CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 476

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because, apparently, the proof

was not regarded

offered

eufficient.

و

امه

On turning to the

local law which

dour

governs

action in these cases, Ordinance

2 of 1857, ( with the declaratory Ordinance N. 2 of 1871), I find far

that it seems to meet as | as possible, the Chinese view of the position. The ast for which a fugitive may be

surrendered to the Chinese

Authorities or (if I may be

allowed

This

wouldhave ecurepeated, r the Draft

File y 1875

allowed the term) extradited, is, by section 1, described as any

one which constituted

By

a Crime

offence against the laws of

China, a description which as being without qualification

scarcely to justify,

would seem

- from a Chinese point of view, "the limitation of the Privy- Cornsil; and by Section 3 it is the duty of the Magistrate to commit a prisoner to await the order of the Governor if at "the close of the investigation

it.

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