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DROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Suthority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH AUGUST, 1873.

VOL. XIX.

No. 32.

No. 125.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

With reference to Government Notification No. 96 of the 11th June last, the following Copy of a Declaration correcting an error in the 18th Article of the Treaty between Her Majesty and the King of Italy for the mutual Surrender of fugitive Criminals, is published for general information.

By Command,

CECIL C. SMITII, Acting Colonial Secretary,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th August, 1873.

DECLARATION rectifying an Error in Article XVIII of the Treaty between Her Majesty and the King of Italy of the 5th February, 1873, for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals.

Signed at Rome, May 7, 1873.

THE Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple- nipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty the King of Italy, and His Italian Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs, having concurrently recognized a material error in the date of the Ordinance of the Maltese Government of the 21st of February, 1863, as it is mentioned at the end of the XVIIIth Article of the Extradition Treaty of the 5th of February, 1873, between Great Britain and Italy, have, by common consent, declared that the

words:-

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"Finally, it is agreed that this stipulation does not apply to the Island of Malta, the Ordinance of the Maltese Government of May 3, 1863 (No. 1230), remaining in full force," shall be read:-

"Finally, it is agreed that this stipulation does not apply to the Island of Malta, the Ordinance of the Maltese Government of the 21st of February, 1863, remaining in full force."

The present Declaration is signed in duplicate at Rome, this 7th day of May, 1873.

(L.S.)

(L.S.)

L'INVIATO Straordinario e Ministro Plenipo- tenziario di sua Maestà la Regina della Gran Bretagna ed Irlanda presso Sua Maestà Italiana ed il Ministro degli Affari Esteri di Sua Maestà il Re d'Italia, avendo concordemente riconosciuto essere occorso un materiale errore nella indicazione della data dell'Ordinanza del Governo Maltese dei 21 Febbraio, 1863, che si trova_menzionata in fine dell'Articolo XVIII della Convenzione d'Estradizione del 5 Febbraio, 1873, fra la Gran Bretagna e l'Italia, hanno di comune consenso dichia ato che dove si legge:--

"Resta in fine convenuto che questo patto non si applica all'Isola di Malta, rimanendo in pieno vigore l'Ordinanza del Governo Maltese del 3 Mag- gio, 1863 (No. 1230)," debba invece leggersi :-

"Resta in fine convenuto che questo patto non si applica all'Isola di Malta, rimanendo in pieno vigore l'Ordinanza del Governo Maltese del 21 Febbraio, 1863."

Fatta la presente Dichiarazione in doppio originale a Roina il dì 7 Maggio, 1873.

A. E. PAGET.

VISCONTI VENOSTA,