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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1907.
This State shall be bound to return them after the termination of the trial, if any persons shall satisfy the authorities of the State granting extradition that they have a right to them.
ARTICLE XVI.
All expenses connected with extradition shall be borne by the demanding State.
ARTICLE XVII.
The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the colonies and foreign possessions of His Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws in such colonies and foreign posses- sions allow.
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of such colonies or foreign possessions shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such colony or possession by the Chief Consular officer of the Republic of Peru in such colony or possession.
The Governor or chief authority may dispose of the requisition, in accordance with the laws of the territory in which he exercises authority, and shall be at liberty to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to his Government.
Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any colony or foreign possession of His Britannic Majesty shall be governed by the rules laid down in the preceding Articles of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE XVIII.
The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties by a notice not exceeding one year, and not less than six months.
It shall be ratified after receiving the approval of the Congress of the Republic of Peru and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Lima as soon as possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Lima this twenty-sixth day of January, in the year one thousand nine hundred and four.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
WILLIAM NELTHORPE BEAUCLERK.
JOSÉ PARDO.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Treaty were exchanged at Lima on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 20th day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven,
the said Acts shall apply in the case of Peru, and of the said Treaty with the Pre- sident of the Republic of Peru :
Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1886, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.
A. W. FITZROY.
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