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Draught of an Ordinance prepared (400 copies) by the Attorney General (Mr Pauncefote) to provide for the Extradition of Fugitives from justice when claimed by the authorities of Macao.
2. I have also the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Government of that Colony is prepared by similar Act of their Legislature to give reciprocal Rights to the Government of Hongkong.
The Draught Ordinance is accompanied by the Attorney General's explanatory notes and by below references to the recommendations in the Report of the Select Committee of 1868 upon which the various clauses have been framed.
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4. The Draught has been submitted to the Government of Macao, and the Attorney General has had several personal interviews on the subject with Governor de Souza and the Chief Justice of that Colony, the result of which he has reported in a further Memorandum on Clause 13, of which a copy is enclosed. It thence appears that the enclosed Ordinance substantially meets with their approval, though they are particularly desirous it should be further extended to the Rendition of Military Deserters—a point which I hope will be conceded, as I am