If Mr. Branstorn exonerates them entirely from any culpability as to the failure of justice which they were supposed to have sustained, they will have properly discharged their duty.
3. Although the Ad Hoc Treaties related to felonies only, Mr. Branstorn agrees in placing much weight on the assumption that the fugitive had been guilty of felony. Whether the offence was larceny or not, the felonious nature of the offence did not appear with sufficient clearness.
The warrant issued against the prisoner was based on the assumption that offences amounting to misdemeanour were included in the schedules of the Extradition Treaties of 1870 and 1873, and are included in recent Treaties made since then.
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