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the obligation to adapt the procedure prescribed by the Imperial

extradition Acts.

The Opera is of those Acts

is limited to extradition to

· those countries, to which they have been made applicable by Order in Council.

Section IV of the Act of 1870 provides that the Order in Connell shall not be made

unless the arrangements with the Foreign State is. (1)

Zerminable at a

year's

notice

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(2) is in conformity in particular

with the restrictions as to Surrender Claimed in the Act-

But

as

neither of

there conditions

are complied with in the Extradition art:

of

the Treaty

of Vientian the act of 1870 could not legally be afflied to it. The Extradition of Chinese fugitives

under the Treaty is therefore regulated solely by the Grd ce of the Colony of Hong Kong (192

of 185.0.) and H. Mr. Gost

are

unable to concur in the Construction which you place

upon that law.

Art: 3

gives the magistrate

if