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Salisbury to request that you will state to Secretary Sir Henry Holland that bis Lordship

Concur with him in the

pinion that, notinthstanding

The inconvenience which may possibly result from

observance of the stipulations

of the Extradition Act of 1870, which are not necessarily applicable to Hongkong, yet What the principle of that act Should be the guide to the authorities of the colong in regard to the rendition

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of Chinese subjects.

With reference to the possibility parted out buy Administrator Marsh that the witnesses now produced by the Chinese Government may not be forthcoming, when the present sentence of the prisoner in Hongkong Yaol expires, I am to beg that

will remind sin Henry Holland that the practice followed in this country with regard to applications for the extradition of persons underying

you

sentences is to make

note

of

such applications, but to stay proceedings till the expiration

of