Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-08
IOFTIClAL,I
Convention between the United states
Of America and BeiKiual.

By The Prestdent Of the United States If Ameriea
PROCLAMATION.
whereas convention between the United
states Of America and His Majesty the King OF
the Belgisns was concluded and sigEed by their
respective Plenipotentisries ut Washington on
the 18th day OF March last, which convention,
being in the English and French languages, is
word for word as follows:
The United States OF America and His Ma
Jesty the King OF the Belgisns, having judged
IT expedient, with q view TO the better admits.
trstion of Justice, and 20 the prevention of
crimes within their respective territories and
Jurisdiction, that persons convicted of or
charged with the crimes hereinafter specified.
and being fugitives from justice, should, under
certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered
up, have resolved to conclude q convention for
that purpose, and have appointed as their Plen-
iIotentiaries: the President of the United
States of America, Hamilton Fish, Secretary
of State of The United States; and His Majesty
the King OF the Belgisns, Maurice Delfosse,
His Msjesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter PlenipOtentisry in the United States; who,
after reciprocal Communication of their full
powers, found In good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles, 70 wit:
ARTICLE. 1.-The government of the nited
States and the government OF Belgium mutu
ally agree 10 deliver up persons who, having
been convicted OF or charged with any OF the
crimes specified in the following article, COM
United with the jurisdiction of one of the con-
tracing parties, shall seek an asylum, or be
found within the territories or the other; Pro-
yided that this shall only be done upon such
evidence of crIminality as, according to the
so charged shall be found, would justify his or
her apprehension and commitment for trial ii
the crime had been there committed.
ARTICLE II-Persons shall be delivered up
who stall have been convicted of or be charged,
according TO the provisions OF this convention,
with any OF the following crimes:
1. Murder, comprehending the crimes desig-
mated in the Belgian penal code by the terms of
Iarracide, assassination, poisoning, and infan-
uCide.
.. The attempt TO commit murder.
3. The crimes OF raDe. arson. niracy. and
mutiny on board ship, whenever the crew, or
part thereof, by fraud or violence against the
commander, have taken possession OF the vessel.
4. The crime of burglary, defined to be the
act eff breaking and entering by night into the
house of another with the intent to commit
felony; and the crime of robbery, defined 10 be
the act OF felonionsly and forcibly taking from
the person OF another goods or money BY VIo-
lence or putting him In fear; and the CORES
ponding crimes punished BY the Belgian laws
under the description OF thefts committed In an
inhabited house by night, and by breaking in
by climbing or forcibly; and thefts committed
with violence or by means of theft.
g. The crime of forgery, by which is under
stood the utterance of forged papers, and also
the counterfeiting Of public, sovereign, or gov
c. The fabrication or circulation of counter
felt money, either coin or paper, or OF counter
felt public bonds, bank notes, obligations, or,
in general, anything being q title or Instrument
or credit; the colnterfeiting of seals, dies,
stamps, and marks OF state and public admins
Istions, and the utterance thereof.
Z.
mitted within the jurisdiction of either party
by public officers or depositsries.
8. Embez Element by any person or persons,
hired or salaried, to the detriment of their EN-
ployers, when the crime is subject to punish
ment 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 po-
litical character, nor TO any crime or offence
committed prior TO the date OF this treaty, ex-
cekt the crimes of murder and arson; aud the
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enumerated in the preceding article shall in no
case be tried for any crime committed previous
ly TO that for which his or their surrender Is
asked.
ARTICLE Whether OF the contracting par
ties shall be bound 10 deliver up its own citizens
or subjects under the stipulations OF this con-
yention.
ARTICLE VII the person whose surrender
may be claimed pursuant to the stipulstions OF
the present treaty shall have been arrested for
the commission OF offences in the country where
he has sought an asylum, or shall have been
convicted thereof, his eXtradition may be de-
ferred until he shall have been acquitted, or
have served the term Of imprisonment to which
he may have been sentenced.
ARTICLE VI.-ReQuistions for the surrender
Of fugitives from justice shall be made by the
respective diplomatic agents of the contracting
parties, or, in the event of the absence of these
from the country or its seat OF government,
they may be made by superior consular officers.
If the person whose extradition may be asked
for shall have been convicted of q crime, a copy
of the sentence OF the court in which he may
Lave been convicted, authenticated under its
seal, and an sttestation OF the Official character
OF the Judge by the proper executive authority,
and or the latter by tue minister consul OF the
United States or OF Belgium, respectively, shall
accompany the requisition. When however, the
fugitive shall have been merely charged with
crime, duly authenticated copy of the warrant
for his arrest in the country where the crime
may have been committed, and of the deposit
tons upon which such warrant may have been
sued, must accompany the requisition as afore-
said. The President of the United States, or
the proper executive authority in Belgium, may
then issue a warrant for the apprehension of the
fugitive, In order that he may be brought before
the proper judicial authority for examination.
Ii itshOul0 then be decided that, according to
tbe law and the evidence, the extrsdiIion is due
Up according TO the forms prescribed In such
casef.
ARTICLE VII.-The expenses Of the arrest,
detention, and transportation OF the persons
| claimed shall be paid by the government in
whose name the reQuisition has been made.
ARTICLE yIII.-This convention shall take
effect twenty days after the day OF the
date of the exchange Of Publications, and
shall continue In force during i've years from
the day OF such exchange; but IL neither party
shall have given to the other six months pre-
vious notice of it's intention to terminate the
| same, the convention shall remain In force Ave
years longer, and 90 on.
The present convention shall he ratified, and
the Publications exchanged, st Brussels 20 soon
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
/ poteEtiaries have signed the present convention
In duplicate, and have thereunto AFFIXED their
| Done at the city Of Washington, the 10Th day
Of March, ammo Domini one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.
(sKALl HAMILTON FISH.
tsKAL MAURICE DRLFossR.
And whereas the said convention has been