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No. 172.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31st OCTOBER, 1874.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order in Council, of the 6th August, 1874, for carrying into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and the King of the Netherlands, for the mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 28th October, 1874.
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 6th day of August, 1874.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
W WHEREAS 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," 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 Act 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 nineteenth day of June last, between Her Majesty and the King of the Netherlands, 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 Majesty the King of the Netherlands, having judged it expe- dient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within the two countries, that persons charged with or con- victed 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 Plenipoten- tiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Sir Edward Alfred John Harris, a Vice-Admiral in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, Knight Cominander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Netherlands:
And His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, M. Joseph Lodewyk Hendrik Alfred Baron Gericke van Herwynen, Commander of the Order of the Netherland Lion, Knight Grand Cross of the Oaken Crown of Luxemburg, &c., &c., His Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs; and M. Gerrit de Vries, Commander of the Order of the Netherland Lion, His Majesty's Minister of Justice,
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 :-
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HARE Majesteit de Koningin van het Vereenigd Koningrijk van Groot Brittannie en Ierland, en Zijne Majesteit de Koning der Nederlanden, het nuttig geoordeeld hebbende, ter bevordering eener betere bedeeling van het regt en ter voorkoming van misdrijven in de twee landen, dat personen, beschuldigd van of veroordeeld wegens de nate- noemen misdrijven en die voortvlugtig mogten zijn, wederkeerig onder zekere voorwaarden uitge- leverd worden; zoo hebben Hunne gezegde Majesteiten tot hare Gevolmagtigden tot het aangaan eener daartoe strekkende overeenkomst benoemd, te weten:
Hare Majesteit de Koningin van het Vereenigd Koningrijk van Groot Brittannie en Jerland den Achtbaren Sir Edward Alfred John Harris, Vice- Admiraal van Harer Majesteits Vloot, Com- mandeur der Zeer Eervolle Orde van het Bad, Harer Majesteits Buitengewoon Gezant en Gevol- magtigd Minister bij Zijne Majesteit den Koning der Nederlanden;
En Zijne Majesteit de Koning der Nederlanden, den Heer Joseph Lodewyk Hendrik Alfred Baron Gericke van Herwynen, Commandeur der Orde van den Nederlandschen Leeuw, Ridder Groot- kruis der Orde van de Eiken Kroon van Luxem- burg, enz., enz., Hoogstdeszelfs Minister van Buitenlandsche Zaken; en den Heer Gerrit de Vries, Commandeur der Orde van den Neder- landschen Leeuw, Hoogstdeszelfs Minister van Justitie;
Welke, na elkander hunne volmagten, welke goeden en behoorlijken vorm zijn bevonden te hebben medegedeeld, omtrent de volgende Arti- kelen zijn overeengekomen en deze hebben vast- gesteld:-