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the Bill.
The cost and trouble attending the arrest and return of fugitive offenders from the Straits to Hongkong and vice versa ought I think to render the formalities in part I necessary before the application it complied with. Both Hongkong and the Straits Settlements are so to repeat large deposits for passengers and great numbers of people come to both simply for the sake of passing through. It is not as if fugitive Offenders would come to either place, more especially Hongkong, for the purpose of residence.
With regard to section 17 I think it should be applied queralt,
The 19 section would enable the party to be tried at whichever place was most convenient having regard to the facility of obtaining evidence.
With regard to Section 19 I think it might be extended to such the case of clamen sent by Consular Officers for trial under section 268 of the Merchant Shipping Act to the nearest British possession. Cases have happened within my knowledge of parties having been sent for trial, accused of the most heinous offences without sufficient Evidence that would justify the placing them upon trial - the witnesses of the occurrence having gone to some other place.