The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-03-25

products of the other, than or shall be payable
upon the like articles being the produce of any 9TH
er country.i
ARTICLE VII.
Each of the contracting parties hereby engages
not TO grant any favor in commerce 10 any nation
which shall not Immediately be enjoyed by the 9TH
er party.
ARTICLE VIII.
The United States Of America and the Orange
Free State, on acquisitions made in their name
through the medium of their respective diplomatic
consular agents, shall deliver up to justice per-
sons who, being charged with the crimes enumera-
ted in the following article, committed within the
jurisdiction of the requiring party, shall seek
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 to Justify their apprehension
and commitment for trial if the crime had been
committed in the country where the person so ac-
cused shall be found.
ARTICLE X.
Persons shall be delivered up according to the
provisions of this convention who shall be charged
with any of the following crimes, to-wit: Murder.
Gncluding assassination parrcide, infanticide and
poisoning9 attempt TO commit murder; rape
forgery, or the emission of forged papers; arson
robbery, with violence, ntim[ idlation, or forcibe
entry of inhabited house; piracy; embezzle-
ment by public officers, by persons hired or sa!a-
ried, to the detriment of their employers, when
these crimes are subject to infamous punishment.
ARTICLE Y.
The surrender shall be made by executives of the
contracting parties respectively.
ARTICLE VI.
The expense of detention and delivery effected
purt uant 10 the preceding articles shall be at the
cost of the party making the demand.
ARTICLE XII.
The provisions of the foregoing articles relating
TO the surrender of fugitive criminals shall not ap
ply to offenses committed before the date hereof,
nor to those of political character.
ARTICLE XIII.
The present convention is concluGed for the pc
riod of ten years from the day of the exchange of
the ratifcatons and if one year before the expra-
tion of that period, neither Of the contracting par
ties shall have announced, by an official notiica-
tlOn its intention to The other 20 arrest the opera
tions of the said convention, it shall continue bind
ing for twelve months longer, and so on from year
TO year until the expiration of the twelve months
which will follow a similar declaration, whatever
the time at which it may take place.
ARTICLE XIV
This convention shall be submitted on both sides
to the approval and ratification of the respective
competent authorities, and the ratications shall be
exchanged at Washington as soon as circumstances
shall admit In faith whereof the respective pleni
potentiaries have signed the above articles, and
have thereunto affixed their seals.
Done in quadruplicate at BlOemf 'Tten this 22d
day of December, in the year of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seyenty-one.
W. W. EDGC0MD. (sEAL.l
Il. X HUHNE. TsEAL.l
And whereas the said general convention has
been duly ratified on both parts and the respective
Publications of the same were exchanged at Wash
ington on the eighteenth instant:
Now, therefore, be it known that, !, ULYSSES S.
GRANT, President of the United States of America,
have caused the said convention to be made public,
the end that the same and every clause and article
thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand,
aud caused the seal of the United States to be Hf
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twcnty-third
day of August, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
-'hA'I and of the Independence of the United
States of America the ninety-eighth.
By the President: L. s. GRANT.
j. c. BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Secretary OF State.