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received, with much sate

satisfactio

zate faction

the admission of this fort that the

toordo

"proof of guilt", conlained ins

Article XXI.

of the

the Treaty oflientsin,

are not to be taken as

signifying

that absolute proof of quilt which

As

necessary

Conviction

to support a finial-

but that presumptive

proof of guilt which is known to

the Law

Law of Batradition

As regards your Lordship's remach

that Article XXI

of the Treaty of

Pientsin does not prescribe the

InArtster

in which the proof of

guilt required by

the Treaty is

to be ascertained, the Imperial

foot hope that it is not intended.

A.

foot consider.

to signify that H. Ini's fort

the absence

of such a stipulation

entething them to apply to the

extradition

Chinese Criminals

of Chinose.

procedure other

from Honghone; a than that which by the Laur of

Great Britain is proper to questions

extradition in jeneral..

7

It is not usucal in extradition

treaties to prescribe the

which the evidence of criminality

is to be obtained.

and the absence.

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