shall have been granted, shall not be tried or punished for any political offence committed prior to his extradition, nor for any matter connected with such an offence, nor for any crimes or offences not provided for in the present Treaty.

VIII. The requisition 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 judicial authority setting forth clearly the nature of the crime or offence with which the person claimed is charged. The said warrant shall also be accompanied 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 a copy of the judgment passed on the convicted person by the competent Court of the State that makes the requisition for extradition.

A sentence passed in contumaciam is not to be deemed a conviction, but a person so sentenced may be dealt with as an accused person.

In the event of any doubt arising as to whether the crime or offence, in respect of which the prosecution has been instituted, comes within the stipulations of the present Treaty, the Government applied to shall be at liberty to require all such further information as it may consider necessary or of assistance in order to form an opinion, after which it shall decide what action shall be taken on the demand for extradition.

The requisitioning Government, in furnishing such further information to the Government applied to, shall at the same time place at the disposal of the latter all such documents as may be necessary or useful in enabling it to form an opinion.

IX. In cases of urgency provisional arrest may be effected upon notice being given, by post or telegraph, through the diplomatic channel that one of the documents enumerated in Article VIII has been issued, provided, however, that such notice shall always be given to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the State applied to.

Provisional arrest shall be effected in the manner and in accordance with the rules laid down by the laws of the State applied to. It shall not be maintained if, within a period of one month from the date on which it has been effected, the State applied to has not been furnished with one of the documents specified in Article VIII of the present Treaty.

X. All papers and documents issued by the authorities of the Contracting States which may be produced in virtue of Articles VIII and XIII of the present Treaty must be accompanied by an authenticated translation in the French language.

XI. The extradition shall take place 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, in case

the crime had been committed in the territory of the same State, or if extradition is claimed in respect of an offence of which the fugitive has been already convicted, to prove that the prisoner is the person convicted, and that the crime of which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could, at the time of such conviction, have been granted by the State applied to.

XII. Extradition shall be granted in accordance with the rules laid down by the law of the State applied to.

XIII. Warrants, depositions, and affirmations issued or taken in the dominions of one of the High Contracting Parties, and copies of such documents as well as certificates or judicial documents stating the fact of a conviction shall be admitted as valid evidence in the proceedings taken in the dominions of the other party, if they bear the signature or are accompanied by the certificate of a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the State in which they have been issued or taken, provided that such warrants, depositions, affirmations, copies, certificates, or judicial documents are authenticated, either by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State.

XIV. If the accused or sentenced person be not a subject of one of the Contracting Parties, the Government to whom application for extradition is made shall be at liberty to take such action in respect of the application, as it may think fit, and to surrender the person claimed to be tried in the State in which the crime or offence has been committed.

Nevertheless, the Government of His Majesty the King of the Hellenes reserves to itself the option of surrendering the person claimed to the State to which he belongs, instead of surrendering him to the State in which the crime or offence has been committed.

XV. If a fugitive criminal who has been arrested has not been surrendered and conveyed away within three months after his arrest, or within three months after the decision of the Court upon the return to a writ of habeas corpus in the United Kingdom, he shall be set at liberty.

XVI. When extradition is granted all articles connected with the crime or offence, or which may serve as proofs of the crime, which are found in the possession of the person claimed at the time of his arrest, or which may be afterwards discovered, shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to so direct, be seized and restored to the requisitioning State.

Such restorations shall be carried out, even if extradition be not carried out owing to the escape or death of the person claimed.

The rights, however, which third persons, not involved in the prosecution, may have acquired over the said articles are reserved, and the latter shall, should the case arise, be restored to them, free of charge, at the termination of the proceedings.

XVII. All expenses arising out of an application for extradi

tion, also the costs of the arrest, maintenance, and transport of the person whose extradition shall have been granted, as well as of the dispatch and forwarding of the articles which, by the provisions of Article XVI, are to be returned or restored, shall be borne by the requisitioning State and by the State applied to within the limits of their respective territories.

The cost of transport or other expenses outside the territory of the State applied to shall be borne by the demanding State. XVIII. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the Colonies and foreign possessions of His Britannic Majesty.

The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in any of such Colonies or foreign possessions shall be made to the Governor or chief authority of such Colony or possession by the chief Consular officer of Greece in such Colony or possession.

