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fuller opportunity of receiving and considering the opinions of those officers whose experience with

regard to rendition cases. should prove of value in

forming a judgment question.

11.

area

The

on

the

small.

very of this Colony, and the far greater than ordinary

inconvenience which is

this account caused by

accessions to the criminal class, together with our

immediate

immediate contignity

to a

densely populated region of China, where the struggle for life is of the hardest, and the temptations to crime : than ordinarily great appear to me to furnish

to crime more.

reasons

for

relaxing the strictness of the

rules with regard to extradition

which were made with

reference to normal conditions.

But apart from

12.

the above aspect of the question

which principally

concerno

this