value and description of liquors imported under these Regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 rupees. Berbera, May 20, 1900.

Allowed:

J. HAYES SADLER, Her Majesty's Consul-General.

SALISBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs.

Plague Regulations.-Berbera, November 8, 1900.

Recruiting of Emigrants (Emigrant Regulations).-Berbera,
November 19, 1900.

[No. 5 of 1900.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to make better provision for the protec tion of emigrants, the following Regulations are issued:

1. These Regulations may be cited as "The Somaliland Emigrant Regulations, 1900."

2. No person shall be allowed to recruit emigrants or to enter into any contract or agreement with any native of the Protectorate to leave the Protectorate for the purpose of obtaining employment elsewhere, without the previous sanction of the Consul-General.

3. In cases where such sanction is accorded, each emigrant shall be registered in the office of the Consul at Zeyla or the Vice-Consul at Berbera, as the case may be.

4. The entries in the register shall contain all necessary particulars as to the intending emigrant and his dependents, the nature of the agreement to be entered into, and the period for which it will remain in force.

5. The terms of the agreement will then be explained to the intending emigrant, and due care will be taken that he understands them.

6. If the intending emigrant is then willing, the agreement will be executed in triplicate, and will be attested by the signature of the Consul or Vice-Consul.

7. For each emigrant registered, the following fee will be charged:

If the period of employment is for a period not exceeding

Rupees.

2

3

5

10

..

For a period not exceeding two years

The recruiter of emigrants, or person entering into an agreement with natives of the Protectorate to leave the Protectorate for the purpose of obtaining employment elsewhere, may further be required to furnish security in the sum of 50 rupees for each emigrant or native leaving the Protectorate as aforesaid, or may be required to deposit the amount in cash, at the discretion of the Consul-General.

8. These Regulations shall come into force immediately. Berbera, November 19, 1900.

J. HAYES SADLER, Her Majesty's Consul-General.

Order of the Secretary of State, applying certain Indian Acts to the Somaliland Protectorate.-London, May 12, 1900.

In pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by Article 7 of "The Somaliland Order in Council, 1899," I hereby order that "The Indian Registration Act, 1877" (Act 3 of 1877), and "The Indian Limitation Act, 1877" (Act 15 of 1877), and every Act amending those Acts, shall apply to the Somaliland Protectorate, subject to the following modifications, that is to say :

1. In the said Acts the " Protectorate" shall be substituted for "British India.”

2. The provisions of the said Acts exclusively applying to particular parts of or places in India shall not apply to the Pro

tectorate.

3. Notifications required by "The Indian Registration Act, 1877," to be made in the official Gazette shall, until a Gazette for the Protectorate is established, be published in such manner as the Consul-General shall direct.

4. The Protectorate Court shall be substituted for the High Court.

5. The powers of the Governor-General in Council, and of the Local Government, under the said Acts respectively, shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State, or, with his previous or subsequent assent, by the Consul-General.

6. This Order shall have effect from and after such date as the Consul-General shall appoint, but not carlier than fourteen days

after a copy of this Order shall have been publicly exhibited in the office of the Consulate at Berbera.

Foreign Office, May 12, 1900.

SALISBURY, Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.

Order made by the Secretary of State under the provisions of Articles 7, 10, and 23 of" The Somaliland Order in Council, 1899.”—London, June 26, 1900.

Judicial Districts.

1. For the purposes of the Code of Criminal Procedure The Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869," and other enactments applied to the Somaliland Protectorate, the Protectorate shall be divided into two districts the Zeyla district and the Berbera district.

2. The Zeyla district shall consist of so much of the Protectorate as is under the Consular jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Consul at Zeyla. The Berbera district shall consist of the rest of the Protectorate.

Criminal Courts.

3. The Consul at Zeyla and the Vice-Consul at Berbera shall be Magistrates of the 1st class for the Zeyla and Berbera districts respectively.

