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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 13, 1906. 1255
No. 595.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
2nd June, 1906.
SI,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of His Majesty the King in Council, dated the 11th of May, 1906, for giving effect to the Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Nicaragua for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, which was signed at Managua on the 19th of April, 1905.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
I have, etc..
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AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 11TH DAY OF MAY, 1906,
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD RIBBLESDALE.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
MR. L. HARCOURT.
WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1810 to 1800, it snigu, state respect to
that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to such State of any fugitive criminals, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His Majesty may, by the same or any subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restrict the same to fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in the part of His Majesty's dominious specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient ;
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, between His Majesty and the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Nicaragua, for the Mixtual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals.
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Nicaragua, having determined, by common cousent, to conclude a Treaty for the extradition of criminals, have accordingly named as their Plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; Herbert William Broadley Harrison, Esquire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in the Republic of Nicaragua; and His Excellency the President of Nicaragua; Doctor Adolfo Altamirano, Minister of Foreign Affairs; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles ---
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other those persons who, being accused or convicted of a crime committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party, under circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty.
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