The Portland daily press., 1875-01-29
A PROCLAMATION.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas convention between the Emitted States
of America and His Majesty the King of the Belgi-
ans was concluded and signed by their respective
Plenipotentaries at Washington on the 10th 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 Majesty the
King of the Belgans having judged II expedi.e3nt'
and to the prevention of crimes within their respec
tive territories and jurisdiction, that persons con-
victed of or charged with the crimes hereinafter spec
ified and being fugves from justice, should. under
certain circumstances, be reciprocaly delivered up,
have resolved to conclude convention for that pur-
pose, AMI have appointed their Plenpotehtiaries;
the President of the United States of America, Ham
ton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States;
and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Maurice
Defosse, His Maiesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenpotentiary in the United States; who,
after reciprocal communication of their full powers,
found in good and due form, have agreed upon the
following articles, to wit:
ARTICLE I.
The Government of the United States and the
Government of Belgium mutually agree to deliver up
persons who. having been convicted OF or charged
with any of the crimes specified in the following ar
tIce committed within the jurisdiction OF one OF the
contracting parties shall seek asylum, or be found
within the territories of the other: Provided that
this shall only be done upon such evidence of Grimm
atty as according to the laws OF the place where the
fugitive person SO charged shall be found would
trial if the crime had been there committed.
ARTICLE II.
Persons shall be delivered up who shall have been
convicted of or be charged, according to the prOyl-
sions OF this convention, with any OF the following
crimes:
in the Belgian penal code by the terms OF parrclde
assassination, poisoning and intanticlde
2. The attempt to commit murder.
3. The crimes of rape. arson, piracy and mutlny
on board ship, whenever the crew. or part thereof
1,xf ro,Io uin anao
taken possession of the vessel
T. The crime of burglary, defined to be the act Of
breaking and entering by night into the house OF an
other with the intent to commit felony. and the
crmeso robbery defined to be the act of feoniously
and foreby taking from the person of another goods
or money by violence putting him in fear; and the
corresponding crimes punished by the Belgian laws
under the description of thetts committed in an In
habited house by night and by breaking in by climb
ing or forciby; and theftS committed with violence
or by means of theft.
S. The crime of forgery, by which is understood
the utterance of forged papers, and also the counter
feiting of public sovereign, or government acts.
6. The fabrication or circulation OF counterfeit
money either coin OF paper or OF counterfeit puDlc
thing being title instrument OF credit the coun-
terfeting Of seals, dies stamps, and marks OF state
and public administrations, and the utterance there
I. The embezzlement of pnblic moneys committed
within the jurisdiction Of either party by public OIL
GERS or depostaries.
5. Embezzement by any person or persons, hired
saaried 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 eenee of political character, nor to any
crime or offence committed prior to the date OF this
treaty except the crimes of murder and arson; and
the person or persons delivered for the crimes emu
merated in the preceding article shall in no case be
tried for any crime committed previously to that Tor
which his or their surrender is asked.
ARTICLE ".
Al rite ehol1 he
to deliver up tsown citizens or subjects under the
stipulations of this convention.
ARTICLE V.
If the person whose surrender may be claimed pur-
suant to the stipuatons 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
deferred until he shall have been acquitted, or have
served the term Of imprisonment to which he may
have been sentenced.
ARTICLE VI.
Reauisiiions 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 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 crime, copy of the
sentence of the court in which he may have been con-
vcted, authenticated under its SEAL and an attesta-
ton the official character of the judge by the prop
executive authority, and of the latter by the min
lister consul of the United States or of Belgium re-
spectively, 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 dispositions upon
which such warrant may have been issued, must ac-
company the requisition as aforesaid. The Presi-
dent of the United States, 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. If it should then be decided that
according to the law and the evidence, the extradi-
ton is due pursuant to the treaty. the fugitive may
be given up according to the forms prescribed in such
cases.
ARTICLE VII.
The expenses of the arrest, detention, and trans.
portaton of the persons claimed shall be paid by the
government in whose name the requisitiOn has been
made.
ARTICLE VIII.
This convention shall take effect twenty DAYS after
the day Of the date of the exchange of raticatons
and shall continue in force during five years from
the day of such exchange; but if neither party shall
have given to the other SIX months previous notice
of its intention terminate the same the convention
shall remain in force five years longer, and so
The present convention shall be ratified, and the
notifications exchanged. at Brussels so soon there
after as possible.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiares
have signed the present convention in duplicate, and
have thereunto affixed their seals.
Done at the city of Washington, the 10Th day of
March, ammo Domini thousand eight hundred
and seventy-fOur.
lsEAI.l HAMILTON FISH.
[SEAL.1 MAURICE DELFOSSE.
And whereas the said convention has been duly
ratified on both parts and the respective ratifca-
lions of the same exchanged at Brussels the
Both day of April, 1874, by the Plenipotentares of
the respective Governments:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ULYSSES S.
GRANT. President of the United States Of America,
have caused the said convention to oe made public
to the end that the same and every clause and part
thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith
by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof l have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal OF the United States be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this first day
OF NAV, In the OF Lord thou-
[sEAL.] sand eight hundred and seventy-four, and
of the Independence of the United States of
America the. nnety-eighth
US, GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary .of State.