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PROCLAMATION.
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By His Excellency Sir RearsALD EDWARD STuans Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the nineteenth section of the Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, it is enacted that in case the Governor in Council deems it expedient that the said Ordinonce should be repealed it shall be lawful for the Governor by proclamation to declare that it is repealed:
And whereas I Sir Rsorsad Epward Stunus with the advice of the Executive Conncil of the Colony of Hongkong do docm it expedient that the said Ordinance should be repealed:
Now therefore I Sir RearNALD Edwaan Srupas Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby by this proclamation declare that the Macao Extradition Ordinance, 1881, is repealed.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hongkong, this 27th day of August, 1920.
By Command,
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Colonial Secretary,
GOD SAVE THE Krso.
Kory-The Macas Extradition Ordinance, 1881, was evidently intended as n temporary monauro pending the conclusion of the treaty between Great Britain and Portugual which was then wunder negotiation, and it seems probable that the unusual power of repeal given to the Governor in Council by section 19 of the Ordinance was intended to be used upon the conclosing of the treaty. This appears to have been overlooked when the treaty was concluded and brought into force in 1894. It is inconvenient to have a special set of rules for the single case of extradition to Macao, and the proce- dare of the Ordinance is also inferior in certain respect to the procedure of the general extradition law which will apply when the Ordinance is repealed. For example, there is no provision for tha ise of any warrant of arrest before the receipt of a formal requisition. The Ordinance has there- fore been repeatou,