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Ar

of

a claim

Criminal

on

for the Extradition

of a

charge of murder, wh

evidence would support a charge of

Ag

pracy

under the Law

of

是

not

a

Nations, would

the surrender of the criminal

preclude the

to the parties claiming him under the

Treaty,

as me

in which murder is specified of the Crimes on acet of which his

"Extradition might be claimed. We

understand

from

the letters of Major

General Whitfield of Feb: 21.1071.

that the Criminal in this case has been

claimed

by the French Vice Consul under the Treaty between Great Britain & France, for murder committed on

of a

French Slip.

Whe

see no

board

sufficient

grounds

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grounds why the Acting Govt of Hong "Kong should decline to surrender him

to the French Vice Consul.

We have

led/ R.N. Collier. 3. Coleridge.

Travers Tais.

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