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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 13, 1906.
ARTICLE II.
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes and offences :-
1. Murder, or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of
women,
4. Rape.
5. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries.
6. Indecent assault.
7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
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. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
15. Arson.
16. Burglary or house-breaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlemcut.
17. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any Company.
18. 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.
19. (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money.
(b.) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted or intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm.
20. Forgery, or uttering what is forged.
21. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
22. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway,
23 Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
24. 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.
25. Dealing in slaves in such a manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
Extradition shall also be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties.
Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.
Provided that the surrender shall be made only when, in the case of a person accused, the commission of the crime shall be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person so accused shall be found would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been there committed; and, in the case of a person alleged to have been convicted, on such evidence as, according to the laws of the country where he is found, would prove that he had been convicted.
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