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 ]5l0 CONVENTION—GREAT BRITAIN. JULY 12, 1889. ` mitted within their respective jurisdictions, his extradition shall be granted to that State whose demand is nrst received. The provisions of this Article, and also of Articles II to IV, inclusive, of the present Convention, shall ap ly to surrender for offences specifie in the aforesaid Tenth Artidle, as well as to surrender for offences specified in this Convention. ARTICLE VI. 1¤¤r•di¤¤¤¤¤ b¤¤¤ The extradition of fugitives under the provisions of this Conven- 2;°"t,,}.°”'§_"¤?u·{é°l§;l.°tZ.' tion and of the said Tenth Article shall be carried out in the United States and in Her Majesty’s dominions, respectively, in conformity with the laws regulating extradition for the time being in force in the surrendering States. Amircnn VII. Aww fn mr- The provisions of the said Tenth Article and of this Convention Y;,'],';',,, mm N, shall apply to persons convicted of the crimes therein respectively ¤¤¤*— named an specified, whose sentence therefor shall not have been execu e. °°*" °' '°'“‘°"°°· In case of a fu 'tive criminal alleged to have been convicted of the wmpodwd crime of which hd; surrender is asked, a co y of the record of the conviction and of the sentence of the court {before which such conviction took place, duly authenticated, shall be produced, together with the evidence proving that the prisoner is the person to whom such sentence refers. Aarxomn VIII. c}f£•:B”fg,gPV”W*“ The present convention shall not apply to any of the crimes herein ' specified which shall have been committed, or to any conviction which s all have been pronounced, prior to the date at which the Convention shall come into force. ARTICLE IX. Exchange or nun- This Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be ex- °'°°'"‘ chan ed at London a soon as possible. °°"°""‘°°°‘ It shall come into force ten days after its plublication, in conformity with the forms prescribed by the laws of the High Contracting Parties, and shall continue in force until one or the other of the High Contracting parties shall signify its wish to terminate it and no longer. In witness whereof, the undersigned have signed the same and have atlixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of July, 1889. san,.} J Amis G. BLAINE. SEAL. J ULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. B•*i¤•>¤**°¤· And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts and the res ective ratiiications of the same were exchanged at the City of Londbn, on the 11th day of March one thousand eight _ hundred and ninet : H°°l"""°'°“‘ Now, therefore, lie it known that I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention, as amended, to be made ublic, to the end that the same, and every article and clause thereof: 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 affixed.