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fuller opportunity of receiving and considering the opinions of those officers whose experience with regard to rendition cases should prove of value in forming a judgment on the question.
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The area of this Colony is very small, and the inconvenience caused by accessions to the criminal class is far greater than ordinary on this account, together with our immediate contiguity to a densely populated region of China, where the struggle for life is of the hardest, and the temptations to crime are ordinarily great, appear to me to furnish more reasons for relaxing the strictness of the rules with regard to extradition which were made with reference to normal conditions.
But apart from the above aspect of the question, which principally concerns this