Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 47 Part 2.djvu/519

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EXTRADITION TREATY-GREAT BRITAIN. DECEMBER 22, 1931. 2125 ARTICLE 8. The extradition of fugitive criminals under the provisions of this to;;=~lao:!: Treaty shall be carried out in the United States ana in the territory of His Britannic Majesty respectively, in conformity with the laws regulating extradition for the time being in force In the territory from which the surrender of the fugitive cr,iminal is claimed. ARTICLE 9. The extradition shall take place only if the evidence be found ConditiODl Imposed. sufficient, according to the laws of the High Contracting Party applied to, either to justify the committal of the 'prisoner for trial, in case the crime or offence had been committed m the territory of such High Contracting Party, or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the courts of the High Contractin,r Party who makes the requisItion, and that the crime or offence 01 which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could, at the time of such conviction, have been granted by the High Contracting Party applied to. ARTICLE 10. If the individual claimed by one of the High Contracting Parties oJee;s<'oo:nt~ed by in pursuance of the present Treaty should be also claimed oy one or several other Powers on account of other crimes or offences com- mitted within their respective jurisdictions, his extradition shall be granted to the Power whose claim is earliest in' date, unless such claim is waived. ARTICLE 11. If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within TIme JimltaUon. two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive, or within such further time as the High Contracting Party applied to, or the proper tribunal of such High Contracting Party, shall direct, the fugitive shall be set at liberty. ARTICLE 12. All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to tJ.:cles seized with be surrendered at the time of his apprehension, and any articles ve. that may serve as a proof of the crime or offence shall be given up when the extradition takes place, in so far as this may be permittea by the law of the High Contracting Party granting the extradition. ARTICLE 13. All expenses connected with the extradition shall be borne by Expenses. the High Contracting Party making the application. ARTICLE'14. His Britannic Majesty may accede to the present Treaty on behalf B AOOIIIIion by Oreat of any of his Dominions hereafter named-that is to say, the Do- ritaln. minion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dommion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland-and India. Such accession shall be effected by a. notice to that effect given by the appropriate diplomatic represen- tative of His Majesty at Washingt<>n which shall specify the author- ity to which the requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal who has taken refuge in the Dominion concerned, or India, as the case may be, shall be addressed. From the date when such notice