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I. In the case of a person accused

The réquisition for the surrender shall be made to Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secrelary of State for Foreign Affairs by the Mioisier or other Diplomatie Agent of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by a warrant of arrest or other équivalent judicial document, issued by a Judge or Magistrate duly auihorized to take cognizance of the acts char^ed against ihe accused in Belgium, together with duly autheniicated dépositions or statemeots taken on oath or npon solemn affirmation before such Judge or Magistrate, clearly setting forth the said acts, and containing a description of the person claimed, and any pariiculars which may serve to identify him. The said Secretary of State shall transmît such documents to Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, who shall the i, by order under his hand and seal, signify to some Police Magistrate in London that such réquisition has been made, and require him, if there be due cause, to issue his warrant for the appréhension of the fugitive.

On the receipt of such order from the Secretary of State, and on the production of such évidence as would, in the opinion of the magistrate, justify the issue of the warrant if tbe crime had been committed in the Uniled Kingdom, he shall issue his warrant accordingly.

When the fugitive shaU hâve been apprehended, he shall be brought before the police magistrate who issued the warrant, or some other police magistrate in London. If the évidence to be then produced shall be such as to justify, according to the law of England, the committal for trial of the prisoner, if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England, the police magistrate shall commit him to prison to awaît the warrant of the Secretary of State for his surrender, sending immediately to the Secretary of State a certificate of the committal and a report upon the case.

Âfter the expiration of a period from the committal of the prisoner, which shall never be less than fifieen days, the Secretary of State shall, by order under his hand and seal, order the fugitive criminal to be sur^ rendered to such person as may be duly authorized to receive him on the part of the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians.

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