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XIV. If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of he fugitive, or within such further time as the State applied to, the proper Tribunal thereof, shall direct, the fugitive shall be set at liberty.
XV. All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to for the extradition has ordered the delivery of such articles, be giyen up when the extradition takes place; and the said delivery shall extend not merely to the stolen articles, but to everything that may serve as a proof of the crime.
XVI. All expenses connected with extradition shall be borne by the demanding State.
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XVII. The present Treaty shall apply to crimes and offences committed prior to the signature of the Treaty.
XVIII. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be applicable to the South African Colonies and Possessions of Her Britannic Majesty.
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XIX. With the exceptions mentioned in the preceding Article, the stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to all the Colonies and foreign Possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws for the time being in force in such Colonies and foreign Possessions 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 Goverfor or chief authority of such Colony or Posses- sion by the chief/Consular officer of the Orange Free State 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.
Her Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign Possessions for the surrender of Orange Free State criminals who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign Possessions, on the basis, as nearly as may be, and 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 such Colony or foreign Possession of Her Britannic Majesty shall be governed by the rules laid down in the preceding Articles of the present Treaty.
XX. The present Treaty shall come into force 10 days after its
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publication, in et: Ly with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Partics. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year and not less than six months.
The Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be ex- changed at Bloemfontein as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done in duplicate, at Cape Town, this 20th day of June, 1890.
L.S.) HENRY B. LOCH, High Commissioner.
Done in duplicate, at Bloemfontein, this 25th day of June, 1890.
(L.S.) F. W. REITZ, State President.
AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Germany, respecting Zanzibar, Heligoland, and the Spheres of Influence of the two Countries in Africa.-Signed at Berlin, July 1, 1890.
THE Undersigned,
Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, Her Britannic Majesty's Am- bassador
DIE Unterzeichneten, Der Ausserordentliche und Botschafter Bevollmächtigte
britannischen Majestät,
Ihrer Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary;
Sir Henry Percy Anderson, Chief of the African Depart- ment of Her Majesty's Foreign Office;
: The Chancellor of the German Empire, General von Caprivi;
The Privy Councillor in the Foreign Office, Dr. Krauel;
Have, after discussion of various questions affecting the Colonial interests of Germany and Great Britain, come to the following agreement on behalf of their respective Govern-
ments:-
ART. I. In East Africa the sphere in which the exercise of influence is reserved to Germany
is bounded-
Sir Edward Baldwin Malet;
Der Vorsteher der Afrikan- ischen Abtheilung Ihrer Majestät Auswärtigen Amtes, Sir Henry Percy Anderson;
Der Reichskanzler, General der Infanterie, von Caprivi;
Der Geheime Legationsrath im Auswärtigen Amt, Dr. Krauel;
Haben, nach Berathung ver- schiedener die Kolonial interessen Deutschlands und Grossbritan- niens betreffender Fragen Na- mens Ihrer Regierungen fol- gendes Abkommen getroffen:-
ART. I. In Ostafrika wird das Gebiet, welches Deutschland zur Geltendinachung seines Einflusses vordbehalten wird, begrenzt
1..Im Norden durch eine Linie
1. To the north by a line
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