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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1881.

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"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Alfred Guthrie Graham Bonar, Esquire, Her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Con- federation;

"And the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, Joseph Martin Knüsel, Member of the Swiss Federal Council;

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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 those persons who, being accused or convicted of a crime 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 II.

"The crimes for which the extradition is to be granted are the following

"(1.) Murder (including infanticide) and attempt to murder.

"(2.) Manslaughter.

(3.) Counterfeiting or altering money, uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or

altered moncy.

"(4.) Forgery, or counterfeiting, or altering, or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered; comprehending the crimes designated in the Penal Codes of either State as counterfeiting or falsification of paper money, bank-notes, or other securitics, forgery or other falsification of other public or private documents, likewise the uttering or bringing into circulation, or wilfully using such counterfeited, forged, or falsified papers.

"(5.) Embezzlement or larceny.

"(6.) Obtaining money or goods by false pretences.

"(7.) Crimes against bankruptcy law.

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'(8.) Fraud committed 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.

"(9.) Rape.

(10.) Abduction of minors.

"(11.) Child stealing or kidnapping.

"(12.) False imprisonment.

"(13.) Burglary, or housebreaking, with criminal intent.

"(14.) Arson.

“(15.) Robbery with violence.

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(16.) Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort.

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(17.) Perjury or subornation of perjury.

"(18.) Malicious injury to property, if the offence be indictable.

"The extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, as an accessory before or after the fact.

ARTICLE III.

"No Swiss shall be delivered up by Switzerland to the Government of the United Kingdom; and no subject of the United Kingdom shall be delivered up by the Government thereof to Switzerland. -

ARTICLE IV.

"The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or the person claimed on the part of the Swiss Government, has already been tried. and discharged or punished, or is still under trial, in one of the Swiss Cantons or in the United Kingdom respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.

"If the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or if the person claimed on the part of the Swiss Government, should be under examination, or have been condemned for any other crime, in one of the Swiss Cantons or in the United Kingdom respectively, his extradition may be deferred until he shall have been set at liberty in due course of law.

"In case such individual should be proceeded against or detained in the country in which he has taken refuge, on account of obligations contracted towards private individuals, his extradition shall, nevertheless, take place; the injured party retaining his right to prosecute his claims before the com- petent authority.