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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MAY, 1894.
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, between Her Majesty and the President of the Republic of Liberia for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and his Excellency the President of Liberia, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; the said High Contracting Parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say;
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable Archibald Philip, Earl of Rosebery, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and
His Excellency the President of Liberia, Henry Hayman, Esq., Consul-General of the Republic of Liberia in London;
Who, having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other those persons who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty.
ARTICLE II.
The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following:
1. Murder, or attempt, or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
4. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
5. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit, or altered money.
6. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for counterfeiting coin.
7. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered. 8. Embezzlement or larceny.
9. Malicious injury to property if the offence be indictable.
10. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences.
11. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
12. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
13. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director or member or public officer of any Company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
14. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
15. Rape.
16. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under 16 years of age. 17. Indecent assault.
18. Administering drugs, or using instruments, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman. 19. Abduction.
20. Child stealing.
21. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them.
22. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
23. Burglary or housebreaking.
24. Arson.
25. Robbery with violence.
26. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a railway train.