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 rnmnrv-JAPAN. Annu. 29, isso. 1017 this Treaty, and, on being assured from the same source that a request for the surrender of such criminal is about to be made in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, each Government will endeavor to procure, so far as it lawfully may, the provisional arrest of such criminal, and keep him in safe custody for a reasonable time, not exceeding two months, to await the production of the documents upon which the claim for extradition is founded. Anrrcrn VII. Neither of the contracting parties shall he bound to deliver up its Own citizens own citizens or subjects under the stipulations of this convention, but ¤¤¤d ¤<>¤ M d¤1ivthey shall have the power to deliver them up if in their discretion it be °"d· deemed proper to do so. Anrronn VIII. The expenses of the arrest, detention, examination and transpor- Expenses. tation of the accused shall be paid by the Government which has requested the extradition. Aarmmn IX. The present Treaty shall come into force sixty days after the exchange Operation. of the ratitlcations thereof. It may be terminated by either of them, but shall remain in force for six months after notice has been given of its termination. . i The Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged Ratincatione. at Washington, as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty in duplicate and have thereunto anlxed their seals. Done at the city of Tokio, the twenty-ninth day of April in the Signatures. eighteen hundred and eighty-sixth year of the Christian era, corresponding to the twenty-ninth day of the fourth month, of the nineteenth year of Meiji. , - Brennan B. Hunnnn [1.. s.` hmmm Knonv [san.. And whereas by the terms of the said Treaty it becomes operative sixty days after the exchange of the ratilications thereof; And whereas the respective ratilications of the same were exchanged in the City of Tokio on the 27th day of September 1886; Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Grover Cleveland, President of Proclamation. the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, as amended, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof: In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. Done at the City of Washington, the 3d day of November in the year of our Lord 1886 and of the Independence of the United [SEAL`] States the one hundred and eleventh. GBOVER CLEVELAND By the President: T. F. Bnrann ` Secretary of State.