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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1885.
Her Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign Possessions for the surrender of Uruguayan criminals who may take refie within such Colonies and foreign Possessions, on the basis, as nearly as may be, of the provisions the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XI.
The claim for extradition shall not be complied with if the individual claimed has been alrea tried for the same offence in the country whence the extradition is demanded, or if, since the com mission of the acts charged, the accusation or the conviction, exemption from prosecution or
punish- ment, has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of that country.
ARTICLE XII.
If the individual claimed by one of the two High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the presen Treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers, on account of other crimes or offences committed upon their respective territories, his extradition shall be granted to that State whos demand is earliest in date.
ARTICLE XIII.
If the individual claimed should be under prosecution, or have been condemned for a crime or offence committed in the country where he may have taken refuge, his surrender may be deferred until he shall have been discharged in due course of law.
In case he should be proceeded against or detained in such country, on account of obligations contracted towards private individuals, the extradition shall nevertheless take place.
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ARTICLE XIV.
Every article found in the possession of the individual claimed at the time of his arrest shall, if the competent authority so decide, be delivered up with his person at the time when the extradition takes place. Such delivery shall not be limited to the property or articles obtained by stealing or by fraudulent bankruptcy, but shall extend to everything that may serve as proof of the crime or offence. and shall take place even when the extradition, after having been granted, cannot be carried out by reason of the escape or death of the individual claimed.
The rights of third parties with regard to the said property or articles are nevertheless reserved.
ARTICLE XV.
The High Contracting Parties renounce any claim for the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by them in the arrest and maintenance of the person to be surrendered, and his conveyance as far as the frontier; they reciprocally agree to bear such expenses themselves.
ARTICLE XVI.
The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Monte Video as soon as possible.
It shall come into operation ten days after its publication, in conformity with the laws of the respective countries, and each of the Contracting Parties may at any time terminate the Treaty on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention to do so.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed threto the seals of their arms.
Done at Monte Video, the twenty-sixth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousan! eight hundred and eighty-four.
(L.S.)
EDMUND MONSON.
(L.S.)
MAN. HERRA. Y OBES.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty were exchanged at Monte Video on the thirteent day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-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 frot and after the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Uruguay, and of the said Treaty with the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay.
Provided always, and it is hereby further ordered that the operation of the said Acts shall - suspended within the Dominion of Canada, so far as relates to the Oriental Republic of the Urugg and to the said Treaty, and so long as the provisions of the Canadian Acts aforesaid continue in fore. and no longer.
C. L. PEEL.
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