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being regularly tried in It Kong,

a course which c? never have

been contemplated by the negotiators

of the Treaty of

Sieuthin, for the

reason that it w? practically have

(

"lemoved the "venue" of the cares from the places where the crimes were

Committed and made Chinese

Subtects amenable to English authority

for offences committed against the

law

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China in Chinese territory

Beside

Besides, the frames of the very

ordinances to which Y. L has

referred me seem to have taken

the same view of the meaning

of

the word "proof of guilt " as

that taken by the Chinese Gort: for,

at Section III

of

Ordinance. I of 1850,

it is stated that it shall be

lawful for the magistrate to

conemit the prisoners whose extradition