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2. Subject to the provisions of this Order the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, shall apply as if each of the territories named in the first schedule of this Order were a British possession.
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3. In the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, as hereby applied to the territories named in Schedule 1 of this Order, and in this Order with reference to the said territories, unless the context otherwise requires the expression "Governor," means the officer for the time being exercising the functions :—
(a.) As regards the Gambia Protectorate, the Sierra Leone Protectorate, and the Lagos Protectorate, of Governor in the Garnbia, Sierra Leone, and Lagos respectively.
(b.) As regards the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast of Chief Commissioner. (c.) As regards Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria of High Commissioner
for Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria respectively.
4. 3. The jurisdiction under Part I. of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to hear a case and commit a fugitive to prison to await his return may be exercised in the territories named in Schedule I. of this Order by any person having in the said territories authority to issue a warrant for the apprehension of persons accused of crime, and to commit such persons for trial.
5. Part II. of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, shall apply to the Colonies. possessions, and territories mentioned in Schedules 1 and 2 of this Order.
6. 5 The Governor of such of the colonies, possessions, and territories named in the schedules to this Order shall cause this Order to be proclaimed therein, and this Order shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by such proclamation.
7. His Majesty may from time to time revoke, alter, add to, or amend this Order.
SCHEDULE 1.
The Gambia Protectorate.
The Sierra Leone Protectorate.
The Lagos Protectorate.
The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
Northern Nigeria.
Southern Nigeria.
SCHEDULE 2.
R. B. F. E. C.
No. 149.
(TRANSVAAL-ORANGE RIVER COLONY.)
LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
[Claims on account of Salaries for Personal Services rendered before the War to the late Governments.]
Royal Courts of Justice, SIR,
May 16, 1902. We were honoured with your commands signified to us in Mr. H. Bertrain Cox's letter of the 10th instant, stating that, with reference to our Report of the 14th of March last* relating to the obligations of His Majesty's Government to provide for claims on account of salaries for personal services rendered before the war to the late Government of the South African Republic, he was directed by you to enclose a copy of the Supplementary Estimate laid before Parliament, from which it appeared that the money was asked for and voted in aid of the revenues of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies (see page 8 of Supplementary Estimate No. 277 of 1901), and that although, as pointed out in the letter of Sir Francis Mowatt of the 21st February, 1902, the money was no doubt voted to meet the cost of the present administration of those Colonies, it might be a matter for con- sideration whether, in view of the actual terms used in the Supplementary Estimate, it might not be held that Parliament in voting the money did not make any distinc- tion as to its application, and that the grant, being in aid of revenues which would be liable to meet the claims referred to if sufficient, must also be liable to meet those claims.
That a copy of the Supplementary Estimate was enclosed, together with a letter from the Treasury to the Colonial Office of the 2nd May, to which our attention was particularly directed.
That Mr. Bertram Cox was to request us to take the matter into our considera- tion and to advise you whether, in view of the words of the Supplementary Estimate, we still considered that the grant in aid was not liable to be used to provide for the payment of the claims in question.
We have taken the papers into our consideration, and, in obedience to your commands, have the honour to
Report-
That in our opinion the claims in question ought, not to be paid out of the grant-in-aid.
We do not think that such claims can be considered as falling within any of the subheads mentioned in the Supplementary Estimate.
The Gambia.
Sierra Leone.~- The Gold Coast.
Ashanti. Lagos.
R. B. F. E. C.
We have, &e..
R. B. FINLAY. EDWARD CARSON.
The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.,
&c.,
&c..
&c.
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