The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-01
RALEIGH, n. c.. SATURDAY,

the United States, June 20, 1862
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
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 sign
ed at the city of Mexico on the eleventh 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 languages, is, word Tor word, as fol-
lows:
Treaty between the United States of America and
the United Mexican States for the EXtradition
of Criminals.
The United States of America and the United
Mexican States having judged it expedient, with
view to the better administration of justice and
to the prevention OF crime within their respective
territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged
with the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and be-
ing fugiIives from justice, should, under certain
circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have
resolved to conclude treaty for this purpose, and
have named as their respective plenipotentiaries,
that is to say:
The President of the United States of America
has appointed Thomas Corwin, n citizen of the
United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary near the Mexican Gov
ernment; and the President of the United MeXi-
can States has appointed Sebastian Lerdo de
Tejada, citizen of the said States, and Deputy
of the Congress of the Union, who, after having
communicated to each other their respective full
powers, found in good and due 'orm, have agreed
ARTICLE I.
It is agreed that the contracting parties SHALL
acquisitions made in their name, through the
mideum 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 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
established 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.
In the case of crimes committed in the frontier
States Territories of the two contracting parties
acquisitions may be made through their respec-
tive diplomatic agents, or through the chief civil
authority of said States or Territories, through
such chief civil or judicial authority of the dis
tricts counties bordering on the frontier may
for this purpose be duly authorized by the said
chief civil authority of the said frontier States
Territories, or 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
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 accomplices, to wit
Murder, (including assassination, parricide, in
1anticde, and poisOning;) y 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 de-
ception forgery including the forging or MAX
ing or knowingly Dassinp or Duttinp in circula-
ton counterfeit coin or bank notes, or other pa
person or persons the Introduction or making Of
for the fabrication ofcounterfeit coin
or bank notes, or other paper current as money;
embezzlement of public moneys; robbery defn
ing the same to be the felOnious and forcibe tax
ing from the person of another of goods or money
to any value, by violence or putting him in fear;
entering into the house of another with intent to
commit felony; and the crime of larceny, of cat
tle or other goods and chattels, of the value of
twenty five dollars or more, when the same is
committed within the frontier States of Terrific
ries of the contracting parties.
ARTICLE w.
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furitivcs from iustice shall he made only nv the
of the executive thereof except in the
case of crimes committed within the limits ofthe
frontier States Territories, in which latter
the surrender may be made by the chief civil au
e of
said frontier States or Territories Or if from any
cause the civil authority of such State or Ter
ritory shall be suspended, then such surrender
NAV he made by the chief military officer in com
mand of such State or Territory.
.pr1c1ev
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al! All expenses whateEer OF detention ana denvery
effected in virtue OF the preceding provisions
shall be borne and betrayed by the Government
or authority OF the frontier State or Territory 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 ottence
OF purely political character, nor snail IL EN-
brace the return OF fugitive slaves nor the dellV-
cry OF criminals who, when the offence was COM
mitted, shall have been held in the place where
the offence was committed in the condition of
slaves, the same being expressly forbidden 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 com
mittec anterior to the date of the exchange OF the
ratification hereof
Neither of the contracting parties shall be
bound to deliver up its own citizens under the
stipulations of this treaty.
ARTICLE VII.
This treotv shall oon+;nna in fo-ce until II shall
ba ohro~oteS hv tbo controotin0 narties or one
Of tbnnn. hnt - shall not ha nhrSrata6 eycent hv
mntnaI consent nnIess tho na,tS sdesiring to ab
uCuai - ti ui.lSeS Ino ptal y SosS w ~
Ioga'e IL enah give I"ei'e mohlhs pieSious no
tce'
ARTICLE VIII.
;tv With the constit1tions of the two countries.
and the Publications shall be exchanged ut the
city OF Mexico within six months from the date
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