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little check on such applications.

There has been a good

deal of delay and trouble recently in these extradition cases, but it seems to me that this is caused in a great measure by the want

of proper care in producing the necessary witnesses .

I

to have se (signed) J. Russell.

Report by the Acting Attorney leeneral. (Copy)

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The practice relating to the surrender to China of fugitive

Criminals under

the XXI article of the Surety of Piention is regulated by Ordinance No2 of 1850 which had been passed for carrying out the I reatics between Great Britain and China and which by Ordinance Rof187 1 has been declared to apply to the later Treaty of Fient in. According to that Ordinance the Magistrate may

under the circumstances mentioned

in Section 2 issue : his warr

warrant

6 for apprehension of the

the arrest arid apprehension

accused and is to investigate the alleged

crime or

ao

offence.

if such persons

crime or

offence

in the

were

Дома малин

cheerged with a

Committed in the

Colony. Jection III provides that if at the close of the investigation it shall appear to the Magistrale that the

accused is a

eubject of China and.

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