ROIT.
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 38.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 20TH SEPTEMBER, 1873.
VOL. XIX.
No. 144.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council, of the 26th June last, for carrying into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark for the mutual surrender of Fugitive Criminals, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th September, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
At the Court at Windsor, the 26th day of June, 1873.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
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 thirty-first day of March last between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark 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 Denmark, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within their re- spective territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes herein after enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; their said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, Knight Commander of the Most Honour- able Order of the Bath, Her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Denmark;
Da Hans Majestæt Kongen af Danmark og Hendes Majestat Dronningea af de forenede Kongerige Storbritannien og Irland, til bedre Haandhævelse af Retsple icn og til Forebyggelse af Forbrydelser indenf or deres respektive Terri- torier og Statsgebeter, have anseet det for gavnligt, at Personer, som ere anklagede for eller over. beviste om at have gjort sig skyldige i de nedenfor angivne Forbrydelser og ved Flugt have unddraget sig Retsforfölgning, blive under visse Omstændig- heder gjensidigen udleverede, saa have bemeldte Majestæter til i dette Öiemed at afslutte en Traktat udnævnt til deres Befuldmægtigede :
Hendes Majestæt Dronningen af det forenede Kongerige Storbritannien og Irland, Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, Kommandeur af Bath-Ordenen, Hendes Majestæts overordentlige Gesandt. og befuldmægtigede Minister hos Hans Majestet Kongen af Danmark;