THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1905.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 474.
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With reference to Government Notification No. 264 of the 2nd May, 1905, it is hereby notified that the King's Exequatur empowering ANTONIO ALEXANDRINO HEYTOR BOTELHO to act as Consul for Nicaragua at Hongkong, has received His Majesty's signature.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th July, 1905.
F. H. MAY, Coloni 1 Secretary,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 475.
The following Circular despatch and its enclosure are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th July, 1905.
CIRCULAR.
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary,
DOWNING STREET,
17th June, 1905.
SIR,-With reference to the Earl of Kimberley's Circular despatch of the 30th May, 1881, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated the 29th of May, 1905, bringing into operation, as from the 9th instant, a Convention between His Britannic Majesty and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation supplementing Article XVIII of the Extradition Treaty concluded between Great Britain and Switzerland, November 26th, 1880.
This Supplementary Convention was signed at London on the 29th of June, 1904, and the ratifications were exchanged at the same place on the 29th of March, 1905.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
APPLYING THE EXTRADITION CONVENTION OF THE 29TH JUNE, 1904. Buckingham Palace, 29th May, 1905.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 29th day of May, 1905.
PRESENT,
The KING's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President.
Lord Steward.
Mr. C. B. Stuart-Wortley.
Sir W. H. Walrond.
Sir A. Nicolson.
Sir W. E. Goschen.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1893, 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 Örder, 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;