1278 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 11, 1907.
ARTICLE XVII.
All expenses connected with extradition shall be borne by the demanding State.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the colonies and foreigu possessions of His Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws in such colonies and foreign posses- sions respectively will allow.
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of such colonies or foreign possessions shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such colony or possession by the chief Consular officer of the Republic of Panamá in such colony or possession.
Such requisition may be disposed of, subject always, as nearly as may be, and so far as the law of such colony or foreign possession will allow, to the provisions of this Treaty, by the said Governor or chief authority, who, however, shall be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to his Government.
His Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of criminals from the Republic of Panamá who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign possessions, on the basis, so far as the law of such Colony or foreign possession will allow, of the provisions of the present Treaty.
Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any Colony or foreign possession of His Britannic Majesty shall be governed by rules laid down in the preceding Articles of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XIX.
The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year, and not less than six months.
It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Panamá as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto their respective seals.
Doue in duplicate in the Spanish and English languages at Panamá the twenty-fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and six.
(L.S.) (L.S.)
C. MALLET.
RICARDO ARIAS.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty were exchanged at Panamá on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order. and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Panamá, and of the said Treaty with the President of the Republic of Panamá :
Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.
A. W. FITZROY.