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responsibility, thereby involved,
will sooner or later become.
absolutely necessary.
But if
the circumstances are not_
deemed yet to be such as to - justify it, and it be thought
better to run the risk of increasing irritation on
· part of China, I fear that any improvement which can
be
the
effected in the direction
indicated at the beginning of
this despa
:spatch is infinitesimal.
of think, therefore, that things
may
they are,
may as well be left as they with the exception that a short measure should be passed
a schedule of.
containing
Extradition crimes, the opportunity
being at the same time taken to introduce some slight
on
the
amendments of the law lines of the Draft Ordinance of 2 1876. In the meantime, I have
given instructions that the Magistrate who deals with an Extradition case is to proceed
As
expeditiously as possible with
the