Section 11, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

If the fugitive criminal who has been committed toprison is not surrendered and conveyed out of the Protectorate within two months after such committal, or, if a vvrit of habeas corpus is issued, after the decision of the Court upon the return to the writ, it shall be lawful for a Judge of the Supreme Court, upon application made to him by, or on behalf of, the criminal, and upon proof that reasonable notice of the intention to make such application has been given to the Governor, to order the criminal to be discharged out of custody, unless sufficient cause is shown to the contrary.