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that the offence charged against the

prisoner was

of a political nature, or.

to the case, provided

· provided for

alternative clause

on the

I.

of Section X of

Ordinance; where a person

the

Aarner.

has been ordered.

to be arrested

2

by

the

Magistrate

detained, not becaus

been

of his extradition having, brow

demanded.

bule

endence incu

offences

committed.

laws

consequence

hem

of.

inculpating.

against the

China, having incidentally

been brought tolight in the course, of a trial juridically affecting only the Colony of Hongkong

A

In the

former of

these caves

the

(

the accused would, in

Article 7.

of

the Act

set at le

liberly,

conformity

with

of 1870, have to be

and in the latter, be

would also have to be released, if,

offer the lapse of

a reasonable period,

for

his

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application

extradition.

In each of

was made

these cases the duty

of discharging the prisoner world.

nativally and

necoparily fall to

the executive and it is to them,

and not to cases like the

ONL

under discussion must, I think, be interpreted as

word "discharge",

applying the

in the Ordinance

referred