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"This Act unless it shall appear from the face of the said Warrant that the offence for which the person for whose apprehension the said Warrant has been issued is charged to have committed is such that if committed within that part of Her Majesty's dominions where the Warrant is so indorsed it would have amounted in law to a felony will satisfy...
I trust that this explanation will satisfy His Excellency that failure of Justice has in fact occurred.
6. In this Colony the conditions necessary to bankruptcy, are created and defined and offences against the law of bankruptcy by one Ordinance, W. S. 15 of 1864, the offences peculiar to bankruptcy are specified without exception and are misdemeanours.
I, therefore, humbly conceive that under any law it would be illegal circumstances for the Government of this Colony to surrender absconding Bankrupt, if he is only charged with an offence against the Bankruptcy Law of some other part of Her Majesty's Dominions, even though the offence would there amount to felony. If this view is carried, it would, I submit,