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will obtain the views of the 2:0. upon the legal

questions raised by

note fram

Minister.

this

the Claimes

Thes

questions appear to be :-

Do

(1) the extradition

Acts of 1870

an

and 1873

apply to the treats of ticutring

Jorge Lestate that

Upon this puts the fee?

Wtate observes that he is

Order

not aware that any in Corneil has been issued under sec. 1 of the Act of 1870 directing that the Act shall apply in the

Cale

of China.

(2) If the extradition

Acts do not apply, in the

i cadRA

procedure under the Treaty

?

of Tientsin regulatest

ofr

the Colmical Ordinance

2

of 1850, which, I9277 to pount unt, is expressly extended to that treat

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by the Ordinance These two local Ordinances

were amongst the papers laid before this Law Officers, their reportar when they gave

the question, dated 18 Sep. Cast,

accompanied

the

30

you letter

which defence 2

(3)み

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does

Caserande

of 1850 decrapply to the Treaty, has the foverno

a discretionary power under

C.R....

sec. 3 of that Ord 22%, to discharge a prisoner

who has been committed to

prison by the Magistrate?

Onthers forint Jam to to the Memor переа за

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