g parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington s soon as possible within twelve months from the date hereof. Done in duplicate at the City of Washington, in the English and rench languages this twenty-second day of March, 1902.

SUPPLEMENTAL NATURALIZATION CONVENTION.

oncluded February 28, 1903; Ratification advised by the senate February 1, 1904; ratified by the President March 17, 1904; ratifications exchanged March 19, 1904; proclaimed March 24, 1904.

The United States of America and the Republic of Haiti, considing it expedient to prolong the period within which, by Article II of the treaty of naturalization, signed by their respective pleniotentiaries at Washington on March 22, 1902, the exchange of ratications of the said treaty shall take place, have for that purpose pointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely: The President the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State of the nited States of America; and

The President of Haiti, Mr. J. N. Leger, Envoy Extraordinary nd Minister Plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington:

Who, after having communicated each to the other, their respective all powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the folwing additional article to be taken as part of said treaty.

SOLE ARTICLE.

The respective ratifications of the said treaty shall be exchanged as on as possible and within twelve months from March 22, 1903. Done in Duplicate at Washington in the English and French lanages this 28th day of February A. D. 1903.

1904.

JOHN HAY

[SEAL.]

J. N. LEGER [SEAL.]

EXTRADITION CONVENTION.

ncluded August 9, 1904; ratification advised by the senate December 15, 1904; ratified by the President June 17, 1905; ratifications exchanged June 28, 1905.

The United States of America and the Republic of Haiti, wishing insure the proper administration of justice, have resolved to con

clude a treaty for the purpose of mutually surrendering persons who being charged with one of the crimes hereinafter specified, or having been sentenced for one of these crimes, shall, by flight, have escaped judicial prosecution or the consequences of their sentence.

To this end they have appointed 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 Republic of Haiti, Mr. J. N. Léger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Haiti at Washington: Who, after having communicated their respective full powers. found in good and due form, have agreed on the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

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The High Contracting Parties agree to deliver up to their re spective justice, persons who, being accused or convicted of of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, committed within the limits of jurisdiction of the demanding party, shall have afterwards tak refuge or shall be found in the territory of the other; provided. that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or persons charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offense had been there committed.

ARTICLE II.

The crimes for which extradition shall be granted are the fol lowing:

1. Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, poisoning, and voluntary manslaughter.)

2. Counterfeiting of money, either coin or paper; utterance or circulation of counterfeit or altered money; introduction of coun terfeit or altered money into the territory of one of the Contracting Parties.

3. Counterfeiting of any securities issued by one of the Contracting Parties, of bonds or coupons of the public debt, of bank notes or other instruments of credit authorized by law; utterance, use, or troduction, in the territory of one of the Parties, of the aforemen tioned counterfeit or falsified securities or notes.

4. Forging of the public or private documents; use of forged docu

ments.

5. Larceny; robbery, or that which corresponds to the crime pr vided for and punished by the laws of Haiti as theft committed with arms in hand or by violence or threats, or on the public highways burglary, or that which corresponds to the crime provided for a punished by the laws of Haiti as theft committed by breaking climbing into, or using false keys, or at night in a place inhabited used as a dwelling.

6. Embezzlement by public officers or by persons hired or salaried to the detriment of their employers; provided, that the amount of money or value of the property embezzled is not less than two hun dred dollars.

7. Arson; destruction of railways, bridges, tramways, vessels, ph lic edifices or other buildings, endangering human life.

8. Perjury; subornation of perjury; bribery, defined to be the givng, offering or receiving of a reward to influence one in the discharge of a legal duty.

9. Rape.

10. Bigamy.

11. Kidnapping of minors.

12. Piracy, as defined by statute or international law.

ARTICLE III.

Extradition shall also be granted for the attempt to commit one of he crimes above enumerated, and against any accomplice of these rimes or attempts at crimes, when such complicity and attempt are punishable by the laws of the Party demanding the extradition.

ARTICLE IV.

Neither of the Contracting Parties shall be obliged to deliver up Its own citizens.

ARTICLE V.

If the person claimed is under prosecution, either in the United States or Haiti, for any other crime than that upon which the demand For extradition is based, the extradition shall be postponed until the udgment is pronounced, and, if the person is convicted, until the sentence imposed is fully served or remitted.

The extradition may also be postponed when the person claimed s being prosecuted for a civil offense in the country of which the lemand is made. In this case it will not take place until after the xecution of the judgment or the remission of the penalty.

ARTICLE VI.

