THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MAY, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 214.
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The following Circular Despatch, accompanying an Order of the Queen in Council of the 7th of March, 1887, is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st May, 1887.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
24th March, 1887.
SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, an extract from the London Gazette, containing an Order of the Queen in Council of the 7th of March, 1887, for carrying into effect the Treaty for the mutual surrender of fugitive Criminals, signed between Great Britain and Russia on the 24th of November last.
The Treaty came into operation on the 21st of March of this year, in conformity with Article XIX.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
H. T. HOLLAND.
HONGKONG.
At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of March, 1887.
PRESENT:
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord President.
Lord Chamberlain.
Lord John Manners.
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 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 twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, between Her Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, 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 Emperor of All the Russias, 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 hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; their said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiarics to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable Stafford Henry Earl of Iddesleigh, Viscount St. Cyres, a Peer of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet of Great Britain, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c., &c. ;
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