The question as to the amount of proof required by the English Law in any case, has also caused the failure of extradition applications. And the Viceroy is anxious that, when the Magistrate considers the evidence adduced merely insufficient, His Excellency should be given an opportunity to supplement it. That the Registrar General, being conversant with Chinese customs and modes of thought, should sit as Assessor in rendition cases, supposing that it be impossible wholly to relegate to his department the duty of investigating, for the guidance of His Excellency the Governor, this class of cases.
The Viceroy's further proposals appear to be as follows:-
a. That on receipt of a telegram from the Consul, persons whose extradition is about to be demanded, shall be forthwith arrested and kept in custody, His Excellency undertaking to pay any sum that may be awarded on the ground of false imprisonment or illegal detention.
b. That in case the Hong Kong Government decides to expel from the Colony any notorious bad character, preliminary notice of such intention, together with his dossier and the cause of expulsion be given to the Viceroy, in order that he may telegraph to the local authorities to keep such bad characters under surveillance.
c. That should either the Hong Kong Government or the Canton Government desire the presence of any native within the jurisdiction of the other Government to give evidence in a pending case, such native shall, on the official undertaking of the government requiring his presence, that he shall...