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At the same time there might be taken into consideration other amendments of the law intended to render our practice, as regards rendition, more in accord with our moral obligations under the Treaty.
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I am informed and of late years believe that every application for rendition, whether successful or not, has involved to the Vice Roy an average cost of #: cost of $5,000 to $6,000, and considering that in nearly all of these cases the prisoners, whose rendition was asked, were charged with serious crimes, such as piracy, murder, &c. and that it is now many years since there was any well-founded suspicion of an attempt to obtain the apprehension of a political offender under cover of