep reporting that the Convention was signed.\n\n(Minutes.) \nsubsequent Paper. \n917 \nCPL 80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## 286 \n\n2 \n\nThe Ministers were naturally not disposed to give way without opposition, and they met my demands by sundry counter-proposals, such as that Great Britain should have full liberty to erect fortifications on the Kowloon mainland, and station troops at any points she pleased with full freedom of movement. I answered by demonstrating the inconveniences of such an arrangement, and the only point on which I agreed to consider the possibility of some arrangement was the retention of Chinese jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon. On this I shall make some remarks later on. \n\nA foreign Syndicate to undertake it, the vagueness of this clause will have a deterrent influence, whereas an English Syndicate could make an arrangement with the Colonial authorities. \n\n3 and 9. The clauses providing against expulsion or expropriation of the inhabitants, and for dealing with extradition cases need no comment. \n\n10. The last clause, regarding the use of Mirs and Deep Bays by Chinese men-of-war is one for which I am still awaiting your Lordship's sanction. As explained by paragraph, the concession was necessary to make the Yamên agree to the lease to us of the waters of those bays. I had, as already explained, placed the whole territorial question at the eleventh hour on the additional concessions laid down in your Lordship's telegram No. 183 of the 20th May. Moreover, they had been counting on Mirs Bay as a harbour for their southern squadron when it comes into existence. \n\nIt took more than one discussion to secure the consent of the Yamên to the land before them in a map several weeks before, and they were naturally reluctant to give up so great an area as that shown in the chart, and when they had accepted it, discussion of details began and supplied material for several more interviews. Instead of describing these in detail it will, I think, be more convenient to make observations on the various points included in the inclosed draft Convention, taking them in the order they appear in it :- \n\n1. The Preamble was accepted without objection as an adequate basis. \n\nI explained to them the withdrawal of our Western frontier somewhat to the eastward as induced by our desire to give no foreign Power a pretext for interference with treaty ports or the approaches thereto. They seemed to appreciate this, though at first they suspected our magnanimity to be intended to induce them to give far more on the east side. \n\n2. The question of the nature of our title to the extension of territory was more troublesome. I tried to obtain an absolute cession, but could not resist the force of the argument that all other nations who have obtained leases of territory would follow suit, which might be inconvenient for ourselves. The American squadron in these waters made Mirs Bay their base after the declaration of war necessitated their leaving Hong Kong. I do not know whether they will again make that base, but, if so, the coming into force of this Convention on the 1st July, and a term of ninety-nine years seemed sufficient. \n\n3. The only part of the new boundary needing survey is the line connecting Mirs Bay with Deep Bay. I have also ventured to recommend that before the Convention is signed a pledge should be given by the Hong Kong Government that they will take proper measures for the policing of Mirs Bay, and the other territory placed under their control, and for the prevention of smuggling. \n\n4. The retention of Chinese jurisdiction within Kowloon city was the point on which the Yamên showed the greatest determination, and the concession made to them was far to reconcile them to the general demand. Apart from the fact that there were Japanese, German, and Russian precedents for such an arrangement, the Ministers, two of whom were chiefly concerned in the negotiations, being Cantonese, showed considerable anxiety as to the effect on public opinion in the Canton Province of any sudden and conspicuous change in existing conditions. \n\nNo definite agreement has been made on the point with the Chinese Government, but it was understood that such measures should be taken. Previous to the inclusion of Mirs Bay in the lease I was authorized by the Colonial Office, through your Lordship, to promise an energetic enforcement of existing arrangements, and with that inclusion the necessity for the assistance of the Colonial authorities in preventing smuggling becomes much greater. Protection of the revenue of China is primarily the duty of the Colonial Government, but that duty is morally imposed on them by the circumstances under which they obtain an increase of territory, for our demand was based on, and justified solely by the necessity of providing for the better protection of Hong Kong. I do not mean to suggest that the Hong Kong Government would be slow to do whatever can be rightly expected from them, but I think that by pledging themselves before the extension of territory is actually assured they may find it more easy to reconcile the local public to measures otherwise perhaps distasteful. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nIt is not to be supposed that the city of Kowloon will long remain outside British jurisdiction with the surrounding district subject to it, but I think that no harm can result from allowing it to do so for a few years longer, and that little inconvenience will be caused by it, especially as the authority of the Chinese officials will be exercised subject to the stipulation that it does not interfere with military requirements. I should recommend that every effort be made by the Hong Kong authorities to work smoothly with these officials-at all events at first-and to induce them to cordially co-operate in all matters where their assistance is needed. I do not, as I have already said, expect the Chinese jurisdiction in the city to be of long continuance, but I should be sorry, for the sake of general British interests in China, if, after the Chinese have met our wishes in so friendly a spirit, we were at once to set to work to obtain a further concession. \n\n5. The provision for free use of the road from Kowloon city to the mainland was inserted at the Yamên's request, though I told them that the movements of Chinese officials were in no way restricted in British Colonies. \n\n6. The reservation of the existing landing place near the city was a point on which they laid much stress. I accepted it with reluctance, and it may possibly prove inconvenient, but it was necessary to make some concession in order to obtain our demand without great friction and under pressure of threats. I hope that in view of this consideration the inconvenience, if any, will be tolerated as long as possible. \n\n7. The railway clause was introduced at a late stage in the negotiations. The Ministers said that the Chinese Government contemplated building a line from Canton to Kowloon city, and they asked for a promise that this should be allowed, on the ground that the line would not pay if it stopped some miles short of Kowloon. I said that very possibly we should build a line from Kowloon to the frontier which might meet the Chinese line, but in any case it was impossible to allow a line under Chinese control to run through territory under British jurisdiction. The Ministers then altered their draft clause to the form in which it now stands. \n\nIt is so vague as to be almost grotesque, and I thought of making it clearer by stating that the arrangements to be considered were for the extension to Kowloon, but on reflection the vagueness seemed not without advantage. It may be that the Chinese Government will build the suggested line out of their own funds, but if they try to get ...\n\n(Signed) **CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n### Draft Convention for the extension of Hong Kong.\n\nWHEREAS it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged, under lease, to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map. \n\nThe exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments. The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years. \n\nIt is at the same time agreed that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. \n\nChinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hsin-an. \n\nIt is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon city shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nwhich may come and go and lie there at their pleasure, and for the convenience of the movement of the officials and people within the city.\n\nWhen hereafter China constructs a railway to the boundary of the Kowloon territory under British control, arrangements shall be discussed.\n\nIt is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of **CONFIDENTIAL**, inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price.\n\nIf cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1898, being the 13th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang Hsü. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof, &c.\n\n## SECTION 3.\n\n### [AMENDED SECTION.]\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Salisbury.--(Received July 11.)**\n\nPeking, May 27, 1895.\n\nTHE inclosed draft Convention for the extension of Hong Kong territory represents the results of the negotiations with the Yamén already reported to your Lordship by telegraph.\n\nI cannot say that I had any great difficulty in inducing the Yamén to agree in principle to an extension of Hong Kong territory, for they recognized readily enough the necessity for it. They had in contemplation, however, only such a limited extension as would enable the British authorities to fortify both sides of Hong Kong Harbour and defend the hills overlooking it, and expressed their hopes that my demands would not go further.\n\nThis was at an interview on the 5th April.\n\nI told them that nothing more would be asked than was necessary for the defence of Hong Kong, but I was unable at the moment to give them any precise details, for I did not myself know what was wanted. I had already applied to the Acting Governor of Hong Kong, and from him I received on the 13th April a chart showing the present limits of British territory, the maximum extension considered desirable by the military authorities, and a frontier which would be acceptable if this maximum could not be determined. He informed me, in reply to subsequent inquiry, that a copy of this chart had been sent to the Colonial Office on the 9th November, 1894, so that I was able to refer to it in my telegrams to your Lordship.\n\nWith the chart, the Acting Governor inclosed a Memorandum by General Barker, drawn up in 1894, and his own observations on it, and copies of letters from the Hong Kong branch of the Navy League. These documents contained sundry arguments in favour of an extension of Hong Kong territory, such as the necessity for a new rifle-range and for exercise ground for the troops, the inadequacy of cemetery accommodation in Hong Kong and the like; but in view of the fact that, as far as I could estimate, the area demanded amounted to some 200 square miles, I did not think it desirable to put forward these considerations in presenting the case to the Yamén, for they would have met me with offers to give us all territory required for the purposes named.\n\nAccordingly, in the Memorandum I presented to them, I confined myself to demonstrating the strategical necessity of the line from Mirs Bay to Deep Bay, shown on the Hong Kong Chart as our frontier, and of the islands to the south and west being also ceded under our jurisdiction, and I supplied them with a tracing of the chart showing the limits required.\n\nI also represented the difficulty of China's position in case war were threatened between England and another Power, for she could neither grant nor refuse assent to the laying of mines on the Chinese side of the harbour of Hong Kong without giving offence to one side or the other.\n\nWhen I called a day or two later to discuss the matter, the Ministers showed that they had been far from expecting a demand for so large an extension as that indicated. I invited them to compare it with what had been leased to Germany at Kiao-chau and to Russia in Liaotung, a comparison I was able to make the more effectively as I had, through the kindness of Sir Edward Seymour, been supplied with maps drawn to the same scale of these different concessions.\n\nThe Yamén tried to put Wei-hai Wei into the balance, but I told them that Wei-hai Wei had been leased to us as much in their interests as our own, and that we would give it up to-morrow if Russia would leave Port Arthur. I was not, I said, responsible for the amount of territory asked. It had been determined by the military authorities at Hong Kong as long ago as 1894, and we should, long before this, have invited China to make over to us what was necessary for the Colony's safety had we not been afraid of setting an example to other Powers. The time was now opportune for China to make the concession to us without any risk of counter-claims.\n\n[1615 g-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 294, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Draft Convention for the extension of Hong Kong.**\n\nWHEREAS it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony, it has been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged, under lease, to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map.* The exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments. The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years.\n\nIt is at the same time agreed that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction.\n\nChinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hsin-an.\n\nIt is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon city shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels.\n\n## \n\n1. The Preamble was accepted without objection as an adequate basis.\n\n2. The question of the nature of our title to the extension of territory was troublesome. I tried to obtain an absolute cession, but could not resist the force of the argument that all other nations who have obtained leases of territory would follow our example, and that this might be inconvenient for ourselves. The principle of a lease having been admitted, a term of ninety-nine years seemed sufficient.\n\n3. The only part of the new boundary needing survey is the line connecting Bay with Deep Bay.\n\n4. The retention of Chinese jurisdiction within Kowloon city was the point on which the Yamên showed the greatest determination, and the concession made to them would go far to reconcile them to the general demand. Apart from the fact that there were Japanese, German, and Russian precedents for such an arrangement, the Ministers, two of whom were chiefly concerned in the negotiations and were Cantonese, showed considerable anxiety as to the effect on public opinion in the Canton Province of any sudden and conspicuous change in existing conditions. If the administration of law in Kowloon city were transferred to the Hong Kong Government, the latter would, of course, be obliged to enforce a number of rules to which the population are at present not liable.\n\nPrevious to the inclusion of Mirs Bay in the lease, I was authorized by the Colonial Office, through your Lordship, to promise an energetic enforcement of existing arrangements, and with that inclusion the necessity for the assistance of the Colonial authorities in preventing smuggling becomes much greater. Protection of the revenue of China is primarily the duty of the Colonial Government, but that duty is morally imposed on them by the circumstances under which they obtain an increase of territory, for our jurisdiction was based on, and justified solely by the necessity of providing for the better protection of Hong Kong.\n\nIt is not to be supposed that the city of Kowloon will long remain outside British jurisdiction with the surrounding district subject to it, but I think that no harm will result from allowing it to do so for a few years longer, and that little inconvenience will be caused by it, especially as the authority of the Chinese officials will be exercised subject to the stipulation that it does not interfere with military requirements. I do not mean to suggest that the Hong Kong Government would be slow to do whatever can be rightly expected from them, but I think that by pledging themselves before the extension of territory is actually assured, they may find it more easy to reconcile the local public to measures otherwise perhaps distasteful.\n\nI have ventured to recommend that before the Convention is signed, a pledge should be given by the Hong Kong Government that they will take proper measures for the policing of Mirs Bay, and the other territory placed under their control, and for the prevention of smuggling. No definite agreement has been made on the point with the Chinese Government, but it was understood that such measures should be taken.\n\n5. The provision for free use of the road from Kowloon city to the mainland was inserted at the Yamên's request, though I told them that the movements of Chinese officials were in no way restricted in British Colonies.\n\n6. The reservation of the existing landing place near the city was a point on which they laid much stress. I accepted it with reluctance, and it may possibly prove inconvenient, but it was necessary to make some concession in order to obtain our demand without great friction and under pressure of threats. I hope that in view of this consideration, the inconvenience, if any, will be tolerated as long as possible.\n\n7. The railway clause was introduced at a late stage in the negotiations. The Ministers said that the Chinese Government contemplated building a line from Canton to Kowloon city, and they asked for a promise that this should be allowed, on the ground that the line would not pay if it stopped some miles short of Kowloon. I said that possibly we should build a line from Kowloon to the frontier which might meet the Chinese line, but in any case, it was impossible to allow a line under Chinese control to run through territory under British jurisdiction. The Ministers then altered their clause to the form in which it now stands.\n\n8. and 9. The clauses providing against expulsion or expropriation of the inhabitants, and for dealing with extradition cases need no comment, but the vagueness of the clause regarding the reign Syndicate to undertake it will have a deterrent influence, whereas an English Syndicate could make an arrangement with the Colonial authorities.\n\n2.88 met my demands by sundry counter-proposals, such as that Great Britain should have full liberty to erect fortifications on the Kowloon mainland, and station troops at any points she pleased with full freedom of movement. I answered by demonstrating the inconveniences of such an arrangement, and the only point on which I agreed to consider the possibility of some arrangement was the retention of Chinese jurisdiction, which is one for which I am still awaiting your Lordship's sanction.\n\n10. The last clause, regarding the use of Mirs and Deep Bays by Chinese men-of-war, is one on which I shall make some remarks later on. As explained by the Yamên, the concession was necessary to make the Yamên agree to the lease to us of the city of Kowloon.\n\nIt took more than one discussion to secure the consent of the Yamên to the lease of so great an area as that shown in the chart, and when they had accepted the demand before them in a map several weeks before, and the discussion of details began, they supplied material for several more interviews. Instead of describing these in detail, it will, I think, be more convenient to make observations on the various points included in the inclosed draft Convention, taking them in order as they appear in it.\n\nI explained to them the withdrawal of our Western frontier somewhat to the eastward as induced by our desire to give no foreign Power a pretext for interference with their ports or the approaches thereto. They seemed to appreciate this, though at first they were inclined to suspect our magnanimity to be intended to induce them to give far more on the east side.\n\nThe American squadron in these waters made Mirs Bay their base after the declaration of war necessitated their leaving Hong Kong. I do not know whether they will use that base, but, if so, the coming into force of this Convention on the 1st July may, as I have suggested to your Lordship by telegram, be inconvenient.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) \n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**\n\n*Not printed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369119, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## Convention between Great Britain and China\nwhich may come and go and lie there at their pleasure, and for the convenience of movement of the officials and people within the city.\n\nWhen hereafter China constructs a railway to the boundary of the Kowloon territory under British control, arrangements shall be discussed.\n\nIt is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price.\n\nIf cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\ne or Individual.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1898, being the 13th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang Hsu. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof, &c.\n\n## Domestic Correspondence\n\n| No. | Date | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 17860 | | C.O. |\n| 289 | | |\n\n### Registry Details\n\n| Date | Action |\n| --- | --- |\n| 9 AUG | Rect |\n| 13 | 1898 |\n| 16 | avy |\n\n**Consul General & U.S.A.**\nR.Wildman\n\nExuation has been gond previous Paper.\n\nGor. mf 219. 20 aug Be (78-259-10000-32-57 $153-100-5-48 Atsubsequent Paper.\n\n### Minutes\n\n| Name | Date | Action |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Soi W. Hamilton | 4/8 | to 0.A. Ç. |\n| | 19/8 | Besti |\n| A. F. | 18/8 | |\n\n`17860`\n`14180`\n`Registry`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (Secret)\n\n### Appendix No. 1\n\nWhereas it has for many years past been recognized that an extension of Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony:\n\nIt has now been agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease to the extent indicated generally on the annexed map. The exact boundaries shall be hereafter fixed when proper surveys have been made by officials appointed by the two Governments. The term of this lease shall be 99 years.\n\nIt is at the same time agreed that within the City of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. Chinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hsinan.\n\nIt is further agreed that the existing landing place near Kowloon City shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels, which may come and go and lie there at their pleasure; and for the convenience of movement of the officials and people within the city.\n\nWhen hereafter China constructs a railway to the boundary of the Kowloon territory under British control, arrangements shall be discussed.\n\nIt is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price. If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1898, being the 13th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang-Hsu. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (4 copies in English and 4 in Chinese) the 9th day of June in the year of our Lord, 1898, being the 21st day of the 4th moon of the 24th year of Kuang-Hsu.\n\n**(Sd.) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD,**\n\n**(Sd.) LI (HUNG-CHANG).**\n\n**(Sd.) IISU (YING-KUEI).