THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MAY, 1894.
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And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, between Her Majesty and His Majesty the King of Portugal for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, the said High Contracting Parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that
is to say:
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Sir George Glynn Petre, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Most Faithful Majesty, &c.; and
His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, Dom Antonio Ayres de Gouvêa, Councillor of His Majesty, Peer of the Realm, Bishop of Bethsaida, retired Professor of the University of Coimbra, His Majesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c.;
Who, having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have, agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :--
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other those persons who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty.
ARTICLE II.
The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following
1. Murder (including assassination, infanticide, and poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
4. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
5. Counterfeiting or altering money, either metallic or of any other kind representing the first named, or uttering counterfeit or altered money of any of those kinds.
coin.
6. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for counterfeiting
7. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged or counterfeited or altered. 8. Embezzlement or larceny.
9. Malicious injury to property, if the offence he indictable.
10. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities, by false pretences.
11. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
12. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
13. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member, or public officer of any Company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
14. Perjury or subornation of perjury.
15. Rape.
16. Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 16 years of age. 17. Indecent assault.
18. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman. 19. Abduction.
20. Bigamy.
21. Child-stealing.
22. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them.
23. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
24. Burglary or housebreaking.
25. Arson.
26. Robbery with violence.
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