Article VIII. The requisitions for extradition shall be made through the Diplomatic Agents of the High Contracting Parties respectively. The requisition for the extradition of an accused person must be accompanied by a warrant of arrest issued by the competent authority of the State requiring the extradition, and by such evidence as.. according to the laws of the place where the accused is found, would justify his arrest if the crime had been committed there. If the requisition relates to a person already convicted, it must be accompanied by the sentence of condemnation passed against the convicted person by the competent Court of the State that makes the requisition for extradition. The requisition ought, as far as possible, to be accompanied by a description of the person accused or convicted, in order to identify him. A requisition for extradition cannot be founded on sentences passed in contumacium. Article IX. If the requisition for extradition be in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the competent authorities of the State applied to shall proceed to the arrest of the fugitive. The prisoner is then to be brought before a competent Magistrate, who is to examine him and to conduct the preliminary investigation of the case, just as if the apprehension had taken place for a crime committed in the same country. The extradition shall not take place before the expiration of fifteen days from the apprehension, and then only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the State applied to, either to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial, or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the Courts of the State which makes the requisition. Article X. In the examinations which they have to make, in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the authorities of the State applied to shall admit as entirely valid evidence the sworn depositions or statements of witnesses taken in the other State, or copies thereof, and likewise the warrants and sentences issued therein, provided such documents are signed or certified by a Judge, Magistrate, or Officer of such State, and authenticated by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State. Article XI. If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive, he shall be set at liberty. Article XII. All articles seized, which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to for the extradition has ordered the delivery thereof, be given up when the extradition takes place; and the said delivery shall extend not merely to the stolen articles, but to everything that may serve as a proof of the crime. Article XIII. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall defray and bear expenses incurred by it in the arrest, maintenance and conveyance of the individual to be surrendered till placed on board ship, as well as in keeping and conveying the articles which are to be specified by the applying Government, at whose expense he shall be taken on board the ship to convey him away. If it be necessary to convey the individual claimed through the territories of another State, the expenses incurred thereby shall be defrayed by the applying State. Article XIV. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the Colonies and foreign possessions of the two High Contracting Parties. The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in a Colony or Foreign Possession of either Party, shall be made to the Governor or Chief Authority of such Colony or Possession by the Chief Consular Officer of the other in such Colony or Possession; or, if the fugitive has escaped from a Colony or Foreign Possession of the Party on whose behalf the requisition is made, by the Governor or Chief Authority of such Colony or Possession. Such requisitions may be disposed of, subject always, as nearly as may be, to the provisions of this Treaty, by the respective Governors or Chief Authorities, who, however, shall be at liberty either to grant the surrender, or to refer the matter to their Government. Her Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and Foreign Possessions for the surrender of Swedish and Norwegian criminals who may there take refuge, on the basis, as nearly as may be, of the provisions of the present Treaty. Article XV. The present Treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties. It may be terminated by either of the High Contracting Parties, but shall remain in force for six months. after notice has been given for its termination. Article XVI. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Stockholm, as soon as may be possible. 2. SWEDEN (ADDITIONAL). The British and Swedish Governments, who agree that the Treaty signed at Stockholm on the 26th of June, 1873, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals shall remain in force between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Sweden, in so far as its provisions apply to the Kingdom of Sweden alone, and who deem it desirable to make certain additions to the said Treaty, have authorized the Undersigned to declare that the following additions should be made to the offences set out in Article II of the said Treaty for which, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the said Treaty, extradition is to be granted :— 19. Perjury and subornation of perjury. 20. Receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or embezzled. 21. Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. years. 23. Bigamy. 24. Indecent assault. 25. Administering drugs or using instruments apt to procure the miscarriage of women, with intent to procure such miscarriage. 26. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon a railway. 27. Knowingly making, without lawful authority, any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm. 28. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable. 3. NORWAY (SUPPLEMENTAL). The British and Norwegian Governments, who agree that the Treaty signed at Stockholm on the 26th June, 1873, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals shall remain in force between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Norway in so far as its provisions apply to the Kingdom of Norway alone, and who deem it desirable to make certain additions to the said Treaty, have authorized the Undersigned to declare that the following additions should be made to the offences set out in Article II of the said Treaty for which, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the said Treaty, extradition is to be granted :— 19. Perjury and subornation of perjury. 20. Receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or embezzled. 21. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 22. Unlawful carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have unlawful carnal knowledge, of a girl under the age of sixteen years. Any offence which, by the laws of both countries, is for the time being an extradition offence. SWITZERLAND. 1. Treaty, dated November 26th, 1880. 2. Supplementary Convention, dated June 29th, 1904. Order in Council, dated May 29th, 1905. (Reproduced in loco.) Article 1. Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engages to deliver up, under the circumstances and on the conditions stipulated in the present Treaty, all persons, and the Swiss Federal Council engages to deliver up, under the like circumstances and conditions, all persons, excepting Swiss citizens, who have been charged with, or convicted by the Tribunals of one of the two High Contracting Parties of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, committed in the territory of the one party, shall be found within the territory of the other. In the event of the Federal Council being unable, by reason of his Swiss nationality, to grant the extradition of an individual, who after having committed in the United Kingdom one of the crimes or offences enumerated in Article II, should have taken refuge in Switzerland, the Federal Council engages to give legal effect to and prosecute the charge against him according to the laws of the Canton <of his origin; and the Government of the United Kingdom engages to communicate to the Federal Council all documents, depositions and proofs relating to the case, and to cause the commissions of examination directed by the Swiss Judge, and transmitted through the proper Diplomatic channel, to be executed gratuitously. Article II. The crimes for which the extradition is to be granted are the following : 1. Murder (including infanticide) and attempt to murder. 3. Counterfeiting or altering money, uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money. 4. Forgery, or counterfeiting or altering, or uttering what is forged or counterfeited or altered; comprehending the crimes desig. nated in the Penal Codes of both States, as counterfeiting or falsification of paper money, bank-notes, or other securities, forgery or 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. 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. Burglary, or house-breaking, with criminal intent. 14. Robbery with violence. 15. Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort. 16. Perjury or subornation of perjury. 17. 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, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both Contracting Parties. Article III. A fugitive criminal may be apprehended in either country under a warrant issued by any Police Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or other competent authority, on such information or complaint, and such evidence, or after such proceedings as would, in the opinion of the authority issuing the warrant, justify the issue of a warrant |