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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JULY, 1881.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 275.

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The following despatch, letter from the Foreign Office and Order of Her Majesty in Council, are published for general information.

By His Excellency's Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th July, 1881.

M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

30th May, 1881.

SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your government, a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office enclosing an Order of IIer Majesty in Council, dated the 18th of May, for carrying into effect the Treaty between this country and Switzerland, signed on the 26th of November last, for the mutual surrender of Fugitive Criminals.

I have, &c.,

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

KIMBERLEY.

(Copy.)

The Foreign Office to the Colonial Office.

FOREIGN OFFICE,

May 22nd, 1881.

SIR,-I am directed by EARL GRANVILLE to state to you, for the information of the EARL OF KIMBERLEY, that an Order in Council was passed on the 18th instant for carrying into effect the Treaty for the mutual surrender of Fugitive Criminals, signed at Berne on the 26th of November, 1880, between Great Britain and Switzerland.

The Order in Council was published in the London Gazette of the 20th instant, of which I am to enclose copies; and I am to add that the Treaty will come into operation in this country on the 30th instant, in conformity with the stipulation contained in Article XIX.

The Under Secretary of State,

I am, &c.,

(Signed)

Colonial Office, S. W.

At the Court at Windsor the 18th day of May, 1881.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty.

Lord President.

Earl of Northbrook.

TENTERDEN.

Lord Steward.

Whereas by the Extradition Acts of 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 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 whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, between Her Majesty and the Swiss Federal Council, 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 the Swiss Federal Council having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged with, or convicted of, the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say: