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15th of that year.
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I am to enclose for Mr. Harcourt's
information a copy of the opinion of the Law Officers
of the Crown at that time. This opinion would seem to
be in harmony with the view taken by the Magistrate at
Hong Kong which is also supported by the Attorney
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General of that Colony.
It therefore hardly seems necessary at this
juncture to refer the matter to the present Law Officers
unless and until the United States Government address a
diplomatic representation to His Majesty's Government
on the subject.
This, notwithstanding the views of their Consul
General at Hong Kong, it seems scarcely likely that they
will do, having regard to the fact that in the case of
a British subject who was charged with embezzlement in
Japan in 1875, Mr. Cadwalader, one of the Secretaries
in the State Department at Washington wrote as follows
to Mr. Bingham, the United States Minister in Japan:
"The tenth Article of the Treaty with Great Britain
"of August 9th, 1842, provides for delivery, on mutual
"requisition of persons charged with certain specific
"offences