884 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1907.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 472.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
7th June, 1907.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony, a copy of an Order of His Majesty in Council giving effect to a Treaty of Extradition between Great Britain and Peru which was concluded on the 26th of January, 1904, and ratified at Lima on the 30th of November, 1906.
I have, etc.,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
PERU EXTRADITION ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1907.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 7TH DAY OF MAY, 1907.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD PRESIDENT.
EARL OF SEFTON.
LORD TWEEDMOUTH.
LORD ALLENDALE.
ELGIN.
EARL BEAUCHAMP.
LORD JUSTICE KENNEDY.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, 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, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His 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 His 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 whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four, between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Peru, for the extradition of criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:
Treaty of Extradition between Great Britain and Peru.
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Peru, having determined, by common consent, to conclude a Treaty for the extradition of criminals, have accordingly named as their Plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, William Nelthorpe Beauclerk, His Majesty's Minister Resident in Peru ;
And His Excellency the President of the Republic of Peru, José Pardo, his Minister for Foreign Relations;
Who after having exhibited to each other their respective full powers and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles: