CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10] — Page 306

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view the law is clear that it is the duty of the Magistrate in the

case of a convicted person whose extradition is being sought to

commit that person for extradition provided that he finds that the

obligations of the extradition law have been complied with and to

leave legal questions such as a plea of res judicata to be raised

by the person on an application for Habeas Corpus; in other words

I think that Mr. Hazeland has gone outside the limits of his

jurisdiction in deciding the point at all in addition to having decided the point wrongly.

4. The question, of course, at once arises as to

whether this Government wishes that any further steps should be

taken in the matter; I have no doubt that the United States Authori

-ties will press this Government to take any further steps which may be at all possible to try and obtain the surrender of this man. I have already expressed my views generally at some length in this file but I feel that in view of the last Despatch of the Secretary

of State, it is only right that we should endeavour to carry out our Treaty obligations to the utmost of our power. But very difficult questions arise as to whether it is possible to do any- -thing more and as to what means exist for reviewing the Magis- -trate's decision. Now there are three processes which naturally

occur to a Lawyer

(a) Appeal

(b) Mandamus

(c) Fresh proceedings before another lagistrate

and I will deal with these three processes separately.

With regard to (a), I am satisfied myself that

there is no appeal.

With regard to (b) there is a preliminary difficulty, which however is not unsurmountable, in the Government attempting to mandamus its own officer; but the position of a Judicial officer is not the same as that of an Administrative or Executive officer and there does not seem to me to be any great objection to the Crown applying for a Kandamus against one of its own Magistrates who however presumably will have to be separately

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