23.o February 1884 states that "unters " Bishop Raincondi cau produce
"
"
evidence to support alleged innocence
" and to rebut the prima facie evidence
"of
quilt, Governor of Hongkong would "not be justified in declining to surrender "the
fugitives on the ground that there
"
" was not proof of quilt as required by 21 of Treaty . " Furthive
" article 21
sau
AVOA
on
92
former paragraph of this despatch it.. would seem that prima facie
evidence
of Gwith would justify the Governor in ordering the recedition of the accused.
On this subject Mr. O'rttatley
his opinion in the case
in
of Yeung Ateing and 10 others made the following- remarks with which I quite agreer.
in the
#1
desportch he states that the Governor
to report
on
proof of quilt
the whole, whether the
was such
the reinds of the Concil.
The whole question
to vatiefy
eeeurs to be
resumed in these words "that the proof
"
of quilt should be euch.
satisfy
the windo
as would
of the Coreercil,
"
"But if the Govenor
is to exercise.
"any independent judgment upon the
"/
" evidence, what is it to be? To he merely
"to review the Magistrate's decision, and :
!!
say
whether to his mind the wvidence:
"makes out that there is probable
"
"
although from the Judgment of the Privy Council and the wording of the
forener
COMMER
" for believing that the prisoners have "committed the crive charged,
Or
is he to
"Consider the larger question of whether
(granting
a probable
that the evidence makes out
CaAVAL
for believing that the
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