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No. 94.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH MAY, 1876.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint JOHN GERRARD and S. BARFF, Esquires, to be Valuers for the present year, for the purposes of Ordinance No. 12 of 1875.

His Excellency the Governor in Council has also been pleased to fix the 25th of October next, as the day before which the said Valuers shall make or cause to be made a valuation of the tenements in the Colony.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1876.

No. 95.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

The following Copy of a Treaty between Her Majesty and the Republic of Hayti, for the mutual surrender of Fugitive Criminals, together with a copy of the Order in Council, for carrying that Treaty into effect, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th May, 1876.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 5th day of February, 1876.

PRESENT,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

THEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the

years the Her present Majesty, intituled

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 the operation thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient:

And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Hayti, 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 His Excellency the President of the Republic of Hayti, having judged it expedient, with a view to a better adini- nistration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and their 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;

Her Britannic Majesty and the President of Hayti have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Spenser St. John, Esq., Minister-Resident and Consul-General of Her Britannic Majesty in the Republic of Hayti and Her Chargé d'Affaires in the Dominican Re- public;

And His Excellency the President of the Re- public of Hayti, M. Surville Toussaint, ex-Senator;

SA Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Son Excellence le Président de la République d'Haïti, ayant jugé convenable, en vue d'une meilleure administration de la justice, et pour prévenir les crimes dans les deux pays et leurs juridictions, que les indi- vidus accusés ou convaincus des crimes ci-après énumérés, et qui se seraient soustraits par la fuite aux poursuites de la justice, fussent, dans certaines circonstances, réciproquement extradés;

Sa Majesté Britannique et le Président d'Haïti ont nommé pour leur Plénipotentiaires à l'effet de conclure dans ce but un Traité, savoir:

Sa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, Spenser St. John, Ecuyer, Ministre-Résident et Consul-Général de Sa Majesté Britannique en la République d'Haïti

et

son Chargé d'Affaires près la République Dominicaine;

Et Son Excellence le Président de la République d'Haïti, M. Surville Toussaint, ex-Sénateur;