28314. 9217 The London Gazette. auttjontp. This Gazette has now Item registered at the General Post Office for transmission by Inland Pott at a newspaper. As regards copies sent by post within the United Kingdom, unless despatched in proper course from a Metropolitan Government Office, or from the Publishing Office of the Gazette, the pottage should in. future be prepaid at the rate of a halfpenny for each copy. Copies sent abroad should be prepaid at the rate-. of a halfpenny for every 2 ounces, except in the case of copies sent to Canada, which tmtt be transmissible ojj, the Canadian Magazine Post at the rate of a penny for every pound or fraction of a pound. For Table of Contents, see last page. * * FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909. By The KING. named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to A PEOCLAMATION. the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to EDWARD R. & I. Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909. Whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in Asylum Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909* the ninth year of Our Reign, intituled " AP Act Irish Land Act, 1909. to constitute the Union of South Africa," it is Revenue Act, 1909. enacted that it shall be lawful for the King, with Development and Road Improvement Funds the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by Act, 1909. Proclamation that, on and after a day therein Isle of Man (Customs) Act, 1909. appointed, not being later than one year after Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1909. the passing of the Act, the Colonies of the Cape Assurance Companies Act, 1909. of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony, shall be united in a Legis- lative Union under one Government under the name of the Union of South Africa. Whitehall, December 2, 1909. We, therefore, by and with the advice of Our The KING has been pleased to issue a Privy Council, have thought fit to issue this Our Warrant under Hia Majesty's Royal Sign Manual Royal Proclamation, and v\Te do hereby declare to the following effect:— that on and after the thirty-first day of May, EDWARD, R.&I. one thousand nine hundred and ten, the Colonies EDWARD THE SEVENTH, by the Grace of God, of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and and the Orange Riv.er Colony, shall be united in Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond a Legislative Union under one Government the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, under the name of the Union of South Africa. Emperor of India, to all to whom these Given at Our Court at Sandringham, this Presents shall come, second day of December, in the year of Greeting! our Lord one thousand nine hundred Whereas We, by a Warrant under Our Royal and nine, and in the ninth year of Our Sign Manual, bearing date the thirteenth day of Reign. July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, in GOD save the KING. the seventh year of Our Reign, did institute and create a new Medal to be entitled the Edward Medal, to be awarded for heroic acts performed Westminster, December 3, 1909. by Miners and Quarrymen and others, who This day the Lords being met a message was endanger their own lives in saving or endeavour- sent to the Honourable House of Commons by ing to save the lives of others from perils in the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquaint- Mines and Quarries within Our Dominious, and ing them, that The Lords authorized by virtue of Territories under Our protection and jurisdic- a Commission under the Great Seal, signed by His tion : Majesty, for declaring His Royal Assent to the •And whereas We are desirous of extending the Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the scope of this decoration: immediate attendance of the Honourable House in It is ordained that the Edward Medal of the the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; First Class and the Edward Medal of the Second and the Commons being come thither, the said Class shall be awarded to those of Our faithful Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of subjects who in course of Industrial Employ- Canterbury, and several other Lords therein ment endanger their own lives in saving or 9218 THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1909. endeavouring to save the lives of others from shall bear Our effigy on the obverse, and on the perils incurred in connection with such Industrial reverse a suitable design, with the words Employment in these Our Dominions, and in " For Courage." •Territories under Our protection or jurisdiction, Given at Our Court at Sandringham, the And such awards shall be made only on a recom- first day of December, one thousand mendation to Us by Our Principal Secretary of nine hundred and nine, in the ninth year State for the Home Department. of Our Reign. Where the said Medal is granted otherwise By His Majesty's Command. than for acts performed in Mines, the Medal H. J. Gladstone. At the Court at Sandringham, the 2nd day of December, 1909. PRESENT, The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty. Lord President. Lord Privy Seal. Sir Dighton Probyn. HEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 1906, it was amongst other things enacted that, W where an arrangement has bee.n 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 fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the President of the French Republic, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, and supplemented by a Convention con- cluded on the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, in the case of which Treaty and Convention the Extradition Acts, 1370-1895, were applied by Order in Council of the twenty-second February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six: And whereas a f urther Convention was concluded on the seventeenth October, one thousand nine hundred and eight, between Us and the President of the French Republic, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Paris on the twenty-ninth July, one thousand nine hundred and nine, which Con- vention is in the terms following:— His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom Sa Majeste le Roi du Royaume-Uni de Grande* of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Bretagne et d'Irlaude et des Territoires Britan- Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, niques au del a des Mers, Empereur des Indes, et and the President of the French Republic, being le President de la Re*publique fran9aise, desireux desirous of amending1 the provisions of Article II de modifier les dispositions de I'article 2 du Traite of the Treaty between Great Britain and France conclu le 14 aout 1876 entre la Grande-Bretagne of the 14th August, 1876, for the mutual extra- et la France, pour 1'extradition reciproque des dition of fugitive criminals, have named as their criminels fugitifs, ont nomine respectivement respective Plenipotentiaries for this puipose, that comme Plenipotentiaires a cet effet, savoir: is to say: His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom Sa Majeste le Roi du Royaume-Uni de Grande- of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Bretagne et dlrlande et des Territoires Britan- Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India :' niques au dela des Mers, Empereur des Indes: His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir Son Excellence le Tres Honorable Sir Francis Francis Bertie, His Ambassador extraordinary Bertie, son Ambassadeur extraordinaire et and plenipotentiary to the French Republic, etc.; ple*nipotentiaire pres le Gouvernement de la Re'publique frangaise, etc.; And the President of the French Republic: Et le President de la Republique fra^aise: M. Stephen Pichon, Senator, Minister of M. Stephen Pichon, Secateur, Ministre des Foreign Affairs; Affaires etrangeres; Who, after having communicated to each Lesquels, apres s'£tre respectivement com- other their respective full powers, found in good munique leurs pleins pouvoirs, reconnus en and due form, have agreed upon the following bonne et due forme, sont tombes d'accord sur articles: les articles suivants: AUTICLE 1. ARTICLE ler. Article II of the Extradition Treaty of August L'article II de la Convention d'extradition du 14th, 1876, is modified as follows: 14 aout, 1876, est modifi£ ainsi qu'il suit: "Each of the two High contracting Parties " Chacune des deux Hautes Parties contract- shall be at liberty to refuse to the other the antes sera libre de refuser a 1'autre 1'extradition extradition of its own nationals. In the case, de ses propres nationaux; toutefois, s'il s'agit however, of a person who, since the commission d'une personne qui, depuis le crime ou le delft of the crime or offence of which he is accused, or dont elle est aceusee ou pour lequel elle a e*te for which he has been convicted, has become condamnee, aurait obtenu la naturalisation dans naturalized in the country whence the surrender le Pays requis, cette circonstance n'empSchera is sought, such naturalization shall not prevent pas la recherche, 1'arrestation et 1'extradition de the pursuit, arrest and extradition of such cette personne, conformeinent aux stipulations person, in conformity with the stipulations of du present TraiteV' the present Treaty." THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1909.