THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST MARCH, 1890.
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Who, after 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, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.
"ARTICLE II.
"Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences:-
"1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infantiside, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
"2. Manslaughter.
"3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women. "4. Rape.
"5. Unlawful carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge, of a girl under 16 years of age, if the evidence produced justifies committal for those crimes according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties.
"6. Indecent assault.
"7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child-stealing.
“8. Abduction,
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9. Bigamy.
10. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
"11. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
12. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.
13. Perjury or subornation of perjury.
14. Arson.
"15. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
16. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any. company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
17. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.
18.(a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered
money,
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(b.) Forgery, or counterfeiting or altering, or uttering what is forged, counterfeited, or altered. "(c.) Knowingly making, without lawful authority, any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of coin, or forgery of any paper money of the respective countries.
“19. Crimes against Bankruptcy Law.
"20. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon a railway.
"21. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
"22. Crimes committed at sea:-
"(a.) Piracy by the law of nations.
"(b.) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
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(c.) Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
"(d.) Assault on board a ship on the high seas with intent to destroy life or to do grievous bodily harm.
"23. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
"The extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties.
"Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.
"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 on the part of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Colombia, has already been tried and discharged, or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of Colombia or in the United Kingdom respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.
"If the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, or on the part of the Govern- ment of Colombia, should be under examination for any other crime in the territory of Colombia or in