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according to law, and he should only
interfere to for.
to satisfy himself that the proceedinge are regular. ___ In the present ease when the
warrant issued the offender was supposed to be a British subject, and that the warrant would be backed by the Court at Shanghae,
the 66th section of the order in Council of 1865, and the man.
under
brought down here in
Custody.
proved to be an American citizen,
the warrant could not be enforced._
were not regular and if Im Seward had at once released
the proceedings
the
quan
this Government could
not have complained -
We thought fit however to
detain him, and to invite a
GreaQ
he allowed time
:"formal demand for his rendition. By this
for the reply of the Board of Trade to be received while the
offender
er was still within reach, If that reply had been different, and the Board of Trade had been
able to send out the necessary.
evidence ; proceedings regular in every way might have been instituted at Shanghae before the British Conent,
as prescribed by the 268th section of the Merchant shipping det: and
any interference by Im Seward
Might