to prison under the 5th section of the Bill, and in cases of difficulty, the Attorney General or other law officer would probably be consulted before it was sent abroad for execution.
In the Crown Colonies at least I think it would be advisable to leave the endorsing of the warrant in the Colony to which it is forwarded to the Governor. He would be advised in nearly all cases to endorse the warrant if it appeared to be duly authorized, leaving it to the party accused to proceed before the Judges of the superior Court by Habeas Corpus, or in case of any difficulty, to avoid responsibility he might be advised to raise the question before one of the judges himself, but as the judges would have to decide in the event of any question being raised, I think it just as well that they should not be asked to endorse the warrant in the first instance.
With regard to section 4 the Law Officers of the Crown have recently given it as their opinion under "The Chinese and Japan Order in Council 1865" in respect to a person accused of a crime committed at sea, by telegram from the Hongkong Police to the Shanghai Police - "That a telegram conveying information
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