ESPAGNE, ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE

Convention d'extradition signée à Madrid, le 5 janvier 1877*).

Statutes at large, Vol. XIX. p. 650.

Texte anglais.

The United States of Àmerica and His Majesty the King of Spain having judged it expédient, with a view to the better administration of justice and the prévention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdictions, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should under certain circumstances , be reciprocally delivered up, have resolved to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have appointed, as their Plenipotentiaries , the Président of the United-States Caleb Cushing , the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States near the Government of Spain and His Majesty the King of Spain, His Ecellency Don Fernando Calderon y Collantes, his Minister of State, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and distinguished Order of Carlos Tercero, of those of Leopold of Austria and of Belgium, of that of Our Lord Jésus Christ of Portugal, of the Savior of Greece, of the Holy Sepulchre, and of the Nishan Iflyar of Tunis ; 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:

*) En anglais et en espagnol. Les ratifications ont été échangées a Washington, le 21 févr. 1877.

Extradition.

Art. 1. It is agreed that the Government of the United States and the Government of Spain shall, upon mutual réquisition duly made as herein provided, deliver up to justice ail persons who may be charged with, or who hâve been convicted of, any of the crimes specified in Article II of this Convention, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, while said persons were actually within such jurisdiction when the crime was committed, and who shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other; provided that such surrender shall take place only upon such évidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or persons so charged shall be found, would justify his appréhension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had been there committed.

Art. II. Persons shall be delivered up, according to the provisions of this Convention, who shall have been charged with or convicted of any of the following crimes:

1. Murder, comprehending the crimes designated by the terms of parricide, assassination, poisoning or infanticide.