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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 16TH MAY, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 205.
The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of an Order of the Queen in Comer for giving effect to the Treaty for the mutual surrender of the Fugitive Criminals between Great Britai and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th April, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretes,
CIRCULAR..
DOWNING STREET, 16th March, 1885.
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 5th of March, 1885, for giving effect to th Treaty for the mutual surrender of Fugitive Criminals between Great Britain and the Oriental Republi of Uruguay, and signed on the 25th of March, 1884.
The Treaty will come into operation in the United Kingdom on the 20th of March, 1885, in conformity with Article 16...
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG
DERBY.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 5Tп DAY OF MARCH, 1885.
Lord President, Lord Privy Seal.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.
Lord Steward. Mr. Trevelyan.
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 shaft 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-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, 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 Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, their be reciprocally delivered up, have resolved to conclude the present Treaty, and have appointed as Plenipotentiaries, namely: