Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-26

america.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a treaty between the United States
of America and the Republic of Mexico, for
the extradition of criminals, was concluded
and signed at the city of Mexico on the eev-
enth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, which treaty, as
amended by the senate of the United States,
and being in the English and Spanish Ian
guages, is, word for word, as follows =
Treaty between the United States of America
and the United Mexican states for the ex-
tradition of criminals.
The United States of America and the
United Mexican states, having Judged it eX-
pedient, with view to the better administra-
ton of justice and to the prevention Of crime
within their respective territories and jurisdic-
tons, that persons charged with the crimes
hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives
from justice, should, under certain circum-
stances, be recprocally delivered up, have
resolved to conclude treaty for this purpose,
and have named as their respective plenipo
tentiaries, that is to say
The president of the United States of Amer
lea has appointed Thomas Corwin, citizen
of the United States, and their envoy eXtraOr
binary and minister plenipotentiary near the
Mexican governments and the president of
the united Mexican states has appointed Sc
bastian Lerdo de Tejada, citizen of the said
states, and a deputy of the congress of the
Union, who, after having communicated to
each other their respective 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 the medium of their respective diplo-
matte agents, deliver up to justice persons
who, being accused of the crimes enumerated
IN article third of the present treaty, commit
ted within the jurisdiction Of the requiring
party, shall seek an asylum or shall be found
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 estab
lished as that the laws of the country in which
the fugitive or the person so accused shall be
found, would justify his or her apprehension
and commitment for trial if the crime had
been there committed.
ARTICLE II.
In the case of crimes committed in the
frontier states or territories of the two con-
tracing parties, acquisitions may be made
through their respective diplomatic agents, or
through the chief civil authority of said states
or territories, or through such chief civil or
judicial authority of the district or counties
bordering on the frontier as may for this pur-
pose be duly authorized by the said chief civ
il authority of the said frontier states or terri
tories, or when, from any cause, the civil au-
thority OF such state or territory shall be sus-
pended, through the chief military officer in
command of such state or territory.
ARTICLE III.
Persons shall be so delivered up who shall
be charged, according to the provisions of
this treaty, with any of the following crimes.
whether as principals, accessories, or accom-
plices, to wit Murder, Gncluding assassina-
ton, parricide, intanticide, and poisoning y
assault with intent to commit murder; mntila-
ton, piracy, arson, rape, kidnapping, defin-
ing the same to be the taking and carrying
away of free person by force or deception;
forgery, including the forging or making, or
knowingly passing or putting in circulation
counterfeit coin or bank notes, or other pa
per current as money, with intent to defraud
any person or persons; the introduction or
making of instruments Tor the fabrication of
counterfeit com or bank notes, or other paper
current as money; embezzement of public
moneys; robbery, defining the same to be the
felonious and forcible taking from the person
of another of goods or money to any value,
by violence or putting him in fear; burglary,
defining the same to be breaking and entering
into the house of another with intent to com
nit felony; and the crime of larceny, of cat
blC3 VI OtHcI BOOuo anu ShhtISiS, VI WY
of twenty-five dollars or more, when the
same is committed within the frontier states
or territories of the contracting parties
ARTICLE w.
On the part of each country the surrender
of fugtives from justice shall be made only
by the authority of the executive thereof, ex-
cpt in the case of crimes committed within
the limits of the frontier states or territories,
in which latter case the surrender may be
made by the chief civil authority thereof, or
such chief civil or Judicial authority of the
districts or counties bordering on the frontier
as may for this purpose be duly authorized
by the said chief civil authority of the said
frontier states or territories, or, If, from any
cause, the civil authority Of such state or ter.
ritory shall be suspended, then such surren-