4. In the Berbera district the District Officer at Bulhar shall be a Magistrate of the 2nd class, and the Deputy District Officer at Bulhar shall be a Magistrate of the 3rd class.

Civil Courts.

5. The Consul at Zeyla shall be the Judge of the District Court for the Zeyla district.

The Vice-Consul at Berbera shall be the Judge of the District Court for the Berbera district.

6. In the Berbera district there shall be subordinate Courts at Bulhar and Berbera. The District Officer at Bulhar and the Deputy District Officer at Berbera shall be the Judges of the said Courts respectively.

7. The jurisdiction of the subordinate Judge at Bulbar shall extend to all original suits and proceedings wherein the subject matter does not exceed in amount or value 500 rupees.

8. The jurisdiction of the subordinate Judge at Berbera shall

extend to suits wherein the subject-matter does not exceed in

amount or value 50 rupees.

Foreign Office, June 26, 1900.

SALISBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs.

Order of the Secretary of State with respect to Court Fees and Stamps. -London, November 20, 1900.

[See page 499.]

TREATY and Protocol between the United States and Brazil, for the Extradition of Criminals.-Signed at Rio de Janeiro May 14, 1897, and May 28. 1898.*

[Ratifications exchanged at Rio de Janeiro, April 18, 1903.]

THE United States of America and the United States of Brazil, desiring to strengthen their friendly relations, and to facilitate the administration of justice by the repression of crimes and offences committed in their respective territories and jurisdictions, have agreed to celebrate a Treaty of Extradition, and have nominated for that purpose the following Plenipotentiaries:

The President of the United States of America, Mr. Thomas L. Thompson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of the United States of Brazil; ́and

The President of the United States of Brazil, General Dionisio Evangelista de Castro Cerqueira, Minister of State for Foreign Relations;

Who, having made known their respective full powers, which have been found in good form, agree upon the following Articles :

ART. I. The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United States of Brazil mutually agree to deliver up the persons who, having been charged or convicted, as the authors of or accomplices in any of the crimes enumerated in the following Article, committed in the jurisdiction of one of the Contracting Parties, seeks an asylum or be found within the territories of the other: Provided, this shall only take place after such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place

* Signed also in the Portuguese language.

where the person or fugitive so charged shall be found, would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had there been committed.

II. Extradition shall be granted for the following crimes and offences:

1. Voluntary homicide, when such act is punishable in the United States of America, comprehending the crimes of poisoning and infanticide; murder; manslaughter;

2. Abortion;

3. Rape and other offences against chastity committed with violence;

4. Bigamy;

5. Abduction, wilfully and wrongfully depriving any person of natural liberty;

6. Kidnapping or child stealing;

7. Arson;

8. Piracy, by statute or by the law of nations when the State in which the offender is found has no jurisdiction; revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the master; to wilfully and wrongfully cause shipwreck; to wrongfully and wilfully collide with a vessel; to wrongfully and wilfully scuttle a vessel for the purpose of sinking it; to wrongfully and wilfully destroy a vessel on the high

seas;

9. Wrongful and wilful destruction or obstruction of railroads which endangers human life;

10. Counterfeiting, falsifying or altering money of any kind, or of legally authorized bank-notes which circulate as money; to utter or to give circulation to any such counterfeited, falsified or altered money; the falsification of instruments of debt created by national, State, or Municipal Governments, or of the coupons thereof; counterfeiting, falsifying or altering seals of the Federal or State Governments; to knowingly use any such instruments or papers;

11. Forgery, the utterance of forged papers; forgery or falsification of official acts of government, of public authorities, or of Courts of Justice, of public or private instruments; the use or the utterance of the thing forged or falsified ;

12. Perjury, or to bear false witness; to suborn or bribe a witness;

13.* Fraud committed by a depositor, banker, agent, broker, treasurer, director, member or employé of any company or corporation;

14. Embezzlement, consisting in the misappropriation or theft of