THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1876.
Ordinance
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply Application of the whole or any part of the penalty recoverable in case of the penalty for non-observance or non-performance of the regulations of this sec- breach of this tion under the provisions of section V of "The Chinese Passengers' recoverable Act, 1855," towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes under "The intending emigrants by any vessel in respect of which the licence Chinese granted under this section shall have been revoked in manner Passengers' hereinbefore provided.
Act, 1855." [Ibid, sec. 10.] 14. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the Regulations of regulations contained in schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers' schedule A of Act, 1855."
"Chinese Pas- sengers' Act, 1855," not to be affected by this section.
II. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Suspending Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed by clause. the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th day of April, 1876.
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No. 81.
HI. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following copy of an Order of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, and of the Treaty accompanying it, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th April, 1876.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 5th day of February, 1876.
WHEREA
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
THEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Extradition of Criminals," and also by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Extradition Act, 1870," 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 whereas a Treaty was concluded on the sixth day of January, 1874, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Honduras, for the Mutual Extradition of Fugitive Criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
Her Majesty the Queen of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Honduras, 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, have named as their Plenipotentiaries, to conclude a Treaty for this purpose (that is to say):-
Su Magestad la Reyna del Reyno Unido de la Gran Bretaña é Irlanda, y su Excelencia el Presidente de la República de Honduras, habiendo juzgado conveniente, con la mira de mejorar la administracion de justicia y prevenir los delitos en ambos paises y sus jurisdicciones, que las personas acusadas ó convictas de los delitos que en seguida se enumeran, y que anden huyendo de la justicia, sean, bajo ciertas circunstancias, reciprocamente entregadas, han nombrado por sus Plenipotenciarios para concluir una Convencion al efecto :-