Second-class accommodation shall be provided gratuitously for these messengers (not exceeding three in number) in the trains by which the mails are conveyed.

If the service should require that the agent himself should accompany the mails, he shall be allowed to travel, free of charge, in the first class. In this case the number of messengers shall be reduced to two only.

X. The powers of the agents of the British Post Office shall be limited, so far as regards their relations with the Egyptian Administration, to the superintendence of the transit of the British mails.

XI. The British Post Offices shall be abolished on and from the date when the present Convention shall come into operation.

XII. On the arrival of the British mails at Suez, the Egyptian Government shall provide a suitable and separate place on the quay for the landing, loading, and embarkation of the said mails; it will also provide proper means for the conveyance of the mails from the packet to the train, and vice versâ; and will furnish a suitable conveyance to the British agent, or any of his clerks, whenever it shall be necessary for him to proceed from the town of Suez to the docks, or vice versa, to carry on his service.

The Egyptian authorities shall take charge of the British mails arriving from Brindisi at the Peninsular and Oriental Company's wharf at Alexandria, where they shall also deliver into the hands of the British Post Office agent the mails arriving from Suez.

In the event of its being found necessary to change the place for the landing and embarking of the British mails at Alexandria, the two Governments may, by common consent, appoint some other wharf suitable for the purpose.

In all cases in which the mails may be from any cause detained at Alexandria or Suez, the Egyptian Government shall either retain the mails in secure weather-proof vans, locked and duly guarded, or shall provide warehouse-room in the railway station for the storage of such mails, and the agent of the British Post Office shall at all times have access to them.

XIII. The British mails, during their passage through Egypt, shall be placed in separate and secure railway carriages, under lock and key, and neither passengers nor goods of any kind shall be placed in the same carriages.

XIV. For the performance by the Egyptian Government of all the foregoing services, Her Britannic Majesty's Government agrees to pay in Cairo or Alexandria, by equal quarterly payments, the sum of 6,000l. sterling per annum; the exchange to be calculated at 97 piastres tariff to the pound sterling.

XV. The present Convention shall come into operation on the 1st of April, 1878, and shall continue in force until one of the two

Contracting Parties shall announce to the other, one year in advance its intention to terminate it.

The Convention signed at Alexandria on the 18th of May, 1873,* and the Additional Convention signed at Alexandria on the 11th of August, 1874,† shall cease to have effect from the date on which the present Convention shall come into operation.

Done in duplicate and signed in London, the 14th day of November, 1877.

JOHN MANNERS.
A. CAILLARD.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, giving effect to the Extradition Ordinance of the Gold Coast Colony of 1877.— Balmoral, November 23, 1877.

At the Court at Balmoral, the 23rd day of November, 1877.
PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold.

Lord President.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer.

WHEREAS by Section 18 of "The Extradition Act, 1870,”‡ it is among other things enacted that if, by any law made after the passing of the said Act 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 Act in the case of any foreign State, or by any subsequent Order, either:

Suspend the operation within any such British Possession of the said Act, or of 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;

Or direct that such Law or Ordinance or any part thereof shall have effect in such British Possession with or without modifications and alterations, as if it were part of the Act:

And whereas by an Ordinance, numbered 6 of 1877, enacted by the Legislature of the Gold Coast Colony, the short title of which is The Extradition Ordinance, Gold Coast Colony, 1877," it is provided that "all powers vested in and acts authorized or required + Vol. LXV. Page 12.

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to be done by a Police Magistrate or any Justice of the Peace in relation to the surrender of fugitive criminals in the United Kingdom under The Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873,' are thereby vested in and may in the Colony be exercised and done by any District Commissioner in relation to the surrender of fugitive criminals under the said Acts :"

And whereas it is further provided by the said Ordinance that the said Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty shall by Order in Council direct that the said Ordinance shall have effect within the Colony as if it were part of "The Extradition Act, 1870," but that the said Ordinance shall thereafter come into operation as soon as such Order in Council shall have been publicly made known in the Colony :

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of " The Extradition Act, 1870," and in exercise of the power in that behalf in the said Act contained, doth by this present Order, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council, direct that the said Ordinance shall have effect in the Colony of the Gold Coast without modification or alteration, as if it were part of "The Extradition Act, 1870."

