Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-07-24
EXTRADITION TREATY.
Thieves, Embezzlers, Homicides and
Dynamiters, Look Outl
-Four New Crimes VIII be Made EItradit-
able.

WASHINGTON, July 19-Following is the
ADDITION to the extradition treaty made
between the United States and Great
Britain in 1872, now under consideration of
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rea-
tlons. An attempt will be made to ratify
it in executive session before the close of
Congress:
ART. !. The provision of the tenth article
OF the said treaty will be and are hereby ex.
tended so as TO apply to and comprehend the
ioiioWlng additional crimes not mentioned in
sald article, namely: !. Mansanghter 2.
burglary. EmbezZlement or larceny of
the value of $50 or tl0 pounds and upwards
Z. Malicious injuries to property whereby
the life of any person shall be endangered, il
such injuries constitute crime according to
the laws of both the high contracting parties
and the provisions of the said article shall
have the same effect with respect to the ex.
tradition OF persons charged with any of the
said crimes as if the same had been originally
named and specified in the said article.
ART ii. The provision of the tenth art Gle
OF the said treaty and of the convention shall
apply to persons convicted of the crimes
therein respectively named and specified,
whose sentence thereupon shall not have
been executed. In the case of fugitive
criminal alleged to have been convicted of
| the crime for which his surrender is asked, a
| copy Of the record of conviction and of the
sentence of the court, before which such con
victiOn took place, duly authenticated, shall
| be produced, together with evidence that the
| prisoner is the person to whom such sentence
refers.
ART. III. This convention shall not apply
TO any of the crimes herein named and spcci-
| ned which Shall have been committed, or to
any conviction which shall have been pro
| cured prior to the date when the convention
| shall come into force.
| ART. ~. No fugitive criminal shall be sur
rod ,.V.Ia. ,v,ag, 10. r..si
treaty or of this convention if the crime in
| respect of which his surrender is demanded
| be one of political character, or if he prove
| TO the competent authority that the said
requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been
| made with the view to try or punish him fOr
| a crime of political character.
ART. V. A fugitive criminal surrendered tc
| either OF the nigh contracting parties under
| the provisions of the said treaty, or of this
convention shall not until he has had an Op
| portunity of returning to the State by which
| he was surrendered, be detained or tried toi
| any crime committed prior to his surrender
| other than the eXtradition crime proved by
the facts on which his surrender was granted
| ART. vi. The extraditOn of fugutives un
der the provisions of said treaty, and of the
| present convention, shall be carried out il
| the United States and in Her Majesty's do
| minions respectively subject to and in con
| fOrmlty with the laws regulating eXtraditlOr
for the time being in force in the surrender
ing State.
ART. VlI.-This convention shall be rati
fed and the ratification exchanged at Lon
| don as soon as possible 1t shall come into
force ten days after its publication, in con
formitv with the forms prescribed by tn,
laws of the high contracting parties, ant
shall continue in force until one or the othe
of the high contracting parties shall signif.
| its wish to terminate it, and no sooner,
In witness whereof the undersigned hav
signed the same and have affixed thereunt
| their seals. Done at London the 2jth day 0
| June, 1886.
lSeall EDWARD ,IOHN PHELPS
[Seall ROSEBERY.