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the Magistrate that "probable cause" and "prima facie" synonymous terms, and practically to direct him to comply with that ruling, and restrict his enquiry within the limits indicated in that term, and then to make a point against the prisoners on account of the fact of their committal, although accompanied with explanations that reduced its significance to an irreducible minimum, and although in the information of the magistrates the duties which devolve upon them in connection with Ordinances No 2 of 1850, 2 of 1871, and the Treaty of Tientsin article XXI.
I have the honour to be,
Your most obedient servant,
[Signature: illegible]
Police Magistrate.
In a similar case last year, the prisoner was not handed over, even when committed, is calculated to confuse the magistrate on the probable cause and to be of great injustice to innocent people.
I would therefore respectfully request that advantage may be taken of this opportunity to define more clearly for the