UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA AND JAPAN
SIGNED AT TOKYO, ON THE 29TH APRIL, 1886
Ratified at Tokyo, on the 27th September, 1886
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the President of the United States of America having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two countries and toeir jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter named, andeing fugitives from justice, should, un ler certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, they have named as their Plenipotentiaries to concludo a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:
His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Count Inouye Karu, Jiusammi, His Imperial Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, First Class of the or ler of the Rising Sun, &c., &c., &c, and the President of the United States of America, Richard B. Hubbard, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, who, after having communicated to each other thir respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:
Art. I.-Th High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, under the circumstances and conditions stat d in the present Treaty, all persons who, being accused or convicted of one of the crimes or offences namd below in Ar iele II. and committed within the jurisdiction of the one party, shall be found within the jurisdic-
tion of the other party.
Art. II.-1.-Marder and assault with intent to commit m weder.
2.-Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering or bringing int› circulation counterfeit or alt red money, counterfeiting certificates or coupons of public inde ted- ness, bauk notes, or other instruments of public ere lit of either of the parties, and the utterance or circulation of the same.
3.-Forgery, or altering, and uttering what is forged or altered.
4.—Embezzle nent or criminal malversation of the public funds committed within the jurisdiction of either party, by the public officers or depositaries.
5.-Robbery.
6.—Burglary, defined to be the breaking and entering by night-time into the house of another person with the intent to commit a felony therein; and the act of breaking and entering the house of another, whether in the day or night time, with the intent to commit a felony therein.
7. The net of entering, or of breaking and entering, the offices of the G›vern- ment and public authorities, or the offices of banks, banking-houses, savings-banks, trust companies, insurance or other companies, with the intent to commit a felony therein,
8.- Perjury or the subornation of perjury. 9.-Rape.
10.-Arson.
11.-Piracy by the law of nations.
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