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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JANUARY, 1887.
that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes or offences hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up, have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty (that is to say):
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republic of Guatemala ;
"And his Excellency the President of the Republic of Guatemala, his Excellency Señor Don Manuel J. Dardon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guatemala ;
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Who, after 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, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party.
"ARTICLE II.
"The extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences :---
“1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt to murder. "2. Manslaughter.
"3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women.
4. Rape.
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"5. Aggravated or indecent assault; carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years; carnal knowledge of a girl above the age of 10 years and under the age of 12 years; indecent assault upon any female, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under 12 years of age.
"6. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child-stealing, abandoning, exposing, or unlawfully detaining children.
"7. Abduction of minors.
"8. Bigamy.
"9. Wounding, or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
"10. Assaulting a Magistrate, or peace or public officer.
"11. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.
"12. Perjury or subornation of perjury.
"13. Arson.
“14. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement:
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"15. 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.
"16. 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.
"17. (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 or national coin.
"18. Crimes against Bankruptcy Law.
"19. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger persons in a railway train.
"20. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable.
"21. Crimes committed at sea.
"(a.) Piracy, by the law of nations.
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(b.) Sinking or destroying a vesselat 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.
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