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 LIBERIA-EXTRADITION-NOV. 1, 1937 16. Kidnapping of minors or adults, defined to be abduction or de- tention of a person or persons, in order to exact money from them, their families or any other person or persons, or for any other unlawful end. 17. Larceny, defined to be the theft of effects, personal property, or money, of the value of twenty-five dollars or more. 18. Obtaining money, valuable securities or other property by false pretenses, or receiving any money, valuable securities or other prop- erty knowing the same to have been unlawfully obtained, where the amount of money or the value of the property so obtained or received exceeds one hundred dollars. 19. Perjury. 20. Fraud or breach of trust by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, executor, administrator, guardian, director or officer of any company or corporation, or by any one in any fiduciary position, where the amount of money or the value of the property misappropriated exceeds one hundred dollars. 21. Crimes and offenses against the'laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery and slave trading. 22. Willful desertion or willful non-support of minor or dependent children, or of other dependent persons, provided that the crime or offense is punishable by the laws of both countries. 23. Bribery. 24. Crimes or offenses against the bankruptcy laws. 25. Crimes or offenses against the laws for the suppression of traffic in narcotics. 26. Crimes and offenses against the laws regulating the postal service of both countries, with respect to using the mails to promote frauds. 27. Extradition shall also take place for participation in any of the crimes or offenses before mentioned as an accessory before or after the fact, or in any attempt to commit any of the aforesaid crimes or offenses. ARTICLE III. The provisions of the present Treaty shall not import a claim of extradition for any crime or offense of a political character, nor for acts connected with such crimes or offenses; and no person sur- rendered by or to either of the High Contracting Parties in virtue of this Treaty shall be tried or punished for a political crime or offense committed before his extradition. The State applied to, or Courts of such State, shall decide whether the crime or offense is of a political character. When the offense charged comprises the act either of murder or assassination or of poisoning, either consum- mated or attempted, the fact that the offense was committed or attempted against the life of the Head of the State of one of the High Contracting Parties, or against the Sovereign or Head of a foreign State, or against the life of any member of the family of either, shall not be deemed sufficient to sustain that such crime or offense was of a political character, or was an act connected with crimes or offenses of a political character. 193470--41 -PT. n- - -32 Accessories, etc. Political offenses. 54 STAT.] 1735

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