and V of the Treaty of the 29th October, 1901, shall be extended as follows:

(1) A fugitive criminal arrested under the terms of Article IV shall be discharged in the dominions of His Britannic Majesty if, within the period of two months from the date of his arrest, a request for his extradition shall not have been made by the Government of the requisitioning State.

The fugitive criminal may be discharged in the dominions of His Majesty the King of the Belgians if within the same period a request for his extradition has not been made by the Government of the requisitioning State; he shall be released if within seven days following the expiration of this period the warrant issued by the competent authority shall not have been communicated to the fugitive criminal.

(2) The person arrested shall be set at liberty if, within the three months, counting from the date of arrest, sufficient evidence in support of the demand for extradition shall not have been produced.

II. The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible. It shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the laws of the High Contracting Parties, and it shall have the same force and duration as the Treaty of Extradition to which it relates.

In witness whereof the Undersigned have signed the present Convention, and have affixed their seals thereto.

Done in duplicate at London, the 5th March, 1907.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL giving Effect to the Supplementary Extradition Convention between Great Britain and Belgium of March 5, 1907. London, July 6, 1907.*

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 6th day of July, 1907.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906,* 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, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that the said Acts shall apply in the case of such foreign State; and that His 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 His 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 29th day of October, 1901,† between Us and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, in the case of which Treaty the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1895, were applied by Order in Council of the 6th March,

1902:

And whereas a Supplementary Convention was concluded. on the 5th day of March, 1907, between Us and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, for the purpose of completing Article XIV of the said Treaty of the 29th October, 1901, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Supplementary Convention is in the terms following :

[See page 24.]

And whereas the ratifications of the said Supplementary Convention were exchanged at London on the 17th day of April, 1907:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to him by the said Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the 19th day of July, 1907, the said Acts shall apply in the case of Belgium, under and in accordance with the said Treaty as supplemented by the said Convention above set forth:

Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I

*See Vol. 13, page 1194; Vol. 14, page 709; Vol. 20, page 601; and Vol 24, page 562.

† See Vol. 23, page 276.1

See Vol. 23, page 284.

of chapter 155* of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.

A. W. FITZROY.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and Belgium for the Exchange of Money Orders. Signed at London, September 17, 1907.†

[Ratifications exchanged at London, October 5, 1907.]

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, desiring to facilitate the remittance of money between the United Kingdom and Belgium by means of Money Orders, have resolved to conclude a Convention to that effect, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, a Baronet of the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; And His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Count de Lalaing, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Britannic Majesty ;

Who, having reciprocally communicated their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed as follows:ART. 1. Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Belgium there shall be a regular exchange of Money Orders.

2. All payments for Money Orders, whether by or to the public, shall be made in gold or in other legal money of the same current value.

3. The British Administration and the Administration of Belgium shall each have the power to fix, from time to time, the rates of commission to be charged on the Money Orders they may respectively issue, but each Administration shall communicate to the other its tariff of charges or rates of commission established under the present Convention. The commission shall belong to the Administration which issues the Orders, but the British Administration shall allow to the * See page 787. † Signed also in French.

Belgian Administration one-half of one per cent. (3 per cent.) on the amount of Money Orders issued in the United Kingdom and paid in Belgium, and the Belgian Administration shall make a similar allowance to the British Administration for Money Orders issued in Belgium and paid in the United Kingdom. This rate of allowance shall be subject to alteration. by agreement between the two Administrations.

Money Orders intended for or sent by prisoners of war shall be exempt from commission and also from the allowance made to the country of payment.

4. The maximum amount for which a Money Order may be drawn in each country shall be 401. sterling, or the nearest practicable equivalent of that sum in the money of the country of issue.

This maximum may nevertheless be increased by agreement between the two Administrations.

5. Each of the Contracting Administrations shall have power to fix, from time to time, the rate of conversion applicable to the Money Orders issued by it, on condition of notifying that rate to the other Administration.

In the conversion of the amounts from the currency of the country of issue into the currency of the country of payment fractions of a penny or of 10 centimes in the resulting amounts shall be ignored.

6. The amounts represented by Money Orders shall be guaranteed to the remitters up to the time when due payment takes place, in accordance with the Regulations in force in the country of destination.

The amounts received by each Administration in respect of Orders of which payment has not been applied for by the payees during the periods fixed by the Laws and Regulations of the country of issue shall ultimately revert to, and remain the property of, the Administration of that country.

It shall, however, be understood that no claim respecting the payment of a Money Order to an unauthorized person will be entertained unless made within the period of a year from the date when such Order becomes void; after the lapse of this period, the Administrations of the two countries will cease to be responsible for payments to wrong persons.

As regards Money Orders addressed "Poste Restante," the responsibility shall likewise cease after payment has been made to a person who has proved, in accordance with the Regulations in force in the country of payment, that his

name and description are in conformity with the particulars given in the address of the Money Order.

7. Should the Belgian Administration desire to send Money Order remittances, through the medium of the British Administration, to any of the Foreign Countries, British Colonies, &c., with which the British Administration transacts Money Order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under the conditions set forth in Article XIV of the detailed Regulations for executing this Convention; and should the British Administration, in like manner, desire to send Money Order remittances, through the Belgian Administration, to any countries with which the Belgian Administration transacts Money Order business, it shall be at liberty to do so under similar conditions.

8. Telegraph Money Orders, for sums not exceeding the maximum amount in the case of ordinary Money Orders, shall also be exchanged between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Belgium.

9. The sender of a Telegraph Money Order shall be required to pay, in addiiton to the commission to be fixed and retained by the country of origin, the cost of a telegram of advice from one country to the other.

Independently of the charges above mentioned, the British Administration reserves to itself the right to levy from the sender of each Telegraph Money Order from the United Kingdom to Belgium a supplementary charge, the amount of which will be fixed and retained by the British Administration.

10. The remitter of a Telegraph Money Order shall be allowed, on paying at the ordinary rate for the extra words required, to add to the official telegram of advice any short communication which he may wish to send to the payee.

11. The Regulations of the International Telegraph Convention (London Revision) or any Regulations which may in future be substituted therefor apply to telegrams sent in connection with Money Orders, to the apportionment of such charges and to the reimbursement of such charges.

12. As in the case of ordinary Money Orders, the Administration of the country of issue shall account to the Administration of the country of payment for one-half of one per cent. on the amount of Telegraph Money Orders paid.

13. In the case of errors or of fictitious Telegraph Orders in which it may be impossible to determine in which service an error or fraud has been committed, or in cases of fraud or error in connection with the transmission of Telegrams of