And the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, to provide for the exercise by Her Majesty of Power and Jurisdiction in any additional Ports of China and Japan, which may be opened to Foreign Trade before the establishment of Commissioned Consular Officers at such Ports.*-Windsor, April 30, 1877.

At the Court at Windsor, the 30th day of April, 1877. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865,"+ Her Majesty the Queen was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make provision for the exercise of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction over Her Majesty's subjects resident in or resorting to China or Japan :

And whereas in China and Japan additional ports may be from time to time opened to foreign trade, and it is expedient to provide "London Gazette" of May 1, 1877. + Vol. LV. Page 136.

for the exercise at those ports of Her Majesty's power and jurisdiction before the establishment there of Commissioned Consular Officers:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Acts, 1843* to 1875,"† and by the Act of the Session of the 6th and 7th years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter 80,‡ "for the better government of Her Majesty's subjects resorting to China," or otherwise in her vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1. The provisions of Article 25 of "The China and Japan Order in Council, 1865," and all provisions of that Order consequent thereon or relative thereto, shall extend and apply to every person (not holding a Consular Commission from Her Majesty) from time to time appointed by Her Majesty's Minister in China or Japan to be Acting Consul, and to be resident at a port in China or Japan, which is for the time being open to foreign trade, and at which no Commissioned Consular Officer of Her Majesty is resident.

2. For the purposes and within the meaning of the said Order, every person so appointed as an Acting Consul shall be deemed a Consular Officer, and the district for which he is appointed to act shall be deemed a Consular District, and the Court held by him shall be deemed a Provincial Court.

3. Words in this Order have the same meaning as in the said Order.

C. L. PEEL.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, extending the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court at Hong Kong, and providing for the better government of Her Majesty's Subjects in China and Japan.-London, October 23, 1877.§

At the Court at Balmoral, the 23rd day of October, 1877. PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the seventh year of Her Majesty's reign [cap. 80], intituled "An Act for the better government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China," it is (amongst other things) enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order or Orders made with the advice of Her + Vol. LXVI. Page 241.

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§ "London Gazette" of October 26, 1877.

Majesty's Privy Council, to ordain, for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the Emperor of China, or being within any ship or vessel at a distance of not more than 100 miles from the coast of China, any law or ordinance which to Her Majesty may seem meet, as fully and effectually as any such law or ordinance could be made by Her Majesty in Council for the government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the island of Hong Kong:

And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, by Order in Council of the 9th day of March, 1865,* to ordain (amongst other things) that all Her Majesty's jurisdiction exercisable in China or in Japan for the judicial hearing and determination of such matters as are by the fourth section of the said Order specified, should be exercised according to the provisions of the said Order, and not otherwise; and that, save as expressly provided by the said Order, all jurisdiction, power, and authority of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong exercisable in relation to British subjects resident in or resorting to China or Japan should absolutely cease:

And whereas by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Amendment Act, 1866" [cap. 87],† it was enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty in Council by Order in Council under the Foreign Jurisdiction Acts to confer upon any Court in Her Majesty's Possessions out of the United Kingdom any jurisdiction which Her Majesty in Council might lawfully by any such Order confer ou any Court in any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions within which Her Majesty has power or jurisdiction:

And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, by another Order in Council of the 28th day of March, 1868,‡ to ordain (amongst other things) that in addition to the powers then vested in the Supreme Court at Hong Kong, the said Supreme Court might have jurisdiction over and take cognizance of all crimes and offences committed by British subjects at any place on land being within six miles of any part of the Colony of Hong Kong, and not being on the mainland of China, and of and over all disputes and differences between British subjects being in any such place within such limit as aforesaid:

And whereas it has seemed to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to be expedient to revoke the said lastmentioned Order in Council, and to extend the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in respect to matters arising in the neighbourhood of the Colony of Hong Kong:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this *Vol. LV. Page 136. + Vol. LVI. Page 697.

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