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TREATY BETWEEN UNITED KINGDOM AND SIAM
I wish, also to say that provision will be made for the treatment of European
prisoners according to the standard usual for such prisoners in Burmah and the
Straits Settlements.
(Signed) Devawongse Varoprakar.
Mr. Paget to Prince Devaivongse
M. le Ministre, March 10, 1909.
With reference to the guarantee contained in the first paragraph of Article IV. of
the Jurisdiction Protocol, I have the honour to state that His Majesty’s Government
will be prepared in due course to consider the question of modification of or release
from this guarantee when it shall no longer be needed. His Majesty’s Government
■are also willing that in any negotiations in connection with such a modification or
release the matter shall be treated upon its merits alone, and not as a consideration
for which some other return shall be expected.
His Majesty’s Government leam with much satisfaction that it is the intention
of the Siamese Government to maintain the high standard in the administration of
justice which it has set before it, and towards which it has been working for some
time; and I may assure your Eoyal Highness that it will be the aim of His Majesty’s
Government in every manner to second the efforts of His Siamese Majesty’s Govern¬
ment in this direction.
I wish also to say that the International Courts referred to in Section 1 of the
Protocol on Jurisdiction annexed to the Treaty signed to-day need not necessarily be
Courts specially organized for this purpose. Provincial (“Monthon”) Courts or
District (“ Muang”) Courts may constitute International Courts, according as British
subjects may be established in greater or less number within the jurisdiction of those
Courts. The fact that an ordinary Court is designated as an International Court will
have as a consequence the introduction into that ordinary Court of all the provisions
relating to International Courts secured by the Protocol on Jurisdiction.
(Signed) Ralph Paget.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND
SIAM BESPECTING THE BENDITION OE EUGHTVE
CRIMINALS BETWEEN THE STATE OE
NORTH BORNEO AND SIAM
Signed at Bangkok, September 18th, 1913
The Government of His Britannic Majesty and the Government of His Siamese
Majesty, being desirous of regulating the rendition of fugitive criminals between
the State of North Borneo under the protection of His Britannic Majesty and the
territories of His Majesty the King of Siam, hereby agree as follows:—
Art. I.—The provisions of the Extradition Treaty between His Britannic
Majesty and His Majesty the King of Siam, signed at Bangkok on the 4th day of
March, 1911, shall be deemed to apply, so far as local circumstances permit, to the
rendition of fugitive criminals between the territories of His Majesty the King of
Siam and the State of North Borneo.
Art. II.—In pursuance of the provisions of Article 3 of the said Extradition Treaty
there shall reciprocally be no obligation on the part of the State of North Borneo to
surrender to Siam any person who is a subject of that State or a British subject.
Done in duplicate at Bangkok, the 18th day of September, in the year 1913 of
Christ, and in the year 2456 of Buddha.
[l.s.] Arthur Peel.
„ Devawongse Varoprakar.