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expense connected with these
extradition cases, so
long
as
we maintain what we
intend as
precautions against
: the rendition of innocent.
persons. And I am
am moveover.
satisfied that these presautions, as at present exercised are practically useless for their object; and that no others could be devised which
would be
any
better, except
such as would preclude extradition altogether. If the
Chinese
Chinese cuthorities desired the
giving up of an innocent -person, recently arrived in the Colony, I hold that with all
br
srife-guards they would quite as likely
as in the case
to succeed
of a genuine
criminal, and that the evidence. in the one ease would in all
- probability appear just as much, or as little worthy of trust as in the other. In a word, I believe that after all the delays, with their attendant expence,
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