19 May 2009

Accession of the States of Johore, Kedah, Penis, Kelantan,
and Trengganu to the Extradition Treaty
between
Great Britain and Siam of March 4, 1911, October 28, 1916

1. His Majesty’s Minister at Bangkok to the Siamese Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Bangkok, October 25, 1916.

M. Ie Ministre,
I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, to inform your Royal Highness that the Rulers of the States of Johore, Kedah, Penis, Kelantan, and Treogganu have expressed their desire to accede to the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Siam of the 4th March, 1911, under and in accordance with Article I of the Agreement signed at Bangkok on the 20th November, 1912.
The Article in question provides that such notice of accession may be given with the consent of the Contracting Parties, and I am accordingly directed to suggest to the Royal Siamese Government that, should they see no objection, their consent to this notice of accession on behalf of the above-mentioned States might be expressed in a note acknowledging the receipt of my present communication, following the procedure in your Royal Highness’s note of the 30th September, 1915, on a similar occasion.

I avail, &c.,

HERBERT G. DERING.

2. The Siamese Minister for Foreign Affairs to His Majesty’s Minister at Bangkok.

Bangkok, October 28, 1916,

M. Ie Ministre,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 25th instant, by which, acting under instructions from His Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, you were good enough to communicate to me, for the information of my Government, the desire of the Rulers of the Malay States of Johore, Kedah, Perils, Kelantan, and Trengganu to accede to the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Siam of the 4th March, 1911, under and in accordance with Article 1 of the Agreement signed at Bangkok on the 20th November, 1912.
In reply, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that His Majesty’s Government have taken due note of your communication, and desire me to say that they have no objection in giving their consent to the notice of accession on behalf of the Malay States therein mentioned.

I avail, &c.,

DEVAWONOSE.

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