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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JULY, 1905.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION --No. 457.
The following Circular despatch and its enclosure are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st July, 1905.
CIRCULAR.
F. H. MAY,
Colonial Secretary,
DOWNING STREET,
2nd June, 1905.
SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Govern- ment, a copy of an Order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated the 10th of May, 1905, for giving effect to the Treaty between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Cuba for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Havana on the 3rd of October, 1904, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Havana on the 10th of January, 1905.
I have, &c..
The Officer Administering the Government of
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
W
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
APPLYING THE EXTRADITION TREATY WITH CUBA OF THE 3RD OCTOBER, 1904.
Buckingham Palace, 10th May, 1905.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of May, 1905.
PRESENT,
The KING's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President.
Lord Steward.
Earl of Kintore.
Sir H. Aubrey-Fletcher.
Sir Savile Crossley.
HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it was amongst other things enacted that,
where an 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 subse- quent 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 expe- dient;
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Cuba 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 Excellency the President of the Republic of Cuba, 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, Lionel E. G. Carden, Esq., Minister Resident of Great Britain in Cuba, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Cuba, Carlos E. Ortiz y Coligny, Secretary of State and Justice; who, after having exhibited to each other their respective full powers and found them in good order and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :--
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.