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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 12, 1927. 337
Who, after having exhibited to each other their respective full powers, and found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles :--
ARTICLE 1.
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 2, committed within the jurisdiction of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.
ARTICLE 2.
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences:-
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.
t. 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 grievous 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 embezzle-
ment.
18. Frand 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.
(b) 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 ast done with intent to endanger 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 manuer 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, providing such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties.
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