Section 19, * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

(1) The Governor may by order under his hand and sealrequire a Magistrate to take evidence for the purposes of any criminal matter pending in any Court or tribunal in any foreign State; and the Magistrate, upon receipt of such order, shall take evidence of every witness appearing before him for the purpose in like manner as if such witness appeared on a charge against some defendant for an indictable offence, and shall certify at the foot of the depositions so taken that such evidence was taken before him, and shall transmit the same to the Governor. Such evidence may be taken in the presence or absence of the persons charged, if any, and the fact of such presence or absence shall be stated in such deposition. Power to take evidence in Protectorate for foreign criminal matters. (2) Any person may, after payment or tender to him of a Witness may reasonable sum for his costs and expenses in this behalf, be ~~ ~~t~~~:Ied compelled, for the purposes of this section, to attend and give evidence and answer questions and produce documents, in like manner and subject to the like conditions as he may in the case of a charge preferred for an indictable offence. (3) Every person who wilfully gives false evidence before a False Magistrate under this section shall be guilty of perjury. evidence. (4) Nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any ~;:~;:ction criminal matter of a political character. apply.