THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15тп JUNE, 1889.
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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, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
17. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, va- luable 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.) Forgery, or counterfeiting or altering, or uttering what is forged, counterfeited, or altered. (c.) Knowingly making, without lawful authority, any instrument, tool, or engine, adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of coin of the realm.
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. Crimes committed at sea :—
(a.) Piracy by the law of nations.
(b.) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
(c.) Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
(d.) Assault on board a ship on the high seas with intent to destroy life, or to do grievous bodily harm.
23. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
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 may, in its absolute discretion, refuse to deliver up its own subjects to the other Government.
ARTICLE. IV. ·
The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of Mexico, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territory of Mexico 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 Mexico, should be under examination for any other crime in the territory of Mexico 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 insti- tution 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 applied to.
ARTICLE VI.
A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he prove that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character.
ARTICLE VII.
A person surrendered can in no case be kept in prison or be brought to trial in the State to which the surrender has been made, for any other crime, or on account of any other matters, than those for which the extradition shall have taken place, until he has been restored, or has had an opportunity of returning to the State by which he has been surrendered. This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition.
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