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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1883.
"17 (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation conterfeited or altered money. (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 of the realm.
"18. Crimes against Bankruptcy Law.
"19. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger persons in a railway train.
"20. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
"21. Crimes committed at sea:-
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(a.) Piracy by the law of nations.
(b.) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
(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 grevious bodily harm.
22. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute an offence against the laws of both countries.
"The extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes as an accessory before or after the fact, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties.
"ARTICLE III.
"No Salvadorian shall be delivered up by the Government of Salvador to the Government of the United Kingdom, and no subject of the United Kingdom shall be delivered up by the Government thereof to the Government of Salvador.
"ARTICLE IV.
"The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Salvador, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of Salvador or in the United Kingdom respectively for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.
"If the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or on the part of the Government of Salvador, should be under examination for any other crime in the territory of Salvador or in the United Kingdom respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial and the full execution of any punishment awarded to him.
"ARTICLE V.
"The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime, or the institution of the penal prosecution or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applied to.
"ARTICLE VI.
"A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he prove that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character.
"ARTICLE VII.
“A person surrendered can in no case be kept in prison or be brought to trial in the State to which the surrender has been made, for any other crime, or on accunt of any other matters, than those for which the extradition shall have taken place. This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition.
“ARTICLE VIII.
"The requisition for extradition shall be made through the Diplomatic Agents of the High Contracting Parties respectively.
"The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority of the State requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as, according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there.
"If the requisition relates to a person already convicted, it must be accompanied by the sentence of condemnation passed against the convicted person by the competent Court of the State that makes the requisition for extradition.
"A requisition for extradition cannot be founded solely on sentences passed in contumaciam, but persons convicted for contumacy shall be deemed to be accused persons.