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received, with much sate
satisfactio
zate faction
the admission of this fort that the
toordo
"proof of guilt", conlained ins
Article XXI.
of the
the Treaty oflientsin,
are not to be taken as
signifying
that absolute proof of quilt which
As
necessary
Conviction
to support a finial-
but that presumptive
proof of guilt which is known to
the Law
Law of Batradition
As regards your Lordship's remach
that Article XXI
of the Treaty of
Pientsin does not prescribe the
InArtster
in which the proof of
guilt required by
the Treaty is
to be ascertained, the Imperial
foot hope that it is not intended.
A.
foot consider.
to signify that H. Ini's fort
the absence
of such a stipulation
entething them to apply to the
extradition
Chinese Criminals
of Chinose.
procedure other
from Honghone; a than that which by the Laur of
Great Britain is proper to questions
extradition in jeneral..
7
It is not usucal in extradition
treaties to prescribe the
which the evidence of criminality
is to be obtained.
and the absence.
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