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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 4, 1910.

In witness whereof, the undersigned, His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bertie, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, and His Excellency M. Stephen Pichon, Senator, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, have concluded the present Agreement, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate at Paris, on the 29th July, 1909.

(LS) FRANCIS BERTIE. (L.S.) S. PICHON.

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the Extradition Acts, 1870-1906, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the said Acts shall apply in the case of France under and in accord- ance with the said Treaty of the fourteenth Angust, one thousand eight hundred and seventy- six, as supplemented by the Additional Conventions of the thirteenth February, one thou- and eight hundred and ninety-six, and seventeenth October, one thousand nine hundred and eight; and in the case of Tunis under and in accordance with the said Agreements of the thirty-first Decemb r, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and twenty-ninth July, one thousand nine hundred and nine:

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.

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ALMERIC FITZROY.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 40.-His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinance :----

Ordinance No. 23 of 1909, entitled-An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Opium and its Com- pounds.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

2nd February, 1910.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 41. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint under Section 4 of the Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1885, (Ordinance No. 2 of 1885), Police Sergeant GEORGE SIM and Lance Sergeant GEORGE FOWLER to be Examiners of Weights and Measures in the New Territories.

1st February, 1910.