**\n\n### Appendix No. 1a\n\n**Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay**\n\n| Location | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Starling Inlet | Good anchorage in 4 fms. Head of bay too shallow for purposes of navigation. If road be brought down to either side of bay on parallel 114° 14' 30\" E. ships drawing 21 feet of water could lie alongside a short pier. |\n| Crooked Harbour | Good protected anchorages in 6 to 7 fms. Useful only for fishing requirements. |\n| Double Haven | ... |\n| Anchorage under Pingchau Island | Good anchorage in 7 fms., but much taken up with fishing stakes and unimportant for line of communication. |\n| Plover Cove | Very good anchorage in all weathers in 4-5 fms., but out of trade route. |\n| Tolo Harbour | Like Starling Inlet, too shallow at head of bay for purposes of navigation, although there is a boat channel, which if marked out, will take small junks up to town. Anchorage on 4 fms. line. Suitable for shipping; whichever side of bay road is made it should be brought out on parallel 114° 11' 45\" E., in order to allow of vessels lying alongside a pier in 21 feet. |\n| Tide Cove | Communication by small junks or light launches at high water to top of bay. Sampans at low. Anchorage in 3 fms. Protected in all winds. Distance from head of bay 3 miles. Important as being the closest by land to Kowloon. |\n| Long Harbour | Good anchorage in 7 to 8 fms. More suitable for a military than a mercantile port. |\n| Port Shelter | Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land 1/4 mile wide. |\n| Rocky Harbour | Unimportant, being out of line of communication. |\n\n### Appendix No. 2 (Geological Report)\n\nThe geological formation of this territory is simple, granitic trappean and metamorphic rocks largely predominating, the only stratified rocks which are found belonging to the hypozoic period. There are in places evidences of volcanic action, but of a very remote period, while the granitic and trappean rocks are very prominent everywhere. The hills facing Hong Kong are chiefly of granite, of which many varieties occur, from a fine close-grained felspathic white rock and a pink coloured granite like that of Aberdeen, to a very coarse porphyritic granite. Kaolin probably exists, but I did not come on any defined beds of it, though told that it was to be found near the west point of Castle Peak Bay. Syenite is common and of very good quality, a dark, highly crystalline variety, in many cases the large distinct crystals of hornblende being well shown.\n\nThe bold and rocky east coast shows some very characteristic cliffs of columnar basalt, and blocks of this, an almost black and highly crystalline rock, are largely used for bridging streams inland.\n\nFurther inland other trap rocks appear, while some of the islands in Mirs Bay show very distinctly the terraced and step-like appearance of these formations. The more compact and crystalline varieties seem to predominate, though trap tuffs and claystone porphyries are not absent. Specimens of basalts, greenstones, and felspar porphyries were numerous.\n\nIt is extremely difficult in such a country as I have described, where the varieties of trap rocks are so numerous and so mixed up with rocks of the granitic system, to say what other rocks may not exist. One thing is certain, there is everywhere an abundance of the best building material, and for road macadamizing nothing could surpass the hard basalts.\n\nIn one or two places I came on distinctly stratified rocks, of a hard, crystalline, close-grained variety, dark grey or bluish grey in colour, which I would call syenitic gneiss.\n\nPure quartz rock is uncommon, though in places distinct out-crops of quartzite were to be seen. I saw no mica schists, and except in the pure granites mica is not to be seen.\n\nTalc also is absent, but hornblende appears everywhere, and I should say chlorite schists, hornblende schists, and actynolite schists are fairly common.\n\nI saw no limestone, all lime used in buildings being obtained from the burning of coral or oyster shells.\n\nThe lower hills between the mountain ranges are of laterite, rounded or conical in shape, and well covered with vegetation, combining to form the extremely picturesque scenery usually associated with such formations. The richly cultivated valleys lying between, formed by the denudation of the surrounding mountains, seem in most cases to have a few feet of good soil overlying laterite; some excavations, as in wells, showed this distinctly. The laterite is what would be called a coarse cabook in Ceylon, fit for cutting out in blocks for building purposes. This is extremely like the disintegrated granite of Hong Kong, but contains more silicate of alumina and oxide of iron, the latter showing in large nodules.\n\nSome excellent pottery clay exists on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan, of which we saw specimens in the village of Un Long, of a light brown colour and extremely fine texture. Brick clay is found in all the valleys, and is used in the form of large sun-dried bricks in many of the village houses and walls.\n\nPossibly beds of primary limestone will be found, but the lime obtained by the burning of shells is sufficient for local needs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374411, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "C.\n\nThis Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government...\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC.U.\n\n21537 [August 3\n\nSECTION 15 AUG 99\n\nSir Lo Feng Luh to the Marquess of Salisbury.-(Received August 3.)\n\nChinese Legation, London, August 2, 1899.\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nIN the month of October 1898 a demand was addressed by the Chinese Government to the Governor of Hong Kong for the extradition of a Chinese subject named Chung Sui-yung, a native of the Sung-On district, in the Province of Kwang-Tung, for hearing before China, and on the 7th November following, the case came before Commander Hastings, the Police Magistrate at Hong Kong.\n\nThe plea on which his extradition was demanded was one of burglary, alleged to have been committed at a place named Cha Tao Kok in the Sung-On district. The Magistrate dismissed the case on the ground of an alibi having been proved by two German missionaries, who testified to having seen the accused at some other place at the time the offence was committed.\n\nSubsequently, another demand for the extradition of Chung Sui-yung was made before the same Court. This time, on the charge of his having, by means of intimidation and other illegal devices, extorted money from the inhabitants of Lung Hwa and other villages in the Sung-On district, and notably from a person named Tai Man-hing. On this occasion, also, the case was dismissed at the village of Tai-Chung in the same district, and the prisoner discharged, the evidence adduced not having been considered sufficient to warrant a conviction.\n\nIt may here be stated, that the offences charged against the defendant were both of them committed in October 1898, and that the district of Sung-On is contiguous to the territory leased to Great Britain under the Convention for the extension of Hong Kong, signed at Peking on the 25th June, 1898.\n\nIt is much to be regretted that these attempts to procure the extradition of Chung Sui-yung were not successful; for, he having been the arch-ringleader of the band of desperadoes who subsequently opposed the British occupation of the leased territory at Kowloong, his conviction and extradition would probably have obviated the collision that lately took place between the band and the colonial forces; and likewise have prevented the misunderstanding between the British and the Chinese local authorities to which the collision unfortunately gave rise.\n\nIn the opinion of the Imperial Government, the case of Chung Sui-yung once more shows the danger of allowing Chinese criminal fugitives in Hong Kong to abuse the technicalities of British law, in order to thwart the requisitions of the Chinese Government for their surrender. I have, therefore, been instructed by the Tsung-li Yamên to call the serious attention of your Lordship to the matter, with a view to the adoption of some more certain and expeditious procedure whereby the extradition of fugitive criminals may be obtained. For, without this, it is much to be feared that with the increased facilities for escape afforded by the extension of the Colony on the Kowloong side of the harbour, great difficulties will be experienced by the provincial authorities, in exercising that effective control of the criminal classes in the Sung-On and adjacent districts, which is indispensable to enable China to discharge her international obligations as a good neighbour.\n\nThe right of China to the rendition of fugitive criminals from Hong Kong is based on Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin of 1858, which states, that \"if criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hong Kong, or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities, be searched for, and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.\"\n\nThe Imperial Government have always experienced great difficulty in obtaining the extradition of fugitive criminals from Hong Kong, and they impute this to the erroneous construction which, they consider, has hitherto been put on the Treaty by the Hong Kong authorities; and that, in order to insure a more successful result in future, a return to what was evidently the intention of the negotiators of the Treaty should be had recourse to.\n\nThe explicit terms of the Article above cited, and the date of the Treaty of which it forms a part, show that a more simple and summary procedure was intended than the elaborate one now insisted on by the Hong Kong authorities, who, instead of reading the Treaty in the light of the law and rules of procedure which were in force at\n\n[2140 a-1]\n\n481\n\n154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "the time it was negotiated, interpret it in relation to a law and rule of procedure enacted many years subsequent to that event. This, the Imperial Government consider as being inadmissible and contrary to precedent and established usage. It is a principle in the interpretation of international agreements, that they should be held to mean what they meant at the time when they were negotiated, and that they are in no way affected by the changes which may have subsequently taken place in the laws and conditions of the countries of the Contracting Parties. The reason of this is obvious; for, were they subordinated to these changes, Treaties would cease to have any binding effect. Interpreted, then in this manner Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin of 1858 must be held to be altogether unaffected by the changes in the law and rules of procedure with regard to extradition which have taken place since that date.\n\nIn other words, the Acts of 1870 and 1873, which discriminate between political and unpolitical offences do not apply to the extradition of fugitive criminals of Chinese nationality from Hong Kong. The only question then for the Hong Kong Magistrate to decide in the case of Chung Sui-yung was whether there were grounds for thinking he was guilty or not. And had this been done, there can scarcely be a doubt his extradition would have been granted. It was notorious that he was the head of a formidable Secret Society, and that if not the actual offender, he had been a party to the committal of the crimes of which he was accused. Not only the Viceroy of Canton, but, as will be seen in the sequel of this despatch, the Governor of Hong Kong was in possession of independent, and very detailed evidence to that effect.\n\nThe Imperial Government hope that your Lordship will take the point of Treaty obligation, as opposed to what is the present practice of the Hong Kong authorities, into your serious consideration, for it is clearly in the interest of the two countries that the extradition procedure should be simplified, and so framed as—whilst insuring ample protection to the accused—to afford him the minimum of facilities for defeating the ends of justice.\n\nIt may be that in the particular case which is the subject of this note, the evidence technically before the Court was insufficient to justify a conviction; as to that, I have no information, but even if it had been so the Hong Kong authorities could have had not the slightest doubt as to the prisoner's guilt. For the remarkable Memorandum which the Governor of the Colony presented to the Viceroy of Canton in October last, and in which the name of Chung Sui-yung is specially mentioned, clearly shows them to have been in possession of the fullest and most minute evidence of his guilt in respect of both of the offences laid to his charge in the investigation before Commander Hastings.\n\nIn paragraph 12 of the Memorandum, which doubtless your Lordship and Mr. Secretary Chamberlain have seen, it is stated that the formidable organization called the Triad Society, of which Chung Sui-yung was the Chief, plundered the rich, and by means of intimidation extorted contributions from them; that its emissaries raided the cattle, pigs and other domestic animals of the inhabitants of the villages of Woo-Sih-yuen and Lung-hwa Szu; that they had requisitioned a sum of 40,000 dollars paid; and that from the people of Ping-tien, occupying the village until the money was on the 12th October, 1898, they had forcibly taken from the house of a rich man named Chen Yung-szu, a further sum of 4,000 dollars.\n\nIf anything were wanting to demonstrate the unsuitability of the present rules of procedure, and the advisability of returning to the Treaty and those which were in force when the Treaty of Tien-tsin was negotiated, it would only be necessary to point to the case of Chung Sui-yung. The Hong Kong authorities were in possession of the most positive and conclusive evidence of his guilt, and yet such was the faulty nature of the procedure, that his extradition could not be obtained. The fact that the offences of which he was accused were considered as having been committed in furtherance of a political object, was allowed to bias the decision of the Magistrate; otherwise the alibi, supposed to have been established by the evidence of the missionaries, would have been disallowed. It was immaterial whether the burglary had been committed by Chung Sui-yung in person, or, as seems to have been the case, by him through the instrumentality of the men who executed his orders. Equally immaterial was it whether he acted from a political motive or not. In 1858, when the Treaty of Tien-tsin was negotiated, British law made no distinction between political and non-political offences, and the Treaty making none, the only question for the Magistrate to determine was whether the presumptive evidence of his guilt was sufficient to warrant a commitment. The Acts of 1870 and 1878, which for the first time introduced this distinction, being inconsistent with the Treaty, cannot be admitted as applying to the case.\n\nThere is authority for this contention, it having several times been ruled that a Treaty may not only limit but even supersede a Statute. In the case of Wilson, whose extradition was demanded by the Swiss Government in 1877, Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Mellor and Field held that the Act was limited by the Treaty. And in the case of Reg. v. Tubbee, Chief Justice Macaulay ruled that, so far as Great Britain, Canada, and the United States were concerned, the Ashburton Treaty had superseded the Statute of 3 Wm. IV, cap. 6. Having regard then to these decisions, there is no reason in law, and there certainly is none in expediency, for the continuance of a procedure at Hong Kong, which, in matters of extradition, tends only to frustrate the intention of the Treaty.\n\nIn the interest of the two countries it ought, therefore, to be discontinued, the case of Chung Sui-yung showing that, not only for China, but for Great Britain, it constitutes a source of danger. On the plea, that, in consenting to the extension of the Colony of Hong Kong, the Imperial Government had manifested weakness, and an incapacity to resist the encroachments of foreign nations; and on the pretext of coming to its assistance, but really with the intention of subverting the dynasty, he had raised the membership of the Triad Society to a very great number, estimated by the Governor of Hong Kong at from 40,000, to 50,000 fighting men. In addition to this formidable military force, he had a fleet of 100 sea-going junks, all fully manned and thoroughly equipped for war.\n\nPerhaps this estimate of the strength of his forces may have been excessive, but after making every allowance for exaggeration, the number of men at his disposal must still have been very considerable; for 5,000 of them were known to be in receipt of daily rations and regular pay. The others, under the command of four principal lieutenants, were kept in readiness to be called out on short notice. Stationed in various towns and villages in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong, they held the surrounding country in a state of terror, murdering, plundering, and maltreating all those who refused to join them, or contribute to the funds of the Society. They were well armed and well supplied with ammunition. In their stores they had cannon and many thousand stand of arms of European manufacture, 20,000 suits of uniforms and as many sets of accoutrements. All this, and much more, is circumstantially set forth in the Memorandum of the Governor of Hong Kong, so that the decision of the Magistrate that there was no evidence of the guilt of Chung Sui-yung could scarcely have been based on other than technical grounds.\n\nThe Imperial Government, therefore, hope that orders may yet be given for his arrest, and that, to prevent the recurrence of a similar miscarriage of justice as happened in his case, the present faulty procedure in extradition cases may be amended. For the Imperial Government are firmly persuaded, that so long as this shall not have been done, and so long as the Colony of Hong Kong is allowed to be made an asylum for Chinese banditti, the difficulties of maintaining order and tranquillity in the districts abutted on the leased territory will inevitably go on increasing. Chung Sui-yung calculated on this, it having been part of his plan to excite disturbances on the Kowloong frontier, in the hope of, by means of them, embroiling the Chinese authorities in a dispute with the Colony of Hong Kong; and then of turning that to account in the furtherance of his sinister designs. It was in pursuance of this plan, that he afterwards burned down the sheds erected by the Hong Kong authorities, and opposed, by force of arms, the occupation of the leased territory; and had it not been that he was worsted in his encounter with the British troops, he would have attacked the island of Hong Kong itself.\n\nIn view of the gravity of the situation which these facts evince, I trust that Her Majesty's Government will take the subject of this despatch into their most serious consideration, and that they may see their way so to amend the procedure in extradition cases, that Hong Kong will cease to be a refuge for the criminal classes in the south of China.\n\nThe precedents hereinbefore alluded to proving the legal enactments, when at variance with a Treaty, are to be held as being subordinate to Treaty obligations, would, it seems to me, make this a matter of easy accomplishment.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) LO TĂNG LUH.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902", "content_text": "114\n\nin regard to the two latter countries.\n\nThe Treaty of 1886 with the United States was still the only existing Extradition Treaty and the Japanese Government did not consider it satisfactory.\n\nGermany has the benefit of this Treaty by a provision in the Protocol annexed to her Consular Convention with Japan.\n\nMr. Miyaoka promised that in two or three months' time, when the negotiations with Belgium and Holland were somewhat further advanced, he would let me have a copy of one or other of the drafts confidentially.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(Signed) \nJ. B. Whitehead", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "that it is not desirable \nfor Haiphong to enter \nwith \nPostal \nConvention, suggested \nby Sir Robert Hart.\n\n492 \n\n**DESPATCH.** \nC.C. \n24682 \n**RECY 20 JUL 03** \nernor. \nNo. \nbe comf \n903 \nprevious Paper. \n\nNo 26982 \n**(Subject.)** \nMurder of Yeung Kui Wan \nReports trial execution of the wire, Lui bhui.\n\nHigh Authorities at Haiphong are implicated. Warrants have been issued. Other persons named, and it is requested that they may be given up for their extradition & that some form of fine be exacted to make reparation for violation of British territory.\n\n**(with Minutes.)** \nth. Johnson \n(with the Cfquot \nprofon, subject to \nSee also `26983` \n`26980` `26981` \n\nthe Marquess of Lansdowne, to give the instructions \nthin for which he asks in order to bring pressure possible upon the Chinese \"You\" to instruct the Viceroy \nproposed, see `26983`, making also copies of `26980` \nas \nCAA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390963, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# INTERPRETATION OF EXTRADITION TREATIES.\n\nIn my judgment these treaties ought to receive a liberal interpretation, which means no more than that they should receive their true construction according to their language, object, and intent. I know no head of the French law for which an exact equivalent is to be found in the law of England. The English and French texts of the treaty are not translations of one another. They are different versions, but versions which, on the whole, are in substantial agreement.\n\nPer Lord RUSSELL, C.J., In re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 509; 65 L.J.M.C. 50; 18 Cox C.C. 277; 60 J.P. 132.\n\n# ON APPEAL, NEW MATERIALS MAY BE PRESENTED TO THE KING'S BENCH DIVISION BESIDES WHAT WAS BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE,\n\nPer DENMAN, J.: The Act itself requires the Magistrate to inform the prisoner that he may apply for a habeas corpus, and, if he is entitled to apply for a habeas corpus, justice must have power to go into the whole matter, and I think it follows that the Queen's Bench Division in some cases, if there be certainly fresh evidence and cogent evidence, it could not say for a moment that it would feel itself crippled by the mere fact that the Magistrate, upon much less evidence, or perhaps upon the same evidence had taken a different view of the matter.\n\nPer HAWKINS, J.: If a man has a right to move for a habeas corpus in order that the case may be reviewed, it would be an absurdity to say that he might not enter into those matters which showed that he had been guilty of no offence at all; and by no means was the matter concluded by the Magistrate's decision that he be committed for trial, because the Magistrate does not sit, when he is committing for trial, as a Magistrate sitting finally to dispose of the case, and to give judgment upon it. I think that they (the provisions of the Act) are quite sufficient certainly to satisfy me that the Magistrate's decision is by no means binding, either in point of law or in point of fact, and that, when these matters come to be considered upon the habeas corpus, if the Judges have to consider the case, they must consider the case as it is before them at the time the rule is discussed, and I think that we are not bound by, though we pay respect to, what the Magistrate's views were.\n\nIn re Castioni, L.R. Q.B.D. 1891 (1) 149; 60 L.J.M.C. 22; 64 L.T. (N.S.) 344; 17 Cox C.C. 225; 55 J.P. 328.\n\n(But see also later case of In re Arton (p. 23), L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (I) 509; 65 L.J.M.C. 50; 18 Cox C.C. 277; 60 J.P. 132, where Lord Russell, C.J., said: \"We are not a Court of Appeal on questions of fact from him (the Magistrate). We have only to see that he had such evidence before him as gave him authority and jurisdiction to commit.\")\n\n(See also In re Arton (p. 23), L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 108; 65 L.J.M.C. 23, where Lord Russell, C.J., said \"The Court is bound to see whether or not a prima facie case has been made out before the Magistrate.\")\n\nPage 7\n\n# EX PARTE BOUVIER. France.\n\n21st November, 1872.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH: COCKBURN, C.J., MELLOR and BLACKBURN, JJ.\n\n42 L.J. Q.B. 17; 12 Cox C.C. 303; 27 L.T. (N.S.) 844. Committed for extradition, by Police Magistrate of Jersey, for \"fuum et banqueroute frauduleuse.\" The French warrant had been granted upon a judgment of an Assize Court, on which Bouvier had been condemned on three several charges of abus de confiance, forgery, and fraudulent bankruptcy. Abus de confiance was not an offence included in the Convention of 13th February, 1843.\n\nContended: No power under the Convention or under the Act of 1870 to surrender for abus de confiance. No power to surrender the criminal inasmuch as no provision or arrangement had been made as required by section 3 (2) of the Extradition Act, 1870.