51074-1917-Order-of-His-Majesty-in-Council-sanctioning-the-agreement-for-the-removal-of-prisoners-from-Weihaiwei-to-Hongkong — Page 1

136 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 23, 1917.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

No. 111.-The following Order of His Majesty the King in Council is published for general information.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 10TH DAY OF January, 1917.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRIVY SEAL.

LORD RHONDDA.

HER

SIR MAURICE DE BUNSEN... SIR FREDERICK PONSONBY.

WH things) any two Colonies with the set was amongst other things) enacted that any two Colonies might, with the sanction of an Order of His Majesty in Council, agree for the removal of any prisoners under sentence or order of transportation, imprisonment, or penal servitule, from one of such Colonies to the other for the purpose of their undergoing in such other Colony the whole or any part of their punishment, and for the return of such prisoners to the former Colony at the expiration of their punishment, or at such other period as might be agreed upon, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as might seem good to the said Colonies, and that the sanction of the Order of His Majesty in Council might be obtained in the case of a Colony having a Legislative Body on an address of such Body to His Majesty, and in the case of any Colony not having a Legislative Body on an address of the Governor of such Colony, and that the Agreement of any one Colony with another should for the purposes of the said Act be testified by a writing under the hand of the Governor of such Colony :

And whereas by an Order of His Majesty The King in Council, bearing date the 12th day of August, 1915, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1890 and 1913, or otherwise in His Majesty vested, was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order that the Colo- nial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869, should, from the date of the said Order, apply to the Territory of Weihaiwei, as though that Territory were, within the meaning of the said Act, a Colony not having a Legislative Body :

And whereas au Agreement, bearing date the 29th day of July, 1916, was made by and between Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Francis Henry May, Knight Commander of Our Most Dintinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Commissioner of the Territory of Weihaiwei on behalf of the Colony and Territory of which they were respectively Governor and Commissioner as aforesaid, respecting the removal of prisoners from Weihaiwei to Hong Kong upon certain terms and subject to certain conditions therein set forth, of which Agreement a copy is contained in the Schedule to this Order annexed:

And whereas the said Agreement was duly testified by writing under the hand of the said Governor and Commissioner respectively:

And whereas addresses have been received by His Majesty from the Legislative Council of the said Colony of Hong Kong, and from the said Commissioner of Weihaiwei, respectively, praying that His Majesty will be graciously pleased to sanction the said Agreement by an Order of His Majesty in Council to be made under the said Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869 :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in His Majesty by the said Act of Parliament, doth, by this present Order, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, declare His sanction to the said Agreement.