CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 272

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whist

it appears to him

the offence committed

prismer

extradition

a

Colonial Gourt cannot-

arrogate

to itself powers

steit

are

st

variance, either

with the law, or the internation

engagements of the country

That

by

the

to

which.

the

According

to

bohong belong. the Acts of

is

f

so

that

tte

20

1870

1893,

the

povers

of

in

those of

State, &

4

case

in

which

State

can

the Governor of a colony,

extradition

refuse

cases, are

of a Secretary of

a

the only

Secretary of

liberate,

to give up

fugitor criminal whom the

Jugitivi

Magistrate has

Le

decided should

mrrendered, is

that in etreit

cares

whose

has been demanded

political nature,

muest

linnt in

Le taken

mch

of the pavers of a

letonnial Governor. This

must necessarily be so, for the powers fa

of

bolonial

thore

under

exceed

Governor cannot of the Secretary of State

som

he is

therefore

thal

be acts, &

responsible.

to whom

The Imperial Govt contine to maintain the Governor of Hongkong,

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