CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7] — Page 837

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10.

on-

unanimous opposition the part of the unofficial

members to the Ordinance

in its original form (including a provision for

constituting

as evidence.

affidavits taken in China).

and even now

I have had

much difficulty in calming apprehension, though the

Ordinance has been divested

of all provisions open to objection this ground,

on

and affords to the innocent

still

*

still more

they

10.

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protection than

have hitherto enjoyed.

On the whole, I

fear that

easy

extradition

postponed

will have to be

to that distant day

when

the administration of

of justice

in China, whatever m

be it's real condition

may

as

regards purity, shall have

become

far

less

open to suspicion than at present,

and that in the meantime

there will have to be

borne

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