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 2124 EXTRADITION TREATY-GREAT BRITAIN. DECEMBER 22, 1931. Forgery. Bankruptcy law vio- lations. Bribery. Endangering safety of railway travel. Traffic in dangerous drugs. Property damages. Piracy. Mutiny, etc. Slave trading. Accessories. Prior, etc., offenses. Time limitation. Political crimes. 20. Forgery, or uttering what is forged. 21. Crimes or oft'ences against bankruptcy law. 22. Bribery, defined to be the oft'enng, giving or receiving of bribes. 23. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a raIlway. 24. Crimes or offences or attempted crimes or offences m connec- tion with the traffic in dangt.- t'ous drugs. 25. Malicious injury to property, if such crime or offence be indictable. 26. - (a) Piracy by the law of nations. (0) Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more per- sons on board a ship on the h~ seas against the authority of the master; wrongfully si .ng or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting to do so; assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. 27. Dealing in slaves. Extradition is also to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes or offences, provided that such j>articipation be punishable by the laws of both High Contracting Parties. ARTICLE 4. The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial in the territories of the High Contracting Party applied to, for the crime or offence for which his extradition is demanded. If the person claimed should be under examination or under punishment in the territor~es of the High Contracting Party applied to for any other crime or offence, his extradition shall be deferred until the conclusion of the trial and the full execution of any punish- ment awarded to him. ARTICLE 5. The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the com- mission of the crime or offence or the institution of the penal prose- cution or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, accordmg to the laws of the High Contracting Party applying or applied to. ARTICLE 6. A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the crime or offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or if he proves that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try or punish him for a crime or offence of a political character. ARTICLE 7. m Trla\ llml~ hto of- A person surrendered can in no case be kept in custody or be
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whom the surrender has been made for any other crime or offence, or on account of any other matters, than those for which the extra- dition shall have taken place, until he has been restored, or has had an opportunity of returning, to the territories of the High Contract- ing. Party by whom he has been surrendered. This stipUlation does riot apply to crimes or offences committed after the extradition.