(Circular.) Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals. DOWNING STREET, 17th August, 1898. SIR, With reference to Lord Granville's circular despatch of the 1st March, 1886, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information in the colony under your government, copies of the Queen's regulations respecting foreign orders and medals recently revised as regards foreign orders, and I have to request that they may be substituted for the copies of those previously in force. It will be observed that the exceptions under Rule II. of the regulations of 1886, have been extended. I have the honour to be, sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, The Officer administering the Government of Canada. THE HE Queen has been pleased to direct that the following regulations respecting foreign orders and medals shall be substituted for those now in force : REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN ORDers. 1. No subject of Her Majesty shall accept a foreign order from the sovereign of any foreign country, or wear the insignia thereof, without having previously obtained Her Majesty's permission to that effect, signified by a warrant under Her royal sign-manual. 2. Unless the foreign decoration shall have been conferred in consequence of active and distinguished service, either at sea or in the field, such permission will not be given to any subject of Her Majesty, except in the following cases, if recommended specially by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs : (1.) The chief of a complimentary mission from Her Majesty; (2.) A military or naval attaché on the termination of his appointment; (3.) Any person, not at the time in the service of Her Majesty, who has rendered valuable service to the sovereign bestowing the order outside Her Majesty's dominions, or in an embassy or legation of that sovereign in this country. 3. The intention of a foreign sovereign to confer upon a British subject the insignia of an order must be notified to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, either through the British Minister accredited to the court of such foreign sovereign, or through his Minister accredited at the court of Her Majesty. 4. If the service for which it is proposed to confer the order has been performed during war, the notification required by the preceding clause must be made not later than two years after the exchange of the ratifications of a Regulations respecting Foreign Orders and Medals. If the service has been performed in time of peace, the notification must be made within two years after the date of such service. !! 5. After such notification shall have been received, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall, if the case comes within the conditions prescribed by the present regulations, and arises from naval or military services before the enemy, refer it to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, previously to taking Her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, in order to ascertain whether there be any objection to Her Majesty's permission being granted. A similar reference shall also be made to the Commander-in-Chief if the application relates to an officer in the army, or to the Lords of the Admiralty if it relates to an officer in the navy. 6. When Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the Queen's pleasure on any such application, and shall have obtained Her Majesty's permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to accept the foreign order, and wear the insignia thereof, he shall signify the same to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the warrant required by clause 1 to be prepared for the royal sign-manual. When such warrant shall have been signed by the Queen, a notification thereof shall be inserted in the Gazette, stating the service for which the foreign order has been conferred. 7. The warrant signifying Her Majesty's permission may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms. 8. Every such warrant as aforesaid shall contain a clause providing that Her Majesty's license and permission does not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her Majesty's realms. 9. When a British subject has received the royal permission to accept a foreign order, he will at any future time be allowed to accept the decoration of a higher class of the same order, to which he may have become eligible by increase of rank in the foreign service, or in the service of his own country; or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon the acceptance of the original order, and common to every person upon whom such order is conferred. 10. The preceding clause shall not be taken to apply to decorations of the Guelphic Order, which were bestowed on British subjects by Her Majesty's predecessors, King George IV. and King William IV., on whose heads the crowns of Great Britain and of Hanover were united. Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be considered as rewards granted by a foreign sovereign for services rendered according to the purport of clause 2 of these regulations. They must be rather considered as personal favours bestowed on British subjects by British sovereigns, and as having no reference to services rendered to the foreign Crown of Hanover. Extradition Treaty-Republic of Chile. REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN MEDALS. 1. Applications for permission to accept and wear medals which, not being the decoration of any foreign order, are conferred by a foreign sovereign on British subjects in the army or navy, should be addressed to the Commander-in-Chief or the Lords of the Admiralty, as the case may be, who, if they see fit, may submit the same for Her Majesty's sanction, upon obtaining which they may grant such permission without other formality. 2. Any other British subject, having obtained Her Majesty's permission, is at liberty to accept and wear a foreign medal, not being the decoration of a foreign order. 3. No permission is necessary for accepting a foreign medal, if 'such medal is not to be worn. Foreign Office, August, 1885. Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXII., p. 583. SALISBURY. AT THE COURT AT OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT, THE 9TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1898. Lord Privy Seal. Present: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. Lord James of Hereford. Sir Fleetwood Edwards. WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1895, 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 twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Chile 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 Chile, having Extradition Treaty-Republic of Chile. determined, by common consent, to conclude a treaty for the extradition of criminals, have, accordingly, named as their plenipotentiaries: Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, John G. Kennedy, Esq., Minister Resident of Great Britain in Chile; and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Chile, Senor Don Carlos Morla Vicuna, Minister of Foreign Affairs; who, after having exhibited to each other their respective full powers and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :— ARTICLE I. The high contracting parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II., committed in the territory of the one party, shall be found within the territory of the other party. ARTICLE II. Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences : 1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder. 2. Manslaughter. 3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman. 4. Rape. 5. Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 14 years of age, if the evidence produced justifies committal for those crimes according to the laws of both the contracting parties. 6. Indecent assault. 7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child stealing. 8. Abduction. 9. Bigamy. 10. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 11. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. 12. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value. 13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury. 14. Arson. 15. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny or embezzlement. 16. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any company, punishable with imprisonment for not less than one year by any law for the time being in force. 17. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretenses; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property knowing the same Extradition Treaty-Republic of Chile. 18.-(a.) Counterfeiting or altering money or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money. (b.) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm. (c.) Forgery, or uttering what is forged. 19. Crimes against bankruptcy law. 20. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway. 21. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable. 22. Piracy and other crimes or offences committed at sea against persons or things which, according to the laws of the high contracting parties, are extradition offences, and are punishable by more than one year's imprisonment. 23. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States. The extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting parties.. Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the law of both the contracting parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made. ARTICLE III. Each party reserves the right to refuse or grant the surrender of its own subjects or citizens to the other party. ARTICLE IV. The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Chile, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of the Republic of Chile or in the United Kingdom respectively for the crime for which his extradition is demanded. If the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, or on the part of the Government of Chile, should be under examination for any other crime in the territory of the Republic of Chile or in the United Kingdom respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial, and the full execution of any punishment awarded to him. ARTICLE V. The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime, or the institution of penal prosecution, or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applying or applied to. It shall likewise not take place when, according to the law of either country, the maximum punishment for the offence is imprisonment for less |