THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 19, 1907.
ARTICLE I.
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The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other, in accordance with the stipulations of the present Treaty, any persons who, being accused or convicted in one of the two countries of one or more of the offences enumerated in the following Article are found in the territory of the other.
ARTICLE II.
Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences :—
1. Murder (including parricide, infauticide, poisoning) or attempt or conspiracy to murder. The Peruvian Government may, however, in its absolute discretion, refuse to deliver up any person charged with a crime punishable with death.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Procuring or attempting to procure abortion.
4. Rape, abduction and indecent assault.
5. Unlawfully detaining or kidnapping children, abandoning or exposing them.
6. Bigamy.
7. Wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.
8. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
9. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value.
10. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
11. Arson and other malicious injury to property if such injuries are indictable.
12. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement.
13. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any Company punishable with imprisonment for not less than one year.
14. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to liave been stolen or unlaw- fully obtained.
15. Counterfeiting or altering money or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money.
16. Making or having possession of instruments adapted and intended for the counter- feiting of the coin of the realm or for the forgery of documents. Forgery and uttering what is forged.
17. Offences against bankruptcy law.
18. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway.
19. Piracy by the law of nations.
20. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States.
21. Extradition is also to be granted for other crimes or offences against persons or things which, according to the laws of the High Contracting Parties, are Extradition offences and are punishable by not less than one year's imprisonment.
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 law of both the Contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made.
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