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with intent to procure the miscarriage of women.

4. Rape.

5. Aggravated or indecent assault; carnal

knowledge of a girl above the age of ten years and under the age of twelve years; indecent assault upon any female, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under twelve years of age. 6. Kidnapping and false imprisonment; childstealing; 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 incapacity for personal labour, or the absolute loss or privation of a member or organ.

10. Arson.

11. Burglary or housebreaking; robbing with violence; larceny or embezzlement. 12. Fraud by banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force.

13. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen or unlawfully obtained, the quantity or value of which shall be greater in amount than £200 sterling.

14. (a.) Counterfeiting or altering money, or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money.

(b.) Forgery, or counterfeiting, or altering, or knowingly 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 coins 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 imprisonment or more.

18. Crimes committed at sea

(a.) Piracy by the law of nations.

(b.) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to

do so.

(c.) Revolt or conspiring to revolt among 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.

19. Dealing in slaves in such a 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 before or after the fact, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting parties.

363. The British Treaties with France, Spain, and other countries name among the crimes: Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to

extort.

Perjury or subornation of perjury.

Assaulting a magistrate or peace or public

officer.

364. The British Treaty of extradition with France provides that the same shall apply to crimes and offences committed prior to the signing of the Treaty; but that a person surrendered shall not be tried for any crime or offence committed in the other country before the extradition, other than the crime for which his surrender has been granted.

365. No accused or convicted person shall be surrendered, if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded shall be deemed by the party upon which it is made to be a political offence, or to be an act connected with such an offence, or if he prove to the satisfaction of the police magistrate, or of the Court before which he is brought on habeas corpus, or of the Secretary of State, that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try or to punish him for an offence of a political character.

366. No subject of either country shall be delivered up by the Government of the one to the Government of the other. Within the denomination of subjects are included naturalized citizens of the country and all foreigners who,

according to the laws of either, are assimilated

to subjects.

367. The extradition is not to take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of either party has already been tried and discharged, or punished, or is still under trial in either country for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.

368. The extradition is not to take place if, subsequent to the commission of the crime or the conviction thereof, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applied to.

369. A fugitive criminal is not to be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he prove that the requisition for his surrender has in fact been made with a view to try or to punish him for an offence of a political character.

370. A person surrendered can in no case be kept in prison, or be brought to trial in the State to which the surrender has been made, for

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