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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 12, 1907.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 239.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
5th March, 1907.
SIR,--With reference to Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S Circular despatch of the 25th of July, 1901, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony, a copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council giving effect to a supplementary Convention between the United Kingdom and the United States of America for the extradition of fugitive criminals signed on the 12th of April, 1905, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Washington on the 21st of December, 1906.
I have, etc.,
ELGIN.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
RELATING TO THE UNITED STATES EXTRADITION ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1907.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 11TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1907.
PRESENT.
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
LORD REAY,
LORD TWEEDMOUTH.
MR. MCKENNA.
WH
LORD SANDHURST.
THEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, 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 subsequent 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 domi- nions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient.
And whereas a Convention was concluded on the twelfth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, between His Majesty and the President of the United States of America, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Convention 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 the President of the United States of America, being desirous of enlarging the list of crimes on account of which ex- tradition may be granted under the Conventions concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the twelfth July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and the thirteenth December, one thousand nine hundred, with a view to the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime in their respective territories and jurisdictions, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Convention for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:
His Britannic Majesty, the Most Honourable HENRY CHARLES KEITH PETTY-FITZ- MAURICE, Marquess of Lansdowne, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
And the President of the United States, the Honourable JoSEPH HODGES CHOATE, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of His Britannic Majesty;