Now there is abundant and undisputed evidence of negotiations and transactions between one or more of the conspirators and two Chinese named respectively Ma and Hu.
Surely these were overt acts within the purview of the charge last quoted from the information, And while we do not regard proof of agency as indispensible there is nevertheless undisputed evidence of a connexion with the one first-named; though not such as would bind him or show that others were acting in an official capacity or with the authority required by the exception to the treaty. No other defence than said exception being offered, we must find the evidence sufficient to convict in Cause No, 2317 though insufficient in Cause No. 2307.
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