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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH FEBRUARY, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 71. The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th February, 1892.

CIRCULAR.

W. M. GOODMAN,

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Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

17th December, 1891.

SIR, With reference to my predecessor's Circular despatch of the 16th of March, 1885, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 24th of November, 1891, for giving effect to the Protocol between Her Majesty and the President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, concluded at Monte Video on the 20th of March, 1891, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Monte Video on the 17th of July, 1891, for the extension of the period stipulated in Article IX. of the Treaty of 26th March, 1884, for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

KNUTSFORD.

HONGKONG.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF THE URUGUAY.

Windsor, 24th November, 1891.

At the Court at Windsor, the 24th day of November, 1891.

Lord President.

Earl of Limerick,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.

Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox.,

Sir James Fergusson, Bart.

Mr. A. J. Balfour.

Sir Charles Pearson.

HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, it was amongst other things enacted that,

such State of any fugitive criminals, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that Her 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 Her Majesty's dominions specified in the Order, and render the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient; and that if, by any law made after the passing of the Act of 1870 by the Legislature of any British possession, provision is made for carrying into effect within such possession the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in such British possession, Her Majesty may, by the Order in Council applying the said Acts in the case of any foreign State, or by any subsequent Order, suspend the operation within any such British possession of the said Acts, or of any part thereof, so far as it relates to such foreign State, and so long as such law continues in force there and no longer :

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, between Her Majesty and the President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals:

And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, it was directed that the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should apply in the case of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay:

And whereas by an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1886, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," provision is made for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals:

And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, it was directed that the operation of the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as the provision of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada of 1886 should continue in force and no longer: