ON

EXTRADITION

AND

INTERSTATE RENDITION.

WITH APPENDICES CONTAINING

THE TREATIES AND STATUTES RELATING TO EXTRADITION;
THE TREATIES RELATING TO THE DESERTION OF SEAMEN;
AND THE STATUTES, RULES OF PRACTICE, AND FORMS, IN FORCE IN
THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES, RELATING
TO INTERSTATE RENDITION.

BY

JOHN BASSETT MOORE,

THIRD ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES; AUTHOR of a
WORK ON "EXTRA TERRITORIAL CRIME," of a report on EXTRADI-
TION TO THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE, ETC.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

BOSTON:

THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY.

1891.

1

Copyright, 1891,

BY JOHN BASSETT MOORE.

University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

ΤΟ

The Memory of my Mother,

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED.

L 9066

MAR 19 1934

PREFACE.

EXPERIENCE in dealing with cases of extradition soon led me to feel the need of a more thorough and comprehensive work on that subject than any that had been published in the United States or in England. The treatises of Billot and Bernard, published in France, and that of Fiore, published in Italy, but subsequently translated into French, are most valuable; and there is also a later treatise of great merit by Professor Lammasch, of the University of Vienna. But these works, besides not being generally available, contain little to aid the practitioner in treating the cases that arise under the law in the United States. The work of Clarke, published in England, and now in its third edition, sketches the law in the United States, but does not attempt to discuss it exhaustively. The only book that can be called a treatise on the law of extradition in this country, is that of Dr. Spear, which appeared in 1877, and is now in its second edition. The excellence of this publication is attested by the favor with which it has been received; and it detracts nothing from the meritorious labors of its author as exhibited in the citation of published cases and the vigorous discussion of certain general doctrines, to say