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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1885.
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Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable and John Monson, a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's
er Resident and Consul-General to the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay; and His Excellency the President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, Dr. Don Manuel Herrera Ds, his Minister Secretary of State for the Departiment of Foreign Affairs;
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and form, have agreed upon the following Articles :-
ARTICLE I.
The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other reciprocally, under the circum- ces and conditions stated in the present Treaty, all persons, excepting their own subjects or citizens, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes enumerated in Article II committed in the itory 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.
5. Aggravated or indecent assault. Carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years; carnal owledge of a girl above the age of 10 years and under the age of 12 years; indecent assault upon
y 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, when such acts cause permanent disease or Papacity for personal labour, or the absolute loss or privation of a member or organ.
10. Arson.
11. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny or embezzlement.
12. Fraud by banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any company, le criminal by any law for the time being in force.
13. Obtaining money; valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money,
dible security, or other property knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen or unlawfully
tained, the quantity or value of which shall be greater in amount than 2001. sterling.
14. (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered
1oney;
(b.) Forgery, or counterfeiting, or altering or knowingly uttering what is forged, counterfeited, altered;
(c) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and nded for the counterfeiting of coin of the realm.
15. Crimes against the Bankruptcy Law.
16. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger persons in a railway train.
17. Malicious injury to property if such offence be indictable, and punishable with one year's prisonment or more.
18. Crimes committed at sea :-
(a.) Piracy by the law of nations;
(4.) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so;
(e.) Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas nst the authority of the master;
(d) Assault on board a ship on the high seas with intent to destroy life, or to do grievous ly harm.
19. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute an offence against the laws of both countries. The extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes as an accessory re or after the fact, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting
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