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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

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