\n\nAffidavit of the officially appointed Counsel to the French Embassy put in as to the state of French law.\n\nHeld: That under the existing law of France such provision is made.\n\n(See also case of United States v. Lawrence, 13 Cox C.C. 361)\n\n(And see now Article IV. of the treaty with France of 14th August, 1876.)\n\n# EX PARTE ELISE COUNHAYE.\n\nBelgium.\n\n23rd May, 1873.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH : BLACKBURN, QUAIN, and ARCHIBALD, JJ.\n\nL.R. 8 Q.B. 410; 42 L.J.Q.B. 217.\n\nAccused of complicity in her husband's bankruptcy.\n\nContended: (i.) Complicity in a fraudulent bankruptcy is not a crime within the Extradition Act.\n\nA treaty cannot extend the Act. (ii.) The facts charged were committed before the Act was passed, and section 6 does not apply to crimes committed before the Act was passed.\n\n(i.) The depositions were not taken before the Magistrate who issued the warrant as required by Article II. of the treaty.\n\n(iv.) The depositions are not receivable not having been taken in the presence of the accused.\n\n(v.) The Belgian warrant is bad, charging crime in France; and it is not for the same crime as the English commitment.\n\nPer COLERIDGE, A.G. - Accessories before the fact are not mentioned in the Schedule to the Act because at common law they are in effect the same as principals, and aiders and abettors can by statute be tried as well as punished as principals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "Held: We are all agreed that section 14 makes depositions, properly authenticated, evidence in proceedings under the Act whether they are taken in the particular charge or not, and whether taken in the presence of the person charged or not.\n\nPer BLACKBURN, J.-I do not see how \"crimes by bankrupts against bankruptcy law\" can include a person not a bankrupt, but accused of complicity in a fraudulent bankruptcy.\n\nI agree with the A.G. that, as to many of the crimes included in the list, accessories before the fact would be included.\n\nAs to contention ii. I express no opinion beyond this that it is at least very doubtful.\n\n(As to contention ii. see now section 2 of the Extradition Act, 1873.) (As to accessories see section 3 of the Extradition Act, 1873.)\n\nIn re Guerin (see above).\n\nIn re Custioni, L.R. Q.B.D. 1891 (1) 149; 60 L.J.M.C. 22; 64 L.T. (N.S.) 344; 17 Cox C.C. 225; 55 J.P. 328.\n\nIn re Meunier, L.R. Q.B.D, 1894 (2) 415; 63 L.J.M.C. 198; 18 Cox C.C. 15. In re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D, 1896 (1) 108; 85 L.J.M.C, 23.\n\nIn re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 509; 65 L.J.M.C. 50; 18 Cox C.C. 277; 60 J.P. 132.\n\nEX PARTE HUGUET,\n\nFrance.\n\n7th and 8th June, 1873.\n\nCOURT OF EXCHEQUER: KELLY, C.B, MARTIN, B., and POLLOCK, P.\n\n12 Cox C.C. 551; 29 L.T. (N.S.) 41.\n\nCharged with fraudulent bankruptcy in France. At Bow Street, evidence, taken in the presence of the accused-who cross-examined-of a witness, who, at a subsequent hearing, on remand, before a different Magistrate, was not present, was read as part of the case; additional evidence was taken and the accused was committed.\n\nContended: (i.)-The materials before the Magistrate were insufficient to prove any crime for which in this country the accused might be sent for trial.\n\n(ii.) It cannot be that one Magistrate may take a deposition and another judge of its relevancy and importance.\n\nHeld: As to (i)-It is for the Magistrate to decide, and although we may think that the case is very inconclusive, we cannot interfere; he is the only party authorised to decide upon the facts. This is not a Court of Appeal from the Magistrate's decision.\n\nAs to (ii.)—\n\nPer KELLY, C.B.--I entertain great doubt whether the deposition of M. de M. was admissible in evidence before Sir T. Henry.\n\nPer MARTIN, B.-I don't mean to express any positive opinion, but I think that such evidence was admissible at common law.\n\nPer POLLOCK, B.--This (evidence) was taken in the presence of the prisoner, and I should have thought that it was receivable.\n\n(As to (ii) see In re Guerin, 58 L.J.M.C. 42; 16 Cox C.C. 596; 53 J.P. 467; 60 L.T. 538: 37 W.R. 289.)\n\n(As to POWER OF COURT OF KING'S BENCH UPON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, see also In re Maurer, 32 L.J.M.C. 105; 10 Q.B.D. 513.\n\nUNITED STATES v. LAWRENCE.\n\nU.S.A. CIRCUIT COURT, NEW YORK.\n\n13 Cox C.C. 361.\n\nLawrence was extradited to the U.S.A. in March, 1875, for “forging and uttering a certain bond and affidavit within the U.S.A.\"\n\nUpon indictment before the Circuit Court of the United States, held at the city of New York, for forging and uttering a certain bond of one Blanding and also a certain affidavit known as the \"Owner's Oath,\" purporting to be made by Blanding, Lawrence filed a special plea to the jurisdiction of the Court, averring that he was charged with offences other than those on which his extradition was grounded, and set up the British Extradition Act, and that there was an understanding that he was to be tried only for the crime stated in the extradition warrant.\n\nHeld: Per BENEDICT, J.-Extradition proceedings do not secure the person surrendered immunity from prosecution for any offence other than the one upon which his surrender is made. An offender against the justice of his country can acquire no rights as between himself and justice by flight: he remains at all times and everywhere liable to be called to answer to the law for his violations thereof, provided he comes within the reach of its arm. The English statute of 1870 cannot be held to have had the effect in the United States of securing an extradited person from trial for an offence other than that for which he is extradited. An agreement between the representatives of the two governments cannot have the effect of depriving the Court of jurisdiction to try him for offences other than that for which he is extradited. See Scott's case in the King's Bench (9 B. & C. 447). Scott was seized in Brussels, and carried to London without extradition or other legal process: \"We are to take care that such a party is amenable to justice, and cannot inquire into the circumstances under which he was brought here.\"\n\n(See case of Commonwealth v. Hawes in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 17th April, 1878: \"A person surrendered to the U.S.A. under the treaty of 1843 cannot be tried upon a charge different from that for which he was extradited, and for which his surrender could not have been demanded.\" 14 Cox C.C. 135.)\n\n(And see now Article III. of the Convention with the U.S.A. of 12th July, 1889.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390965, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "R. v. WILSON,\n\nSwitzerland,\n\n2nd November, 1877.\n\nPage 10\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH: COCKBURN, L.C.J., MELLOR and FIELD, JJ.\n\nL.R. 3 Q.B.D. 42; 48 L.J.M.C. 37; 13 Cox C.C. 630; 37 L.T. (N.S.) 544.\n\nW., a British subject, had been committed by the Magistrate for surrender for larceny in Switzerland. By the Swiss treaty of 1874, no subject of the United Kingdom shall be delivered up by the Government thereof to Switzerland. The Magistrate was of opinion that he was not entitled to consider the terms of the treaty, but only the Extradition Acts.\n\nBOWEN, in support of the commitment, contended:\n\nThe Order in Council does not limit the operation of the Extradition Acts; it merely recites the treaty.\n\nHeld: The Act can only have application so far as it is consistent with the treaty. The Order in Council must be co-extensive with, and limited by the treaty.\n\n(See Article I. of the Treaty with Switzerland, of 26th November, 1880, as to \"NATIONALS.\")\n\n(See also In re Galwey, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 230; 65 L.J.M.C. 38; 18 Cox C.C. 213; 60 J.P. 87.)\n\nCOMMONWEALTH v. HAWES.\n\nUnited States of America.\n\n17th April, 1878.\n\nCOURT OF APPEALS OF KENTUCKY.\n\n14 Cox C.C. 135.\n\nHawes was surrendered to the U.S.A. by Canada to answer three charges of forgery. He was tried on two indictments for forgery, and acquitted. He was held in custody, however, to answer a charge of embezzlement; and he moved, on affidavit, to be released from custody. The Court ordered the case for embezzlement to be continued, and prisoner released from custody. The Commonwealth appealed.\n\nHeld: The precise purpose for which the fugitive is to be surrendered is set out in exact and apt language, and the Act negatives, by necessary implication, the right here claimed, that the person surrendered may be tried for an offence different from that for which he was extradited, and one for which his surrender could not have been demanded.\n\n(The French Minister of Justice, in his circular of 15 April, 1841, said: \"The extradition declares the offence which leads to it, and this offence alone ought to be inquired into.\" The rule, as stated by the German author Heffter, is that: \"The individual, whose extradition has been granted, cannot be prosecuted nor tried for any crime except that for which the extradition has been obtained. To act in any other way, and to cause him to be tried for other crimes or misdemeanors, would be to violate the mutual principle of asylum, and the silent clause contained by implication in every extradition.\")\n\n(See also United States v. Rauscher, quoted in In re Alice Woodall, 57 L.J.M.C. 72; 16 Cox C.C. 478.) (And see now Article III. of the Convention with the U.S.A. of 12th July, 1889.)\n\nEX PARTE TERRAZ.\n\nSwitzerland.\n\nDec., 1878.\n\nEXCHEQUER DIVISION: KELLY, C.B., and Huddleston, B.\n\nL.R. 4 Ex. D. 63; 48 L.J. Ex. 214; 14 Cox C.C. 153; 39 L.T. (N.S.) 502; 27 W.R. 170.\n\nTerraz was arrested on a warrant for \"crimes against bankruptcy law,\" issued upon an information by the Chancellor of the Swiss Consulate General on 12th November, 1878, and twice remanded. While under remand a rule nisi was obtained on the ground that the warrant (i.e., the first warrant) did not sufficiently set forth the nature of the offence, &c. Before the case was argued a second warrant was issued, upon the Secretary of State's Order, describing the offence more fully.\n\nArgued, by ATHERLEY JONES, for the accused, that the first warrant does not describe a specific offence; and that the second warrant could not be set up in answer to the rule.\n\nHeld: KELLY, C.B., entertained no doubt that the description of the offence charged against the prisoner was sufficient; and that the Magistrate was entitled to remand the prisoner on the warrant with a view to further enquiry.\n\nHUDDLESTON, B., agreed, this being a warrant for safe custody of the party until the case can be properly enquired into, and the authorities show that in such warrants a general assertion or a general charge is sufficient.\n\nPage 11\n\n(The Judges differed as to whether the second warrant lodged in this case could be a valid answer to the rule, KELLY, C.B., saying: \"If the case had turned upon, or it had been necessary to refer to, or to rely at all upon, the second warrant, I should have thought it a direct violation of the first principles of the law and constitution of this country to deal with that warrant in any way unless the counsel for the accused had had an opportunity previously of seeing it and preparing himself to argue upon it.\" HUDDLESTON, B., saying: \"As far as I know, in practice and on authority, there can be no doubt whatever that a fresh warrant may be lodged; there may be one, two, three or other warrants substituted for the original one; but if, when the matter is before the Judge, there is a good warrant, that is sufficient to detain the prisoner.\")\n\n(“Abus de confiance\" in French warrant, and “fraud by an agent\" in English commitment held to be sufficient description of the offence; see ex parte Piot, 15 Cox C.C. 208; 47 J.P. 247; 48 L.T. (N.S.) 120.\n\nSee also R. v. Jacobi and Hiller; 46 L.T. (N.S.) 595, footnote; and In re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 509; 65 L.J.M.C. 50; 18 Cox C.C. 277; 60 J.P. 132.)\n\nPage 10529\n\nB 2\n\n512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390969, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "18\n\n19\n\nIN RE ALICE WOODALL. U.S.A.\n\n5th May, 1888.\n\nCOURT OF APPEAL: Lord ESHER, M.R., LINDLEY, L.J., and Bowen, L.J.\n\nL.R. 20 Q.B.D. 832; 57 LJ.M.C. 71.\n\nThe accused having been committed for surrender, application was made to a Divisional Court for an order nisi for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the Magistrate had declined to adjourn the case in order that evidence in favour of the accused might be obtained from New York, and that upon the evidence before the Magistrate he ought not to have committed. The Divisional Court refused the order on these grounds. Motion was now made, by way of appeal, for an order nisi.\n\nHeld: That the decision of the Queen's Bench Division was given in a \"criminal cause or matter\" within section 47 of the Judicature Act, 1873, and therefore no appeal would lie to the Court of Appeal.\n\nIN RE ALICE WOODALL.\n\nU.S.A.\n\n9th May, 1888.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH: Lord COLERIDGE, C.J., FIELD and WILLS, JJ.\n\n57 L.J.M.C. 72; 16 Cox C.C. 478.\n\nPrisoner had been committed for extradition on two charges of forgery. A rule nisi for a writ of habeas corpus was obtained on the ground that there was no sufficient provision made by the Government of the United States that she should not be tried for an offence other than that for which she was extradited, as required by the Extradition Act, section 3 (2).\n\nHeld (discharging the rule)\n\nThat the United States Government had made provision for this sub-section, and that a fugitive criminal would be tried there solely for the offence in respect of which he had been surrendered. This point had been clearly raised and decided in the United States v. Rauscher, which, as a decision of the Supreme Court of America, was binding on all Courts within the Union.\n\n(It is mentioned in the report (Cox) of this case that in consequence of Lawrence having been tried in the United States for offences other than those for which he was surrendered, the British Government refused to surrender Winslow without a pledge that the prisoner should not be tried except for the offence for which he was extradited; the United States refused to give this pledge, and Winslow was never surrendered.)\n\n(For case of United States v. Lawrence see 13 Cox C.C. 361.) (And see now Article III. of United States Supplementary Convention of 1889.)\n\nIN RE GUERIN.\n\nFrance.\n\n12th, 13th November, 1888.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH : WILLS and GRANTHAM, JJ.\n\n58 L.J.M.C. 42; 16 Cox C.C. 596; 53 J.P. 467; 60 L.T. (N.S.) 558 ; 37 W.R. 289.\n\nThe prisoner had been arrested on a charge of larceny in France, and brought up before Sir J. Ingham, before whom evidence was given on six occasions ; then Mr. Vaughan took up the case, and on five days heard evidence, and then committed the prisoner for extradition.\n\nA rule nisi for a writ of habeas corpus was granted on the grounds that no evidence of the prisoner's crime had been given before Mr. Vaughan, and that the magistrate's decision as to nationality was wrong.\n\nHeld That the judicial discretion which a Magistrate has to exercise on cases brought before him must be based on the evidence taken before him, and it is not competent for him to act upon evidence taken before another Magistrate. There was however sufficient evidence before Mr. Vaughan without that which was taken before Sir J. Ingham; and the order nisi was discharged.\n\nAs to the question of nationality, it was\n\nHeld That the Queen's Bench Division has a right to review the finding of the Magistrate upon a matter of fact which is cardinal to the existence of his jurisdiction and collateral to the subject of enquiry.\n\nBy direction of the Court--the affidavits as to nationality being conflicting --an issue was tried on 20th and 21st December before HUDDLeston, B., and a common jury as to whether prisoner was a \"native born or naturalised subject\" of this country; this was found against the prisoner.\n\n(See also ex parte Hugel, 12 Cox C.C. 551; 29 L.T. (N.S.) 41; and In re Castioni, L.R. Q.B.D. 1891 (1) 149; 60 L.J.M.C. 22; 64 L.T. (N.S.) 344; 17 Cox C.C. 225; 55 J.P. 328.\n\nRE CASTIONI, Switzerland.\n\n10th, 11th November, 1890.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH:\n\nDENMAN, HAWKINS and STEPHEN, JJ.\n\nL.R. Q.B.D. 1891 (1) 149; 60 L.J.M.C. 22; 64 L.T.(N.S.) 344; 17 Cox C.C. 225; 55 J.P. 328.\n\nCastioni took part in an insurrection which broke out in the Canton of Ticino, and he and others, having seized arms from the arsenal, and seized five persons connected with the Government, bound them, and marched to the Government House, where they were refused admittance by Councillors Rossi and Gianella with about 80 gendarmes. The gates were broken, and the people rushed in; a second locked door was broken open, and Rossi, who was in the\n\n10529\n\n0 2\n\n516", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "Vòng Mong, 1903.\n\nVol VI.\n\nContents\n\nSubject:\n\nForeign Office\n\n \n 1 Jan\n France + S. China.\n \n \n 15\n Repatriation of distressed Brit:\n \n \n 22\n S.W. China Trade\n \n \n 28\n Disturbances in S. China.\n \n \n 31\n China Treaty.\n \n \n 3\n Feb.\n China Trade.\n \n \n 5\n Conspiracy at Canton\n \n \n 6\n Bad tradition from San Francisco.\n \n \n 12\n Future of China.\n \n \n 18\n Plot to seize Canton\n \n \n 21\n Conspiracy at Canton\n \n \n 23\n Commercial Treaty with China.\n \n \n 26\n Plot at Canton.\n \n \n 1 Apl.\n Anglo Chinese Postal Agreement.\n \n \n \n Commercial Treaty with China.\n \n \n \n Importation of opium into China.\n \n \n \n Parcels Post Convention with US.\n \n \n 11\n Coinage System in Philippines\n \n \n 16\n June\n Rebellion\n \n \n 19\n Rebellion in S. China.\n \n \n 12\n Assault by German Seamen.\n \n \n 23\n Extradition of Hoffatt.\n \n \n 24\n Foreign Post Offices in China.\n \n \n \n China Trade.\n \n \n \n Importation of tours into China.\n \n \n \n Trade of Heungtung.\n \n \n \n The foreign post offices in China.\n \n \n 7\n July\n Protection of Brit subjects in China.\n \n \n 29\n Venice Sanitary Convention.\n \n \n 7\n Cong\n Manila Cable Extension.\n \n \n 13\n China Trade\n \n \n \n Tour of Consul Litton in N.W. Yunnan\n \n \n -1\n Aug\n Reign", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391044, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "2\n\nFrom Bali\n\nSubject\n\nforeign murder of member of Chinese Reform Party.\n\nOffice 19! French activity in S. China. murder of Yeung Kui Wan\n\n5 Sept. Acquisition of land in Amoy Harbour.\n\nChina Affairs.\n\n21\n\n26\n\n29\n\n10\n\n24\n\nVenice Sanitary Convention\n\nSituation in Canton.\n\nMurder of Chinese reformer. Customs Admin. of Kiachan Blink Loade\n\nDeportation of Florence Starrett.\n\n4 Oct. Chinese duty on opium murder of a chinaman\n\nof Yeung Kuri Wan\n\n13\n\n164\n\n22\n\nCommercial Treaty with China. Deportation of Florence Fassett\n\n24. Protection of Anglo Chinese in China\n\n22y. Export of cuttle from Keangri\n\n24. Foreign Postal agencies in China.\n\n2 Nov. Parcels Post Convention with U.S.\n\nCommission on expenses of extradition\n\nParcels Post Convention with Usa\n\nDeportation of Miss Garrett.\n\nParcels Post Convention with usa murder of a chinaman\n\n10 Dec. Parcels Post Convention with Usa\n\nWar Office Feb. Gaza Reclamation\n\n6. Rifle range at Kowloon\n\n10 Jan Magazine on Stonecutter Island\n\n21 Feb. Kowloon warrant Lot- N°27.\n\nFrom Bali\n\nSubject\n\nWar Office 28 Feb. Magazine on Stonecutters Island\n\n3 Apr. Naval range at Kowloon\n\n26 July Prison on Stoncutters Island\n\n30 July Site for barracks on Stonecutters Is.\n\n1 Sept. Eastern Praya Reclamation\n\n25. Tenure of appt of G.O.C.\n\n28 Dec. Colonial Military Naval Lands.\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nNew Gardens 9 Jan Supt. of Botanical Dept.\n\nJucart. Ch. of Commerce 10.\n\nPost-Office\n\nMerchant Sitting Order\n\n15. Wireless Telegraphy.\n\n4 Feb.\n\nCol: Nursing Assoc 9. Nurses.\n\nAudit- Office 11 Mar Exam. of Wei-hai-wei Accts.\n\nLocal Govt. Bd. 12\n\nSalaries of Acting Officers. Plague.\n\nPost Office 24. Wireless Telegraphy.\n\nAudit Office 1 Apr. Training of junior accountants.\n\nPost Office 14. Postal Relations with China\n\nCalent office 13 June Specifications of Patents Fish of Trademarks.\n\nMerchant Serge Guild 13 ... Complaint apt. Commun. Rumsey\n\nInland Revenue 24 June Draft Stamping Ordinance\n\nbazb. Tel. Co. 13 July Cable Rates\n\nPost Office 27. Transmission of coin & bullion by post.\n\nCol. Nursing Assoc 14 Aug Nurse\n\nPost Office by Mails via Trans-Siberian Route.\n\n25. Parcels Post with Usa\n\nAudit-Office 22 Oct: Revenue Stamps.\n\nPost Office 39. Mail service by way of Siberian\n\nNov mails via Siberia\n\nreign", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391308, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "265\n\nfor the surrender of Chinese from Hongkong to China.\n\nThere is, however, a reciprocal arrangement for\n\nextradition in the Burmah-Yunnan Frontier Convention\n\nof March 1st, 1894, as there were at the time no British Consular officers in the districts adjoining that\n\nfrontier. It was intended to apply to Chinese on\n\nthe one side and Burmese on the other.\n\nNeither party is bound by this arrangement to surrender its own nationals, and the Chinese Government would, if a reciprocal Extradition arrangement were at any time negotiated, be entitled to make a reservation as to surrendering Chinese subjects.\n\nSuch a reservation would certainly be made use of by them in a case like that which has now arisen.\n\nI am further to state that His Majesty's Government have recently refused to hand over to the Chinese Authorities two criminals who admit having published articles inciting to the murder of the Emperor of China, although the offence has been committed on Chinese territory assigned under agreement for the residence of Europeans.\n\nIt would seem therefore to be altogether inconsistent to demand from the Chinese Government the surrender of Chinese subjects who are accused of crime in a British Colony. The reply of the Chinese Government to such an application would be obvious and in Lord Lansdowne's opinion unanswerable.\n\nIt may be mentioned that, as a matter of principle, it has, on more than one occasion, been deemed inexpedient to ask for the surrender of a fugitive Criminal in the absence of express Treaty stipulations providing for such a course, and in view of all these considerations, it appears to His Lordship that it would be inopportune for His Majesty's Minister at Pekin to make a representation to the Chinese Government in the sense suggested in your letter.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nCharles Hardinge", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391984, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "2\n\nDeck. No bali\n\n68\n\nSubject\n\n18. Fer. New Territories Land Court- Conf. 18. Hankow-Canton Rly.\n\n21\n\n18. Registration of Chinese B. subjects. 22. Haffkine's Plague Prophylactic.\n\nBase of Messrs. Stephens & Howard Wounded Russian sailors.\n\n62. nr.\n\n64. Mt. Hongkong Carton & Macao Steamboat Co. 66. 25. Russo-Japanese War.\n\n71. g\n\nSchool for Indian Boys.\n\n74 24. Order \"1.\n\nTel. 2 luar. Igod stiff as contraband of war.\n\n78.\n\n29: 2 4\n\n85-\n\n90\n\n93.\n\nbouf. 9\n\n94 10.\n\n97\n\n100.\n\n11\n\n11\n\n101. 102.11\n\n103.\n\n104. #1\n\n107.11\n\nConf. 11\n\n113.\n\n12\n\n·\n\n*\n\n糖\n\nLeave pay pension of tener Johnston & storing Mean of War Anchorage\n\nExchange of land with W.O.\n\nSoculation with Haffkine's Prophylactic Exchanges of land\n\nCharitable grants of Crown Land. Rev. to bouton.\n\nTrans-shipment of Russian sailors. Report of Ag. bakt. Supt. of Police 03. Military lands.\n\nStoves from Local Order sept.\n\nNaval lands proclamation's\n\nReport on Chinese Infantile mortality.\n\nImport of sugar into hudo China\n\nRussian & Japanese declarations, contraband of Warx Hankow-Canton Rly.\n\nRly to Canton.\n\n14. Dam at Lai Chi Kok.\n\nApportations of subsidiary coin.\n\n116. 17. Surcharging of postage stamps.\n\nSubject-\n\nDeep no bali\n\n119. 