New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-30

INTO tn0 mousse OF announcer WIN intent co
commit felony; and the crime of robbery,
defined to be the act of feloniously and
forcibly taking from the person of another
goods or money by violence or putting him
IN fear; and the corresponding crimes puu-
lshed by the Belgian laws under the de-
/ scrption of thetts committed in an inhabit-
ed house by night, and by breaking in by
climbing or forcibly; and thefts committed
| with violence or by means of theft.
). The crime of forgery, by which is IN
derstood the utterance OF forged papers,
and also the counuerfeiting Of public, SOW
ereign or government acts.
b. The fabrication or circulation OF coun-
| terteit money, either coin or paper, or of
counterfeit public bonds, bank notes, obi
| cations, or. in general, anything being a
| title or instrument OF credit; the counter
| feiting OF seals, dies, stamps ard marks OF
| State and PUBLIC administrations, and the
| utterance thereof.
| I. The enoezzlement OF public moneys
| committed within the Jurisdiction of either
party by public officers or depositaries.
! 8. Embezzlement by any person or per
| sons, hired or salaried, to the detriment of
| their employers, when the crime is subject
| to punishment by the laws of the place
| where it was committed.
ARTICLE III.
The provisions of this treaty shall not
| Apply to any crime or offence of a political
! character, nor to any crime or offence com
| mitted prior to the date of this treaty, ex-
| cept the crimes Of murder and arson; and
| the person or persons delivered up for the
crimes enumerated in the preceding article
| shall in no case be tried for any crime COLE
| mitted previously to that for which his or
| their surrender is asked.
ARTICLE ".
| Neither of the contracting parties shall be
bound TO deliver up It's own citlzens or
subjects under the stipulations of this con
yentl0n.
ARTICLE V.
II the person whose surrender may he
| claimed pursuant to the stipuiations OF the
present treaty shall have been arrested for
| the commission OF offences in the country
| where ne las sought an asylum, or shall
| have been convicted thereof, his extradi-
| ton nay be deferred until he shall have
| been acquitted, or have served the term Of
| imprisonment TO WHICH he may have been
| sentenced.
| ARTICLE VI.
Re0usitions for the surrender Of sugi-
| tives rom Justice shall be made by the re-
spective diplomatic agents of the contract
| ing parties, or, in the event of the absence
| OF the SO from the country or its seat of gov
| ernment they may be maize by superior
| consular officers.
Ii the person whose extraGition may be
| asked for shall have been convicted of a
| crime, a copy of the sentence Of the court
| in which he may have been convicted, AL
| thenticated under its seal. and an attesta-
| ton Of the official character of the judge by
| the proper executive authority, and OF the
| latter by the minister or consul of the
| United States or of Belgium. respectively,
| shall accompany the requisiEion. When,
| however. the fugitive shall have been
| merely charged with a crime, duly authen
| tlcated copy OF the warrant for his arrest
| in the country where the crime may have
! been committed, and OF .the dispositions
| upon which such warrants may have been
| issued, must accompany the requlsition as
| aforesaid. The President OF the United
| States, or the proper executive authority in
| Belgium, may then issue warrant for the
! apprehension OF the fugitive, in order that
he may be brought before the proper judicial
| authority for examination. II it should
| then be decided that, according to the law
! and evidence, the eXtradition is due pur-
! suaut to the treaty. the fugitive may be
| given up according TO the forms prescribed
! III such cases.
AR-ICLE,v VIII.
! The expenses Of the arrest. detention and
| transportation of tie persons claimed shall
| be paid by the government in whose name
| the reousitiOn has been made.
ARTICLE VII.
This convention shall take effect evenly
| days after the day Of the date of the ex-
change of Publications. and shall continue
in force during tive years from the day OF
| such exchange; but ii neither party shall
have given to the other SIX months previous
| notice of It's intention to terminate the
same, the convention shall remain in force
i've years. and so on
The present convention shall be ratified,
| and the Publications exchanged at brussels
| so soon thereafter as possible.
| In witness whereof the respective pleni-
potenIiaries have signed the present con-
venton in duplicate, and have thereunto
affixed their seals.
Done at the city of Washington, the
nineteenth day of March, A. u. one thou
| sana eight hundred and seventy-tour.
HAMILTON FISH.
MAURICE DELFOSSE.
and whereas, the said convention has been
| duly ratified on both parts, and the respec-
, tive notifications Of the same were ex
| changed at Brussels on the thirtieth day Of
| April, 1874, by the plenipotentiaries Of the
respective governments.
Now. therefore, be % known that l,
| Ulysses s. Grant, President Of the United
| States of America, have caused the said
! convention to be made public, to the end
that the same, and every clause and part
| thereof, NAV be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and the
| citizens thereof.
In witness whereof 2 have hereunto set
| my hand and caused the seal OF the United
| States TO be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington. this first
| day of May. in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy four.
| and of the independence of the United
States OF America the ninety eighth.
i. 5. i.El.SS.
~ the President:
HAMILTON FISH. 49,
Secratarv Of Sfa1e