Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1669

(a.) Upon vehicles with tires over 4½ in. wide the load carried shall not exceed 15 cwt. on unmetalled roads and 25 cwt. on metalled roads for each pair of wheels.

(b.) Upon vehicles with tires over 3½ in. and up to 4½ in. wide the load carried shall not exceed 12 cwt. on unmetalled roads and 1 ton on metalled roads for each pair of wheels.

(c.) Upon vehicles with tires 2½ in. and up to 3½ in. wide the load carried shall not exceed 10 cwt. on unmetalled roads and 15 cwt. on metalled roads for each pair of wheels.

(d.) Upon vehicles with tires over 2 in. and up to 2½ in. wide the load carried shall not exceed 8 cwt. on unmetalled roads and 12 cwt. on metalled roads for each pair of wheels.

(e.) Upon vehicles with tires under 2 in. wide the load carried shall not exceed 5 cwt. on unmetalled roads and 8 cwt. on metalled roads for each pair of wheels.

No horses or vehicles shall be driven or led or taken over any bridge within the said district at other than a walking pace at any time.

For the purpose of this by-law the weight of timber shall be deemed to be as follows: A measured ton of firewood, 14 cwt.; 500 superficial feet of kauri, 15 cwt.; 500 superficial feet of puriri or green totara, a ton.

If any person shall commit any breach of this by-law he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for each and every breach.

This by-law shall come into force within the said road district on the 7th day of November, 1898.

The common seal of the inhabitants of the Mangawai Road District was impressed hereon and affixed hereto by order of the said Board on the 3rd day of October, 1898, in the presence of—

ALFRED WINTLE,
Chairman.

GEO. E. FARRAND,
Clerk.

I, Alfred Wintle, Chairman of the Mangawai Road Board, hereby certify that the special order of which the foregoing is a true copy was duly passed by the said Road Board at the ordinary meeting of the said Road Board held this 3rd day of October, 1898.

ALFRED WINTLE,
Chairman, Mangawai Road Board.

Despatch.—Extradition Treaty with Chile.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th October, 1898.

THE following despatch and enclosure, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, are published for general information.

T. THOMPSON.

(Circular.) Downing Street, 25th August, 1898.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the colony under your government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the 9th of August, 1898, for giving effect to the treaty between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Chile, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, signed at Santiago on the 26th of January, 1897, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Santiago on the 14th of April, 1898.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.—EXTRADITION TREATY.—REPUBLIC OF CHILE.

Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 9th August, 1898.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 9th day of August, 1898.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRIVY SEAL, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD, SIR FLEETWOOD EDWARDS.

WHEREAS by the Extradition Acts, 1870 to 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 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, Señor Don Carlos Morla Vicuña, 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 women.

4. Rape.

5. Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under fourteen 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 pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.

18. (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited 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