Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-20


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Entered at the Postofce at Alexandria, Virginia. a.
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TEXT OF THE EXTRADITI0N COMPACT.
The following is the text of the new ex.
tradition treaty between the United States
and Great Britain:
Whereas by the 10Th article of the treaty
concluded between the United States OF
America and her Britannia Majesty on the
for the extradition of persons charged with
certain crimes:
And whereas it is now desired by the high
contracting parties that the provisions of
the said article should embrace certain
crimes not therein specified, and should ex.
tend to fugitives convicted of the crimes
specified in the said article and in this CON-
vention
The said high contracting parties have
appointed as their plenipotentiaries to con.
cude q convention for this purpose, name
": The President of the United States of
America, Edward John Phelps, envoy ex-
traordiuary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to the Court of St. James,
&C., &c.
And her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Right Honorable Archibald Philip, Earl of
Roseberry, her Majesty's principal secretary
of state for foreign affairs, &C., &c.
Who, after having communicated to each
other their respective full powers, found in
good and due form, have agreed upon the
following articles:
ARTICLE I.
The provisions of tho 10th article of the
said treaty shall be, and are hereby, extend.
ed SO as to apply to and comprehend the
following additional crimes not mentioned
in said article, namely:
l. Manslaughter.
2. Burglary.
3. Embezzlement or larceny of the value
of $50, or e1O and upwards.
4. Malicious injuries to property whereby
the life Of any person shall be endangered, /,
if such injuries constitute u crime accord
ing to the laws of both the high contracting
parties. And the provisions of the said ar
ticle shall have the same effect with respect
to the extradtion of persons charged with
any of the said crimes as if the same had
been originally named and specified in the
said article.
ARTICLE H.
No provisions of the tenth article Of the
said treaty and of this convention shall ap.
ply to persons convicted of the crimes there.
in respectively named and specified whose
sentence therefor shall not have been exc
cuted.
In the case of fugitive criminal alleged
to nave been convicted of the crime for
which his surrender is asked, copy of the
,a,ar1 of fbe, 1,ictiNn MI nf TIM
Of the court efore which such conviction
took place. duly authenticated, shall be pro.
dnced, together with evidence proving that
the prisoner is the person to whom such
sentence refers.
ARTICLE III.
This convention shall not apply to any of
the crimes herein named and specified which
shall have been committed, or to any con-
viction which shall haye been pronounced
prior to the date when the convention shall
come into force.
ARTICLE Nv.
No fugitive criminal shall be surrendered
under the provisions of the said treaty, or of
this convention, if the crime in respect of
which his surrender is demanded be one of q
political character, or if he prove to the
competent authority that the requisition for
his surrender has in fact been made with the
view TO try or punish him Tor crime of a
political character.
ARTICLE V.
A fugitive criminal surrendered to either
of the high contracting parties under the
provisions of the said treaty or of this con.
vention shall not, until he has had an op.
portuuity of returning to the State by which
he has been surrendered, be detained or
tried for any crime committed prior to his
surrender other than the extradition crime
proved by the facts on which his surrender
was granted.
ARTICLE vi.
The e1tradition of fugitives under the
provisions of said treaty and of the present
| convention shall be carried out in the Uni
ted States and in Her Majesty's dominions
respectively subject to, and in conformity
with, the laws regulating extradition for the
time being in force in the surrendering
State.
ARTICLE VII.
This convention shall be ratified, and the
rati6cations shall be exchanged at London
as soon as possible.
It shall come into force ten days after its
publication, in conformity with the forms
prescribed by the laws of the high contract.
ing parties, and shall continue in force until
one or the other of the high contracting par
ties shall signify it's wish to terminate It,
and no longer.
In witness whereof the undersigned have
signed the same, and have affixed thereto
their seals.
Done at London, the twenty.6fth day oi
June, 1886.
(Ssal.) EDWARD JOHN PHELPS.
(Seal.) RosEBERY.
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