 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1841 - 712 pages
...lawful private property and mtcreMls. They will he governed, pending hnr majesty's further pleasure, according to the laws, customs, and usages of the...foreigner, will quietly make report to the nearest officer, to the end that full justice may be done. Chinese ships and merchants resorting to the port... | |
 | John Elliot Bingham - 1842 - 452 pages
...lawful private property and interests. They will be gOTerned, pending her majesty's further pleasure, according to the laws, customs, and usages of the Chinese (every description of torture exempted), by the elders of villages, subject to the control of a British magistrate; and any person... | |
 | John Elliot Bingham - China - 1843 - 470 pages
...lawful private property and interests. They will be governed, pending her majesty's further pleasure, according to the laws, customs, and usages of the...magistrate; and any person having complaint to prefer of ill usage or injustice against any Englishman or foreigner, will quietly make report to the nearest... | |
 | John Elliot Bingham - China - 1843 - 910 pages
...lawful private property and interests. They will be governed, pending her majesty's further pleasure, according to the laws, customs, and usages of the...subject to the control of a British magistrate; and any per-' son having complaint to prefer of ill usage or injustice against any Englishman or foreigner,... | |
 | Berry Fong-Chung Hsu - Law - 1992 - 314 pages
...Chinese population of Hong Kong declaring their rights to be governed according to Chinese law and custom by the "elders of villages, subject to the control of a British magistrate" was issued as a second proclamation although dated one day earlier.16 The British Foreign Office regarded... | |
 | Jung-fang Tsai - History - 1993 - 404 pages
...to settle in Hong Kong, Captain Charles Elliot proclaimed in 1841 that all Chinese inhabitants would be governed "according to the laws, customs, and usages...subject to the control of a British magistrate," and all others "according to the customs and usages of British Police Law." 5 Subsequently two separate... | |
 | Christopher Munn - Business & Economics - 2001 - 500 pages
...another in rapid succession. Elliot's initial plan was that village elders should dispense justice according to the 'laws, customs and usages of the Chinese (every description of torture excepted)' and 'subject to the control of a British magistrate.' But this was soon obviated by the need to extend... | |
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... free exercise of their religious rites, ceremonies, and social customs, and in the enjoyment of their lawful private property and interests. They will be governed, pending her majesty's further pleasure, according to the laws, customs, and usages... 