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(4.) Forgery, or counterfeiting, or altering, or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited, or altered; comprehending the crimes designated in the penal codes of either State as counterfeiting or falsification of paper money, hank-notes, or other securities, forgery or other falsification of other public or private documents, likewise the uttering or bringing into circulation or wilfully using such counterfeited, forged, or falsified papers. (5.) Embezzlement or larceny. (6.) Obtaining money or goods by false pretences. (7.) Crimes against bankruptcy law. (8.) Fraud committed hy a bailee, hanker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company, made criminal hy any law for the time being in force. (9.) Rape. (10.) Abduction of minors. (11.) Child-stealing or kidnapping. (12.) False imprisonment. (13.) Burglary, or housebreaking with criminal intent. (14.) Arson. (15.) Robbery with violence. (16.) Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort. (17.) Perjury or subornation of perjury. (18.) Malicious injury to property, if the offence he indictable. The extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes as an accessory before or after the fact. Article 111. No Swiss shall be delivered up by Switzerland to the Government of the United Kingdom; and no subject of the United Kingdom shall be delivered up by the Government thereof to Switzerland. Article IV. The extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or the person claimed on the part of the Swiss Government, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is still under trial, in one of the Swiss Cantons or in the United Kingdom respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded. If the person claimed on the part of the Government of the United Kingdom, or if the person claimed on the part of the Swiss Government, should be under examination or have been condemned for any other crime, in one of the Swiss Cantons or in the United Kingdom respectively, his extradition may be deferred until he shall have been set at liberty in due course of law. In case such individual should be proceeded against or detained in the country in which he has taken refuge, on account of obligations contracted towards private individuals, his extradition shall nevertheless take place; the injured party retaining his right to prosecute his claims before the competent authority. Article V. The extradition shall not take place if, subsequently to the commission of the crime, or the institution of the penal prosecution, or the conviction thereon, exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applied to. Article VI. If the individual claimed hy one of the two Contracting Parties in pursuance of the present Treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers, on account of other crimes committed upon their respective territories, his surrender shall be granted to that State whose demand is earliest in date ; unless any other arrangement should be made between the Governments which have claimed him, either on account of the gravity of the crimes committed, or for any other reason. Article VII. A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character, or is connected with a crime of that nature, or if he prove that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try and punish him for an offence of a political character. Article VIII. A person surrendered can in no case be kept in prison, or be brought to trial in the State to which the surrender has been made, for any other crime or on account of any other matters than those for which the extradition shall have taken place. This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition. Article IX. The requisition for extradition must always be made by the way of diplomacy, and to wit, in Switzerland hy the British Minister to the President of the Confederation, and in the United