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1814 TREATY—ORANGE FREE STATE. Oorronna 28, 1896. Amucnn Il.

  • §l§$§§*“g‘gj$°'m°°· Extradition hall be granted for the following crimes and offenses: ~

' 1. Murder, comprehending assassination, arricide, infanticide and poisoningt; attempt to commit murder; the Iillling of a human being, when suc act is punishable in the United States as voluntary manslaéighxter, and in the Orange Free State as manslaughter. . rson. . . 3. Robbery, defined to be the act of feloniously and forcibly taking from the person of another money or goods, b violence or putting him in fear; burglary; also house-breaking or sliro -breaking. 4. Forgery, or the utterance of forged pa ers; the forgery or falsification of official acts of government, or authorities, or of courts of justice, or the utterance of the thing forged or falsified. 5. The counterfeiting, falsifying or altering of money, whether coin or paper, or of instruments of debt created by national, state, provincia , or municipal governments, or of coupons thereof, or of bank—notes, or the utterance or circulation of the same; or the counterfeiting, falsifying or altering of seals of state. 6. Embezzlement by public officers; embezzlement by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers; larceny; and receiving money, valuable securities or other property, knowin the same to have been stolen, when such act is made criminal b the%aws of both countries and the amount of money or the value of the property stolen or received is not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or forty pounds sterling (.:640.); receivin in the Orange Free State a diamond or diamonds, cut or uncut, anf of whatever value, knowing the_ same to have been embezzled, stolen or received. 7. Fraud or breach of trust b a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee or other person acting in a fiduciary capacity or director or member or officer of any company, when such act is made criminal by the laws of both countries and the amount of money or the value of the profperty misaéppropriated is not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or orty poun s sterling(£40.) _ 8. Perjury; subornation of perjury. 9. Ra e; abduction; kidnapping. e. . - anclll unlawifpl destruction or obstruction of railroads w c en n ers uman 1 e. . 11. Crimeg committed at sea: atggmw <>¤m¤=i¤¤d‘ (a.) Piracy, by law of nations; ` (6.) Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or ·more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the Master; (3.) Wrongfully sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting to o so; ' F Asganélips gp board a ship on the high seas with intent to do rievous 0 rm. g 12. Crimes gud offenses against the laws of both countries for the su pression of slavery and s ave-trading. d,&gg¢iP¤“°¤ °x¤’°· Elxtradition is also to take place for participation in any of the ' crimes and offenses mentioned in this treaty, provided such participation may be unished in the United States as a felony, and in the Orange Free State by imprisonment at hard labor. Airriomc IH. neqummons. Requisitions for surrender of fugitives from justice shall be made by the di lomatic agents of the contracting parties, or in the absence of these From the country or its seat of government may be made by the superior consular officers.