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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JULÝ, 1894.

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"The Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Bucharest 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 Bucharest, the twenty-first (ninth) day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

"(L.S.) "(L.S.)

CHARLES HARDINGE.”

AL. LAHOVARI."

And whereas a Protocol relative to the aforesaid Treaty was signed at Bucharest on the twenty- first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, which Protocol is in the terms following:-

"At the moment of proceeding to the signature of the Treaty of Extradition concluded this day, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and of His Majesty the King of Roumania, have agreed upon the following declaration:-

"The Roumanian Government may in its absolute discretion refuse to deliver up any person charged with a crime punishable with death.

'This Protocol shall have the same force and the same duration as the Treaty of Extradition signed to-day.

"In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

"

'Done in duplicate at Bucharest, the 21st (9th) March, 1893.

"(L.S.)

CHARLES HARDINGE.” "(L.S.) AL. LAHOVARI."

And whereas a Protocol explanatory of Section twenty-one of Article II of the aforesaid Treaty was signed at Bucharest on the thirteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, which Protocol is in the terms following

"In order to avoid the possibility of any misunderstanding arising from the present text of § 21

• of Article II of the Treaty of Extradition concluded between Great Britain and Roumania on the 21st (9th) of March, 1893, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have agreed as follows:-

"The fact of having kidnapped or falsely imprisoned one or more persons will not admit of a requisition for extradition being made unless the act shall have been committed by private individuals. No such requisition can be made as against public functionaries who may have been guilty of the act in question while in the performance of their duties.

"The present Protocol shall be considered as approved and sanctioned by the respective Governments without any special ratification, by the sole fact of the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty to which it refers.

"Done in duplicate at Bucharest, the thirteenth (first) day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

"(L.S.)

JOHN WALSHAM." "(L.S.) AL. LAHOVARL"

And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty and Protocol of the twenty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three were exchanged at Bucharest on the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Her by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Roumania, and of the said Treaty and Protocol of the twenty-first of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and of the Protocol of the thirteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four with the King of Roumania.

Provided always, and it is hereby further ordered, that the operation of the said Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, shall be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so far as relates to Roumania and to the said Treaty and Protocols, and so long as the provisions of the Canadian Act aforesaid of 1886 continue in force, and no longer.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 284.

The following Returns of Deaths are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th July, 1894.

C. L. Peel.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Acting Colonial Secretary.