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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MAY, 1887.
"And His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, M. Georges de Staal, Privy Councillor, Grand Cross of several Russian and foreign Orders, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, &c., &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 'LI.
"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. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money.
"4. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered.
5. Embezzlement or larceny.
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"6. Malicious injury to property if the offence be indictable.
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7. Obtaining money or goods by false pretences.
"8. Crimes against bankruptcy law.
"9. 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.
10. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
"11. Rape.
"12. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under 16 years of age. "13. Indecent assault.
"14. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a
woman.
"15. Abduction.
16. Child stealing.
"17. Kidnapping and false imprisonment.
"18. Burglary or housebreaking.
"19. Arson.
"20. Robbery with violence.
"21. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
22. Threats by letter, or otherwise, with intent to extort.
"23. Piracy by law of nations.
24. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so.
"25. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or to do grievous bodily harm
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26. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
"27. Dealing in slaves in such a manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
"Extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both the 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 the British Govern- ment, or the person claimed on the part of the Russian Government has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial, within the Russian or British dominions respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.
"If the person claimed on the part of the British Government, or ff the person claimed on the part of the Russian Government should be under examination, or is undergoing sentence under a conviction, for any other crime within the Russian or British dominions respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until after he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or on expiration of his sentence, or otherwise.
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