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 5852 CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. 1843. of America; who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE I. pemn, ac. It is agreed that the high contracting parties shall, on requisitions ¤¤¤¤d QF ¤fi¤¤¤¤ made in their name, through the medium of their respective diplomatic lg }’,:s$;:“u;§n agents, deliver up to justice persons who, being accused_ of the crimes requisitions, enumerated in the next following article, committed within the Jurrsdic &¤· tion of the requiring party, shall seek an asylum, or shall he found 1553;,, gig- I6? within the territories of the other: Provided, That this shall beldpns ‘ only when the fact of the commission of the crime shall be so estab is e as that the laws of the country in which the fugitive or the person so accused shall be found would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime had been there committed. ARTICLE II. pc,-,0,,, to be Persons shall be so delivered up who shall be charged, according to delivsred up the provisions of this convention, with any of the following crimes, to "f,’{:;°2:,:l;f;g°d wit: murder, (comprehending the crimes designated in the French Bpscmedmmm penal code by the terms, assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poi- orgery or wit arson, or wit em ezz ement y pu ic officers w en the sanie is punishable with infamous punishment., ARTICLE III. Surrender, by On the part of the French Government, the surrender shall be made Wham *0 lm only by authority of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice; and m° °' on the part of the Government of the United States, the surrender shall be made only by authority of the Executive thereof ARTICLE IV. The ex enses of an detention and deliver effected in virtue of the Expenses to _ P _ _ Y Y be borne by the preceding provisions, shall be borne and defrayed by the Government ggazsgtzlgln! in whose name the requisition shall have been made. ARTICLE V. N0, to ,,,,1,,],, The provisions of the present convention shall not be applied in any to enrnes ere- manner to the crimes enumerated in the second article, committed an-
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0 of1C8S. '· • ARTICLE VI. To comin,,, This convention shall continue in force until it shall be abrogated by ¤i||¤br¤g¤¤¤¢l· the contracting parties, or one of them; but it shall not be abrogated errcept by muaual consent, unless gh; party desiring to abrogate it shall R ,·; i st give six mont s’ previous notice o is intention to do so. It shall be beéidhhnztd 0 ratified, and the ratilications shall be exchanged within the space of six "'“ “' m months or earlier if possible. months. ’ In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the p;-eslent convention in duplicate, and have adixed thereto the seal o therr arms. Done at Washington, the ninth day of November, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. A. P. UPSHUR, (r.. s.) A. PAGEOT, (1.. s.)