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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1892.
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And whereas by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the seventeenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, it was directed that the operation of the Extradition Acts, 1870 and 1873, should be suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as the provision of the said Act of the Parliament of Canada of 1886 should continue in force and no longer :
And whereas a Treaty was concluded on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, between Her Majesty and His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco, for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, which Treaty is in the terms following:-
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'HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco, 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, Edwin Henry Egerton, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris;
"And His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco, Louis Fernand de Bonnefoy, Baron du Charmel, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Monaco in France;
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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, or attempt, or conspiracy to murder.
"2. Manslaughter.
"3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
"4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money.
"5. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for counterfeiting coin.
"6. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered. "7. Embezzlement or larceny.
8. Malicious injury to property if the offence be indictable.
"9. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences.
"10. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained.
"11. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
"12. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any Company.
13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
"14. Rape.
"15. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under sixteen years of age, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upon which the demand is made.
"16. Indecent assault. Indecent assault without violence upon children of either sex under thirteen years of age.
"17. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a
woman.
"18. Abduction.
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