THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JULY, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 282. The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th July, 1894.
CIRCULAR
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary,
DOWNING STREET,
605
21st May, 1894.
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 30th April, 1894, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of Roumania, for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Bucharest on the 21st of March, 1893, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Bucharest on the 13th of March, 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 ROUMANIA.
Windsor, 30th April, 1894.
At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of April, 1894.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
RIPON.
Lord President.
Lord Steward.
Earl of Chesterfield.
Lord Chamberlain.
Sir Charles Russell. Sir Frank Lascelles.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, 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 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 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:
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, between Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of Roumania 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 His Majesty the King of Roumania, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; the said High Contracting Parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say :