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being regularly tried in It Kong,
a course which c? never have
been contemplated by the negotiators
of the Treaty of
Sieuthin, for the
reason that it w? practically have
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Committed and made Chinese
Subtects amenable to English authority
for offences committed against the
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Besides, the frames of the very
ordinances to which Y. L has
referred me seem to have taken
the same view of the meaning
of
the word "proof of guilt " as
that taken by the Chinese Gort: for,
at Section III
of
Ordinance. I of 1850,
it is stated that it shall be
lawful for the magistrate to
conemit the prisoners whose extradition