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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6тu JUNE, 1891.
"ARTICLE XII
"In the examinations which they will have to make in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the authorities of the State applied to for said extradition shall admit as valid evidence the depositions. or statements of witnesses taken in the other State, under oath or under solemn affirmation to tell the truth, according as its legislation may provide, or the copies of these depositions or statements, and likewise the warrants issued and sentences pronounced in the State which demands the extradition, the certificates of the fact of the condemnation, or the judicial documents which prove it, provided the same are authenticated as follows:-
"1. A warant must purport to be signed by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the other State. "2. Depositions or affirmations, or the copies thereof, must purport to be certified, under the hand of a Judge. Magistrate, or officer of the other State, to be the original depositions or affirmatious, or to be true copies thereof, as the case may require.
3. A certificate of, or a judicial document stating the fact of, a conviction, must purport to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the other State.
"4. In every case such warrant, deposition, affirmation, copy, certificate, or judicial document must be authenticated either by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of the other State; but any other mode of authentica- tion for the time being permitted by law in the State where the examination is taken may be substi- tuted for the foregoing.
"ARTICLE XIII.
"If the individual claimed by one of the two High Contracting Parties, in pursuance of the pre- sent Treaty, should be also claimed by one or several other Powers on account of other crimes or offences committed upon their respective territories, his extradition shall be granted to that State whose demand is earliest in date.
"ARTICLE XIV.
"If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive, or within such further time as the State applied to, or the proper Tribunal thereof, shall direct, the fugitive shall be set at liberty.
"ARTICLE XV.
"All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to for the extradition has ordered the delivery of such articles, be given up when the extradition takes place; and the said delivery shall extend not merely to the stolen articles, but to everything that may serve as a proof of the crime.
"ARTICLE XVI.
"All expenses connected with extradition shall be borne by the demanding State.
“ARTICLE XVII.
"The present Treaty shall apply to crimes and offences committed prior to the signature of the Treaty.
ARTICLE XVIII.
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The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to the South African Colonies and possessions of Her Britannic Majesty.
ARTICLE XIX.
"With the exceptions mentioned in the preceding Article the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws for the time being in force in such Colonies and foreign possessions respectively will allow.
"The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of such Colonies or foreign possessions shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such Colony or possession by the Chief Cousular Officer of the Orange Free State in such Colony or possession.
"Such requisition may be disposed of, subject always as nearly as may be, and so far as the law. of such Colony or foreign possession will allow, to the provisions of this Treaty, by the said Governor or Chief Authority, who, however, shall be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to his Government.
"Her Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of Orange Free State criminals who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign possessions, on the basis, as nearly as may be, and so far as the law of such Colony or foreign possession will allow, of the provisions of the present Treaty.
"Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any such Colony or foreign possession of Her Britannic Majesty shall be governed by the rules laid down in the preceding Articles of the present Treaty.
"ARTICLE XX.
"The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year and not less than six months.
"The Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Bloemfontein as soon as possible.