Such requisition may be disposed of, subject always, as nearly as may be, to the provisions of this Treaty, by the said Governor or chief authority. He shall, however, be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to his Government.

His Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of criminals from Greece who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign possessions on the basis of the provisions of the present Treaty.

Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any Colony or foreign possession of His Britannic Majesty shall be governed by the rules laid down in the preceding Articles of the present Treaty.

XIX. The present Treaty shall come into operation ten days after its publication in conformity with the laws of the respective countries.

Crimes committed prior to the coming into force of the Treaty shall not form the subject of an application for extradition except in cases in which the persons claimed shall have taken refuge in the territory of the State applied to after the exchange of ratifications.

Each of the Contracting Parties shall be at liberty at any time to denounce the present Treaty upon giving six months' notice to the other Party of its intention to do so.

It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Athens as soon as possible.

Done in duplicate at Athens the 11th (24th) day of September,

1910.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and Honduras extending the Operation of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the two Countries of January 21, 1887,* for a period of Six Months from October 6, 1910.-June 10-July 6, 1910.†

(No. 1.)-Mr. Carden to the Honduranean Minister for Foreign Affairs.

M. LE MINISTRE,

Guatemala, June 10, 1910. As the Commercial Treaty recently concluded between Great Britain and Honduras cannot now receive the necessary legislative approval until Congress meets again in January of next year, with the result that on the 6th of October, when the old Treaty expires, there will be an interval in which the respective interests of our two countries will remain unprotected by any international Agreement, I am instructed by my Government to express the hope that your Excellency's Government will find no objection to bridge over this period by extending the operation of the old Treaty for a further term of six months.

I avail, &c.

LIONEL CARDEN.

(No. 2.)—The Honduranean Minister for Foreign Affairs to

(Translation.)

M. LE MINISTRE,

Mr. Carden.

Tegucigalpa, July 6, 1910.

I BEG to acknowledge your courteous communication of the 10th of June last, in which your Excellency points out that the Commercial Treaty recently concluded between Honduras and Great Britain cannot now receive legislative sanction until Congress assembles in January next, with the result that, on the expiration of the old Treaty on the 6th of October next, there will be an interval during which the international commerce of our two countries will be without any protection whatever, and suggests therefore, under instructions from your Government, that the old Treaty should remain in force over this period of time.

In reply, I have much pleasure in informing your Excellency that my Government have no objection to accepting this extension of the operation of the former Treaty.

I have, &c.

JESUS BENDAÑA

• Vol. LXXXIX, page 1121.

Treaty Series No. 24 of 1910.

CONVENTION between Great Britain and Mexico respecting Telegraphic Communication between Mexico and British Honduras.-Signed at Mexico, May 27, 1910.*

[Ratifications exchanged at Mexico, May 8, 1911.]

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and the President of the United States of Mexico, desirous of facilitating the telegraphic communication between the Colony of British Honduras and the Republic of Mexico, have decided to conclude a Convention to that effect, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: Reginald Thomas Tower, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty in Mexico, &c.; and

The President of the United States of Mexico: Señor Don Enrique C. Creel, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Who after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles :

ART. I. The General Federal Telegraph Department of Mexico and the Postal and Telegraph Department of British Honduras shall extend their respective lines to the River Hondo which serves as divisory line between the two countries; and at a place and date previously agreed upon shall make connection by one of their wires.

II. In due time an agreement shall be come to between the General Federal Telegraph Department of Mexico and the Postal and Telegraph Department of British Honduras, as to the technical conditions to govern the conducting wire and the corresponding supports of the other of the Contracting Parties, according to the stipulation of the preceding Article.

III. Each of the High Contracting Parties shall bear all expenses entailed by the extension of its line up to the place and the time of effecting the connection of the two wires, as well as all expenses required for the supervision, maintenance, and upkeep of the aforesaid lines within their respective territories.

The execution of the work of connecting the Mexican wire with that of British Honduras across the River Hondo shall be at the sole cost of the Agents of the General Federal Telegraph Department of Mexico.

IV. The sole object of the connection of the Federal Telegraph

* Treaty Series No. 14 of 1911. Signed also in Spanish.