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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8г¤ OCTOBER, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 455.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th October, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
25th August, 1898.
SIR-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Govern- ment, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 9th of August, 1898, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Chile, for the mutual extradition of Fugitive criminals, signed at Santiago on the 26th of January, 1897, the ratifi- cations of which were exchanged at Santiago on the 14th of April, 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.-REPUBLIC of Chile.
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 9th August, 1898.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of August, 1898.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord Privy Seal.
Lord James of Hereford.
Sir Fleetwood Edwards.
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, 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 ex- pedient :
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Chile 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, and his Excellency the President of the Republic of Chile, having determined, by common consent, to conclude a Treaty for the extradition of criminals, have, accordingly, named as their Plenipotentiaries :—
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John G. Kennedy, Esq., Minister Resident of Great Britain in Chile; and his Excellency the President of the Republic of Chile, Señor Don Carlos Morla Vicuña, Minister of Foreign Affairs; who, after having exhibited to each other their respective Full Powers, and found them in good 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.