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PROCLAMATIONS

PROCLAMATIONS:
By PRESIDENT STATES OF AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS convention between the United States OF
America and the Kingdom of Bavaria concluded and
twelfth day of September Thousand eight hundred
and fftyhree which convention, being the English and
Convention the Mutual Extradition Fugtves from
Justice certain Cases. concluded between the Govern
the United States the part and the King
dom of Bavaria the other part.
The United America his Majesty the King
of Bavaria actuated by equal desire to further the adj
minstraton of justice aud TO prevent the commission OF
their respective countries taking into condera
ton that the increased of between
Europe and America facilitate the escape of offenders and
that the ends justice shall be defeated have deter
mined to conclude an destined TO Inc me
extradition of such Individuals having committed
of the offences hereafter enumerated in country shall
have taken refuge within the territories of the other The
constitution and laws of Bavaria however, not allowing
for trial before foreign of Justice strict recipro
city requires that the government of the United States
eiti ils of the United States any
For which the high powers have ap
pointed as their plenipotentiaries =
The President of the United States, James Buchanan,
envoy extraordinary and minister penpotentary of the
United States the court of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.
His Majesty the King of Bavaria Augustus Baron de
Cetto his said Majess chamberlain envoy extraordinary
and minister peniPotenay at the court of her Majesty
Ireland knight commander of the order for merit of the
Bavaran Crown and of the order for merit of St Michael
vio1r:
Who after reciprocal communication of their respective
full found in good and due form, have agreed to
the following articles
The of the United and the Bararian
promise and engage upon mutual acquisitions
lively made deliver up justice all persons who being
charged with the crime of MURDER assault with intent
or the utterance forged papers or the fabrication or
ation of counterfeit money, whether coin paper money
the Jurisdiction of either party shall seek asylum or
shall be found within the territories of the other provided
shall hn nf
atty according to the laws of the place where the tug
tive or SO charged shall be found would Justify his
fence had there been committed and the respective judges
power jurisdiction aud authority, upon complaint made
under OATH issue for the apprehension of the
fugitive person so charged that he may be brought be-
judges gisrates respectively
end that The evidence of crmnay be heard and
sdered and if such hearing the evidence be deemed
sufficient sustain the charge shall be the duty of the
examining judge magistrate to certify the to the
proper executive authority that warrant for the
surrender of such fugitive
The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be
borne and betrayed by the party who makes the Tequson
and receives the fugitive
ARTICLE II.
The spuations Of this convention shall be applied
other State of the German Confederation which here
after declare lis accession thereto
None of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver
up its own citizens under the spuaons of this
convention.
ARTICLE ".
Whenever any person accused Of of the
meraed in this convention shall have committed
crime in the territories the he has sought
asylum shall be found such shall be delivered
under the spuations of this convention until he shall
have been tried and shall have received the punishment
to such crime shall have been acquitted thereof
ARTICLE V.
The convention shall continue in force til the
first of January thousand hundred and
and if neither party shall have given other
notice of its intention then to terminate the
1t shall 4urher force until the of twelve
months after either of the high contracting parties shall
the contracting parties reservng to itself the right of
giving such notice the other at time after the exp
ton of the said first day of January thousand eight
hundred and ifty-eight.
The present convention shall be ratified by the President
by and with the advice and of The Senate of the
United States and by the of Bavaria and the
rahcatlonS Shall be exchanged London within fifteen
months from the date hereof, sooner if possible.
In faith whereof the respective penipotentaries have
signed this convention and have hereunto affixed their seals
ber thousand eight hundred and ftYthree and the
seventyeghth year of the independence of the United
States.
JAMES BUCHANAN, IL. 81
AUG. DE CETTO, IL. ST.
And whereas the said nOn has been duly ratified
on both parts and the respective notifications of the
Buchanan extraordinary and minister penpoenary
OF the United States and Augustus Baron de Ceo
extraordinary and minister plenputentary of his Majesty
the King of Bavaria at the Of the United Kingdom of
Britain and Ireland the part of their respective
governments:
Now, therefore, be known, FEANKLIN PIERCE,
President of the United States of America have caused the
said convention to be made public the end that the
aud clause and article thereof be observed and
fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citi
zens thereof
In witness whereof, have hereunto nv hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed,
Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day
OF November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
L. s. eight hundred and hftyfour, and of the ndepend
ence of the United States of America the seventy
ninth
FRANKLIN PIERCE.