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assertion contained

the 3rd and

I regret to have to state my inability

to modify the views, to a contrary

effect.,

which

arl

expressed

letter to your Lordship of

my

the 8th December

last. I have also to express

to accept the occurrence...

my inability

of the word.

"discharge" in the passage which

Your Lordship cites from Section 1-

of

C ง

the Colonial Ordinance - No. 2 6/ 1850.

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conferring on the Sovernor of

871850.

Hongkong the faculty of rehoaung

দ

CAIR.

promoudy adjudicated

on by the magistrate, or the-

power.

a

of releasing from custody

of whose

appeared to the

guilt had magistrate sufficient to jeestify his

extradition.

the word "discha

If the

བ་

"discharge"

Colomal Grdinance above

in the

referred to,

have any special signification at all, it must, I consider, be taken as having reference, either to the can

of a fugitive whose extradition has

no levithstanding the magistrate's having satisfied.

the silence of his cuminiality,

been demanded, but who nolvi

hesively of the

could not be surrendered because-

of

the Gournor, who is legally

f

prisoner, the primis facie evidence

competent to take that into

:-consideration, being of opinion

that

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