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Stated in your
letter for that
application.
In the first place you
call
attention to the beaking of
the
Extradition stets of 1870 * 1873 on the case, & you sugest that, according to the Extradition
Act of 1870, the magistrate
having commer
tted the prisoners
it only remained for the Governor
to issue the usual warrant
་
of Surrender required in Extradition
Cases,
and further that by
the magistrate, to refuse to issue
Surrender,
the warrant of
excepting in the care of the Executive being of opinions that
the offence of the fugitive criminal
is of a political nature.
On these points I have to observe that the Extradition Acts of 1870 4 1873 do not apply
to the case under discussion.
Chinese
The Extradition of Jugitives in Hong Kong
is
exclusively regulated big-
the Treaty of
1873,
Article
the Extradition Acts of 1870 * it is not given to the Exemtione, or to any authority Whatever, either to review the decision of the magistrate,
02, after
Commitment of the prix
the
s dur
XXI of
Tientsin and the Colonial Ordenances passed to carry into effect.
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In regard to the interpretation to be attached to the words
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