A fugitive who shall have been claimed at the same time by two or more States, shall be delivered up to the State which has first preented its demand; provided, that the government from which extralition is sought is not bound by treaty to give preference otherwise.

ARTICLE VII.

The provisions of the present treaty shall not apply to offenses of political character. The assassination or poisoning of the head f a government, or any other attempt against the life of the head of government, shall not be considered as a crime of a political haracter.

A person whose extradition shall have been granted on account of ne of the crimes mentioned in Article II of this Convention shall ot, in any case, be tried for a political offense or for an act connected with a political offense committed prior to the demand for extradiion, unless such person has had abundant opportunity to quit the ountry during the month following that in which he was set at berty either as a result of acquittal, expiration of his sentence, or

ardon.

ARTICLE VIII.

A person surrendered cannot, without the consent of the State which has granted the extradition, be detained or tried in the State which has obtained his extradition, for any other crime or causes than those which have given rise to the extradition. This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed subsequently to the extradition. However, a person who has had ample opportunity to quit the country which has obtained his extradition, and who shall be found there a month after his release by acquittal, the expiration of his sentence, or pardon, may be arrested and tried, without the consent of the State which has granted the extradition, for other crimes than those which have given rise to the demand for extradition.

ARTICLE IX.

Where the arrest and detention of a fugitive in the United States are desired on telegraphic or other information in advance of the presentation of the formal proofs, complaint on oath, as provided by the statutes of the United States, shall be made by an agent of the Haitian Government, before a judge or other magistrate authorized to issue warrants of arrest in extradition cases.

In Haiti the diplomatic or consular agent of the United States shall address, through the Ministry of Foreign Relations, a complaint to the government commissioner or any other magistrate authorized to issue warrants of commitment. The provisional arrest and detention of a fugitive shall cease and the prisoner be released if a formal requisition for his surrender, accompanied by the neces sary evidence of criminality, has not been produced under the stipulations of this Convention within sixty days from the date of his arrest.

ARTICLE X.

Every demand for extradition shall be made through the diplo matic agents of the High Contracting Parties. In case of absence or impediment of these agents, the demand may be presented by the consuls. This demand shall be acted on in conformity with the laws of each of the Parties. Nevertheless, if the person demanded has already been sentenced for one of the crimes herein before enumerated, the requisition shall be merely accompanied by the sentence, duly certified by the competent authority of the State demanding the extradition.

ARTICLE XI.

In Haiti the diplomatic or consular agent of the United States their own laws, the authorities of the State of which the demand is made who are qualified to decide on the demand for extradition, shall admit as entirely valid evidence all depositions or declarations of witnesses coming from the other State, or copies thereof, and warrants issued, provided these documents are signed or certified by a competent magistrate or officer of the State making the demand.

ARTICLE XII.

The objects found in the possession of the fugitive and whi were obtained by the perpetration of the crime with which he s

harged, or which may serve to prove his crime, shall be seized at he time of his arrest and delivered together with his person to the arty demanding the extradition. Nevertheless, the rights of third persons to the articles so found shall be respected.

ARTICLE XIII.

The expenses of detention, procedure, and delivery, incurred in virtue of the preceding articles, shall be borne by the demanding Party. It is agreed, however, that the State making the demand shall have nothing to pay to the officers of the State to which the demand is addressed who receive fixed salaries; officers who, having no fixed salary, receive fees, shall not demand any other fees than those generally charged in ordinary criminal procedures.

ARTICLE XIV.

The stipulations of the present treaty are applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. In this case the demand shall be addressed to the Governor or principal authority of the possession by the consul of Haiti.

ARTICLE XV.

The present treaty shall remain in force until it is denounced; it shall cease to bind the Parties six months after one of them shall have notified its intention to terminate it.

ARTICLE XVI.

The present treaty shall be approved and ratified by the competent authority of each of the High Contracting Parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the foregoing articles, and have affixed their seals.

Done in duplicate at Washington, in English and French, this ninth day of August, nineteen hundred and four.

J. N. LEGER [SEAL]
J. N. LÉGER [SEAL]

1909.

ARBITRATION CONVENTION.

Signed at Washington, January 7, 1909; ratification advised by the Senate, February 13, 1909; ratified by the President, March 1, 1909; ratifications exchanged at Washington, November 15, 1909; proclaimed November 16, 1909.

The Government of the United States of America, signatory of the two conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, concluded at The Hague, respectively, on July 29, 1899, and October

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