CHINESE EXTRADITION.
No: 7 of 1889:
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be deemed
18. In all proceedings contemplated by this Ordinance every fugitive criminal for whose surrender a requisition is made shall be deemed to be a subject of China unless he shall prove the contrary affirmatively: Provided that this section shall not be construed as imposing any obligation on the Governor or as binding the Crown in any manner whatsoever.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
China.
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LIST OF EXTRADITION CRIMES.
[s. 2.]
1. Murder and attempt to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Malicious wounding.
4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money.
5. Forgery, or counterfeiting, or altering, or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered, comprehending the crimes designated in the laws of the Colony as counterfeiting or falsification of paper money, bank notes, or other securities, forgery or other falsification of other public or private documents, likewise the uttering, or bringing into circulation, or wilfully using such counterfeited, forged, or falsified papers.
6. Embezzlement or larceny.
7. Receiving stolen goods.
8. Obtaining money or goods by false pretences.
9. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
10. Fraud committed 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.
11. Rape.
12. Abduction.
13. Child-stealing.
14. Kidnapping.
15. False imprisonment.
16. Burglary or house breaking.
17. Arson.
18. Robbery with violence.
19. Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort.
20. Piracy, whether by the law of nations or by municipal law.
* As amended by No. 20 of 1915 and Law Rev. Ord., 1923.