gners are or shall be admitted. They shall enjoy full protection r their persons and properties; they shall be allowed to buy from id to sell to whom they like, without being restrained or prejudiced y any monopoly, contract, or exclusive privilege of sale or purchase hatever; and they shall, moreover, enjoy all other rights and priviges which are or may be granted to any other foreigners, subjects, citizens of the most favored nation. The citizens of the Republic Liberia shall, in return, enjoy similar protection and privileges in e United States of America and in their territories.

ARTICLE III.

No tonnage, import, or other duties or charges shall be levied in the epublic of Liberia on United States vessels, or on goods imported exported in United States vessels, beyond what are or may be vied on national vessels, or on the like goods imported or exported national vessels; and in like manner no tonnage, import, or other uties or charges shall be levied in the United States of America nd their territories on the vessels of the Republic of Liberia, or goods imported or exported in those vessels, beyond what are or ay be levied on national vessels, or on the like goods imported - exported in national vessels.

ARTICLE IV.

Merchandise or goods coming from the United States of America in y vessels, or imported in United States vessels from any country, all not be prohibited by the Republic of Liberia, nor be subject to gher duties than are levied on the same kinds of merchandise or pods coming from any other foreign country or imported in any her foreign vessels. All articles the produce of the Republic of iberia may be exported therefrom by citizens of the United States ad United States vessels on as favorable terms as by the citizens d vessels of any other foreign country.

In like manner all merchandise or goods coming from the Republic Liberia in any vessels, or imported in Liberian vessels from any untry, shall not be prohibited by the United States of America, nor subject to higher duties than are levied on the same kinds of merandise or goods coming from any other foreign country or imported any other foreign vessels. All articles the produce of the United ates, or of their territories, may be imported therefrom by Liberian izens and Liberian vessels on as favorable terms as by the citizens d vessels of any other foreign country.

ARTICLE V.

When any vessel of either of the contracting parties shall be recked, foundered, or otherwise damaged on the coasts or within e territories of the other, the respective citizens shall receive the eatest possible aid, as well for themselves as for their vessels and ects. All possible aid shall be given to protect their property from ing plundered and their persons from ill treatment. Should a spute arise as to the salvage, it shall be settled by arbitration, to chosen by the parties respectively.

ARTICLE VI.

It being the intention of the two contracting parties to bind themselves by the present treaty to treat each other on the footing of the most favored nation, it is hereby agreed between them that ar favor, privilege, or immunity whatever in matters of commerce and navigation, which either contracting party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State shall be extended to the citizens of the other contracting part gratuitously, if the concession in favor of that other State shall have been gratuitous, or in return for a compensation as nearly as possit.. of proportionate value and effect, to be adjusted by mutual agree ment, if the concession shall have been conditional.

ARTICLE VII.

Each contracting party may appoint consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions of the other; but no such const shall enter upon the exercise of his functions until he shall have bee approved and admitted, in the usual form, by the Government of th country to which he is sent.

ARTICLE VIII.

The United States Government engages never to interfere, unles solicited by the Government of Liberia, in the affairs between t aboriginal inhabitants and the Government of the Republic of L beria, in the jurisdiction and territories of the Republic. Should ar United States citizen suffer loss, in person or property, from violet by the aboriginal inhabitants, and the Government of the Repub of Liberia should not be able to bring the aggressor to justice, United States Government engages, a requisition having been is made therefor by the Liberian Government, to lend such aid as m be required. Citizens of the United States residing in the territor of the Republic of Liberia are desired to abstain from all such inte course with the aboriginal inhabitants as will tend to the violati of law and a disturbance of the peace of the country.

ARTICLE IX.

The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchang at London, within the space of nine months from the date hereof. In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries before mentioned h hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals.

Done at London the twenty-first day of October, in the year e thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

[SEAL.] SEAL.]

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
STEPHEN ALLEN BENSON.

LUBEC.

(SEE HANSEATIC REPUBLICS.)

LUXEMBURG.

1883.

EXTRADITION CONVENTION.

cluded October 29, 1883; ratification advised by the Senate July 1884; ratified by the President July 5, 1884; ratifications exhanged July 14, 1884; proclaimed August 12, 1884.

