THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1883.
At the Court at Windsor, the 16th day of December, 1882.
PRESENT,
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The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.
Earl of Kimberley.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearne. Marquess of Hartington.
Earl of Derby.
Mr. Gladstone.
Mr. Childers.
W made with any foreign Mate
HEREAS by the "Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873," it was amongst other things enacted,
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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 condictions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Salvador, 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 Salvador, 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 or offences hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty (that is to say):
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Richard Bickerton Pemell, Lord Lyons, a Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, one of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic;
"And his Excelleny the President of the Republic of Salvador, Señor Don José Maria Torres- Caicedo, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Salvador to Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour;
"Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:-
"ARTICLE I,
"The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be fouund within the territory of the other Party.
"ARTICLE II.
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"The extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences:-
"1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt to murder. "2. Manslaughter.
"3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women. "4. Rape.
"5. Aggravated or indecent assault; carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years; carnal knowledge of a girl above the age of 10 years and under the agc of 12 years; indecent assault upon any female, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 12 years of age.
"6. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child-stealing, abandoning, exposing, or unlawfully detaining children.
"7. Abduction of minors.
"8. Bigamy.
"9. Wounding, or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
"10. Assaulting a magistrate, or peace or public officer.
"11. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.
"12. Perjury or subornation of perjury.
"13. Arson.
"14. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
"15. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any Company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
16. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.