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In construing Section 17 of the Extradition Act

1870, due regard must, in the opinion of Sir E. Grey, be had to a statement on the Constitution of the Foreign

State concerned made by a responsible official of that

State, such as the Consul General of the United States at Hongkong, and Mr. Anderson's statement would seem to have been sufficient evidence as to the position of the

Philippine Islands for the purpose of the point raised

in the Sotto proceedings.

For these reasons Sir Edward Grey feels some

difficult in endorsing the opinion that Mr. Alabaster was prepared to express in the paragraph marked A in

the copy of his Minute of April 27th, but considers

that in strictness the application for Sotto's extradi-

tion should have been made by the United States Consul-

General at Hongkong rather than by the Governor of the Philippines, and that this procedure should be observed

in any future application for extradition from Hongkong

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