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THE following Ordinance passed by His Excellency the Governor in Consuls Council, is published for General information.
By order.
Government House, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th January, 1844.
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
An Ordinance for Her Majesty's Subjects, within the dominions of the Emperor of
China, or within any
any Ship, or Vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of China. AC
Anno Sexto et Septimo Victoriæ Reginæ.
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By His Excellency Sir HENRY POTTINGER, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Major General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and it's Dependencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects, trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance to render HerMajesty's Subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China,or within any Ship or Vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the Coast of China, subject in all matters to the Law of England, and to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of Justice at Hongkong over the same.
WHEREAS under and by virtue of an act of Parliament, made and passed in the seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled An Act for the "better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China, Her Majesty did, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Ireland, authorize the Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, (so long as such Superintendent should be also Governor of the Island of Hongkong) to enact, with the advice of the Legislative Council of the sad Island of Hongkong, all sich Laws and Ordinances as might, from time to time, be required for the good Go- vernment of Her Majesty's Subjects, being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any Ship or Vessel, at a distance of not more than One hundred Miles from the Coast of China, and to enforce the execution of such Laws, and ordinances, by such Penalties, and Forfeitures, as to him, by the advice aforesaid, should seem fit.
Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and Super- intendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Cumull of Hongkong atbresaid, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the Law of England shall have the same force, virtue, power and effect over Her Majesty's Subjects, within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or Within any Ship or V
por Vessel at a distance of not more than One hundred Miles from of not more than the Coast of China, in all matters whatsoever, whether Civil or Criminal, that it has over Her Majesty's said subjects actually within Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong.
Law of England 1.
to extend to all Her Majesty's subjects vetullig - the “"OVIE??
nions of the Empe.
ror of China.or within any Ship or Vasel at a distance.
one hundred miles from the Coast of China,
Courts of Justice 2. And be it enacted, that the Courts of Justice at Hongkong, which are now or shall be hereafter erected, shall have the same Power, Jurisdiction, and Authority in all matters whatsoever, whether Civil, or Criminal, over Her Majesty's Subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any Ship or Vessel, at a distance of not more than One hundred Miles from the Coast of China, that the Courts aforesaid have, or shall have over Her Majesty's Subjects actually resident within Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong.
ht Hongkong to hare Jurisdiction over Her Majesty's subject within the domint one of the Emperor of China, or within. any ship Or Ves eel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from
the Coast of China.
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And be it enacted in case of any murder, felony, robbery, theft, trespass, wrong or crime whatsoever being c charged to have been done upon the person, or property, of any one whatsoever within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or within any
distance of not more than One hundred Miles from the Coast
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This complaint evidently relates to that part of your letter, now under reply, in which you state, "On the 1st Instant a party of English Officers asked my per- mission to proceed to Chang-chow-foo to see the place and Country. As it was "not in my power, had I felt inclined to⋅ “do so, I forwarded the application to the "Taoutai (Intendant) of Amoy, and he sent to me by the Hai Hong a private "communication that no objections would “be raised; at the same time stating, that he had no jurisdiction out of this City." "The party had, however, left without "further reference to me, before the above message was delivered. They proceeded "to the City of Chang-chow-foo; were "well received by the Mandarins, and re- “ turned without accident.”
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On comparing dates and likewise adver- ting to the fact, that Her Majesty's Steam- ment Notification to you) only left this on er «Vixen” ( which conveyed the Govern the 4th of December, I am satisfied that the "party of English Officers” alluded to in the above quotation had gone to Chang- chow-foo previous to the receipt of my No- tification the 27th of November, but, I cannot overlook that they had done so above two months after the publication of my, Proclamation of the 18th day of October, with which I promulgated an Abstract, of the Supplementary Treaty, and called on all Subjects of Her Majesty, by their alle- giance and loyalty to their Sovereign, to be obedient to, and guided by that Abs- tract.
How the Senior Naval and Military Of ficers at Amoy (as the case may have been) could have considered themselves justified in granting their leave to glish Officers? to go to a distance of 30 or aparty of En-
40 or more miles into the Country, in de- fiance of the above Proclamation and the VIth Article of the Treaty is to me per- fectly inexplicable, and I must add that your not explicitly refusing the application, which was made to you by
theparty Flush Officers," is less unaccoun- table than your referring
not that application
to the Intendant of Amoy, in the face of the minute and explicit instructions which been furnished, to you for your
that it is unnecessary for me to that the previous non-re,
nent Notification of the can make no differenco
y for your neglect (or Officers over whom vision does not extend ) in naught my Proclamati tober, and, an cle of a
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