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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JANUARY, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 39.
The following Despatch and its enclosure are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th January, 1887.
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FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
11th December, 1886.
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 in Council, dated the 26th day of November, 1886, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Guatemala for the mutual extradtion of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Guatemala on the 4th of July, 1885.
The Treaty will come into operation on the 13th instant, in conformity with Article XVIII.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
EDWARD STANHOPE.
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At the Court at Windsor, the 26th day of November, 1886.
Lord President. Earl of Rosslyn.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Viscount Cross. Lord Stanley of Preston.
HEREAS 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 in accordance with section 18 of "The Extradition Act, 1870," the Legislature of the Dominion of Canada has, by laws passed in the years 1877 and 1882, and respectively styled "The Extradition Act, 1877," and "An Act to amend the Extradition Act, 1877," made provision for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or are suspected of being in the Dominion.
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Guatemala, 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, and his Excellency the President of the Republic of Guatemala, 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,