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responsibility, thereby involved,

will sooner or later become.

absolutely necessary.

But if

the circumstances are not_

deemed yet to be such as to - justify it, and it be thought

better to run the risk of increasing irritation on

· part of China, I fear that any improvement which can

be

the

effected in the direction

indicated at the beginning of

this despa

:spatch is infinitesimal.

of think, therefore, that things

may

they are,

may as well be left as they with the exception that a short measure should be passed

a schedule of.

containing

Extradition crimes, the opportunity

being at the same time taken to introduce some slight

on

the

amendments of the law lines of the Draft Ordinance of 2 1876. In the meantime, I have

given instructions that the Magistrate who deals with an Extradition case is to proceed

As

expeditiously as possible with

the