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entitled "The Chinese Extradition.

Ordinance, 1889, which has

been prepared in accordance

with the instructions

to

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conveyed in Your Lordship's / despatch N.34 of the 20th

of February.

2.

The Ordinance was

finally

the subject of much discussion in the Legislative Council, and, as passed, differs in certain particulars from the draft Ordinance which

accompanied

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accompanied Your Lordship's despatch under acknowledgment.

Two provisions,

3.

are

which

explained in detail in the enclosed report by the

fat fuly 1984. Attorney General, have been

1st

July

added with a view to.

safeguarding Chinese residents in the Colony

from false charges. Without

the addition

of

these

causes the Ordinance

would have caused a

feeling of the greatest.

insecurity

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