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expense connected with these

extradition cases, so

long

as

we maintain what we

intend as

precautions against

: the rendition of innocent.

persons. And I am

am moveover.

satisfied that these presautions, as at present exercised are practically useless for their object; and that no others could be devised which

would be

any

better, except

such as would preclude extradition altogether. If the

Chinese

Chinese cuthorities desired the

giving up of an innocent -person, recently arrived in the Colony, I hold that with all

br

srife-guards they would quite as likely

as in the case

to succeed

of a genuine

criminal, and that the evidence. in the one ease would in all

- probability appear just as much, or as little worthy of trust as in the other. In a word, I believe that after all the delays, with their attendant expence,

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