17 hear. Catchwater for Kowloon Waterworks-\n\nI. J. Drayson. Termination of office 19. Report of Manager. of Schools 03. Tel. 22\n\n120. 18\n\n(21\n\n#\n\nLeave of fir W. Goodman Thu. Wise. 125 23 Increase of You's Salary. 126. 23 Leave to G. A. Woodcock.\n\nbouf. 23\n\n•\n\nCanton Hong Kong Rly\n\n128 Mr. Qualities of Alcoholic Liquor.\n\n130. Jut Conf. nr.\n\nTel 28.\n\n29\n\n29\n\n5. M. King.\n\nDeportation of Kang Yu Wei Chinese labour for Transvaal\n\nCase of Mr. Ryphe\n\n140. Se. Appeals from Land Court: 142 31\n\nOrder 2:\n\nChinese labour for Transvaal\n\n144 5. Apl. Documents for Library\n\nSel.\n\n18\n\nbouf 31\n\nbouk 6.\n\nTel. 19\n\n150. 19\n\n1572.\n\nbouf 8.\n\nEffect of war on shipping operations. Hankow-Canton Rly\n\nChinese labour for Transvaal. Resumptions of Insanitary areas. Emoluments of Crown Solicitor\n\nLabour leaks.\n\nbouf. 13. Colouring in stocks Transvaal.\n\n160. 16. Sugar Convention 162. 18. Extradition with Japan 163. 18.\n\nButton Cultivation\n\n165e\n\n18\n\nIncreases in Dept. of mopr. of School. 19. Readjustment of Kowloon hannie hilauds Lot: 166. 20. District Watchmen's Force\n\n21\n\n167. 20. City of Victoria Cleansing Operations", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412227, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 727, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## FOREIGN OFFICE \nAugust 29th, 1907.\n\nSir:- \n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th instant enclosing a telegram from The Governor of Hongkong respecting a murder committed by an American Citizen in that Colony.\n\nI am to enclose for the information of The Earl of Elgin an extract from Mr. John Bassett Moore's work on Extradition—to which reference is made in the Governor's telegram—which recites the views of the United States Government on a somewhat similar case which arose in 1874.\n\nSir Edward Grey is unaware of any reasons for contesting the soundness of the contention advanced by the United States Government on that occasion, and as at present advised, does not therefore see on what grounds...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 28793` and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\n`C.O. 30977 724 en 29 AUG 07` \n`Goo 30768` \n`Page ...` (if page number is present, it should be kept)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422945, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nPage 346\n\n### No. 1\n**C.O 9354**\n[August 9.]\n\n#### SECTION 5\n2 SEP OC\n\n**(No. 218.)**\nSir,\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 9.)**\n\nPeking, June 22, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of the text of an agreement, signed on the 4th January last, between France and China for the better policing of the Sino-French frontier.\n\nThis agreement, copy of which has been courteously furnished to me by the French chargé d'affaires, and of which a somewhat inaccurate text has already appeared in the local press, does not call for any particular comment on my part.\n\nIn article 1, paragraph 2, of the Sino-French Treaty of 1895 it was laid down that an arrangement should be made determining the conditions on which the policing of the frontier should be conducted, and the unfortunate incident which had occurred in June of last year, and has been fully reported both in my despatches and in the general report for 1908, has, no doubt, hastened the fulfilment of this provision.\n\nArticle 2 of the agreement, which binds the French authorities to repress all anti-dynastic propaganda and literature in Indo-China, is of special interest, as the Chinese have several times shown a disposition to expect similar measures from us in Burmah and other British possessions.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n**Agreement between France and China for the better Policing of the Sino-French Frontier, signed January 4, 1909.**\n\n| Article | Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE 1 | Lorsqu'il sera à la connaissance des autorités françaises que des révolutionnaires ou rebelles chinois se rassemblent en bandes sur le territoire de l'Indo-Chine, les dites autorités s'emploieront activement à disperser ces rassemblements; il sera procédé de même aussitôt que des faits analogues seront signalés par les autorités chinoises aux postes français de la frontière ou notifiés par elles au Gouvernement général de l'Indo-Chine par l'intermédiaire des consuls. |\n| Art. 2 | Les autorités françaises interdiront et réprimeront rigoureusement toute propagande antidynastique ou révolutionnaire faite en Indo-Chine par la presse ou d'autres moyens de publication. Les principaux auteurs de ces faits seront expulsés ou poursuivis conformément aux lois et règlements de la République française. L'autorisation de paraître accordée aux journaux publiés en langue indigène leur sera retirée, s'il y a lieu. |\n| Art. 3 | Tous rebelles armés ou bandes rebelles armées qui, ayant porté les armes en Chine contre les troupes régulières ou ayant troublé la paix et l'ordre publics de la Chine, se seraient réfugiés en territoire français seront désarmés et internés. Les internés seront expulsés après un délai dont la durée sera déterminée par le Gouvernement français, et avis en sera donné par lui au Gouvernement chinois. Le décompte des frais d'internement de toute nature sera porté par l'autorité française à la connaissance de l'autorité chinoise, qui assumera le remboursement de ces frais. D'autre part, dans le cas où des révolutionnaires seraient expulsés, il pourra leur être pour toujours interdit de circuler sur le territoire de l'Indo-Chine ou ceux en dépendant, et il sera pris toutes mesures utiles pour mettre des individus dans l'impossibilité de repasser la frontière chinoise. |\n| Art. 4 | Tout individu coupable en Chine d'un acte de pillage ou de piraterie ou de tous crimes ou délits de droit commun sera, s'il y a lieu, conformément à l'article 17 de la convention du 25 avril, 1886, et après exécution de la procédure d'extradition, extradé et remis aux dites autorités chinoises; celles-ci transmettront au gouverneur général avec leur demande d'extradition le dossier complet de l'affaire. |\n\n`[2391 i-5]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "over-cautions \n\na remarkable change. \n\n191612. \n\n308 \n\nPlease see also 4141. \n\nIt is a great pity that the question of the status of the inhabitants of the leased territory has been raised in this manner. \n\nThe L.O. have reported them to be British subjects, but another view is taken as to the inhabitants of WHW., and the Germans at Kiaochau take the same attitude as we do at WHW., i.e., the inhabitants are treated as Chinese subjects outside the leased territory. \n\nEven if the leased territory were British territory for all time, the Chinese Govt. would claim as usual that persons of Chinese origin are Chinese subjects in China. \n\nEven if they admitted them to be British subjects, they would be right in refusing to extradite them. They would be dealt with by our Consular Court in China under the Fugitive Offenders Act. \n\nIt is regrettable therefore that our Consul Gen. at Canton should have taken action of high international importance, without referring to higher authorities for instructions. He based his action on a conf. desp. from Mr. Chamberlain to the Gov. of H.K., supplied to him by Sir F. Lugard. \n\nI would send copy of this tel. to F.O., saying that we propose to reply that under existing treaties in any case there was no valid ground for demanding extradition of the accused, and that he should carry out his instructions without making any admission as to the status of the inhabitants of the leased territory, but without indulging in any further controversy. The Y.G. who backs his action on the desire for speedy justice. \n\nAdd in writing to F.O. that Lord Crewe considers that the question of status should be allowed to drop in the manner least prejudicial to any future contention that we may wish to uphold, and say that it seems regrettable that this important question should have been raised in communications to the Chinese Viceroy without previous reference to H.K. Govt.\n\nASC \n17/2 \nHopwood to proceed \nFü \n& \nHB \n17/2 \nYes, \nConsult \nZla \nZo. \n17.2 \nalmen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "91\n\n1.0.5393/10\n\n10/252 3/10\n\n$383/10\n\nincapable murderers from\n\nthis tenitories.\n\nand hid\n\nto the latter and not to residents in the New Territories.\n\nHe also asks (a) whether certain Chinese gentlemen may avail themselves of the provisions of the new law to renounce Chinese nationality and (b) what action, if any,\n\nhe is to take with regard to the issue of certificates to\n\nthe other classes of Anglo-Chinese.\n\n212.(1) Nationality of persons resident in the New\n\nTerritories. Sir F.H. May has not stated the position\n\nquite accurately. The correspondence ending with the\n\nSecretary of State's confidential despatch of the 25th of\n\nFebruary, set forth fully the view taken by the Foreign\n\nOffice and the Colonial Office on the status of these\n\npersons. The Foreign Office in their letter of the 25th\n\nJanuary pointed out that the Law Officers' opinion as\n\nto the British nationality of the residents in the New\n\nTerritories had not been communicated to the Chinese\n\nGovernment and would not (probably) have been accepted by\n\nthat Government. In the letter of 21st February the\n\nForeign Office went further and said that Liang To within\n\nthe limits of the Chinese Empire must be deemed to be a\n\nChinese subject. But in the Colonial Office letter of\n\nthe 18th of October, in which the Foreign Office expressed\n\n706/10\n\nFebruary\n\nA\n\nconcurrence it was stated that the question of national\n\nstatus should be allowed to drop in the manner least prejudicial to any contention which His Majesty's Government\n\nmay wish to uphold in the future. In other words no final\n\nruling has been given as yet. The question was complicated\n\nby the fact that Hong Kong pressed for Liang To's extradition instead of demanding, through the Consul General,\n\nthat he should be handed over to the Consular Court. The\n\nViceroy might possibly have refused this concession on the\n\nsame ground as he refused extradition. But in any case\n\nthere is a difference which\n\nSir", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "FOREIGN OFFICE\n\nJanuary 25th, 1910.\n\nSir:-\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 15th instant and previous correspondence, I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to enclose paraphrases of two further telegrams, the former from and the latter to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, respecting the refusal of the Viceroy of Canton to surrender a native of the new Territory adjoining Hongkong, who is charged with the crime of murder in that territory,\n\nand I am to state, for the information of the Earl of Crewe, as follows:-\n\nIt is provided in the Convention between the United Kingdom and China of June 9th, 1898, under which this territory was leased for a term of ninety-nine years, that \"If cases of Extradition of Criminals occur \"they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and\n\nArticle XXI of\n\n...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\n...\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No.1962/10.\n\nand address-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London,\n\nCO1293/117\n\n6 N 10\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nJR34,\n\nN21\n\n31/1\n\nFire Isword\n\nSo proved HBL\n\n7/2\n\nSee now 3638 superseding\n\nThis decision\n\nJR14/2\n\n53.1.109.\n\n2.\n\nthe Fugitive Offenders Act.\n\n20. therefore hold that the heavy weather his nights: And I don't on that exception can properly be taken to this view. We shall apparently here to adopt the on the circumstances and arrangement mark in 1903-4 for the trial of the murderer in The Shing Town Fung case (March 1,2).\n\nIntgraph to sokong saying the S. Wi\n\n26982/03)\n\n7.0\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428291, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Enclosure in Sin F. Gordon's Treaty No. 1. Jan. 19, 1910 214\n\nJamieson's Despatch No. 118, General Series, of December 4141 1909\n\nTo Sir John Jordan.\n\n118.\n\nH.B.M. Consulate-General, Canton.\n\nDecember 20th. 1909.\n\nI have the honour to lay before you copies of certain correspondence, that has passed between the Acting Governor-General and myself on the subject of the rendition to the Hongkong Authorities of Lam Ling Tou. This individual, who is a resident on the territory leased to Great Britain under the Convention of 1898, is implicated in the murder, within the confines of that territory, of two Indian Police Constables, and, having thereafter fled across the border, was arrested by, and is now in the custody of, the Sin-an Hsien.\n\nOn his extradition being applied for the Acting Governor-General replied that, as his place of birth was on leased territory, he still retained his status as a Chinese subject, and that, having been arrested...\n\nPage 214\n\nFEB 7 1910\n\nReef 11 E 10\n\nTo Sir John Jordan, K.C.M.G., K.C.B.,\n\nHis Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428293, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "216\n\nOf this despatch I have the honour to enclose a copy.\n\nThe extradition paragraph of the 1898 Convention lays down that \"if cases of extradition of criminals occur they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hongkong Regulations\" (A footnote on page 121 of Hertslet's Treaties cites these documents). But, when I argued, in paragraph four of my summing up in the despatch above referred to, that, according to Treaty, fugitive British subjects have to be handed over to the British Authorities for trial, I had in mind the general principle, underlying all Treaties made by China with Foreign Powers, to which definite enunciation is given in Articles VIII and X of the Russian Treaty of 1860 and Article XV of our own Burmah Convention.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\n(Sgd.) J. W. Jamieson,\n\nConsul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "# I safeguard contained in I. y of the \n\nis enough to custody A secure that shall not be Principal Order the prisoner under the detained unlawfully. In other words, the prisoner's case is to be decided without the prisoner being entitled to defend himself, & there is no guarantee that his case can be presented or put forward at all.\n\n## (3) \n\nThe contention that the case of a prisoner in transit through Hong Kong is something like the case which occurred at a time a few months ago when a prisoner being conveyed from England to India escaped at Marseilles was handed over to the British authorities. If I remember it seems to have been admitted that the action of the French authority in handing over the prisoner without a formal extradition process was a small irregularity & there was agitation in the French press.\n\n### Telegraph Gov Hong unfrequent 8th September No 321 \n\nI consider referral necessary & also re-enactment reviving provisions [I think this addition with views quite clear].\n\nYour despatch provisions make our Kong law quite... \n\nSent 4:30 pm 6th. 60011 Rtw 2/10 DR.\n\nThe extradition laws of Hong Kong are contained in the Extradition Acts of 1870, 1873, and 1875, and the Order of 20 March 1877. The Foreign Offenders Detention Act 1872 is ancillary to Extradition in that it provides for the arrest and custody in Hong Kong of foreign offenders extradited from South China & Japan to their own country.\n\nSEC 15 of the Extradition Act 1870 makes this part of the Act applicable to Hong Kong. It is for the Chief Justice to decide that the order has relation to extradition. As soon as the foreign offender reaches Hong Kong, the foreign warrant ceases to run, and, but for the 1872 Act, he could set the ordinary extradition laws of Hong Kong in motion thereby have the question of his extraditability from Hong Kong settled.\n\nFor this the 1872 Act provides some what simpler & speedier substitute. It is, in effect, an extradition order and the safeguards provided by sections 5(4) & 6 are to be preserved.\n\nThe repeal of the Hong Kong Ordinance, Chapter 23 of 1911, is in session worth? proposed by the Tudor, since the mere repeal of section 2(2) 8/d/ of Order 23 of 1911 will not revive the repealed provisions thereby repealed.\n\n### $44 1872 Ordinance and an Express revival is \n\nSee Inchirp. ad 1897, sscq). Express revival to rescind an Order in Council is not in session unless I believe...\n\nMr. Risky's Are 3119 \"it is, it might be Expedient to disallow and leave them to reenact section 2 (9) Mb) 23 of 1911\".\n\nŵ Com after amending advice Mr. G. J.JR. 5/10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "1 \n\n(180 \n\nDear Clementi, \n\n29th June 1911. \n\n34891 \n\nRrot 28 OCT || \n\nChinese Extradition Cases. Rec \n\nReferring to my previous interviews with you and to the letter which you yesterday informed me was being sent to my firm by the Colonial Secretary, but which has not yet arrived, \n\nI now, as arranged this morning, write to inform you that I had an interview with the Chief Justice this morning, whereat I discussed with him the question of extradition representation and procedure with the result that the Chief Justice intimated that he would not have any objection to my appointment by the Hong Kong Government's Assistant Crown Solicitor for the purpose of representing the Hong Kong Government and conducting at the Police Court in Hong Kong all extradition cases applied for by the Chinese Government, but he (the Chief Justice) added that he considered such appointment should be limited to the Police Court and should not apply to the Supreme Court. \n\nThe Chief Justice further intimated that he considered such an appointment would fully comply with what he had laid down in the cases decided by him in the Supreme Court as by the terms of the appointment I should be able to consult the Crown Solicitor in any given case and it would be quite clear that if I did so in a case wherein I had my doubts and the Crown Solicitor concurred the case could not be proceeded with. \n\nI may add that I informed the Chief Justice that my contention to you had been that so far as concerned the Police Court his decisions were mere \"dicta\" but the Chief Justice in reply told me that in the last case he had decided (in re Li Yu Mui) he had expressly applied his judgment to the Police Court because the then Attorney General (Hon Mr. Rees Davis) had previously approached him for a clear and definite ruling upon that subject. \n\nThe Chief Justice added that the Attorney General had", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433339, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10]", "content_text": "# \n\nChinese in this class are subjects of China only. They are of course bound to obey our laws as much as the French, Germans, or any other aliens in the Colony are so bound.\n\n319 \n\nThirdly, there are those of Chinese race who were resident in the New Territories in 1898 and have remained on. By the Convention signed at Peking on the 9th June, 1898, it was stated \"whereas it has for many years past been recognised that an extension of Hongkong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the Colony. It has now been agreed between the Government of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease.....The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years. It is at the same time agreed that within the City of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong.\" Within the remainder of the newly leased territory, Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. Chinese officials and people shall be allowed as heretofore to use the road from Kowloon to Hainan. It is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon City shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese Men-of-War, Merchants, and Passenger Vessels, which may come and go and lie there at their pleasure; and for the convenience and movement of the officials and people within the city...\n\n...It is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district within the extension....If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties.....and the Hongkong Regulations\".\n\nOn the 13th June, 1898, Lord Salisbury stated in the House of Lords that \"what had really happened in the matter was that an opportunity had been taken not only to remedy a want that had long been felt by giving a slight extension to the Colony of Hongkong but also to make it strategically safe. Some territory that belonged to China so far commanded the Colony of Hongkong that in case of war we should be put to certain disadvantage; and therefore, in view of the great changes which had taken place since the Colony was founded, it...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-380 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434954, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# UNITED STATES.\n\n## No. 44.\n\n### The Law Officers of the Crown to the Earl of Rosebery.-(Received March 2.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nRoyal Courts of Justice, March 1, 1893.\n\nWE were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Thomas Sanderson's letter of the 7th January, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us a letter and inclosures from the Colonial Office respecting an application made to the Governor of the Straits Settlements by the Acting United States' Consul at Singapore for the extradition of one C. E. Miller, a citizen of the United States, who, being accused of embezzlement in Japan, had escaped from the extra-territorial jurisdiction possessed by the United States' Consul in that country, and had taken refuge in the Straits Settlements.\n\nThat the extradition of Miller was refused in consequence of an informality in the warrant issued at Hiogo, and that the fugitive had been set at liberty; but that the Governor of the Straits Settlements had inquired whether the United States' Government had, under any circumstances, the right to claim from that Colony the extradition to the United States' authorities in Japan of a fugitive American citizen accused of an extradition offence within the meaning of the \"Ashburton\" Treaty of the 9th August, 1842, between Her Majesty and the United States of America, and the Extradition Convention supplementary to Article X of that Treaty, which was signed at Washington on the 12th July, 1889.\n\nThat before, however, furnishing him with instructions in the matter, the Secretary of State for the Colonies had asked whether there was any record in the Foreign Office of a previous case where extradition was demanded from any part of Her Majesty's dominions in respect of a crime committed in Japan, or in some other country in which the demanding Power possessed extra-territorial jurisdiction.\n\nThat no record of a similar case could be traced in the archives of the Foreign Office; and that since a question of principle of considerable importance was involved, Sir Thomas Sanderson was to submit to us the following observations, and to ask us to be good enough to favour your Lordship with our opinion upon the matter.\n\nThat Article X of the Treaty with the United States of the 9th August, 1842 (the Article relating to extradition), and the Act of Parliament giving effect to it, both referred to crimes committed \"within the jurisdiction of the United States;\" and that a similar expression was used in the other Extradition Treaties concluded prior to 1870 between this country and foreign States. That it was not specifically stated whether that term included extra-territorial jurisdiction; but that the inference would appear to be that it did not, since section 3 of the Act of Parliament (6 and 7 Vict., cap. 76) empowered a Secretary of State to deliver up an accused person to such person or persons as should be authorized to receive him, in order to convey him to the territories of the United States to be tried, &c.\n\nThat the Act of Parliament (6 and 7 Vict., cap. 75) for carrying out the Treaty with France of the 13th February, 1843 (now expired), also spoke of the conveyance of the accused person to the dominions of the King of the French.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 86\n\n**UNITED STATES**\n\nUnited States' extra-territorial jurisdiction in Japan is not provided for by the Treaty of 1842 or the Act of 1870.