THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST DECEMBER, 1898. 1309
ARTICLE II.
"Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences:-
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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 miscarriage of women. "4. Rape.
"5. Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years of age, if the evidence produced justifies committal for those crimes according to the laws of both the Contracting Parties.
"6. Indecent assault.
"7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child-stealing.
"8. Abduction.
"9. Bigamy.
10. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
"11. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
"12 Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value. "13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
14. Arson.
"15. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
"16. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any Company, punishable with imprisonment for not less than one year by any law for the time being in force.
"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 unlawfully obtained.
"18.-(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 and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm.
"(c.) Forgery, or uttering what is forged.
"19. Crimes against Bankruptcy Law.
"20. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon a railway.
"21. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
"22. Piracy and other crimes or offences comunitted at sea against persons or things which, according to the laws of the High Contracting Parties, are extradition offences, and are punishable by more than one year's imprisonment.
"23. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
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The extradition is also to 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.
{{ ARTICLE III,
"Either Government reserves the right to refuse or grant the surrender of its own subjects or citizens to the other Government.
"ARTICLE IV.
"The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Bolivia, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of the Republic of Bolivia or in the United Kingdom respectively for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.
"If the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Government, or on the part of the Government of Bolivia, should be under examination for any other crime in the territory of the Republic of Bolivia or in the United Kingdom respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial, and the full execution of any punishment awarded to him.
"ARTICLE V.
"The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime, or the institution of the penal prosecution or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applying or applied to.
"It shall likewise not take place when, according to the laws of either country, the maximum punishment for the offence is imprisonment for less than one year.
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