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law for this Colony requires very different provisions from those which have been found suitable in the mother-country. In the United Kingdom applications for extradition
exceptional and infrequent, and the element of foreign.
are excl
oriminality there is seare
seareely, if at all appreciable. The fret therefore that the application of the extradition law there is a matter of some nicety and difficulty owing
to all
sorts
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sorts of claborate and jealous precautions conceived in the interests of innocence, causes
practical But in this Colony the influx of Chinese criminal fugitives
inconvenience.
is constant and considerable, and threatening to increase; and to deal with it appears to be becoming part of "the ordinary routine work of the Magistrate's Court. So that there is thus afforded a special
reason
why the procedure
should