1308 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST DECEMBER, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 599.
The following Circular Despatch and Order of Her Majesty in Council are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th December, 1898.
CIRCULAR.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
2nd November, 1898.
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 20th of October, 1898, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Bolivia, for the mutual extradition of Fugitive criminals, signed at Lima on the 22nd of February, 1892, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Lima on the 7th of March, 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 BOLIVIA. ·
Balmoral, 20th October, 1898.
At the Court at Balmoral, the 20th day of October, 1898.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Duke of Fife.
Earl of Kintore.
Lord George Hamilton.
WHEREAS 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 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 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-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, between Her Majesty and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Bolivia, 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 Excel- lency the President of the Republic of Bolivia, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and their jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have nained as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty (that is to say):
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Her Chargé d'Affaires ad interim Mr. George Jenner;
"And His Excellency the President of the Republic of Bolivia, Señor Don José Manuel Braun, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Peru;
"Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded 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,