GRANDE - BRETAGNE , LIBERIA

Traité d'extradition; signé à Londres le 16 décembre 1892*).

Parliamentary Papers presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. March i894. (C. — 7306.)

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , Empress of India , and his Excellency the Président of Liberia, having judged it expédient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prévention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice , should , under certain circumstances , be reciprocally delivered up ; the said Higb Contracting Parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose , that is to say :

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , Empress of India , the Right Honourable Archibald Philip , Earl of Rosebery, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and

His Excellency the Président of Liberia, Henry Hayman, Esq., Consul- General of the Republic of Liberia in London ;

Who having communicated to each other their respective Full Powers, found in good aud due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles: —

Article I.

The High Contracting Parties eugage to deliver up to each other those persons who being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other , under the circumstances and conditions stated in the présent Treaty.

Article II.

The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following : —