Parliamentary Papers, Volume 86

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Page 9 - 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. Article VL A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...
Page 10 - Consular officers, owners, or agents shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the salvage or other expenses which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel. The goods and merchandise saved from the wreck shall...
Page 12 - The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws for the time being in force in such Colonies and foreign possessions respectively will allow.
Page 7 - Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences: — 1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning), or attempt or conspiracy to murder ; 2.
Page 11 - 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...
Page 9 - 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 each 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.
Page 6 - Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties agree that, in all that concerns commerce and navigation, any privilege, favor or immunity which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other State shall have been gratuitous, and on the same or equivalent conditions,...
Page 6 - The Contracting Parties agree that, in all matters relating to commerce and navigation, any privilege, favour, or immunity whatever which either Contracting Party has actually granted or may hereafter grant to the subjects or citizens of any other State shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party; it being their intention that the trade and navigation of each country shall be placed , in all respects, by the other on the footing of...
Page x - Notwithstanding the foregoing, if neither party notifies to the other its intention of reforming any of, or all, the articles of this treaty twelve months before the expiration of the twenty years stipulated above, the said treaty shall continue binding on both parties beyond the said twenty years', until twelve months from the time that one of the parties notifies its intention of proceeding to a reform.
Page 3 - In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Washington, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

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