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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st JULY, 1894.
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Honourable Charles Hardinge, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Bucharest, &c., &c.;
"And His Majesty the King of Roumania, M. Alexandre N. Lahovari, Grand Cross of His Order of the Crown of Roumania, &c., &c., His Minister-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
"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 Party, 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. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
coin.
"4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money.
"5. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for counterfeiting
"6. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered. "7. Embezzlement or larceny.
"8. Malicious injury to property, by explosives or otherwise, if the offence be indictable.
"9. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences.
"10. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
"11. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
"12. 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.
13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
"14. Rape.
"15. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under fourteen years
of age.
"16. Indecent assault..
"17. Procuring miscarriage, administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman.
harm.
"18. Abduction.
"19. Child stealing.
"20. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them.
"21. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
"22. Burglary or housebreaking.
"23. Arson.
"24. Robbery with violence.
"25. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a railway train. "26. Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort.
"27. Piracy by law of nations.
"28. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
"29. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or do grievous bodily
"30. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
"31. Dealing in slaves.
"Extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both the Contracting Parties.
"ARTICLE III.
Either Government may, in its absolute discretion, refuse to deliver up its own subjects to the other Government.
ARTICLE IV.
"The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial, within the territories of the two High Contracting Parties respect- ively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.