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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 29, 1926.

ARTICLE 2.

Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences, pro- vided that they are punishable under the law of both States by imprisonment with or without hard labour or some greater punishment :--

1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt.

or conspiracy to murder.

2. Manslaughter.

3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the mis-

carriage of women.

4. Rape.

5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under

14 years of age.

6. Indecent assault.

7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.

8. Child stealing, including abandoning, exposing or unlawfully detaining.

9. Abduction.

10. Procuration.

11. Bigamy.

12. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grevious bodily harm.

13. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

14. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things

of value.

15. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.

16. Arson.

17. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny or embezzlement. 18. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public

officer of any company or fraudulent conversion.

19. 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 feloniously obtained.

20.-(a) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counter

feited or altered money.

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(6) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine

adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm.

21. Forgery, or uttering what is forged.

22. Crimes against bankruptcy law.

23. Any malicious act done with intent to eudanger the safety of any persons

travelling or being upon a railway.

24. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.

25. 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 crimes or offences.

26. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a crime or offence against

the laws of both States.

The extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes or offences, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both High Con- tracting Parties.

Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime or offence for which, according to the law of both the High Contract- ing Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.

ARTICLE 3.

Each Party reserves the right to refuse or grant the surrender of its own subjects or citizens to the other Party.

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