10.
on-
unanimous opposition the part of the unofficial
members to the Ordinance
in its original form (including a provision for
constituting
as evidence.
affidavits taken in China).
and even now
I have had
much difficulty in calming apprehension, though the
Ordinance has been divested
of all provisions open to objection this ground,
on
and affords to the innocent
still
*
still more
they
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protection than
have hitherto enjoyed.
On the whole, I
fear that
easy
extradition
postponed
will have to be
to that distant day
when
the administration of
of justice
in China, whatever m
be it's real condition
may
as
regards purity, shall have
become
far
less
open to suspicion than at present,
and that in the meantime
there will have to be
borne