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your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council dated the 24th November, 1891, for giving effect to the protocol between Her Majesty and the President of the- Oriental Republic of Uruguay, concluded at Monte Video on the 20th March, 1891, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Monte Video on the 17th July, 1891, for the extension of the period stipulated in Article.lX. of the Treaty of 26th March, 1884, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals. I have, &c, KNUTSFORD. The Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand.

Enclosure. Order in Council. Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and the Oriental Bepublic of the Uruguay. Windsor, 21th November, 1891. At the Court at Windsor, the 24th day of November, 1891. Present : The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty; Lord President, Earl of Limerick; Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox, Sir James Eergusson, Bart., Mr. A. J. Balfour, Sir Charles Pearson. Whereas by the Extradition Acts, 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 operations thereof subject to such conditions, exceptions, and qualifications as may be deemed expedient; and that if, by any law made after the passing of the Act of 1870 by the Legislature of any British possession, provision is made for carrying into effect within such possession the surrender of fugitive criminals who are in or suspected of being in such British possession, Her Majesty may, by the Order in Council applying the said Acts in the case of any foreign State, or by any subsequent Order, suspend the operation within any such British possession of the said Acts, or any part thereof, so far as it relates to such foreign State, and so long as such law continues in force there and no longer : And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, between Her Majesty and the President of the Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals : And whereas, by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, it was directed that the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should apply in the case of the Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay : And whereas, by an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1886, and intituled " An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," provision is made for carrying into effect within the Dominion the surrender of fugitive criminals : And whereas, by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and. eighty-eight, it was directed that the operation of the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as the provisions of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada of 1886 should continue in force and no longer: And whereas a Protocol was concluded on the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, between Her Majesty and the President of the Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay, providing for the extension of the period stipulated in Article IX. of the above-mentioned treaty of the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, which Protocol is in the terms following : — " Monte Video, the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, their Excellencies Mr. Ernest Mason Satow, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister Eesident and Consul-General, and Dr. Manuel Herrero y Espinosa, Minister for Foreign Affairs, having met together at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with the object of providing for the extension of the period stipulated in Article IX. of the Treaty for the Extradition of Criminals in force between their respective countries, for the provisional arrest of persons charged with any crimes or offences specified in the said Treaty, and having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the following declaration, which shall be considered an integral part of the said international compact: " The period of thirty days fixed by Article IX. of the Treaty for the Extradition of Criminals in force between the Oriental Eepublic of the Uruguay and Great Britain, for the provisional arrest of persons charged with any of the crimes or offences specified in the said Treaty, being thoroughly recognised as insufficient, both Governments agree that the said period shall henceforth be fixed at sixty days. "In witness whereof the said Plenipotentaries have caused the present Protocol to be drawn up in duplicate, and have signed both copies, and thereto affixed their seals on the date above expressed. (1.5.) " Ernest Mason Satow. (1.5.) "Manuel Herbero y Espinosa."