THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 11, 1907. 1275
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under certain 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, or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of
Women.
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4. Rape.
5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under age of 16 years, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upon which
the demand is made.
6. Indecent assault.
7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child stealing.
8. Abandoning, exposing, or detaining children.
9. Abduction.
10. Bigamy.
11. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
12. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
13. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value. 14. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
15. Arson or attempt to commit arson.
16. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
17. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any Company.
18. 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 unlaw- fully obtained.
19. (a) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money.
(b) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm.
20. Forgery, or knowingly uttering what is forged.
21. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
22. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway.
23. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
24. Piracy and other crimes or offences committed at sea against persons or things which, according to the laws of the High Contracting Parties, are extradition offences.
25. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
Extradition shall also 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 law of both the Contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.