The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the herlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, having judged it expent, with a view to the better administration of justice and the vention of crime within their respective territories and jurisdicns, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes and nses hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, uld, under certain circumstances be reciprocally delivered up, e resolved to conclude a convention for that purpose and have ointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

The President of the United States of America, Mr. A. A. Sart, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His jesty the Emperor of Germany at Berlin; and His Majesty the g of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, Dr. Paul schen, His Director general of the Department of justice and argé d'Affaires of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg at Berlin, evalier of the 2nd Class of the Order of the Golden Lion of the use of Nassau, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Oak I of that of the Lion of the Netherlands, &c, &c, &c.

Vho, after having communicated to each other their respective full vers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and conded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

The Government of the United States and the Government of Luxburg mutually agree to deliver up persons who, having been rged as principals or accessories, with or convicted of any of the

crimes and offenses specified in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, shall seek ar asylum or be found within the territories of the other. Provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, ac cording to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been there committed.

ARTICLE II.

Persons shall be delivered up who shall have been convicted of or be charged, according to the provisions of the convention, with any of the following crimes:

1°. Murder, comprehending the crimes designated in the penal code of Luxemburg by the terms of parricide, assassination, poisoning and infanticide;

2o. The attempt to commit murder;

3o. Rape, or attempt to commit rape, bigamy, abortion;

4°. Arson;

5°. 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;

6°. The crime of burglary defined to be the act of breaking and entering by night into the house of another with the intent to comm felony; and the crime of 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; and the corresponding crimes pur ished by the laws of Luxemburg under the description of thefts committed in an inhabited house by night and by breaking in, b climbing or forcibly; and thefts committed with violence or by means of threats.

7°. The crime of forgery by which is understood the utterance of forged papers, and also the counterfeiting of public, sovereign e governmental acts;

8°. The fabrication or circulation of counterfeit money, either cri or paper, or of counterfeit public bonds, coupons of the public deb bank-notes, obligations, or, in general, anything being a title or instru ment of credit; the counterfeiting of seals and dies, impressions stamps, and marks of State and public administrations and the utter ance thereof;

9°. The embezzlement of public moneys committed within the juris diction of either party by public officers or depositaries;

10°. Embezzlement by any person or persons hired or salaried the detriment of their employers, when the crime is subject to punis ment by the laws of the place where it was committed;

11°. Wilful and unlawful destruction or obstruction of rail-ros which endangers human life;

12°. Reception of articles obtained by means of one of the crine or offenses provided for by the present convention.

Extradition may also be granted for the attempt to commit any the crimes above enumerated, when such attempt is punishable by th laws of both contracting parties.

ARTICLE III.

A person surrendered under this convention shall not be tried or nished in the country to which his extradition has been granted, or given up to a third power for a crime or offense not provided for the present convention and committed previously to his extradion, until he shall have been allowed one month to leave the country ter having been discharged; and, if he shall have been tried and ndemned to punishment, he shall be allowed one month after having ffered his penalty or having been pardoned.

He may however be tried or punished for any crime or offense proded for by this convention committed previous to his extradition, her than that which gave rise to the extradition, and notice of the rpose to so try him, with specification of the offense charged, shall given to the Government which surrendered him, which may, if think proper, require the production of one of the documents menoned in article 7 of this convention.

The consent of that government shall be required for the extradion of the accused to a third country; nevertheless such consent shall t be necessary when the accused shall have asked of his own accord be tried or to undergo his punishment, or when he shall not have ft within the space of time above specified the territory of the untry to which he has been surrendered.

ARTICLE IV.

The provisions of this convention shall not be applicable to persons ilty of any political crime or offense or of one connected with such crime or offense. A person who has been surrendered on account one of the common crimes or offenses mentioned in article 2, shall nsequently in no case be prosecuted and punished in the State to ich his extradition has been granted on account of a political crime offense committed by him previously to his extradition or on count of an act connected with such a political crime or offense, uns he has been at liberty to leave the country for one month after ving been tried, and, in case of condemnation, for one month after ving suffered his punishment or having been pardoned.

An attempt against the life of the head of a foreign government or ainst that of any member of his family, when such attempt comises the act either of murder or assassination or of poisoning, shall t be considered a political offense or an act connected with such an

ense.

ARTICLE V.

Neither of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up its n citizens or subjects under the stipulations of this convention.

ARTICLE VI.

If the person whose surrender may be claimed pursuant to the pulations of the present treaty shall have been arrested for the nmission of offenses in the country where he has sought an asylum, shall have been convicted thereof, his extradition may be deferred til he shall have been acquitted, or have served the term of imprisment to which he may have been sentenced.