\n\n**List of Papers**\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\nC. RUSSELL, JOHN RIGBY.\n\n(A.) Colonial Office (and three inclosures)\n(B) Treaty with United States (`Treaty No. 284`)\n(C.) `6 & 7 Vict., cap. 76`\n(D.) `6 & 7 Vict., cap. 75`\n(E) Extradition Act, 1870 (`33 & 34 Vict., cap. 52`)\n(F.) Extradition Treaty with Germany (`Treaty No. 536`)\n(G.) Netherlands (`Treaty No. 672`)\n(H) Law Officers' Report (`Confidential No. 4259, p. 166a`)\n\n## Date | Previous Paper | Opinion/Conference\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 15 December, 1892 | | |\n| 9 August, 1842 | | |\n| 1911 | | |\n| 365 | | HONG KONG EASTERN |\n| 164 | CO 16453 | 20 May |\n| 14, 1872 | | |\n| 19 June, 1874 | | |\n| 6 June, 1878 | | |\n| 18 May | st previous Paper | Opin Conference. Tos for options copy drop: to Washington |\n| | | Harding convention with US Ambt as to date of meeting at chattaque |\n| | | We Rebansen Colens. In view of the Carpara. I think this should be... fourth Roth: 22/5 (26065) (13603) |\n| | | Sir E. Grey says generally what the CO. (& the F.O. have said emphatically that no conference to take place |\n| June | Titl | Dermany Japan at last ready to give proper |\n| | | subsequent Paper viest L morphia rescaine. to the traffic in... |\n| | | Personally see not much point in the proposal that the Conference should meet. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435382, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# མ ཡ བྷིཀྑུ ... ཝཱ Au\n\n\n160 \n\n2 \n\nquestion of rates, mutual provision of rolling-stock, and other such matters which demand solution before the line opens in August. \n\n5. Generally speaking, the arguments which I have advanced as the basis of a working agreement are as follows:- That the line is one entity, and should be regarded as a business proposition, in which it is to the interest of both parties to realise a return for capital outlay. That in order to do so the rates, and the amenities offered by the railway, must be such as will enable it with some degree of success to compete against water transport; that as suggested by his Excellency Liang Shi-yi, the British section, in order to obtain an approximately equal return on its outlay must levy higher rates, but that in the statement of capital outlay (e.g., construction account) every item should be eliminated which was not strictly necessary to the building of a railway, or immediately necessary for its working. To this we have given a very liberal and generous interpretation. Every foot of railway reclamation (the result of spoil taken from a railway cutting), which is not actually required by the completed railway, has been valued and deducted. The cost of doubling the track, the cost of certain bridges which failed and were reconstructed, and other similar items have all been deducted, though I doubt whether they would have been in any ordinary negotiation. That since the combined through rate must be limited by water competition, this through rate (apart from local slow rates) must be assessed proportionately, the profits being divided in the fixed proportion and the Chinese rate conforming to the agreed proportion. That a fixed minimum number of through trains shall run each day with as little delay, inconvenience, and trouble to passengers as possible. To effect this the Hong Kong Government is willing to go to considerable expense in regard to ferries from the island, convenient piers and terminal, &c., and to allow the Chinese customs to collect all dues at Kowloon, and seal goods in transit, &c., the Chinese on their side undertaking not to delay trains at the frontier and not to charge any dues which are not leviable on waterborne goods.\n\n6. The proposals are onerous to Hong Kong, for they involve the upkeep of a complete railway staff for a section only 22 miles long, and also the provision of customs examination platforms and sheds, and permission for the officials of a foreign Government to function in British territory. The sovereign rights of China have been most carefully safeguarded, and we have agreed to allow acts by Chinese officials in British territory to which no corresponding concession has been demanded.\n\n7. I regret to say that the Chinese Government has not met us in a like spirit of compromise and good-will. A note from Mr. Chao of yesterday's date places us even further from the goal of agreement than we were before.\n\n8. So much in brief for the railway negotiations. I now desire to invite your Excellency's consideration of some other collateral matters which have, or should have, a bearing and influence on these negotiations.\n\n9. You are aware of the serious revolutionary outbreak which occurred recently in Canton. I have grounds for belief that the feelings and sympathies of a considerable part of the Chinese population of this colony, in common with the population of South China, are largely on the side of the \"reformers.\" In spite of this the Hong Kong Government has taken most energetic measures to assist the Viceroy of Canton. In the first place, I suggested personally to his Excellency a number of measures calculated for the suppression of crime, co-operation in the arrest of criminals, stricter supervision over the passengers to and from Canton, facilities for extradition, &c. His Excellency naturally grasped at these suggestions with alacrity, and Mr. Wei Han (ex-director-general, Kowloon-Canton Railway), accompanied by the police taotai, arrived on the 23rd instant to consult with the captain-superintendent of police as to the steps to be taken to put the measures into operation forthwith.\n\n10. But apart from these general measures of co-operation, which are of benefit to both Governments, a large number of search-warrants have been issued in order to seize, if possible, any arms which may be concealed by suspected revolutionaries, and I have announced that any recent arrivals who may be shown to be engaged in fomenting outbreaks in China, will be required to leave the colony, and if they do not do so will be deported. The result of the searches has been the capture of some important revolutionary literature, including telegraphic codes, maps, and cyphers. For this assistance the Viceroy has repeatedly expressed his most cordial and earnest thanks. One of the Chinese papers in Hong Kong has for some time past published articles hostile to the Chinese Government, and I have recently instituted a prosecution. The editor has been convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. This will have a most salutary effect, and Mr. Wei Han expressed unbounded delight on hearing the news.\n\n11. In another matter also the Government of China has recently had need of the good offices of this Government. It has transpired that the Government of India has issued a single certificate to cover varying numbers of chests of Malwa opium. These have in many instances been divided up and sold separately, while the certificate remains in the hands of the merchant. Even in the case of Bengal opium, for which a separate certificate has been issued for each chest, the opium has been sold and the certificate never called in. As the marking of certificated chests consists merely of a stencil mark \"China\" (with a crown added in the case of Malwa), it is exceedingly easy to stamp this mark on uncertified chests, and in point of fact, I am told that it is already being done in the Straits Settlements. The Chinese commissioner of customs has appealed to me to issue sub-certificates for each chest, to examine every chest on landing, and give it an unmistakable number (in fact to keep a register of the life history of each chest), and to address the Government of India on the subject. I need not here go into details. It is sufficient to say that Mr. Harris tells me that without this assistance, he cannot possibly give effect to the Opium Convention, but in doing so this Government derives no benefit whatever, and incurs a heavy amount of work which it is under no obligation to discharge. I at once signified my willingness to assist the Chinese customs in the manner desired, but here again I desire that it should be strongly impressed upon the Chinese Government that unless they show some intention of reciprocal good-will, I am not disposed to continue these good offices.\n\n12. In the matter of the draft Customs Convention, you are aware that the initiative was taken by the Chinese commissioner of customs, with a view to the immense benefit which would accrue to the revenue of China if the extensive smuggling of salt could be placed under control, and if facilities could be afforded to the Kowloon commissioner of customs with this and other objects in view. The convention contains clauses which confer reciprocal benefits, but the fact remains that it was inaugurated and is being pressed by an official in Chinese employ as a great benefit to China. The proposals have been met with cordiality by this Government, which is ready to negotiate on the basis of the draft.\n\n13. I have thus, as briefly as possible, summarised on the one hand the basis on which negotiations for a working agreement for the railway have been carried on, and endeavoured to show that this Government desires nothing but an equitable arrangement which shall enable the line to be worked under conditions which will bring in some return for capital outlay, and has been very willing to accord the most liberal consideration to China's desires and prejudices. On the other hand, I have shown that in many other questions of recent date Hong Kong has conferred benefits on China.\n\n14. In these circumstances, I have the honour to appeal to you to represent these matters to the Chinese Government, and to urge the Wai-wu P'u to assent without further delay to the reasonable demands of this Government in the matter of the working agreement and to conclude that instrument at once without further delay. I attach a brief memorandum showing the extent to which agreement has been obtained and the points on which we now desire the acquiescence of China. I believe that the Viceroy himself intends to write urging the Peking Government to accede to our proposals without further delay. I may, perhaps, be permitted to observe that in my personal judgment the time has arrived to insist with emphasis upon the early completion of the matter, and that continued arguments and continued concessions are neither likely to advance our interests nor to imbue the Chinese with any respect for the dignity of our nation.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Note respecting Working Agreement\n\n#### Points already agreed upon\n\n1. Rolling-stock for through running to be provided by each section in proportion to its mileage, i.e., composition of trains shall be one-fifth British and four-fifths Chinese.\n\nF. D. LUGARD\n\n[2099 Co -2] \n\n## B 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435792, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "VOL. II.\n\n1971\n\nFROM\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\nForeign Office. 4 Oct: Royal Letters Patent of an Oct. 1866.\n\n11\n\n4\n\n26\n\nOpium.\n\nChinese Currency Loan.\n\nAnglo Japanese Convention.\n\nOpium.\n\nCanton Kowloon Rly.\n\nOpium.\n\n24. Morphia cocaine Statistics.\n\n24. Status in China\n\nin China of British Subjects:\n\n31. Extradition of Chinese.\n\nOpium.\n\nFrench tariff.\n\nOpium.\n\nRedemption Loan Agreement.\n\nOpium.\n\nFormosan Sugar.\n\nDr. Sun Yat-Sen.\n\nOpium.\n\nRegn. of brit-stock cos. at Shanghai.\n\nDr. Sun Yat-Sen.\n\nOpium.\n\n24. China Affairs & railways.\n\nOpium.\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "395\n\n50.129\n\nHongkong\n\n11912\n\nVOL. 8.\n\nFROM\n\nForeign Office.\n\nR\n\nH\n\n#\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\n3 Feb. Aug to Jap. Trade Marks Agreement 5. Shipment of rifles to...\n\n16\n\n16\n\n19\n\nA\n\n21\n\n*\n\n#\n\n1\n\n1\n\n12\n\nOpium.\n\nCompany registrations in China.\n\nOpium Convention:\n\nTrade marks Convention with Japan. 23. Prerogative of pardon - I hear change in Chinese Calendar.\n\nShanghai Companies registered as British\n\n6. Revolutions in China.\n\nOpium.\n\nSale of arms to Chinese revolutionaries\n\n15. Deportation of Chinese.\n\n18\n\n120\n\n4\n\nFormosa Sugar.\n\nRegistration of Brit. trade marks in Japan\n\n23.\n\nPrerogative of pardon.\n\n22. Caution Kowloon Kly.\n\nExtradition of German in 1900. 28. Deportation of Chinese Jud Prerogative of pardon.\n\n#\n\n10\n\nOpium.\n\n16. Site for Jap. Buddhist Temple.\n\nRegistration of Brit. Companies in China. Opium Convention\n\n16\n\n16\n\nA\n\nMy\n\nOpium.\n\nReconstruction of full court.\n\nNo. Prolections of trade marks in China.\n\nReay Opium\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 II & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440110, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "CO 3506\n\n2\n\nFROM\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\nForeign Office. 1 May Recognition of new Chinese Govt:\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n K\n A\n 14\n Opium Convention\n Couse.\n \n \n \n \n Recognition of Chinese Republic.\n \n Anne Foreign Offenders belutions Ordre\n 12.\n \n \n \n \n 6.\n Deportation of Chinese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n June\n Printing of mine corrliche.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thimm\n \n K\n \n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n M\n 14\n A\n \"\n \n \n *\n \n #\n \n \"\n 22\n \n \n \n \n 26\n \n 2\n \n 10\n \n 4\n \n \n \n 16\n \n 44\n M\n EL\n \n #\n \n \n \n \n bouvaition\n \n Kuugation of Bost: indiais.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Extradit in\n iblio.\n \n Sale of Redian, Ohim for China\n Ohrum boufce.\n \n \n \n \n \n Status in China of Brit: Chinese aubject=\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n July\n Gap Rock\n \n 22\n \n 23\n en oti et ei tar\n \n \n \n \n Of mum.\n \n \n Sale of certified Indian of rum.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Opium\n \n #\n \n Convention\n \n \n \n \n \n Registration of Bact. Companies in China.\n \n Extradition of 1: Sotto\n Auportation of Turkish Persian of min\n \n Post of Judicial ledviser to thinese yout =\n \n \n \n \n Registration of Brit: companies in China.\n bauton - Kowloon Key\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n French duty on Canadian Foots.\n ofcum.\n \n reign\n Date.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1912\n Гевг\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n It previous Paper..\n 1002\n Lasky you.\n Conf 15 Tab S\n \n \n \n \n \n \n HONG KONG\n \n 3506.\n \n Rece\n (12)\n \n \n \n \n ere trademarks Convention\n \n Anglo Japanes\n \n b\n seeds copy deep from Tokio & letter.\n B.JI.\n \n \n \n on subject. It is doubtful whether Jap\n \n for will afford protection to all weregs works In this use\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n oletiva for which prior\n \n Mr. Stable\n \n can be claimed\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 popers\n \n Lu also Gor/3502.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ? Copy to For conf to.\n O.D.\n \n !?FEB\n \n ༤ནས་\n at me t\n \n \n \n \n t subsequent Paper\n \n 5630\n \n 44).\n Wt.25,846-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E,W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440668, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "Foreign Office.\n\nA\n\nHome Office. India Office\n\n*\n\nk\n\nLaw Officers\n\nDATE\n\n21 Nov.\n\nSUBJECT\n\nRegistration of Brit: bottomies in China. 21. Claim of China Commercial S. S. Co. 2 Dec Opium smuggling to the Philippines\n\nbunton for Hongkly.\n\n2.\n\n5-\n\n13\n\nOheim Convention\n\nMin.\n\nOferim trade in Macao.\n\n9. Extradition\n\n1\n\nCasts.\n\nOkcum house\n\nForeign\n\nDate.\n\n1912\n\n•\n\nY Aug\n\nMay Lewkish & Persian Opium.\n\n10 July\n\n16. Sales of certified opium. 7 Aug. Exportation as non-certified opium.\n\nx Nov. Exportation of opium intended for Formosa. 14 Dec. Appt. of M. L.C. Garrett.\n\nP\n\nOpium legislation\n\nJan Letters Patent of 22 Oct 1866.\n\nMedical Adviser 18 July 6. Lewis.\n\nHouse of Commons. & hear. Opium trade.\n\nP\n\n4\n\n14\n\nH\n\n\"\n\nCivil Police Service.\n\n15 July Attempt on life of Sir F. H. May.\n\n30 Sep. Opium trade with China.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n0.\n\n24211.\n\nTrait Conf 18 Aug!\n\nCopy Hong Kong\n\nHONG KONG\n\nForeign (Conf. Dec.)\n\nEASTERN\n\n25128\n\n2\n\nC.O\n\n125100\n\nRECE 10 AUG\n\nарит Paget's of further\n\ncorre\n\nder Stubbs\n\nWe have seen\n\n\"Prints\n\nto\n\nmost of these already\n\n94. Kong Straits\n\nConf\n\nLF\n\n$\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n7.0.28843\n\nSie\n\nS. Foddes\n\ncur\n\n10\n\nW. have not had July 18 (1)\n\n26 (1), which might will\n\n8. July 26 (1)\n\nhave her sent to us\n\ncamentia with 20 320\n\n ́,244), WI.25,946-17. 10,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nI't seew\n\nspecially opp.\n\nclear that the\n\nForeign (Aug Dec", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## \n254 \nand return of White, both requisitions charging the crime of burglary. Both requisitions were honored; White was arrested on both warrants and before the magistrate the crime proved was grand larceny. Thereupon the writ of Habeas Corpus were procured, one from the State court and one from the U. S. District court and White was freed from arrest. \n\nThereupon new police court proceedings were begun in Wisconsin for grand larceny, a new warrant obtained on January 17th, a new requisition was issued by the Governor and White was again arrested in Minnesota. A writ of Habeas Corpus was sued out in the U. S. district court where after a hearing the writ was discharged, whereupon White appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court.\n\nIn rendering the opinion of the court, Justice Shiras said in part: \n\n\"The main ground upon which the release of the prisoner is sought is that, by the proceedings had before Judge Kerr, and the order therein made, the matter at bar has been fully and finally adjudicated, and stands res adjudicata. It will be noticed that none of the proceedings wherein White was discharged upon habeas corpus related to the complaint and warrant of arrest issued by the judge of the municipal court of Eau Claire city under date of January 17th. The contention is that the several proceedings were in fact based upon the one offence, and that the orders heretofore made, releasing him from the arrests made upon the prior proceedings, must be deemed to be adjudications upon the question whether White can be extradited for trial for that offence. Counsel have very fully and ably presented their views on these questions, and have cited many authorities thereon. I shall not attempt to quote therefrom, or to point out wherein differences exist in the facts of the different cases. It is entirely possible that the pleas of res adjudicata might, under some circumstances, be available in a case wherein extradition was sought upon a second or third warrant issued for that purpose. Thus, if upon an arrest made upon a warrant granted by the governor, the question of identity of the person", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444304, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\nQ. Has there been any Act of Congress incorporating the Philippine Islands into the United States?\n\nA. There has been no Act giving the Philippines a general status other than that of an unorganised territory except, in my opinion, that certain Acts which extend certain laws would apply to foreign dependencies and to foreign dependencies alone. I am of opinion that it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the Philippine Islands are part of the United States and that they are also within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.\n\nQ. Has there been any Act of Congress definitely making the Philippine Islands a part of the United States?\n\nA. There has, with certain limitations.\n\nQ. What are those limitations?\n\nA. The Sovereignty of the United States is exercised over territory which has various relations to the Sovereignty. Among the classes of territory covered by this Sovereignty are the States themselves which have a direct voice in the Government of themselves and of the territories of the United States. Another class are the organized territories which have no direct voice in the Government of the country as a whole and have a limited voice in their own Government. Both classes of territories are governed directly or indirectly by the Congress of the United States. Congress extends to these territories such political powers and such laws of the United States as it wishes to extend. The full and absolute sovereignty over these territories lies in Congress.\n\nThe Act of 1870 is singularly ill-arranged. It nowhere enacts in terms that the persons charged with certain offences may be surrendered. This, which is the leading object of the Act, is effected in the following roundabout way. Section 6 enacts that \"where this Act applies in the case of any foreign State, every Fugitive Criminal of that State who is in England shall be liable to be apprehended and surrendered.\" Section 26 defines a \"fugitive criminal\" to mean a person accused of an \"extradition crime,\" and is also one of the crimes to be found in the Extradition Convention signed at Washington on the 12th July, 1889. The documents put in were Exhibits 2 and 3. Exhibit 2 was the requisition. Exhibit 3 consisted of 8 documents and were marked 3 to 3h.\n\nMr. Islands in the same way. The Government, and a third class is that of the unorganized territories which have no voice in the Central Government and have a very limited voice (if any) in their own Government.\n\nEvidence was put forward by the defence relating to the question of citizenship, naturalization, the wording of certain treaties and the construction to be placed thereon and other questions. Having regard to my views as to the construction to be placed on the Act, I am of opinion that these questions are not relevant to the issue before the Court. My decision with regard to Point 1 is therefore against the defendant.\n\nI shall now deal with the second and third points. The second point was that documents were not properly authenticated and the third point was that there was no evidence of an extradition crime. These two points were taken together. Mr. Brutton admitted that if the documents were properly authenticated there was on the face of such documents a sufficient prima facie case made out against the defendant with respect to the crime of abduction.\n\nThe documents put in were Exhibits 2 and 3. Exhibit 2 was a requisition by the Consul-General of the United States in Hongkong upon the Hongkong Government for the Extradition of the defendant to the Philippine Islands. Documents 3a to 3h were a copy of a record of conviction of the defendant and order of arrest.\n\nExhibit 3a purports to be a copy of the judgment of conviction of the defendant of the crime of abduction in the Court of First Instance for the Eleventh Judicial District of the Philippine Islands at Cebu on the 21st December, 1906. Exhibit 3b purports to be a copy of the final judgment of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands. Exhibit 3c purports to be a copy of the sentence of the said Supreme Court upon the said last-named judgment given December 3rd, 1907. Exhibit 3d purports to be a certificate by the Chief Justice of the said Supreme Court under the seal of the said Court and over the signature of the Chief Justice of the said Court. Exhibit 3e purports to be a certificate by the Executive Secretary for the Philippine Islands under the Great Seal of the Philippine Islands and over the signature of Frank W. Carpenter, Executive Secretary of the Philippine Islands. Exhibit 3f purports to be an order of arrest issued by the Judge of the Court of First Instance for the district aforesaid for the apprehension of the defendant dated January 17th, 1913, signed by Adolph Wislizenus, Judge of the said district, and under the seal of the said Court. Exhibit 3g purports to be a return by the Sheriff of the Province of Cebu upon the said order of arrest sworn to by the Sheriff on the 17th day of January, 1913, before the said Judge under the seal of the said Court.