The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-11-03

The United States of America and the United
Mexican States, having judged IL expedient, with
view to the better administration of justice and to
the prevention Of crime within their respective ter
rtories and Jurisdictions, that persons charged
with the crimes hereinafter enumerated and being
fugitives from justice, should nder certain cir
cumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have re-
solved to conclude treaty for this purpose, and
have named as their respective plenipotentiarles,
The President of the United States of America,
has appointed Thomas Corwin, a citizen of the
United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary the Mexican Gov
eminent and the President Of the United Mexican
States has appointed Sebastian Lerdo de Tejado,
citizen of the said States, and Deputy OF the Con-
gress of the Union, who, after having cOmmunica-
ted to each other their respective full powers found
in good and due form, have agreed upon and con-
cluded the following articles:
ART. L. 1t is agreed that the contracting parties
shall on acquisitions made in their name, through
the medium of their respective diplomatic agents,
deliver up to justice persons who being accused
of the crimes enumerated in article third of the
pres MT treaty, committed within the jurisdiction
of the requiring party, shall seek an asylum, or
shall lie found within the territories of the other:
PTOgided, That this shall be done only when the
fact of the commission of the crime shall be
tablished as that the laws of the country in which
the fugitive the person accused shall be found
would justify his OF her apprehension and COM
mtment for trial if the crime had been there COM
mtted.
ART. H. In the case of crimes committed in the
frontier States Territories of the two contract
ing parties acquisitions may be made through their
respective diplomatic agents or through the chlet
civil authorities of said States Territories,
through such chief civil judicial authority of the
districts counties bordering the frontier
may for this purpose be duly horned by the
said chief civil authority of the said frontier States
or Territories, when, from any cause, the civil
authority Of such State or Territory shall be sus
pended, through the chief military officer in COM
mand of such State or Territory.
ART. III Persons shall be SO delivered up who
shall be charged, according to the provisions of
this treaty, with any of the following crimes,
MhpthersaS pTlncipals,
TO wit Murder, (includng assassination, parricide
infantcide, and poisoning) assault with intent to
commit murder; mutilation piracy arson rape;
kidnapping, defining the same to be the taking and
carrying away of free person by force or decep
ton; forgery, including the forging or making, OF
knowingly passing or putting in circulation cOun-
terfeit coin or bank notes, other paper current
money, with intent to defraud any person
persons; the Introduction making of instru-
ments for the fabrication of counterfeit coin or
bank notes, or other paper current as money; en-
beZZement of public moneys: robbery, defining
the same to be the felonOus and fOrcible taking
from the p rson of another of goods money to
any value, by violence or putting him in fear J;
burglary defining the same to be breaking and en-
tering into the house of another with intent to
commit felony; and the crime of larceny, of cat
tie, or other goods and chattels, of the value of
twenty-five dollars or more, when the same is COM
mltted within the frontier States or Territories of
the contracting parties
ART. ". On the part OF each country the surrend-
of fugitves from JUST ce shall be made only by
the authority of the executive thereof except in the
limits of the frontier States orerrtories in which
latter the surrender may be made by the chief
civil authority thereof such chief civil judicial
authority OF the districts or counties bordering on
the frontier may for this purpose be duly au-
thoriZed by the said chief civil authority of the
said frontier States or Territories or, if, from any
cause the civil authority of such State Terrific
ry shall be suspended such surrender may be
made by the chief military officer in command of
such State Territory.
ART. v. All expenses whatever of detention and
delivery effected in virtue of tn preceding proy-
sions shall be borne and betrayed by the Govern
ment authority of the frontier State Terrific
ry in whose name the requisition shall have been
made.
ART VI. The provisions of the present treaty
shall not be applied in any manner TO any crime or
offence of apurely political character, nor shall it
embrace the return of fugitive slaves, nor the de-
livery of criminals who, when the otienc was
committed, shall have been held in the place where
the offence committed in the condition of slaves
the same being expressly forbidden by the Consttu-
ton 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 ii the date ofthe exchange ofthe ratifca-
atoms hereof.
Neither of the contracting parties shall be bound
to deliver up its own citizens und the stipulations
of this treaty.
ART. VII. This treaty shall continue in force un
til it shall be abrogated by The contracting partes
of them but il shall not be abrOgated =
cept by mutual consent, unless the party desiring
to abrogate it shall give twelve months previous
notice.
ART. VIII. The present treaty shall be ratified
in conformity with the constitutions Of the two
at the city OF Mexico, within six months from the
date hereof or earlier if possible.
In witness whereof we, the Plenipotentiaries OF
the United States of America and of the United
Mexican States, have signed and scaled these pres
ents
AND whereas the said Treaty, as amended, has
been duly ratified on both parts, and the respec-
tive ratihcatiOns of the exchanged in
the city Of Mexico the twentieth ultimO
Done in the City of Mexico, the
eleventh day of December, ia the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America, the eighty -sixt ID
and the forty-hrst of that Of the United
Mexican States.
THOMAS CORWIN. r.. 81
SEBN JERDO DE-TAJADA. l.. S.
Now, therefore, be IL known that /, ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, President of the United States OF
America, have caused the said treaty to DO made
public, to the end that the same and every clause
aud article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled
with good faith by the United States and the cit
thereof
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand caused the seal of the United States to IL
affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this TWEEN
teth day, of June, in the year of our
L. s. Lord one-thOusand eight hundred and sixty
two, and of the Independence of the Uni
ted States the eighty sixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM n SFwARp Secretary of State