Section 15, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

Where the crime in respect of which the surrender of afugitive criminal is sought was committed on board any vessel on the high seas which comes into any port of the Protectorate, the following provisions shall have effect- (a) the criminal may be committed to any prison or other place of detention to which the person committing him has power to commit persons accused of the like crime; (b) if the fugitive criminal is apprehended on a warrant issued without the order of the Governor, he shall be brought before the Magistrate who issued the warrant, or who has jurisdiction in the port where the vessel lies, or in the place nearest to that port and shall thereafter be brought before the Judge of the Supreme Court in the manner provided by section 7 of this Ordinance. GENERAL PROVISIONS.