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3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women.
4. Rape.
5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16 years, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upou 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. Arson.
15. Burglary or house-breaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
16. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, inember, or public officer of any Company.
17. 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.
18.-(a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited ΟΙ 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.
19. Forgery, or uttering what is forged.
20. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
21. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway.
22. Malicious injury to property if such offence be indictable.
23. 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.
24. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
With regard to the effect of this last paragraph, as the Paraguayan Penal Code does not consider slave-dealing, it is declared by the present Treaty that that act is considered as piracy and subject to the penalties of that offence.
Extradition shall also be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, pro- vided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties.
Extradition in y 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.
ARTICLE 3.
Neither party is obliged to surrender its own subjects or citizens to the other party.
ARTICLE 4.
Extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of His Britannia Majesty's Government, or of the Government of Paraguay, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is awaiting trial in the territory of the United Kingdom or in the Republic of Paraguay respectively for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.
If the person claimed on the part of His Britannic Majesty's Government, or of the Government of Paraguay, should be awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for any other crime in the territory of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Paraguay respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until after he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or on expiration of sentence, or otherwise.
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