\n\nThe Certificate to Exhibit 3a is not signed. It is a copy. There is no seal on 3a, and 3b is not signed nor is it sealed. The rest of the documents are signed and sealed. Exhibit 3d, which is the certificate of the Chief Justice, is as follows:— \n\n\"I, Cayetano S. Arellano, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, perfect, correct and complete copy of the sentence by the Court of First Instance...\"\n\nI am satisfied on the evidence which has been adduced by the prosecution that the Philippine Islands are an integral part of the United States. Mr. Anderson also gave evidence as follows:-\"I gave evidence in the Police Court (in the former proceedings) that the Philippine Islands was not a Colony nor dependency, but that it was a constituent part of the United States of America for Extradition purposes.\"\n\nThe requisition in this case was therefore rightly made by him as a Consul-General of the United States.\n\nI would also call attention to Section X. of the Ashburton Treaty 1842, which is as follows:—\"X. It is agreed that Her Britannic Majesty and the United States shall upon mutual requisitions by them respectively made deliver up to Justice all persons who being charged with the crime of murder or assault with intent to commit murder or piracy or arson or robbery or forgery or utterance of forged papers committed within the jurisdiction of either shall seek any asylum or shall be found upon the territories of the other.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## FROM \n## DATE \n## SUBJECT \n\n| FROM | DATE | SUBJECT |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign Office | 22 | Netherlands German Extradition Treaty |\n| | | Some text missing... |\n| India Office | 23 Apr | Importation of Persian Opium |\n| | 24 Dec | Supply of Indian Opium |\n\n**Other Entries**\n\n* India | 124 | Prison Comm... Opium\n* 6 | Recognition of Chinese Republic\n* 8 | Deportation of Undesirables\n* | Boundaries of the colony\n* | Opium conference. If it July. Opium Convention\n* 10 | Admission to U. & 2 of East Indian Labourers from Philippines\n* 10 | Graft (China companies) O in 6\n* 122 | 10 | 12 | Opium\n* | Piracy\n* 125 | V | Cure of Vetto\n* | Conclusion of Opium Traffic in [wang-shau wan] Hunton or unkow Railway\n* 26 | Lighting of Paracels Reef\n* 17 Dec | Opium\n* 29 | Extradition of Absconding Chinese Officer\n* 130 | 31 | Opium convention. Lighting of Paracels Reef\n* 6 Jan | Colonial Female Prisoner Monteith. Fugitive offender I. Woodward\n* 14 | 17 | 23 | V. Sotto. Costs of Extradition Proceedings\n* 8 May | Letters of Denization\n* + Sept | Supt. Victoria Yuol. Extradition of V. Solto\n* 7 | Transfer of Mr. S.E.O. Garrett\n\n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113` is found at the bottom. \n\nPage numbering is not explicitly mentioned but seems to be present in the form of numbers like `124`, `122`, `125`, and `130`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "356\n\nNovember.\n\nThe Consul-General contends and states that his contention is supported by the opinion of solicitors for the Crown and solicitors engaged in the case of Sotto in all its phases that the British Habeas Corpus Act should not be held to apply to extradition matters.\n\nHe makes further representations which I am instructed to lay before you as to the annoyance and loss of time and effort involved in such suits against American Consular officers in their official capacity acting under the instructions of their Government in extradition matters.\n\nI should be greatly obliged for an expression of the views of His Majesty's Government upon the Consul-General's contention.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI have &c.,\n\nWalter Hines Page.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "62\n\npause, to induce the Court to hesitate, to make it desire to \nadvise with itself, whether after all there may not be some principle of higher constitutional law as yet unrevealed, but waiting for recognition,\n\nObviously the first question is whether the Court has \nJurisdiction to entertain the point. I think I shall be able \nto show that it has. Undoubtedly it is a question for the \nExecutive; but I do not think it is exclusively for the Execu-\ntives. I submit that like the political question in extradition \nit is both for the Court and the Executive.\n\nThere is a very good reason why the exemption for the \npolitical offences should be left to both branches of Government \nfor while the principle of the exemption is admitted to be \nfundamental to the law of extradition, the difficulty of deter-\nmining with precision its exact scope and meaning has from the \nfirst been recognised. Some offences are clearly political; \nothers require the acutest legal intellects to determine whether \nthey come within the meaning of the exemption. And therefore, \nwisely as it seems to me, the question has been put within the \njurisdiction of the Court, and it may act on its own initiative \nin discharging the fugitive on this ground. Yet even if it \ndoes not the weight of its deliberations must be of assistance \nin guiding the Executive in the exercise of its own and inde-\npendent discretion,\n\nSo here, in the case of martial law which has been \nnecessitated by internal commotion, while the effect it has on \nExtradition is manifestly within the discretion of the Executive \nto determine it is also, as I hope to show, well within the \njurisdiction of the Court.\n\nIt will of course be objected at once that I can show \nnothing either in any treaty or in the Act or the local Ordinance \nto support my contention I answer, and the answer is complete \nneither is there anything in the treaties, or the Act or the\n\n(2).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447533, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "and often does discharge a prisoner although there prima facie evidence guilt, the circumstances are so obscure, the intent so doubtful, the testimony so conflicting, that he thinks a jury would not be likely to convict; but in a case of extradition he cannot consider these matters. If he finds sufficient evidence of guilt to justify a commitment, the question of a conviction is not for his consideration.\"\n\nIt was contended that in this case the evidence before the Magistrate must have presented a doubt, and that therefore it could not have raised strong and probable presumption of guilt, and, further, that if there is a bona fide doubt the Magistrate should never commit, and we were asked to say upon this reasoning that the Magistrate has exceeded his jurisdiction and that this Court has the power to interfere with his decision. There is in my opinion no authority for such a proposition and I can find nothing in the judgment which warrants the contention that he has abused or exceeded his powers. It is true that the Magistrate has for the purpose of arriving at a conclusion on the evidence presupposed that a jury was investigating it, and I fail to see how this constitutes an abuse of his powers. As I have already pointed out, the procedure under the Extradition Ordinance is assimilated to the preliminary enquiry on an indictable offence, and Section 76 of the Magistrates Ordinance authorises a committal subject to two alternatives if in the opinion of the Magistrate such evidence is sufficient to put the accused upon his trial for an indictable offence or if the evidence given raises a strong or probable presumption of the guilt of the accused.\" Surely the consideration of whether the evidence is sufficient to send the accused for trial involves the question of whether a jury would or would not be likely or \"be entitled\" to convict upon it. In so far as the services of an imaginary jury were invoked in determining the questions of law, e.g., the property of the American government, and possession in the alleged stolen property, it is nihil ad rem and can be properly disregarded.\n\nThen another contention as to the abuse of the Magistrate's powers was based on certain remarks in the judgment which reflect on the action of the fugitive in not tendering evidence to rebut the presumption of guilt. If the Magistrate's decision had been based on this conception it would clearly have raised serious questions as to the improper exercise of his jurisdiction, but an examination of the judgment shows that the Magistrate considered the evidence put forward by the Crown was calculated to raise a strong and probable presumption of guilt. He says: \"I shall here, therefore, while allowing that further evidence may put a new aspect on the matter, express the opinion that the evidence before me if presented to a jury in its present form is calculated to raise a strong and probable presumption of the guilt of the accused in respect to say of these charges (Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5).\"\n\nThis is a clear and decisive exercise of the Magistrate's discretion, with which, in so far as the facts as distinguished from the law are concerned, this Court has no power to interfere.\n\nThe learned Counsel for the fugitive also complained of an irregularity committed by the Magistrate as to the mode of making certain corrections in the deposition of one of the witnesses, and we thought it desirable to afford the Magistrate an opportunity in the witness-box of explaining the irregularity complained of. My learned brother has dealt fully with this point in his judgment, and I need only say that I entirely agree with his conclusions.\n\nI now come to the question raised as to the property. It was contended that there was no property in the government of the Province of Kwangtung and that the fugitive is not a servant of the Kwangtung Government. Further, it was contended that the burden was on the Crown to show (1) that the Province exists and what it is; (2) what the Provincial Government is and that there is such a thing; (3) that if it exists it is capable of holding property and having servants responsible to it. These contentions may be summarised as follows:-\n\nPage 74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447536, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "$5, L.J., Ch. 7, it was decided that where the Confederate States of America had sent goods held by them as public property to England under a contract, the United States could not, after the Civil War was over, repudiate the contract and recover the goods.\n\nNow, can it be contended that Chan Kwing-ming's action ever established a de facto government at all? Was there only final success to constitute independence as distinguished from rebellion? Was there any suppressed and displaced authority? In my opinion, there was not. The evidence, so far as it goes, shows that during the fortnight in question, payments were made into the public Treasury as usual, the government officials remained in their offices, performing their duties as usual, and, as the Magistrate I think rightly observed, \"the one act of administration which can be claimed by the rebel Governor-General is that he depleted the Treasury.\" And the most, I think, that could be fairly contended is that the possession, as distinguished from the dominion of the property in question, was in the rebel Chen for the period in question.\n\nThe circumstances are clearly and wholly different from those under consideration in McRae's case and Prioleau's case, and as there is no real analogy between them, to the question whether, as a fact, the alleged rebellion was put an end to by the Central Government or by the Provincial authorities, in the view which I take of the case, i.e., of the failure to establish the existence of a de facto government, it becomes unnecessary to determine.\n\nI should, however, add that evidence was tendered by the Crown which bears on the status of the Tutuh of Province. Referring to the Proclamation of Chan Kwing-ming - an official of the Government of the Province of Kwangtung who says in his affidavit, \"He has been deputed by the Governor-General of the said Province to take charge of the extradition proceedings,\" further states as follows: \"I have seen Exhibit 21 put in in the Police Court proceedings, being the Proclamation issued by Chan Kwing-ming; the word used throughout the Proclamation translated as Province is a word which essentially indicates territory subordinate to the Republic of China and could not indicate an Independent State. It is quite distinct from the word which would have been used had an Independent State been referred to or intended. Furthermore, the expression “大都督”都, respectively translated as Grand Tana and Tutuh, essentially indicate a Governor of a Province subordinate to the Central Republican Government. They are quite distinct from the words which would have been used had the office of President been referred to or intended and which is the same word which has always been used to indicate the President of Foreign Republics such as the United States of America and France.\"\n\nIt also appears that at the time (21st July) when Chan's Proclamation was issued, Yuan Shih-kai had not, in fact, been instated as President. His order (Exhibit 17) dismissing Chan some five days later is headed \"Order of the President pro tem.,\" and I think there is much in the contention that Chan's Proclamation was mainly directed \"to impeach and punish Yuan Shih-kai\" rather than to declare independence from the Republican Government of China. Whatever view, however, may be taken of Chan's intention, it is, in my opinion, demonstrated that the attempt to establish independence wholly failed.\n\nI now pass to the second branch of the subject, what was termed \"the non-recognition argument.\" The Crown alleges the property to be in the government of the Province of Kwangtung, and it is contended that the Crown must show the existence of the Province of Kwangtung in such a manner that the Court can take judicial cognisance of it. I may observe, as a fact, that the Court has now extended powers of amendment of a criminal trial in a manner...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "The only evidence tendered by the prisoner on the subject was his affidavit on the file in the civil proceedings and by his solicitors. In his affidavit the fugitive alleges that after he obtained the drafts on the banks in Hongkong he reported to Chan Kwing-ming, who instructed him to proceed to Hongkong and cash them and hand the proceeds to him (Chan). He goes on to say that on or about the 7th August, he cashed one of the drafts for $60,000 on the International Bank and replaced the amount in the name of one of his aliases in that bank and that one or two days afterwards he saw Chan on board the str. Forck in this harbour and, stated briefly, paid him $100,000 out of his own moneys in respect of one draft and that in regard to the deposit note for $50,000 he signed his name on the back and gave to Chan a letter addressed to the International Bank authorising them to pay the same to him. In regard to this evidence the Crown called the Captain Superintendent of Police, who proved as a fact that Chan Kwing-ming left the Colony on the steamship referred to on the 5th August, which was before the alleged interview, and the sub-manager of the International Bank was called to prove that the deposit receipt is dated 9th August, which was some three days after Chan left the Colony.\n\nThis defence was not taken before the Magistrate, but I think the evidence establishes two things only, that whatever was intended to be the ultimate destination of the money it found itself in the personal possession of the fugitive here outside the jurisdiction of China, and further that the explanation given by the fugitive in regard to it is disproved. There is not therefore any evidence upon which this Court can find that the intention was to remit the money to Nanking for military purposes. If there had been any reliable evidence in support of it I am not prepared to say that in the state of affairs then existent in China it may not have been regarded as a political offence within the authorities laid down in Castioni's case and in re Meunier (1894), 2 Q.B.D., 415.\n\nThere was also a further contention that as a claim of right was set up by the fugitive there could be no larceny. Halsbury, Vol. 9, p. 628, says:—\"To prevent the taking from being felonious the claim of right must be an honest one though it may be unfounded in law or in fact. If the claim is not made in good faith, but is a mere colourable pretence to obtain or to keep possession it will not avail as a defence.\" In so far as this claim is based on the facts set out in the fugitive's affidavit to which I have just referred, and for the reasons which I have given, there was, I think, ample justification for the Magistrate rejecting it and holding that the claim is not made in good faith. In so far as the claim of right is based on the contention that the property is in the alleged rebel government it is disposed of in the view which I take of its non-existence.\n\nIt was also alleged by the learned Counsel for the fugitive that martial law is in force in the province of Kwangtung and that being the case extradition treaties are suspended and therefore the claim for extradition must fail. We gave it as our deliberate opinion during the argument that this question is not for the Court to investigate, but it is a matter as to which the respective governments alone can take cognisance, and to this view I adhere. Both His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton and the Acting Chief Justice of the Province have stated by affidavit that martial law is not in force, and at the reiterated request of the learned Counsel for the fugitive, who entirely challenged our decision on this point, and with a desire to afford every opportunity to the fugitive to demonstrate his opinion, we expressed the hope that the Consul-General might be able to attend for cross-examination on the allegation in affidavit. He did so and his evidence appears in extenso in the notes of the case, but, as I have said, in our opinion it is no part of the province of this Court to decide this issue of fact and I accordingly refrain from doing so.\n\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the thirteenth day of the fifth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsu. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (four copies in English and four in Chinese) the ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the twenty-first day of the fourth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsü.\n\n(L.S.) \n(L.S.) \n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.** \n**SEAL OF THE CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY**\n\n## HONG KONG EXTENSION\n### Reproduction of the Map attached to the Convention between Great Britain and China signed at Peking on the 9th of June 1898\n\n| Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Deep Bay |\n| | Mirs Bay |\n| | Toby Harbour |\n| | Lautao |\n| | Castle Peak Bay |\n| | Lomma \"Port Shelter\" |\n| | HONG KONG |\n| | Lem. m. a Islands |\n\n**Teritory previously belonging to Great Britain** \n**Boundary of area leased to Great Britain.** \n**Chinese Territory**\n\nScale of or 1 Inch 4.90 Miles \n10 | 15 MILES\n\n22° 9′ N. Lat \n114° 30' E. Long \n#13° 52' E Long \n\nLitho at the Intell Div War Office Nov 1898 \n`IDW 0, No 1376`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481272, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "FROM Lovran Agan 射 DATE Hing Shang تری به هار VOL. 5 (18:37}}} W 17721A (48 2,000 12/92 H, J, R. & L, LA Gp 113\n\nSUBJECT FROM DATE SUBJECT\n\n27 Aug. G. hands, Police Constable 29 Satt. Les. Sergei w. Shillit -Ke-engagement 30 # J. O'Regan, Wanamuster 14 Oct. Mr Delahunty Assistance 15 * B. N. Manite, Polie bestable Foreign Offres \" 4 31 that. Peace à China 4 Apl. \"The Sment Tobacco Maumbetary at M.K. Shameen # pastonly at Router Brackelmann & let. base of Die A. Gaston # 9 * # + Ohein Prints 14 2 Branch of Bank of China i H.K. 4 los. u's Bours of D. Burlingham /3 + # J. Edwards Dec. Jost. Station Officer, Fire Brigade مرگ Longueu 12\"Blaw doescens Pow. D. Pabica Sangt. J. R. Sutton Ty 23 * y 3/ & Death of J. h. Sheed Ponsign Office } 4 Jan. Siamese w'ulfram # \" 9 ச RG Every subjects went to Qust. for income Opruim Print * Striscion مر of Jananese mes H.K. Lease of land on South Boundary 4 Feb. Reushojier Anticles 6 # \" // # 18 125 & 24 B International Opis komention Foreign Postal Agencies i Chine Open min Traffin Commentin 1912. 1 Mas. Trading with Germans in thine DTA. Gaston - Arnest of- # /0 \" blain of M. J. N. SK 摩 ہوگی # Chain (bovia) O. in l. 1919 * 25 # # \" ar \" 19 * २७ گوشی Shirment of goods in Belguim & Masterlane's Mattarlanis Consul cxsentation of trees Operin Prints + i opin & morphine # می کنم i China Bunkems for Chinese & heutuel Ships 23 * Tuffie \" 26 * A # * Open Privé 77 # Vigur traffic in China 2 May complaint of D. 1. Gevin \" My # # 23 # # Chaim hints Comention Repeal of Racao Exinaaiiion Bucks, 188/ Operin Prints I June Repeal of thases Extradition Blacks, 1881 # 1/2 # * \" 14 /8 26 # Ibsence of Sir to. blist from 4. R. Souveraing Improntation of Siamese nine w/o Dutch £. S. Operim moncholy in fortequese troo A.K. Suger Convention Order. 19014 8 July Feciters for Denmark - Referral of Shipment # 110 # 117 + Oprin into Measurement of Ships for brignant Limes Dover for Southam Gout. of China Eperin Traffic A 18 * # ሪ Aug. Payment of 2000 by China bois, under Bucke. 1915 \" LC 触 y", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "602\n\nisul-General Jamieson to H.M. Principal Secretary o. \nfor Foreign Affairs.\n\n\"C. \n37824\n\nH.B.M.Consulate-General, \nCanton\n\nRECO \nEC2 AUG 201\n\nMay 31st, 1920.\n\n507\n\nSolvang of\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPrior to proceeding on furlough, I have the \nhonour to place on record the present position with \nregard to the dispute between the Government of \nMacau and that of Kuangtung in connection with a pro-\njected scheme for the improvement of the harbour at \nMacau and of the approaches thereto.\n\nAfter the Colonial Authorities had suspended \noperations and had entered on negotiations with the \nrepresentative of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs \nof the military Government, it was agreed to appoint \ndelegates on both sides to discuss what steps should \nbe taken permanently to dispose of causes of friction \nbetween the two Governments.\n\nThe principal points were: the immediate estab-\nlishment of a Delimitation Commission in terms of the \nTreaty of 1887; a revision of the procedure with re-\ngard to extradition; a removal of the port restric-\ntions imposed on Chinese national vessels in the har-\nbour of Macau; and recognition of the right of the \nMacau Government to undertake, without interference \non the part of their neighbour, a scheme of harbour \nimprovement within territorial limits, with regard to \nwhich there could from a non-Chinese point of view, \nbe no contention.\n\nPage 603\n\nedleston, Kalin, \n20\n\nAS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503530, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the thirteenth day of the fifth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsi; ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (four copies in English and four in Chinese) the ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the twenty-first day of the fourth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsi.\n\n(L.S.)\n\n(L.S.)\n\nCLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\nSEAL OF THE CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY.\n\nC.O.129/994\n\nPUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.\n\nOne Document, being\n\na map\n\nShowing Hong Kong extension\n\nhas been removed to\n\nMR797\n\n22.v.72\n\n1. Anderson.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927", "content_text": "(2) that all this proves the importance of being able to extradite offenders to Canton.\n\nI confess I do not quite follow the argument. The Cantonese are likely to be any more pleased at an extradition because it was based on the contention that this ruffian was only a political offender; then they would argue about the machinery for extradition. And Sir C. Clementi Smith, at the close of his career, seems to contemplate the continuance of brigandage with singular equanimity.\n\nHowever, we have the amendment of the law to look to. Shortly after 1833...\n\n...