THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH APRIL, 1895.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 148.
The following Circular Despatch and its enclosure are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th April, 1895.
CIRCULAR.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
429
20th February, 1895.
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 in Council dated the 2nd of February, 1895, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the German Emperor, for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals between the Territories of Her Majesty and certain Dependencies of Germany, which was signed at London on the 5th May, 1894, and of which the ratifications were exchanged at London on the 3rd of December, 1894.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
EXTRADITION TREATY WITH GERMANY.
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 2nd February, 1895.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 2nd day of February, 1895.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President. Marquess of Ripon.
Lord Kensington.
Mr. Cecil Rhodes.
RIPON.
Lord Chamberlain.
THEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, it was amongst other things enacted that WHEREAS by rangement 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 that if, by any law made after the passing of the Act of 1870 by the Legislature of any British possession, provision is made for carrying into effect within such possession the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in such British possession, Her Majesty may, by the Order in Council applying the said Acts in the case of any foreign State, or by any subsequent Order, suspend the operation within any such British possession of the said Acts, or of any part thereof, so far as it relates to such foreign State, and so long as such Law continues in force there and no longer :
And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1886, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," provision is made for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals :
And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, it was directed that the operation of the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as the provision of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada of 1886 should continue in force and no longer :