Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 27.djvu/995

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972 TREATY-KINGDOM OF SWEDEN. JANUARY 14, 1893. ·'*““*"¥ "·‘°§_ Treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden _/or the extradition of criminals. Ooncluded at Washington January 14, 1893; ratijioation advised by the Senate February ,8, 1893; ratified by the President February 8, 1893; ratified by the King February 10, 1893; rati/ications exchanged at Washington, March 18, 1893; proclaimed March 18, 1893. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES or AMnmcA. A PROCLAMATION rmmms. Whereas, a Treaty_between the United States and Sweden for the · extradition of criminals was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at the city ot Washingtoii, on the fourteenth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, _ which Treaty is word for word as follows: °°"“"°“”g*""**°” The United States of America and Hi Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, being desirous to confirm their friendly relations and to promote the cause of justice, have resolved to conclude a new treaty for the extradition of fugitives from justice between the United States of America and the Kingdoni of Sweden, and have appointed for that purpose the following Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, John W. Foster, Secretary of State of the United States; and rieupommm. His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, J. A. W. Grip, His Maiesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; . V _ Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: Anrrenn I. fnaspme.1 aosmy The Government of the United States and the Government of Sweden $,m,*’Z,.'f,`},'f °°”‘°" mutually agree to deliver up persons who, having been charged with or convicted of any of the crimes and offenses speoilied in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, shall seek an asylum or be found within the territories of the other: Provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offense had been there committed. Amrxcnn II. ¤¤¤·¤¤it=l>l¤¤i¤¤¤• Extradition shall be granted for the following crimes and offenses: M·¤r<l·>r.¤r¤· 1. Murder, comprehending assassination, parricide, infanticide and poisoning; attempt to commit murder; the killing of a human being, when such act is punishable in the United States as voluntary manslaughter, and in Sweden as manslaughter. Arson. 2. Arson. 3. Robbery, defined to be the act of feloniously and forcibly taking g,b;,,,r,_ from the person of another money or goods, by violence or putting him in tear; burglary; also house-breaking or shop—breaking.