Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-10-07
OFFICIAL.
By The President ofMe United States of America
A PROCLAMATION.


OF America. and the Republic of Mexico, for The
extraditiOn of criminals, was concluded and
signed At the City of Mexico on the eleventh
day of December, one thousand eight hundred
aud sixty-one, which Treaty, as amended bv
the Senate of the United States, and being in
the English and Spanish languages, is, word for
word, as followa:
TreIty betwsen The United Siotes Of Ainsrica and
The United Aexican States iar he Erfradition Of
Criminals.
The United States of America and tho IIni,sd
Mexican States, having judged il expedient
with view to the better administration Of ina,
tice and TO the prevention of crime within their
respective territories and jurisdictions, that rer
sons charged with the crimes hereinafter enu.
bernted, and being fugitves from justice should
undcr certain circumstances, be reciprocally de-
livered up, have resolved to conclude a treaty
for this purpose, and have named on their re-.
spectlve plenipotentiaries, that is TO say;
The President OF the United States of America
| has appointed Thomas Corwin, citizen of the
United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary
and Munster Plenipotentiary near the Mexican
Government and the President of the United
Mexican States has appointed Sebastian Lerd1
de Telada, citizen of the said States, aud a,
| Deputy OF the Congress Of the Union who, aft,r
| having communicated to each other their respet
tive full powers, found in good and due form.
have agreed upon and concluded the following
articles;
| ARTICLE I.
1t is agreed that the contracting parties shall.
ON acquisitions made in their name through tbs
medium of their respective diplomatic agents
deliver up TO justice persons who, being accused
Of the crimes enumerated in article third of the
present treaty, committed within the iuriHdic
tion Of the requiring party, shall seek an asylum
or shall be touud within the territories of the
other Provided, That this shall be done only
when the fact OF the commission of the crime
shall be so established as that the laws of the
country in which the fugitive or the person go
accused shall be found would justify his or her
apprehension and commitment for trial il the
crime had been there committed.
ARTICLE II.
ln the case OF crimes committed in the from.
tier States or Territories Of the two contracting
parties, acquisitions may be made through their
respective diplomatic agents. or through the
chief civil authority of snid States or Territorial
or through such chief civil or judicial authority
OF the districts or counties bordering on the
frontier as may for this purpose be duly author
ized by the sad chief civil authority of the said
frontier States or Territories, or when from any
cause, the civil authority of such State or Terri
tory shall be suspended, through the chief mill
tAry officer in command OF such State or Terri-
tory.
ARTICLE Ill.
Persons shall be 80 delivered up who shall be
charged according TO the provisions of this
treaty, with any OF the following crimes whe-
ther as principals, accessories, or acoomplices,
to wit: Murder, Cinoludng assassination par.
riode, ininutlcde, and poisoning y assault with
intent TO commit murder; mutiaton piracy
arson rape; kidnapping, defining the same to
be the taking and carrying away of q free per-
son by force or deception; forgery, including
the forging or making, or knowingly passing or
putting in circulation counterfeit coin or bank
nOtes, or other paper current as money, with
intent To delraud any person or persons the
Introduction or making Of instruments for the
fabrication Of counterfeit coin or bank notes, or
other paper current as money tmbezzIement
of public moneys; robbery, defining .the same
to be the felonions and furcihle taking from tile
person OF another of goods or money TO any
value, by violence or putting him 10 fear bur
glury, defining the same to he breaking and en-
tering into the house of ano'her with intent to
commit felony and the crime of larceny Of
cattle Of other goods anl chattles, of the value
Of twenty-five dollars or mere, when the same is
committed within the frontier States or Terrific
ries If the contracting parties.
ARTICLE ~.
On tue part of each country the surrender of
fusitives from justice shall be mshs only by the
authority Of the eXeGut We thereof, except 10 the
case Of crimes committed within the limits of
the frontier States or Territories in which lat
ter case the surrender may be made by the chief
civil authority thereof or such chief civil or ju-
dical authority of the districts or counties hor-
deriug on the frontier may for this purpose
be duly authorized by the said chief civil au-
thorlty OF the sDd frontier States or Territories,
or, if, from any cause the civil authority of such
State OF Territory shnll be suspended then such
surrender may be made by the chief military
officer in command Of such State or Territory
ARTICLE v.
All expenses whatever of detention and deliy-
cry effected in virtue Of the preceding provisions
shall be borne aud betrayed by the Government
II fv nft ha Gtnt
in whose name the requisition shall have been
made
ARTICLE VI
The provisions of the present treaty shall not
be applied in any manner to any crime or offence
of purely political character, nor shall il en-
brace the return of fugitive slaves, nor the de-
livery of criminals wh1, when the offence was
committed, shall have been held in the place
where the offence was committed in the cond-
lion Of slaves, the same being expressly forbid
den by the Constitution of Mexico nor shall the
provisions Of the present treaty be applied in any
manner to the crimes enumerated in the third
article committed anterior to the date of the
exchange Of the ratifcatons hereof
Neither of the contracting parties shall be
bound to deliver up its own citizens under the
stipulations Of this treaty.
ARTICLE VII
This treaty shall continue in force until il
shall be abrogRted by the contracting parties,
or one OF them; but it shall not be abrogated
except by mutual consent, unless the party de.
siring to abrOgate it shall give twelve months
previous notice.
ARTICLE VIII.
The present treaty shall be ratified in coufor-
nifty with the constitutions of the two countries,
and the rathcations shall be exchanged at the
city Of Mexico within six months from the date
hereof, or earlier if possible.
In witness whereof we, the Plenpotentiariea
of the United States of America and of the Uni
ted Mexican states, have signed and sealed
these presents.
Done in the city of Mexico, on the eleventh
day OF December in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and Bixty-one, the
eghty-sixth of the independence of the United
States of America, and the forty-frst Of that of
| the United Mexican States.
THOMAS CORWIN. TLe1
SEEM LERDO DE TEJADA. In.
And whereas the said Treaty, as amended
has been duly ratified both parts, and the
respective ratidOations of the same were exchanQ-
ed in the city of Mexico on the twentieth ulti-
mo;
Now, therefore, be it known that l, ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN President of the United States
of America, have caused the said Treaty to be
made public, TO the end that the same, and
every clause and article thereof, may be observed
and fulfilled with good faith by the United States
and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
| be affixed