CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 835

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cannot say

Ca

that it is likely

to have any very appreciable

effect in making

easy the rendition.

easy

more

of

notorious criminals, which

was the principal end I

had in view in

originally

drawing attention to the

subject.

7.

I

am bound to

Day,

however, that the experience

of the last

year, especially since the original draft of this Ordinance was published,

has

has much modified my

view on the point. I had

previously

Terror

no idea of the of the Mandarins which pervades all classes of Chinese in this Colony,

ox

of the apprehension which

exists

among

them that

of

the

any easy process intended for the extradition

would be largely

guilty, "availed of as

#

að a

means

of

"black-mailing the innocent. In fact it appears to be a

general

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