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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL
1912.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 121.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
13th March, 1912.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit, for your information and for publication in the Colony under your government, a copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council, dated the 13th day of February, 1912, applying the Extradition Acts 1870 to 1906 in the case of Greece, with a view to giving effect to the Treaty between the United Kingdom and Greece for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals which was signed at Athens on 24th Septem-* ber, 1910, and of which the ratifications were exchanged at Athens on the 30th Decem- ber last.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have, etc.,
L. HARCOURT.
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL APPLYING THE EXTRADITION ACTS TO GREECE, FEBRUARY 13TH, 1912.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 13TH DAY of February, 1912.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD CHANCELLOR.
LORD PRESIDENT.
MASTER OF THE HORSE.
EARL BEAUCHAMP.
EARL OF DURHAM.
LORD LUCAS AND DINGWALL. SIR F. J.. S. HOPWOOD.
MR. G. LAMBERT.
MR. C. P. ALLEN. MR. T. R. FERENS.
HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, it was amongst other things
Wenacted that, where su arrangement has been made with any foreign state with
respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, 'His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation' of the Order and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Majesty's dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the 11th/24th day of September,. 1910, be- tween His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:---
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, having determined, by common consent, to conclude a Treaty for the extradition of criminals, have accordingly named as their Plenipotentiaries:
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot, a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander of the Most Dintin- guished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Grand Cross of the Royal Hellenic Order of the Redeemer, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens;
And His Majesty the King of the Hellen s, His Excellency M. Demetrius Kalergi, Officer of the Roy I Hellenic Order of the Rede mer, His Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs;
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