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the hongkong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH JUNE, 1891.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 255.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th June, 1891.
CIRCULAR.
W. M. GOODMAN, Acting Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
9th April, 1891.
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 20th of March, 1891, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Orange Free State for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Cape Town on the 20th of June, 1890, and at Bloemfontein on the 25th of June, 1890, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Bloemfontein on the 16th of December, 1890.
The Treaty came into operation on the 6th instant, in conformity with Article XX.
I have the honour to be,
Sir.
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
KNUTSFORD.
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
EXTRADITION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE
ORANGE FREE STATE.
Windsor, 20th March, 1891.
At the Court at Windsor, the 20th day of March, 1891.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President. Duke of Rutland.
Lord Chamberlain.
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 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 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 re- specting 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 twentieth and twenty-fifth days of June, one thou- sand eight hundred and ninety, between Her Majesty and the President of the Orange Free State, 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 Honour the President of the Orange Free State, in the name of the Government of that Re- public, 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;