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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MARCH, 1899.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 171.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st March, 1899.
J. H. STEWARt Lockhart, Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
Downing STREET,
9th February, 1899.
SIR-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 2ud of February, 1899, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of the Netherlands for the mutual extradition of Fugitive criminals, signed at London on the 26th of September, 1898, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Loudon on the 14th of December, 1898.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
EXTRADITION TREATY.-NETHERLANDS.
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 2nd February, 1899.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 2nd day of February, 1899.
Lord President.
Lord Privy Seal.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Duke of Marlborough. Earl of Kintore.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, it was amongst the 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, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that Her Majesty may, by the same or any sub- sequent 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 Her 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 twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, between Her Majesty and the Queen of the Netherlands for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
"HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, having mutually resolved to conclude a new Treaty for the extradition of criminals, the said High Contracting Parties have named as Their Plenipoten- tiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Most Honourable Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil, Peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c., &c. ;
"And Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, Alexander William Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, of the Netherlands in London, Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, &c., &c.;