The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-22
rxrnAnIrIoN TREATY.



The following, is the text Of the new
convention between Great Britain and the
United States;
WHEREAS, By the tenth article Of the
treaty concluded between the United
States and her Britannia Majesty the Olh
day OF August, 1912, provision Is msde for
the extraditiOn Of persons charged with
certain Crimesi and, 80,
WMgRsAs, 1t is now desired by the high
contracting parties that the provisions OF
the said article should embrace certain
crimes not therein specified, and should
extend 10 the iugitiVes convicted o. crimes
sDecihed in said article and in this con-
yention, the said high contracting parties
have appointed as their plelipOtentiales
10 conclude u convention for this purpose
namely; The President Of the United
STATES OF America, Edward J. Phelps,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plg'
nipotentiary of the United states TO the
Court Of st. Jamcs, and her Majesty the
Queen OF the United Kingdom OF Great
Britain aud Ireland, the RI, Hon Alchi'
bali Philip, the Earl OF Roseberry, her
Maiesty's Principal Secretary OF State for
Foreign Affairs, who, after having COM
mupicated to each other their respective
full powers, found in good and dus form,
have Fgreed upon the following articles:
Arr /, The provisions Of the tenth arti'
clio Of the said treaty will be and are here.
by extended 80 as to apply to and COM
prehend the following additional CLinea
not mentioned In said artiCles-l. Man.
slaughter. 9. Burglary, 8. ENLIGHTENMENT
or larceny Of the value OF $50 or &l0, and
inward. 4, Malicious injuries tU prop.
erty whereby the lie oil any person shall
be endangered, ii such injuries constitute
a crimo according to the laws Of both the
high contracting parties. And tho pEoYi.
sicps Of the. said article shall have the
same effect with respect to The extradItion
OF pergons charged with any Of the said
crimes "a il the same had been originally
named and specified in the said article.
Arr. II. Tho provisions Of the tenth or.
ticle OF tho said treaty and OF this Cnnven.
ton 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 a fugitive criminal alleged to have
been convicted OF the crime for which his
surrender is asked, a copy Of the reCordO oil
the conviction and Of the sentence OF the
court before which such conviction took
place, duly authenticated, shall be pro.
duegd, together with the evidence that
the prisoner is the person to whom such
sentence refers.
ARr III. This convention shall not ap.
ply to any Of the crimes herein named aud
specified which shall have been commit.
ted or to any convictions which snail HAYS
been procured prior to the date when the
convention shall come into forCe.'
Art. ~. No fugitive criminal shall be
surrendered under the provisions OF said
treaty or Of this convention II the crime in
respect Of which his surrender is demand
ed be QUE Of a political character, or II he
prove to tho competent authority that the
said rCquisition for his surrender has in
fact been made with the view to try or
punish him for q crime Of a political char.
aCter.
Arr. V. A fugitive criminal surrender.
ed to either Of the high contracting parties
under the provisions Of this convention
shall not, until he has had an opportunity
OF returning 10 the State by which he has
been surrendered, be detained or tried for
any crime committed prior to his surreu.
der other than the e~xtrsdition crime prov
ed by the facts on which bis surrender
was granted.
AIT. vi. The extradition Of fugitives
under the provisions Of the said treaty
and Of the present convention shall be
carried out in the United States and in
Her Majesty's dominion, respectively,
subject to and in conformity with the
laws regulating extradition for the time
being in iorCs in the surrenderlng State,
ART. VII. The convention shall be
ratified, and the ratification exchanged
at London as soon as possible.
1t shall come into lorce ten days after
It's publication. In conformity with the
forms prescribed by the laws Of the high
contracting parties, and shall continue In
force until one or the other Of the high
contracting parties shall signify Its wish
to terminate 1t, and no longer.
In witness whereof, the undersigned
have signed the same, and have affixed
thereunto their seals.
Done at London the 24th day OF June,
1886. EDWARD JOHN PHELPS,
RUskBERY.