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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST MARCH, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 86.

The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st March, 1890.

CIRCULAR.

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

27th December, 1889.

SIR, 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 28th of November, 1889, for giving effect to the Treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Colombia for the mutual extradition of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Bogotá on the 27th of October, 1888, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Bogotá on the 21st August, 1889.

The Treaty came into operation on the 16th of December, in conformity with Article XVIII.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

At the Court at Windsor, the 28th day of November, 1889.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.

KNUTSFORD.

W

Lord President.

Earl of Zetland.

Secretary Lord Knutsford.

Lord Ashbourne.

Sir James Furgusson, Bart. Sir James Caird.

HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, it was amongst other things enacted that, where an arrangement has been made with any foreign State with respect to the surrender to 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 subse- quent 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 oper- ation 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 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, 1888, 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 provisions of the said Act of the Parlia- ment of Canada of 1886 should continue in force and no longer;

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Colombia, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:--

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Excellency the President of the Republic of Colombia, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and their jurisdic- tions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, William John Dickson, Esquire, Her Minister Resident to the Republic of Colombia; and

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Colombia, Vicente Restrepo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the said Republic;