contractants donnera à ce sujet les instructions nécessaires aux autorités compétentes.

Art. 16. Le présent traité est conclu pour cinq années à partir du 1er Janvier 1872.

Depuis le moment où il entre en vigueur les traités sur l'extradition des malfaiteurs conclus antérieurement entre les Etats particuliers de l'Allemagne et l'Italie cessent d'être en vigueur.

Dans le cas où aucune des Parties contractantes, n'aurait notifié, six mois avant le 1er Janvier 1877 son intention de faire cesser les effets du présent traité, il demeurera en vigueur pour cinq autres années, et ainsi de suite de cinq à cinq années.

Il sera ratifié et les ratifications en seront échangées dans le délai de quatre semaines.

En foi de quoi les Plénipotentiaires respectifs l'ont signé et y ont apposé le cachet de leurs armes. Fait à Berlin ce 31 Octobre 1871.

Les hautes Parties contractantes du Traité d'extradition de ce jour ont cru devoir consigner dans un protocole ce qui suit: Les correspondances et négociations nécessitées par les demandes d'extradition ne devront pas avoir nécessairement lieu ontre l'autorité de l'Empire allemand et l'Italie, elles pourront au contraire, selon les convenances de chaque cas spécial, se faire aussi directement entre l'Italie et les Gouvernements qui font partie de l'Empire allemand et qui sont intéressés à l'extradition soit comme requérants, soit comme requis.

En foi de quoi le présent protocole a été signé en double et échangé par les deux plénipotentiaires à Berlin le 31 Octobre 1871.

15.

Traité d'extradition entre l'Allemagne et la GrandeBretagne; signé à Londres, le 14 mai 1872.*)

Texte anglais.

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of Justice, and to the prevention of crime within the two Countries and their jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; their said Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say:

His Majesty the Emperor of Germany,

His Minister of State and Chamberlain, Albert Count of Bernstorff- Stintenburg, Knight of the Exalted Order of the Black Eagle, Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle with Oak Leaves, Grand Commander of the Order Imperial and Royal House of Hohenzollern in Diamonds and Knight of the Order of the Crown with the Red Cross; Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Crown of Bavaria, and of the Order of the Ernestine Branch of the House of Saxony, Knight of the Order of the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau, &c. &c. &c., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Imperial and Royal Majesty to Her Britannic Majesty,

and Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

the Right Honourable Granville George Earl Granville, Lord Leveson, a Peer of the United

*) En allemand et en anglais. Les ratifications ont été échangées à Londres, le 11 juin 1872.

Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a Member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, Chancellor of the University of London, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

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:

Art. 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.

Art. II. The crimes for which the extradition is to be granted, are the following:

1) Murder, or attempt to murder.

2) Manslaughter.

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 designated in the German Penal Code as counterfeiting or falsification of paper-money, banknotes 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. Crimes by bankrupts against bankruptcy law; comprehending the crimes designated in the German Penal Code as bankruptcy liable to prosecution.

8) Fraud 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.
11) Child stealing.

14) Robbery with violence.

15) Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to

extort.

16) Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting to do so.

17) Assaults on board a ship on the high seas with intent to destroy life or to do grievous bodily harm.

18) Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the master.

The extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both the Contracting Parties.

Art. III. No German shall be delivered up by any of the Governments of the Empire to the Government of the United Kingdom; and no subject of the United Kingdom shall be delivered up by the Government thereof to any German Government.

Art. IV. The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of any of the Governments of the German Empire, or the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the United Kingdom or in one of the States of the German Empire, respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded.

If the person claimed on the part of any of the Governments of the German Emping, or if the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, should be under examination for any other crime in the United Kingdom or in one of the States of the German Empire respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial, and the full execution of any punishment awarded to him.

Art. V. The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime, or the institution of the penal prosecution, or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been

acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applied to.

Art. VI. A fugitive criminal shall not 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 punish him for an offence of a political character.

Art. VII. 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 any other crime or on acount of any other matters than those for which the extradition shall have taken place.

This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition.

Art. 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.

A requisition for extradition cannot be founded on sentences passed in 'contumaciam.

Art. 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.