\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\n \n17. To Fo. (w/ 16 vantes) - 14 Oct 27 Cons. 140C627\n\n18. Gur 382 8/9/27\n\n12 Sent to Raking 99/4/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512647, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "139\n\n42\n\n43\n\n140\n\nIn my opinion these evils will be sufficiently guarded against if organs of Chinese administration are made aware of the names of persons registered at Dutch consulates in China; for the organs in question will then know that they should treat persons so registered as Dutch subjects.\n\nCC\n\nFor the time being my Government is willing to agree that the names of all those who have registered themselves at Dutch consulates in China should be communicated by me to your Excellency's Government, once in each year on a date subsequent to the month of March, and that they should be communicated by the consuls to the officials at the place at which they are stationed, with whom they have relations. Hereafter, whenever Chinese who have assumed Dutch nationality return to China and report to the Dutch consuls, I and the consuls will send in a communication as occasion requires. I trust that your Excellency will favour me with a reply in order that action may be taken as proposed.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that the procedure proposed by your Excellency has, as its object, the exercise of care in the matter of nationality and the avoidance of trouble, an object which has the warm concurrence of this Ministry. Communications are being addressed to the local authorities throughout the provinces to take note thereof and to carry out enquiries into the matter from time to time.\n\nAPPENDIX IV.\n\nNationality of Chinese domiciled in Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Kowloon Extension at the time of their Cession to the British Crown.\n\nThe island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain, and immediately occupied, in January 1841, by the preliminary agreement which brought our first war with China to a close. The cession was formally confirmed by article 3 of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842. Captain Elliot, the British plenipotentiary, on taking possession in 1841, issued two proclamations, the first declaring that \"Chinese resorting there shall be governed by the laws and customs of China, every description of torture being excepted,\" and the second announcing that \"all natives residing therein must understand that they are now subjects of the Queen of England, to whom and to whose officers they must pay duty and obedience.\"\n\npersons\n\nThe opinion of Mr. Alabaster, Acting Attorney-General of Hong Kong in 1911, was that the inhabitants who remained in Hong Kong became British subjects but did not lose their Chinese nationality. The island at that time was a barren rock with a shifting population of a few poverty-stricken fishermen.\n\nBritish Kowloon, consisting of a small strip on the mainland opposite Hong Kong, was leased to Sir Harry Parkes on behalf of the British Government on the 20th March, 1860, at an annual rental of 500 taels, on the ground that it consisted for the most part of barren hills that cannot be cultivated and has hitherto formed a place of resort for thieves and outlaws.\" On the 24th October, 1860, by the Convention of Peking, the lease was cancelled and, with a view to the maintenance of law and order in and about the harbour of Hong Kong,\" the area was ceded to Great Britain as a dependency of the colony of Hong Kong.'\n\nThis was followed by a proclamation declaring that no officer of the Emperor of China has any right or title to exercise authority or control therein or in connection therewith, but that the Government is now, and from henceforth will remain, vested in Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and her officers duly appointed and subject to such laws and regulations as Her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, may ordain and direct.\"\n\nC\n\n77\n\nOn these facts Mr. Alabaster was of opinion that the native inhabitants of Kowloon had not become British subjects at all, but had remained subjects of the Emperor of China.\n\nThe area known as the Kowloon Extension or the New Territories was leased to Great Britain for a term of ninety-nine years by a convention signed at Peking on the 9th June, 1898; the relevant clauses of this convention stated as follows:-\n\nK\n\nWhereas it has for many years past been recognised that an extension of the Hong Kong territory is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the colony, it has now been agreed between the Government of Great Britain and China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease. The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years. It is at the same time agreed that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the limits of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. Chinese officials and people shall be allowed, as heretofore, to use the road from Kowloon to Hsinan. It is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon City shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels which may come and go and lie there at their pleasure and for the convenience and movement of the officials and people within the city. It is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of inhabitants of the district within the extension.\n\nIf cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with existing treaties and the Hong Kong regulations.'\n\ntial Print 11426,\n\nMr. Alabaster was of the opinion that the Chinese inhabitants of the New Territories continued to be subjects of China only. Sir Ernest Satow and Sir John Jordan were both of opinion that we could not claim to protect the inhabitants of the New Territory as British subjects in China. The latter pointed out that the Chinese regarded Kowloon on the same basis as Kiaochau and Dairen, namely, as leased and not as ceded territory. Kiaochau was leased to Germany for ninety-nine years in March 1898, and Kowloon was, as a political concession, leased to Great Britain for the same period three months later. It was never suggested that the Chinese inhabitants of Kiaochau had lost their Chinese nationality, and the Chinese would never admit such a contention in the case of Kowloon. His Majesty's Government deemed it expedient to abstain from communicating to the Chinese Government their view that the inhabitants of Kowloon had become British subjects, and in 1905, when the Chinese Government wrote on the assumption that they were still subjects of China, care was taken in the reply to avoid controverting the assumption. In a case which occurred in 1910, the Chinese nationality of an inhabitant of the Kowloon extension was fully recognised by His Majesty's Government (see Appendix I, case No. 20).\n\nThe Law Officers of the Crown ruled in 1899 that the persons inhabiting the Kowloon extension at the time of the transfer were to be regarded as British subjects \"for all purposes, apparently on the ground that it was an extension under lease of the Colony of Hong Kong. Sir E. Davidson agreed with this view, but he also thought that this would not prevent the inhabitants having a second nationality. Supposing that Chinese municipal law prescribes, as I understand it does, that Liang Tou is within China a Chinaman, how can we object on the ground that according to international law he is not?\" The reasoning which led Sir E. Davidson to adopt this view is equally applicable to the case of Hong Kong and Kowloon as to the case of the Kowloon extension\n\nConfidential Print 11426. p. 24.\n\nAccording to the view of the Law Officers (and I think that technically their view is sound) the territory of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain for a term of ninety-nine years, became during and for that term an integral portion of the British Dominions. It is a peculiar and novel form of tenure; but applying recognised principles to the new conditions, I think that while the term lasts the territory is just as fully part of the British Dominions as if (for instance) it had been conquered and annexed and we had given an undertaking to restore it to China at the end of ninety-nine years.\n\n\"It follows, in my opinion, that in contemplation of English law, anybody born in Kowloon during the term of ninety-nine years rebus sic stantibus, of course is a natural-born British subject jure soli, though such persons may, in contemplation of the law of their parents' country of origin, have a second nationality (Chinese or other) which in that country of origin will prevail.\"\n\n0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929", "content_text": "## 143\n\nIn Chinese waters could be tried and punished by the Consular Courts for opium smuggling. This doctrine would, however, certainly be contested by the Chinese authorities and in point of fact a Chinese who committed a crime in territorial waters, other than an offence against the ship discipline, would always be handed over to his national authorities for punishment.\n\n2. The International Opium Convention of 1912 (Chapter IV) in effect binds the signatory Powers to prevent not only the import of opium into Chinese territory but also its transport by their nationals from one Chinese locality to another.\n\n3. Under the existing regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs all opium is contraband and liable to seizure.\n\n4. Articles 47 and 48 of the Sino-British treaty of Tientsin (1858) prescribe the penalties incurred by British ships concerned in smuggling.\n\n5. A copy of the Anti-Opium Law of the Nationalist Government was forwarded by His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai to His Majesty's Minister in a despatch dated March 20th last, and will be found in the Foreign Office confidential print under the heading of \"Opium\", Section 1 of the 10th August.\n\n6. In Kwangtung and Kwangsi all trade in opium is, I understand, theoretically prohibited, but actually the drug, under the name of \"anti-opium medicine\" is the subject of a monopoly, and heavy penalties are inflicted for smuggling.\n\nIf the members of the combine to which Your Excellency refers, are the Chinese super-cargoes who committed the offence in Chinese waters, I suggest that you should let me know their names and I will ask the Canton Government to apply for their extradition. As regards the gang who directed operations from Hongkong, I trust it will not be impossible to frame a charge against them under the laws of the Colony.\n\nI have etc.\n(Sgd) J.F. Brenan.\nActing Consul-General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-5 Coastal and river trade- prevention of smuggling and illicit trading 15-10-1928 - 14-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## \n43 \n\nand China that the limits of British territory shall be enlarged under lease. The term of this lease shall be ninety-nine years. It is at the same time agreed that within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. Within the limits of the newly leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction. Chinese officials and people shall be allowed, as heretofore, to use the road from Kowloon to Hsinan. It is further agreed that the existing landing-place near Kowloon City shall be reserved for the convenience of Chinese men-of-war, merchant and passenger vessels which may come and go and lie there at their pleasure and for the convenience and movement of the officials and people within the city. It is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of inhabitants of the district within the extension.\n\nIf cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with existing treaties and the Hong Kong regulations.\n\n38-40.\n\n**Confidential Print** \n`11426`, \n\nMr. Alabaster was of the opinion that the Chinese inhabitants of the New Territories continued to be subjects of China only. Sir Ernest Satow and Sir John Jordan were both of opinion that we could not claim to protect the inhabitants of the New Territory as British subjects in China. The latter pointed out that the Chinese regarded Kowloon on the same basis as Kiaochau and Dairen, namely, as leased and not as ceded territory. Kiaochau was leased to Germany for ninety-nine years in March 1898, and Kowloon was, as a political concession, leased to Great Britain for the same period three months later. It was never suggested that the Chinese inhabitants of Kiaochau had lost their Chinese nationality, and the Chinese would never admit such a contention in the case of Kowloon. His Majesty's Government deemed it expedient to abstain from communicating to the Chinese Government their view that the inhabitants of Kowloon had become British subjects, and in 1905, when the Chinese Government wrote on the assumption that they were still subjects of China, care was taken in the reply to avoid controverting the assumption. In a case which occurred in 1910, the Chinese nationality of an inhabitant of the Kowloon extension was fully recognised by His Majesty's Government (see Appendix I, case No. 20).\n\n`CC 253`\n\nThe Law Officers of the Crown ruled in 1899 that the persons inhabiting the Kowloon extension at the time of the transfer were to be regarded as British subjects for all purposes, apparently on the ground that it was an extension under lease of the Colony of Hong Kong. Sir E. Davidson agreed with this view, but he also thought that this would not prevent the inhabitants having a second nationality. Supposing that Chinese municipal law prescribes, as I understand it does, that Liang Tou is within China a Chinaman, how can we object on the ground that according to international law he is not?\" The reasoning which led Sir E. Davidson to adopt this view is equally applicable to the case of Hong Kong and Kowloon as to the case of the Kowloon extension:\n\n**Confidential Print** \n`11426, p. 24`.\n\nAccording to the view of the Law Officers (and I think that technically their view is sound) the territory of Kowloon which was ceded to Great Britain for a term of ninety-nine years, became during and for that term an integral portion of the British Dominions. It is a peculiar and novel form of tenure; but applying recognised principles to the new conditions, I think that while the term lasts the territory is just as fully part of the British Dominions as if (for instance) it had been conquered and annexed and we had given an undertaking to restore it to China at the end of ninety-nine years.\n\nIt follows, in my opinion, that in contemplation of English law, anybody born in Kowloon during the term of ninety-nine years - *rebus sic stantibus*, of course - is a natural-born British subject *jure soli*, though such persons may, in contemplation of the law of their parents' country of origin, have a second nationality (Chinese or other) which in that country of origin will prevail.”\n\n5.\n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534052, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "47\n\n12\n\nI3\n\n(c) That the formation of armed bands should in all cases be made a criminal offence; (d) That, if the local authorities tolerate the formation of such bands, they should be severely punished, particularly if these bands by their actions have occasioned the death of any person or the capture of slaves;\n\n(e) That, in all countries concerned, the law should be supplemented, if necessary, by provisions for the infliction of severe penalties on persons who enter a foreign territory with arms;\n\n(f) That orders should be given by the States concerned to their officers on the spot to report immediately and by the speediest means available to the nearest foreign local authorities the entry or the probable return into the territory under the latter's authority of armed bands and the frontier region which is likely to be crossed;\n\n(g) That agreements as already recommended by the Temporary Commission should be reached between these States authorising their officers, when in pursuit of the captors of slaves, to enter the territory of the other Power to which the captors have returned or in which they have taken refuge, and to arrest such persons if the authorities of the other Power have not available on the spot sufficient forces to proceed immediately to do so themselves, with the proviso that the culprits would be handed over to the latter authorities either for judgment or until the necessary extradition formalities have been completed. An arrangement of this nature has been concluded between French Equatorial Africa and Darfur.\n\n24. It would seem that these proposals, or at any rate those set out in (f) and (g) above, could be readily accepted by the Abyssinian Government, since, in its letter of April 12th, 1924, it expressed the desire to reach an agreement with the neighbouring countries with a view to joint action in the campaign against slavery, an intention which was reiterated by the Abyssinian delegation in the Sixth Committee of the eleventh League Assembly. One result of the measures proposed would certainly be to prevent incidents which are bound to disturb the relations of good neighbourliness between the States concerned and to have a harmful effect from the international standpoint as well.\n\nIt cannot, however, be expected that the officers of the Abyssinian Government will be able to assist foreign States in preventing or suppressing slave-raids in the territory of the latter, or that slave-raids and individual captures by Abyssinians will be put down in Abyssinia itself, until the central authority is sufficiently powerful to enforce obedience to its orders by its officers to the utmost limits of the Empire. The abolition of the status of slavery by the Abyssinian Government would again be of immense assistance in the suppression of these practices.\n\nCHAPTER III. SLAVE TRADE.\n\nA. Survey of the Situation.\n\n25. The Temporary Commission's report includes under this heading only transactions for the purchase or sale of slaves on a commercial basis. According to the report, traffic in this sense persisted only in the States of Arabia or the coast of the Persian Gulf, and to a certain extent in Abyssinia.\n\n26. The abolition since then of the status of slavery in Iraq, Persia, Kelat, Afghanistan and the Bahrein Archipelago has dealt a severe blow at the traffic in these countries.\n\n27. The Abyssinian Government, which, by its Edict of March 31st, 1924, amended by that of July 15th, 1931, made the transfer of slaves, whether with or without payment, an offence entailing very severe penalties, will doubtless continue to meet, in the suppression of this practice, with difficulties of the kind mentioned in the part of the present report which deals with the status of slavery—viz., resistance from a considerable portion of the population and even from some of the authorities. The propinquity of Arabia complicates the Abyssinian Government's task, because whatever measures (hereafter referred to) may have been taken to prevent the importation of slaves into Arabia, it may still be that, in the Yemen, Hejaz and Nejd, and the Sultanates situated along the south-east coasts of the Arabian peninsula, traders may still find it possible to sell slaves at a good price. True, in its Edict of September 15th, 1923, the Abyssinian Government prohibited its officers from allowing slaves to leave their area, but, even supposing all these officers were desirous of complying with the edict, the extent of the frontier would make it difficult to organise effective supervision.\n\n28. As regards transit across the British, French and Italian colonies bordering on the Red Sea and the embarkation of slaves from Abyssinia at any point on the west coast of that sea, the authorities of those colonies are making the most commendable efforts to prevent it, inter alia, by vigilant inspection of the passengers and crews of all vessels leaving their colonies, and the French expert points out that France frequently sends méharistes along the coast of its Somaliland colony with a view to the prevention of clandestine departures.\n\nFurther, British, French and Italian warships more or less frequently cruise in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, along the Arabian coast and in the Persian Gulf, to prevent the importation of slaves into the Arabian peninsula, but the commanders of these warships find it much more difficult now to take effective action against the transport of slaves in these waters owing to the fact that the General Act of the Brussels Conference has been abrogated by their Governments, and that, so far, none of the general or special Conventions provided for in Article 3 of the Slavery Convention of 1926 has been concluded.\n\n29. However that may be, the Hejaz, in a treaty concluded on May 20th, 1927, with the British Government, has undertaken to co-operate with the United Kingdom in the campaign against the slave trade. The same undertaking has been given by the Sultanates of Muscat, Oman and the Bahrein Archipelago, the Trucial Sheikhdoms and most of the Sultanates of the Hadramouth coast.\n\nThe right to continue in territorial waters the pursuit of vessels suspected of being engaged in the transport of slaves has been granted to British warships by the greater part of these States and Sultanates.\n\n30. Are slaves from Africa imported in considerable numbers into the slavery-tolerating States or Sultanates of Arabia or the Persian Gulf? The Committee is unable to give a definite reply to this question. According to certain documents from private sources, such importation still exists on a considerable scale. On the other hand, the opinion of British officials who, according to the British Government in the United Kingdom, are in a very good position to judge, is that the traffic is now on a very small scale. This view is confirmed by the Italian expert on the Committee.\n\nIn any case, it is alleged that the importation of slaves into the Sultanates of Muscat and Koweit has virtually ceased, the only additions to the number of slaves in these countries being children born of marriages or concubinage with slaves. Slaves, if sold at all, are only sold, it is maintained, in secret.\n\n31. It is far from improbable, however, that a certain number of free persons forming part of the crews of vessels bound for Arabia or represented as such, or members of the family of passengers for Arabia, are sold in Arabia as slaves. Pilgrimages to the holy places of Arabia are said to provide the principal opportunity for this traffic.\n\nThis danger has been forestalled by the Netherlands Government in the Far East. Pilgrims only leave for Arabia at certain seasons of the year, and exclusively on vessels of certain large steamship companies which have a de facto monopoly of their transport by sea. The companies are required to give every guarantee that the transport conditions are satisfactory, hygienic and sure. They have to deposit a surety for the return of the pilgrims. The persons organising these pilgrimages on the outward and return trips earn large profits. Only persons of unquestionable respectability are permitted to assemble and embark pilgrims. Pilgrims may not embark unless they possess individual passports in which they are carefully identified. Copies of these passports are kept by the Consul of the Netherlands at Jeddah, and registers are kept in the place where the passports are issued. By these means, the pilgrims are effectively protected. It is due no doubt in part to this strict supervision that no case of enslavement in Arabia of pilgrims from the Netherlands colonies in the Far East has been reported for a long time past.\n\nThe Governments of the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements have also established a passport control organisation. The Committee has no information as to the working of this system, but it understands that a public official of the Straits Settlements accompanies the pilgrims to the holy places in Arabia.\n\nThe French Government also takes steps to protect pilgrims proceeding from the African territories under French control. The pilgrims are assembled in certain towns, provided with individual passports and conducted to the holy places of Arabia under the supervision of officer-interpreters who hold collective passports. To prevent the supply of contingent of slaves to the Hejaz from the population of the Chad region, an Order of August 16th, 1930, promulgated by the Governor-General of Equatorial Africa makes it compulsory for natives proceeding abroad from this colony in all cases to be in possession of a passport.