OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS CONTENTS PAGE ARGENTINE-SWITZERLAND. Extradition treaty. November 21, 1906..... ..... 219 226 230 Arrangement relating to question of the "Flavio Gioia." May 24, 1886. 237 238 Protocol for the arbitration of the Cerruti claim. August 18, 1894.... 240 COSTA RICA-UNITED STATES. Convention to fix condition of naturalized citizens. June 10, 1911 242 DENMARK-BELGIUM. Consular convention. August 26, 1909. 244 HONDURAS-UNITED STATES. January 15, 1909. 252 OPIUM, DOCUMENTS CONCERNING: Circular note of United States proposing International Opium Conference. September 1, 1909.... 258 Edict of the Hoppo of Canton. 1799. 264 Regulations adopted by Anti-Opium Commissioners. March, 1909.... 266 270 Anti-opium ordinances. January, 1911.... 273 Estimates of production of native opium for 1906, 1908 and 1911.... 276 UNITED STATES. Panama Canal Act. August 24, 1912 .... VENEZUELA-BRAZIL. Arbitration convention. April 30, 1909. 277 290 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION 1 Signed at Buenos Aires November 21, 1906; ratifications exchanged December 6, 1911 The Government of the Argentine Republic and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, being desirous of strengthening the ties of friendship existing between both countries and of arriving at a uniform action in regard to the extradition of those persons accused of crime in accordance with the respective laws in force in the two countries, have resolved to conclude a convention, and have appointed for this purpose their respective plenipotentiaries, to wit: The Government of the Argentine Republic, Señor Doctor Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca, Minister-Secretary in the Department of Foreign Relations and Worship, and The Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, M. Joseph Choffat, Minister Resident of Switzerland in the Argentine Republic, Who, after having communicated their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I The high contracting parties engage to surrender to each other in accordance with the provisions of the present convention, those persons who, being accused or convicted of any of the crimes or offenses enumerated in Article II, shall have taken refuge in the territory of the other state. 1 Boletin del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, Argentine Republic, January, 1912, Vol. XXXIII, No. IV, p. 349. 219 ARTICLE II The crimes or offenses for which extradition is to be granted are the following: 1. Homicide; 2. Murder; 3. Parricide; 4. Infanticide; 5. Poisoning; 6. Voluntary abortion; 7. Voluntary assault occasioning unintentional death, or resulting in the serious or permanent mutilation of a member or organ of the body; 8. Rape, carnal knowledge, or any attempt against chastity; 9. Attempt, with or without violence, against the chastity of children of either sex, under the age of fourteen years; 10. Bigamy; 11. Abduction, and kidnapping of persons; suppression or substitution of children; 12. Child-stealing. 13. Falsification or alteration of money, paper money, commercial currency paper, shares of stock, and other certificates issued by the state, corporations, companies, or individuals; uttering, circulating, or counterfeiting postage stamps, stamps, coins, or state seals, or seals of other offices; introducing, uttering or using said counterfeit objects or goods; using false documents or acts to accomplish these different ends; fraudulent use of stamps, seals and authentic marks; 14. Falsifying a public or private document; falsifying letters of exchange or any other commercial paper and using said falsified documents; 15. False testimony, perjury or subornation of perjury, or bribery in any civil or criminal matter; 16. Bribery of public officials; 17. Embezzlement or misappropriation of public funds; fraudulent exaction of funds by public officials or depositories; 18. Arson and abuse of explosives; 19. Voluntary destruction or damage of railways, steamers, ports, electrical apparatus and appliances (telegraphs, telephones) and endangering the exploitation thereof; 20. Highway robbery; extortion; robbery, and concealment of the robber or of the stolen goods; 21. Voluntary acts committed with the purpose of sinking, wrecking, destroying, disabling or damaging a ship when danger might result thereby to a third party; 22. Embezzlement; 23. Abuse of confidence, and fraudulent appropriation of money; 24. Fraudulent bankruptcy. Extradition is to be granted for participation in or attempt to commit any one of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation or attempt be punishable by the laws of the contracting countries. Extradition shall be granted for the crimes above named if the acts constituting the same are punishable with no less than one year of imprisonment according to the laws of the contracting parties. ARTICLE III Extradition shall not take place 1. If the individual is a native or naturalized citizen of the nation from whom surrender is demanded; 2. For political offenses or for acts connected with political offenses; 3. If the crime has been committed in the territory of the nation on whom the demand is made; 4. If the requisition for the extradition is made for the same crime or offense for which the person claimed has been prosecuted, convicted or acquitted in the country on which the demand is made; 5. If the sentence or prosecution is barred by the statute of limitations in accordance with the laws of the claiming state or of the state on whom the demand is made, before the arrest or summoning of the person claimed. ARTICLE IV Extradition shall not take place if the person claimed is prosecuted for the same crime or offense in the country from which extradition is asked. ARTICLE V If the penalty imposed by the laws of the state demanding the extradition for the offense which causes said demand consists in corporal punishment, extradition shall depend upon the condition that the penalty, if imposed, shall be commuted for that of imprisonment or fine. |