THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 12, 1907. 439
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles :-- ARTICLE I.
The following crimes are added to the list of crimes numberel one to ten in the first Article of the said Convention of the twelfth July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and to the list of crimes numbered eleven to thirteen in Article I of the Supplementary Convention concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the thirteenth December, one thousand nine hundred, that is to say :
14. Bribery, defined to be the offering, giving, or receiving of bribes made criminal
by the laws of both countries.
15. Offences, if made criminal by the laws of both countries, against bankruptcy law.
ARTICLE II.
The present Convention shall be considered as an integral part of the said Extradition Conventions of the twelfth July, one thousand eight hundred and eight-nine, and the thirteenth December, one thousand nine hundred, and the first Article of the said Convention of the twelfth July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, shall be read as if the lists of crimes therein contained had originally comprised the additional crimes specified and numbered fourteen and fifteen in the first Article of the present Convention.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged either at Washington or London as soon as possible.
It shall come into force ten days after its publication in conformity with the laws of the High Contracting Parties, and it shall continue and terminate in the same manner as the said Convention of the twelfth July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate, and have thereunto affixed their seals.
Done at London, this twelfth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five.
(L.S.) LANSDOWNE. (L.S.) JOSEPH H. CHOATE.
And whereas the ratifications of the said Convention were exchanged at Washington on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and six.
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the adivee of His Privy Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to Him by the said recited Acts, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the said Acts shall apply in the case of the United States and of the said Convention with the President of the United States of America.
Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in 1886, and entitled "An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall cou- tinue in force there, and no longer.
A. W. FITZROY,
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