\n\nIt is not impossible, however, that pilgrims belonging to territories administered by France sometimes leave these territories individually and without passports for Arabia. The same applies to pilgrims belonging to the Italian colonies, despite the regulations to which pilgrimage is subject there.\n\nLastly, other Governments of Africa have not taken the measures and precautions described above, probably on account of the special conditions of the territories administered by them.\n\nPilgrims coming from the African continent therefore still run the risk of being sold in Arabia as slaves.\n\n32. The United Kingdom, France and Italy, like the Netherlands, have each an agent at Jeddah. Every person who takes refuge with these agents is, in fact, assured of his freedom.\n\nAs regards the British Legation at Jeddah, its right of manumission has been recognised by treaty with the King of the Hejaz, and extends to slaves who do not belong to British territories. In cases of manumission, the Legation repatriates the slave or, if he wishes to remain in Hejaz-Nejd, takes the necessary steps to obtain for him an official certificate of manumission, with the consent of his former owner. British political agents in the Sultanates of Muscat and Bahrein, and on the Hadramouth coast also have the power of manumitting slaves, and this power is well known along the whole of the coast of the Persian Gulf.\n\n33. The committee regrets that it possesses no information regarding the co-operation of Egypt in the campaign against the slave trade, except that contained in paragraph 35 of the Temporary Commission's report.\n\n88\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "# A BILL\n\n## INTITULED\n\n[No. 4:- 8.2.36.-2.]\n\nAn Ordinance to enable effect to be given to an International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, signed on behalf of His late Majesty at Geneva on the 20th day of April, 1929, to apply to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British Coin, to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin and to amend certain enactments relating to forgery, coinage and extradition.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936**.\n\n2. Section 15 of the Forgery Ordinance, 1922, as amended by section 7 of the Forgery Amendment Ordinance, 1924, is further amended by the addition of the following new sub-section at the end thereof :-\n\n (3) Where any forged bank note or currency note, or any machinery, implement, utensil or material used or intended to be used for the forgery of a bank note or currency note, is lawfully seized under a warrant granted in pursuance of sub-section (1), or otherwise, the bank note, currency note, implement, utensil or material, as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding anything in sub-section (2), be delivered up to the Treasurer, or to any person authorised by him for the purpose, by order of the court or magistrate before which the offender is tried or, if there be no trial, by order of a magistrate.\n\n3.-(1) Sections 15 to 20 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, (which contain provisions as to foreign coin differing from the corresponding provisions as to His Majesty's coin) as well as the heading immediately above section 15, are hereby repealed.\n\n (2) In order that the provisions of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, shall apply in relation to foreign coin as they apply in relation to His Majesty's coin the provisions of that Ordinance are amended as follows:\n\n (a) in section 2-\n \n | Original Text | Amendment |\n | --- | --- |\n | the words \"the King's \" and \"of the King's \" wherever they occur | repealed |\n | that is to say in the second, third, fifth, twelfth and sixteenth lines | |\n\n (i) the words \"the Kings \" and \"of the King's \" wherever they occur, that is to say in the second, third, fifth, twelfth and sixteenth lines are repealed;\n\n Reference: `25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25, s. 3(1)`, `Schedule Part I`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "## (q) the word \"King's\" in the marginal notes to sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 shall be deleted.\n\nc. 25, \n\n**(3)** There shall be substituted for the penalties provided in section 6 and section 7 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, (which respectively relate to the importation and exportation of counterfeit coin) a penalty of imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years. \n25 & 26 Geo. 5, s. 3 (2).\n\n**(4)** In the seventh line of section 7 the word \"felony\" shall be substituted for the word \"misdemeanor\".\n\n66 \n\n**(5)** The Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 4 thereof:- \n\n**44. Impairing or lightening gold or silver coin.** Every person who impairs, diminishes, or lightens any current gold or silver coin, with intent that the coin so impaired, diminished or lightened may pass for current gold or silver coin shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years.\n\n## 4. The Extradition (Hongkong) Ordinance, 1875, is amended-\n\n24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 4.\n\n**Amendments to Ordinance No. 5 of 1875.**\n\n**(a)** by inserting the following recital before the last recital in the preamble:- \n\nAND WHEREAS the First Schedule to the Extradition Act, 1870, was extended to divers crimes by the Extradition Act, 1873, to slave trade offences by the Slave Trade Act, 1873, to bribery by the Extradition Act, 1906, to offences relating to dangerous drugs by the Extradition Act, 1932, and to offences in connection with counterfeit currency by the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935; \n36 & 37 Vict. c. 60, s. 8.\n36 & 37 Vict. c. 88, s. 27.\n6 Ed. 7, c. 15 s. 1.\n\n**(b)** by inserting the words \"as so extended,\" after the word \"1873,\"- \n\n**(i)** in the last line of the last recital; and \n**(ii)** in the second lines of sections 2, 3 and 4.\n22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 39, s. 1.\n25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25, s. 4.\n\n## Objects and Reasons\n\n1. The object of this Ordinance, like that of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935, (hereinafter called the Act of 1935), on which it is based, is stated in the long title, and it is necessary in order that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom may accede on behalf of this Colony under Article 24 of the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, 1929.\n\n2. Section 1 of the Ordinance is based on section 6 (1) of the Act of 1935. It is usual in the enactments of this Colony to place the Short title at the commencement instead of at the end. The remaining sub-sections of section 6 of the Act have not been adapted as they are considered unnecessary in their application to this Colony.\n\n3. Similarly it has not been considered necessary to adapt section 1 of the Act of 1935 which places currency... \n\n## Page 29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "# Convention Article No. 8\n## Table, Continued.\n\n| Convention Article No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- |\n| 4 | |\n| 5 | |\n| 7 | |\n| 8 | |\n\nThis Article provides that each of the acts mentioned in Article 3, if they are committed in different countries, should be considered as a distinct offence. It appears that in some countries the counterfeiting of currency followed by the uttering thereof is regarded as only one offence, and in consequence, in the case of such countries, there might be difficulty in prosecuting a man who counterfeited in one country and uttered in another. Under the law of the Colony of Hong Kong counterfeiting and uttering are two distinct offences. No legislation is required therefore to give effect to this Article.\n\nThis Article provides that no distinction should be made in the scale of punishments for offences referred to in Articles 3 between acts relating to domestic currency on the one hand and to foreign currency on the other; and that this provision may not be made subject to any condition of reciprocal treatment by law or by treaty.\n\nEffect is given to this Article as respects paper money by `Ordinance No. 11 of 1922` as amended by `Ordinance No. 11 of 1924`, which put bank notes and currency notes whether British or foreign in the same position for all the purposes of the Forgery Ordinance, `No. 11 of 1922`. As respects metal money, effect is given to the Article by section 3(1) and (2) of the new Ordinance, which put foreign coin in the same position as British coin for the purposes of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, `No. 7 of 1865`.\n\nThis Article provides that, in countries where the principle of the international recognition of previous convictions is recognised, foreign convictions for the offences referred to in Article 3 should, within the conditions prescribed by domestic law, be recognised for the purpose of establishing habitual criminality.\n\nThe law of this Colony does not recognise the principle of international recognition of previous convictions so that this Article calls for no change in our law.\n\nThis Article provides that in so far as civil parties are admitted under the domestic law, foreign civil parties, including, if necessary, the High Contracting Party whose money has been counterfeited, should be entitled to all rights allowed to inhabitants by the laws of the country in which the case is tried.\n\nThe law of this Colony does not admit civil parties, and therefore this Article does not apply.\n\nThis Article provides that in countries where the principle of the extradition of nationals is not recognised, nationals who have returned to the territory of their own country, after the commission abroad of an offence referred to in Article 3, should be punishable in the same manner as if the offence had been committed in their own territory, even in a case where the offender has...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "## Convention Article No. 9\n### Table, Continued.\n\n| Convention Article No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- |\n| 9 | acquired his nationality after the commission of the offence; but that this provision is not to apply if, in a similar case, the extradition of a foreigner could not be granted. |\n| 10 | The law of this Colony does recognise the principle of the extradition of nationals and in this respect the local law does not differ from the law of England where it has been decided that there is no obligation of any Contracting Government, which recognised in general the principle of extradition of nationals, to apply Article 8 in cases where particular extradition treaties forbade the extradition of nationals. |\n| 11 | This Article deals with the punishment of foreigners who have committed abroad any offence referred to in Article 3, and who are in the territory of a country whose internal legislation recognises as a general rule the principle of the prosecution of offences abroad. |\n\nThe law of this Colony does not recognise as a general rule the principle of the prosecution of offences committed abroad, and therefore this Article does not apply.\n\nThis Article provides that the offences referred to in Article 3 shall be deemed to be included as extradition crimes in any extradition treaty which has been or may hereafter be concluded between any of the High Contracting Parties. It also requires that High Contracting Parties, who do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty or reciprocity, to henceforth recognise the offences referred to in Article 3 as cases of extradition between themselves; and it provides that extradition shall be granted in conformity with the law of the country to which application is made.\n\nIn the United Kingdom this Article has been carried into effect by section 4 of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935. In this Colony effect has been given to the Article by section 4 of the new Ordinance. It is considered that no amendment of the First Schedule to `Ordinance No. 7 of 1889` is necessary as paragraph 26 of that Schedule refers to the `Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865`, and to the `Forgery Ordinance, 1922`, or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same. These Ordinances are amended by sections 2 and 3 of the new Ordinance.\n\nThis Article provides that counterfeit currency, as well as instruments or other articles referred to in Article 3(5), should be seized and confiscated. Such currency, instruments or other articles should, after confiscation, be handed over on request either to the Government or bank of issue whose currency is in question, with the exception of exhibits whose preservation as a matter of record is required by the law of the country where the prosecution took place, and any specimens whose transmission to the Central...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "## Convention Article No. 10\n\n| Remarks | \n|-------------|\n| 12 | Office mentioned in Article 12 may be deemed advisable. In any event all such articles should be rendered incapable of use. So far as this Article relates to paper money, effect is given to it by section 15 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1922 as amended by Ordinance No. 11 of 1924 and by section 2 of the new Ordinance. In so far as it relates to metal money, effect is given to it by section 25 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 as amended by section 3(2)(p) of the new Ordinance. |\n| 13 | This Article provides that in every country, within the framework of its domestic law, investigations on the subject of counterfeiting should be organised by a central office. The central office should be in contact (a) with the institutions issuing currency, (b) with the police authorities within the country, (c) with the central office of other countries. It should centralise, in each country, all information of a nature to facilitate the investigation, prevention and punishment of counterfeiting currency. Effect can be given to this Article by administrative action, and no legislation is required. |\n| 14 | This Article provides that the different countries should correspond directly with each other. Effect can be given to this Article by administrative action and no legislation is required. |\n| 15 | This Article deals with the routine laid down for the communication of information between the central offices of different countries. Effect can be given to this Article by administrative action, and no legislation is required. |\n| 16 | This Article provides for conferences by the representatives of the various central offices with the participation of representatives of the banks of issue. Effect can be given to this Article by administrative action, and no legislation is required. This Article provides for three alternative methods of transmitting letters of request. It provides that each High Contracting Party shall notify to the others which of the alternative methods it will recognise but until such notification the existing procedure shall remain in force. It also requires that letters of request shall not be subject to payment of taxes or expenses of any nature whatever other than expenses of experts and it finally provides that nothing in the Article shall be construed as an undertaking on the part of the High Contracting Parties to adopt in criminal matters any form or methods of proof contrary to their laws. The case of a court in the Colony requiring a foreign court to take evidence for use in a criminal matter can never arise. The converse case of a foreign court requiring evidence to be taken in the Colony is fully dealt with by the existing law. Apart altogether from the provisions of the Extradition |\n\n## Page 36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551639, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "# Convention Article No. 11\n## Table, Continued.\n| Remarks | 17 | 18 |\n|---------|----|----|\n| | 24 | |\n\n## Part II.\nActs orders for examination of witnesses in the Colony in relation to proceedings abroad, including criminal proceedings, may be made under Part IV of Ordinance No. 2 of 1889 and section 326A of Ordinance No. 3 of 1901. No local legislation appears necessary to implement the Article.\n\nThis Article contains a formal saving to the effect that the participation of a High Contracting Party in the Convention shall not be interpreted as affecting that Party's attitude on the general question of criminal jurisdiction as a question of international law.\n\nNo legislation is required to give effect to this Article.\n\nThis Article provides that the Convention does not affect the principle that the offences referred to in Article 3 should in each country, without ever being allowed impunity, be defined, prosecuted and punished in conformity with the general rules of its domestic law.\n\nThis Article contains a formal saving and no legislation is required to give effect to it.\n\nThis Part of the Convention contains the ordinary diplomatic provisions as to settlement of international disputes, ratification and accession.\n\nThe only Article which requires comment is Article 24 under which the High Contracting Parties reserve the right to accede to the Convention in accordance with the provisions of Articles 21 and 23 for their colonies, protectorates or territories under suzereignty, or mandate. Article 21 deals with the transmission of instruments of accession to the Secretary General of the League of Nations. Article 23 provides that accession implies that the legislation and administrative organisation of the party concerned are in conformity with the rules contained in the Convention.\n\nIn the United Kingdom the requirements of this Article have been implemented by the Act of 1935, the only section of which that extends outside the United Kingdom is section 4 which amends the Extradition Act, 1870, and by virtue of section 17 of that Act extends to this Colony.\n\nThe new Ordinance makes the amendments in the local law which are deemed necessary to implement the Convention so that accession can be effected.\n\n## END 37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-2 Chung Chi Cheung- appeal against death sentence 1-1-1937 - 31-12-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-562-2 Chung Chi Cheung- appeal against death sentence 1-1-1937 - 31-12-1938", "content_text": "## International Law and the concluding words of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's opinion quoted above would be meaningless, nor would it be possible to justify the action of the British and French authorities in the cases of Sun Yat Sen and Nikitschenkow which are referred to in the footnote to page 632 of Vol. I of Oppenheim's work.\n\nThere remains for consideration the third of the submissions made on behalf of the appellant. As we have already decided against the contention that the visiting state has sole and exclusive jurisdiction, it follows that in our opinion there is no merit in the argument that there can be no waiver of immunity. The question that now falls for decision is whether in the facts of this case there has been a valid and sufficient waiver and therefore a submission to the jurisdiction of this Court.\n\nIn the course of his argument, Mr. Macnamara referred us to the reported cases of Taylor v. Best (1854) 14 C.B. 487, In re Suarez, Suarez v. Suarez (1918) 1 Ch. 176, and Dickinson v. Del Solar (1930) 1 K.B. 376, and relied particularly on the extradition proceedings at the instance of the Chinese Government as evidencing the fact that they had not consented to waive their priority of jurisdiction nor had they approved of any waiver of that priority which might be inferred from the conduct of the Chief Officer or the boatswain.\n\nIn his able argument, Mr. Macnamara, in our opinion, overlooked one important point which is fatal to his contention. The appellant has been found by a competent court to be a British subject. By the Treaty of Tientsin 1858, the Emperor of China renounced all claim to exercise jurisdiction within his territorial limits over British subjects. The requisition for the surrender of the appellant was doubtless inspired...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-2 Chung Chi Cheung- appeal against death sentence 1-1-1937 - 31-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "content_text": "If cases of extradition of criminals occur, they shall be dealt with in accordance with the existing Treaties between Great Britain and China and the Hong Kong Regulations.\n\nThe area leased to Great Britain, as shown on the annexed map, includes the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, but it is agreed that Chinese vessels of war, whether neutral or otherwise, shall retain the right to use those waters.\n\nThis Convention shall come into force on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the thirteenth day of the fifth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsü. It shall be ratified by the Sovereigns of the two countries, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Agreement.\n\nDone at Peking in quadruplicate (four copies in English and four in Chinese) the ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, being the twenty-first day of the fourth moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kuang Hsü.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\nCLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\nSEAL OF THE CHINESE PLENIPOTENTIARY.\n\nHONG KONG EXTENSION\n\nReproduction of the Map attached to the Convention between Great Britain and China, signed at Peking on the 9th of June 1898.\n\n \n Deep Bay\n Tolo Harbour\n \n \n Lantao\n Castle Peak Bay\n Port Shelter\n \n \n HONG KONG\n Lamma I.\n \n Mirs Bay\n \n \n 113° 52' E Long\n 22° 9' N Lat\n 114° 30' E. Long\n \n \n Scale 1:425 or 1 Inch = 6.96 Miles\n \n \n 15 MILES\n \n \n Reference: Territory previously belonging to Great Britain, Boundary of area leased to Great Britain, Chinese Territory\n \n \n Litho at the Intell Dry War Office Nov 1898\n \n\nPage 19\n\nPage 31\n\n was removed as it is not clear whether they are part of the original text or not. However, the content related to \"Page 19\" and \"Page 31\" is not directly available in the given text, so it is assumed that they are page numbering information. The correct representation is kept as is.\n\nCorrections made:\n1. \"nap\" -> \"map\"\n2. \"foree\" -> \"force\"\n3. Minor spacing and formatting adjustments for better readability.\n4. The map information is reformatted into a table for clarity.\n5. File references and other specific formatting requirements are adhered to where applicable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947", "content_text": "## 2\n\n`PRO/947/3`.\n\n**HONG KONG**\n\nReference to local post-war prices was made by the Wah Kiu Yat Po of May 27. It was estimated that the present purchasing power of the Hong Kong dollar was equivalent to that of only 30 Hong Kong cents in 1941.\n\nThe Sing Tao Jih Pao of May 27 gives it as the opinion of banking circles that the tightening of exchange control may result in local merchants transferring their operations to Macao.\n\nThe New Life Evening News of May 28 states that it had been reliably informed that the purpose of Sir Mark Young's visit to Canton on May 2 was not only to invest Marshal Chang Fat-kwei with the C.B.E. and to bid farewell to the Canton Authorities, as officially announced, but also to discuss the question of smuggling from Hong Kong into China and the extradition of Chinese collaborators residing in Hong Kong.\n\nThe same paper of May 29 carried a report that 100 Chinese constables had resigned from the Hong Kong Police. (An official denial of this report was subsequently issued; the number of resignations in the past two months being only 12).\n\n## 3\n### INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS\n\nThere was little news or comment under this head. Manchuria and Korea were mentioned as bones of contention between the U.S.A. and Russia (Sing Pao of May 28).\n\nThe National Times of May 28 expressed the hope that Hindus and Moslems would take the opportunity, given by Great Britain, of achieving unity.\n\nJ.H.B. Lee, \nP.R.O. \n`JHBL/APC`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]