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No. 91.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS.

The following Order of Her Majesty in Council is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th May, 1878.

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J. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary..

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 13th day of August, 1877.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in COUNCIL.

Whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for "amending the law relating to the Extradition of Criminals," and also by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Extradition Act, 1870," 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 ti operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed exp lient:

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Fugitive Criminals, to which Treaty the above-mentioned Acts of Parliament were applied by an Order in Council of the twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six:

And whereas a Declaration was concluded on the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, between the Government of Her Majesty and the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, extending the provisions of the above-mentioned Treaty to certain additional crimes, which Declaration is in the terms following:-

The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, having judged it expedient, with the view to the more complete prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of certain crimes in ad- dition to those enumerated in Article I of the Treaty between Great Britain and Belgium for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, of the 20th of May, 1876, shall, under the provision of that Treaty, be reciprocally delivered up, have agreed as follows:-

Persons charged as principals or accessories with or convicted of the undermentioned crimes committed in the territories of the one Party and who shall be found within the territories of the other Party, shall be reciprocally delivered up to each other under the circumstances and conditions stated in the Treaty between Great Britain and Belgium for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, of the 20th of May, 1876:-

Le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume-Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, ayant jugé opportun, afin de mieux as- surer la répression des crimes dans leurs ter-- ritoires respectifs, de se livrer réciproquement, sous les conditions établies par le Traité conclu le 20 Mai, 1876, entre la Grande Bretagne et la Belgique pour l'extradition mutuelle des mal- faiteurs, les personnes accusées ou condamnées du chef de certains crimes autres que ceux énumérés dans le dit Traité, sont convenus de ce qui suit:--

Les personnes accusées ou condamnées, comme auteurs ou complices du chef des infractions ci- dessous énumérées commises dans le territoire de l'une des Parties, et qui seront trouvées dans le territoire de l'autre Partie, seront réciproquement livrées dans les circonstances et conditions établies par le Traité du 20 Mai, 1876, conclu entre la Grande Bretagne et la Belgique pour l'extradition. des malfaiteurs :--