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Cohnine Subjects, and emerging my consideration a copy of a recent act of the New Zealand Legislature in which as in the necessary Ordinance.
3. For the Imperial Extradition Act of 1870 provision is made for the transfer of preliminary investigations from the Governor to the Police Magistrates.
The expediency of such a change of tribunal has only recently been exemplified here in the case of a German Subject whose rendition was demanded, and in accordance with the suggestion made in paragraph 9 of Your Lordship's Despatch, I have directed the Attorney General to draft the Ordinance.
I have also, in obedience to the instructions contained in paragraph 8, called upon that Officer to prepare an Ordinance applicable to the Treaty of Tientsin as well as to any subsequent arrangements made and repealing Ordinances No. 2 of 1850 and No. 2 of 1871, which empower the Governor to surrender fugitive Chinese Criminals even in cases of concurrent jurisdiction.
Without doubt, Mr. Your Lordship observes the expression "Crimes and Offences against the Laws of China" in the Wongthing...