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be

existing law, it may inferred from a passage in the letter from the Foreign to the Colonial Office, dated August 6, 1886, (copy of which was enclosed for the guidance

of

this Government, in Mr "Stanhope's despatch, No21 of 2nd September, 1886), that in Lord Iddesleigh's opinion the Magistrate should commit the fugitive, whose extradition is required, if the evidence is such as to constitute a

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primâ facie

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case.

This

again

appears to me to be a limitation, though a very slight

one

of

the language of the Ordinance for it is possible to conceive that an in

investigation might disclose probable

cause

for_

believing that a prisoner

was

quilty, though the evidence

had not been altogether such as to establish a primâ facie in the usual acceptation of - the term.

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case

Without taking up.

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