The Portland daily press., 1875-01-25

whereas convention for the surrender of crimi-
mails, fugitiyes from justice, between the United
concluded and signed by their respective P!enpoten-
tiaries at San Salvador on the 23d day OF May, 1ou
the original of which convention, peihs III Ie III
lisb and Spanish languages, is word for Word as loi
lows:
Convention for the surrender Of criminals oetoeem
the United States Of America ana the hep"o"c
Salvador.
The United States of America and the Republic OF
Salvador having Judged it expedient, with view to
the better administration of Justice and TO the pre-
yention of crimes within their respective territories
and iursdcton that persons convicted of charged
with the crimes hereinafter speclhed and belng Iu-
gves from asce up have resolved to
conclude convention for that purpose, and nave ap
pointed as their Plenipotentaries, the OF
Resident to Salvador the President Of the Republic
of Salvador, Senior Doctor Don Gregorio Arplzu' Mn
lister of Foreign AFFAIRS who aver i eood and
due form, have agreed upon the following arces' 10
wit:
The Government of the United States and the
Government of Salvador mutually agree to deliver up
persons who, having been convicted OF or charged
with the crimes specified IN the foowg .ba con
tracing parties, shall seek an asylum or pe I0Mnu
within the territories of the Others Prorided Ihat
this shall only be done upon such evidence OF crin IN
aItv as according to the laws of the place where the
fugitive OF person SO charged shall be found would
justify his or her apprehension and committeho lor
ARTICLE II.
per.ons shall be delivered up who shall have been
convicted Of or be charged according TO the PROVE
sions of this convention, with any OF the following
i Murder. comprehending the crimes designated
in the penal codes of the contracting pares py 1ne
terms homicide, parricide, assassnation' POISONING
3. The attempt to commit murder.
g. The crimes of rape, arson, piracy, and mutiny
ON hoard ship, whenever the crew. or part thereof
AGAINST the COmmanuGr, nave
taken possession OF the vessel. ,.,
d The crime OF burglary, defined to be the action
another with the intent to commit felony; and the
crime of robbery defined to be the action OF Iei9n
onsy and Orcby taking from rne PepsSh Sn 81 in ear
5. The crime of forgery by when Is utdeIscooS "
ihe utterance of forged papers, the counterfetng Oh
public, sovereign, or government acts.
g. The fabrication or circulation OF counOerieiiG
money either coin paper or OF counterfeit PuDic
bonds bank notes Obligations, OF cre;t In the comm
terfeting Of SEALS dies, stamps ana marks OF state
and public administrations, and the utterance there
=. The embezzlement of public moneys. commit
ted within the jurisdiction Of either party by puDnc
officers OF depositors .-.., h;rod
s. Embezzement by any person or persons Iii nileu Gu
or saared to the detrimen Of their employers, when
these crimes ars subject to infamous punishment.
ARTICLE III.
The provisions of this treaty shall not apply to any
crime or offence of political character; and the per-
son or persons delivered up for the crimes enume-
rated in the preceding articles shall IN no case pc
tried for any ordinary crime commlose9 previously d
ARTICLE ".
If the person whose surrender may be claimed,
pursuant to the stipuatons of the present treaty:
Shall have been arrested for tine commlssl4n VI
| offences in the country where he has sought an
asylum shall have been convicted therefor, ms e1
tradition may be deferred until he shall have been
acquitted or have served the term OF imprisonment
| to which he may have been sentenced.
ARTICLE v.
In no case and for no motive shall the high con-
tracing PARTIES be obliged to deliver up their own
subjects IT. in conformity with tne Jaws IN ,orSt IN IN
be submitted to criminal procedu Tor crimes COM
mitted in the other state, the latter must commun-
cate the information and documents send the 1mple
ments or tools which were employed to perpetrate
the crime and procure every other explanation or
| evidence necessary to prosecute the case.
| ARTICLE vi.
| Reouisitions for the surrender of fugitves from
| iustice shall be made by the respective diplomatic
agents of the contracting parties in the event OF
the absence Of these from the conntry OF It's seat Oh
| officers If the person whose extradition may be
asked for shall have been convicted of crime, copy
of tbe sentence of the court in which he may nave
been convicted authenticated under its seal, and an
attestaton of the official character of the judge by
the minister OF consul OF the United States of
Salvador respectively, shall accompany the requsl-
| ton. When however, the fugitive shall have been
| merely charged with crime, duly-authentlcated
COPY of the warrant for his arrest in the country
| where the crime may have been comm1tted or the
| depositions upon (which such warrant may nave
been issued must accompany the requisition afore-
| said The President of the United States OF the
President of Salvador may then issue warrant Tor
the apprehension of the fugitive, in order that ne
NAV be brought before the proper judicial authority
for examination, 1t it should then be decded that,
according to law and the EVIDENCE tne on
given up according to the forms prescribed in such
| cases.
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portatien of the persons claimed shall be paid by
the government in whose name the requsition shall
have been made.
This convention shall continue in force during ten
1O wears from the day OF exchange Of ratifcat1oDs;
but If neither party shall have gwen to the other six
M months previous notice of its intention to termi-
nate the same, the convention shall remain in force
| ten years longer, and so on. -,
The present convention shall be ratlhed ana tne
| ratifcations exchanged at the city OF Washington
| within twelve Q2) months, and sooner II possible.
sd the Sey sea
| Done at the city of San Salvador the twenty
third day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, and of the independence OF the united
''A''' 'N' SEAL ALFRED t. A. ToRBERT.
(sEALl GRECO. ARBIzU.
| And whereas the said conventihn has been duly
ratified on both parts and the respective ratications
were exchanged in this city on the second day oi
| March. 1874: , ,
Now, therefore, be IL known InaC l, OLfssEs o.
| 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 art
| Gle thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
| Done at The city of Washington this fourth
day of March, in the year of our Lord one
[sEAL thousand eight hundred and seventy-four,
| and of the Independence of the United
| States of America the ninety eighth.
| US. GRANT.
By the President:
| HAMILTON FISH, Secretary Of State.