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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH AUGUST, 1886.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 327.

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The following Circular Despatch, accompanying a copy of a Treaty for the Mutual Extradition of ugitive Criminals between Great Britain and the Republic of the Equator, is published for general formation.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 28th August, 1886.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

RCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

13th July, 1886.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Treaty for the Mutual Extradition of Fugitive Criminals between Great Britain and the Republic of the Equator, signed on the twentieth day of September, 1880, the ratifica- ions of which were exchanged on the 19th of February last, and which, by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 26th of June, came into operation on the 2nd instant.

I have the honour to be,

The Officer Administering the Government of

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

GRANVILLE.

HONGKONG.

At the Court at Windsor, the 26th day of June, 1886.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty.

Lord President.

Lord Steward.

Earl of Rosebery. Mr. Fowler.

WHEREAS 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 subsequent Order, limit the operation of the Order, and restri 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 in accordance with section 18 of "The Extradition Act, 1870," the Legislature of the Dominion of Canada has, by laws passed in the years 1877 and 1882, and respectively styled "The Extradition Act, 1877," and "An Act to Amend the Extradition Act, 1877," made provision for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in, or are suspected of being in, the Dominion:

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of the Equator, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminala, 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 Ecuador, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better admi- nistration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdictions,