they apply to offences committed before the date of the present treaty, nor to offences of a political character, unless the political offender shall have also been guilty of some one of the crimes enumerated in Article XXII. ARTICLE XXV. The present treaty shall take effect from the day in which ratifications shall be exchanged, and shall remain in force for the term of ten years, and further, until the end of twelve months after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same; each of the said contracting parties reserving to itself the right to give such notice at the end of said term of ten years, or at any subsequent time. ARTICLE XXVI. The present treaty shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Naples within twelve months from the date of its signature, or sooner if possible. În faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the foregoing articles in the English and Italian languages, and have hereunto affixed the seals of their arms. Done in duplicate, at the city of Naples, this first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty-five. [SEAL.] SEAL. SEAL. [SEAL.] ROBERT DALE OWEN. LUIGI CARAfa. PRINCPE DI COMITINI. DECLARATION. It having been stipulated in Article XI of the treaty of the first December, 1845, that the red and white wines, of every kind, of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, including those of Marsala, which may be imported directly into the United States of America, whether in vessels of the one or of the other country, shall not pay other or higher duties than the red and white wines of the most favored nations; and, in like manner, that the cottons of the United States of America which may be imported directly into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whether in vessels of the one or of the other nation, shall not pay other or higher duties than the cottons of Egypt, Bengal, or the most favored nations: And it being agreed in the new treaty concluded between the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and to-day signed by the undersigned, not only that no duties of customs shall be paid on merchandise the produce of one of the two countries imported into the other country, other or higher than shall be paid on merchandise of the same kind the produce of any other country, but 24449-VOL 2-1038 also that, as to all duties of navigation or of customs, there shall not be made, as to the vessels of the two countries, any distinction whatever between direct and indirect navigation: The undersigned declare, as to the construction of the new treaty, from the day on which the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged, that the red and white wines, of every kind, of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, including the wine of Marsala, which shall be imported into the United States of America, shall not pay other or higher duties than are paid by the red and white wines of the most favored nations. And, in like manner, that the cottons of the United States which shall be imported into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies shall not pay other or higher duties than the cottons of Egypt, Bengal, or the most favored nations. The present declaration shall be considered as an integral part of the said new treaty, and shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof exchanged, at the same time as those of the treaty itself. In faith whereof, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands and affixed the seal of their arms. Done in duplicate, in the city of Naples, this first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. [SEAL.] SEAL. SEAL. [SEAL.] ROBERT DALE OWEN. LUIGI CARAFA. PRINCIPE DI COMITINI. URUGUAY. 1905. EXTRADITION TREATY. Concluded March 11, 1905; ratification advised, with amendment, by the Senate March 18, 1905; ratified by the President April 12, 1908; ratifications exchanged June 4, 1908; proclaimed July 10, 1908. The President of the United States of America and the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, being animated by the desire to secure and promote the well-being and tranquillity of their respective countries by facilitating the just, prompt, and efficacious administration of justice, by preventing crimes and offenses, and by regulating the surrender of the authors thereof who may seek asylum within their respective territories, have agreed to conclude a treaty and for this purpose have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Mr. Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary accredited to the United States of America and to Mexico; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following articles: ARTICLE I. The high contracting parties obligate themselves to deliver up mutually to each other, under the circumstances and conditions stipulated in the present treaty, all persons, except their own citizens, who, having been charged or sentenced for any of the crimes or offenses enumerated in Article II and committed within the territory of one of the parties, shall be found within the territory of the other. ARTICLE II. 1. Murder, comprehending assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning, and manslaughter, when voluntary; or the attempt to commit any of these crimes. 2. Abortion. 3. Arson. 4. Piracy, or mutiny on shipboard whenever the crew, or part thereof, shall have taken possession of the vessel by fraud or violence against the commander. 5. Forgery, or the utterance of forged papers; the forgery of official acts of government, of public authorities, or of courts of justice, or the utterance of the thing forged or falsified. The counterfeiting or falsifying of money, whether coin or paper, or of instruments of debt created by national, State, provincial, or municipal governments, or of coupons thereof, or of bank notes, or the utterance or circulation of these; the counterfeiting, falsifying, or altering of seals of state. 6. Embezzlement of public moneys by public functionaries or depositaries, embezzlement by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers or principals; larceny; where in either class of cases the amount embezzled or stolen exceeds the sum of two hundred dollars. 7. Burglary; housebreaking; shopbreaking. 8. Robbery, defined to be the act of feloniously and forcibly taking from the person of another money, or goods, by violence or putting him in fear. 9. Rape. 10. Bigamy. 11. Kidnapping; abduction. 12. Perjury and subornation of perjury. 13. Bribery, defined to be the giving, offering, or receiving of a reward to influence one in the discharge of a legal duty. 14. Willful and unlawful destruction or obstruction of railroads which endangers human life. Extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the crimes and offenses mentioned in this treaty, provided such participation may be punished in the United States as a felony, and in Uruguay by imprisonment at hard labor. ARTICLE III. Political crimes and misdemeanors are expressly excepted from the present treaty. A person whose surrender has been granted shall not in any case be either prosecuted or punished for any political crime or act connected therewith, committed previous to the extradition. Neither shall he be prosecuted or punished for any crime committed previous to that on which the surrender is based, unless the nation of which the demand is made so grants. If any question shall arise as to whether a case comes within the provisions of this article, the decision of the authorities of the Government on which the demand for surrender is made, or which may have granted the extradition, shall be final. ARTICLE IV. Where the arrest and detention of a fugitive are desired on telegraphic or other information in advance of the presentation of formal proofs, the proper course in the United States shall be for an agent of the Uruguayan Government to apply to a judge or other magistrate authorized to issue warrants of arrest in extradition cases, and present a complaint on oath as provided by the statutes of the United States. When under the provisions of this article the arrest and detention of a fugitive are desired in Uruguay, the proper course shall be to apply to the Foreign office, which will immediately cause the necessary steps to be taken to secure the provisional arrest and detention of the fugitive. The provisional detention of a fugitive shall cease and the prisoner be released if a formal requisition for his surrender, accompanied by the necessary evidence of his criminality, has not been produced under the stipulations of this treaty within a period of sixty days from the date of provisional arrest and detention. ARTICLE V. Requisitions for extradition must be presented by the diplomatic agent of the country of which the request is made, or in case of his absence by the superior consular officer thereof, to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and shall be accompanied, in the case of persons charged or under trial, by an authenticated copy of the warrant of arrest and of the evidence upon which it is based, as well as of the penal law applicable to the offense giving rise to the request, and, whenever possible, by a description of the person claimed. With regard to sentenced persons, duly authenticated evidence of the sentence convicting them should be presented. In the Oriental Republic of Uruguay the procedure shall be as follows: The Ministry of Foreign Relations shall transmit the abovementioned documents to the Superior Court of Justice, which, in turn, if it deems that the request for extradition is sufficiently well founded, shall turn it over to the judge having jurisdiction of the crime for execution. The latter functionary shall have authority to order the detention of the criminal, to take his deposition, consider his defense, and weigh the facts presented in accordance with the laws of the country; and if it turns out that the evidence presented is sufficient to warrant his imprisonment, the conditions required by the treaty having been fulfilled, he shall issue the order for his surrender, notifying the fact to the Executive, who thereupon dictates the measures necessary in order that the fugitive may be placed at the disposal of the demanding Government. The expenses incurred in the arrest, detention, examination, and delivery of fugitives under this treaty shall be borne by the State in whose name the extradition is sought. ARTICLE VI. All articles at the time of apprehension in the possession of the person demanded, whether being the proceeds of the crime or offense |