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Article 11. Extradition shall be reciprocally granted for the following crimes or offences : — 1. Murder, or attempt or conspiracy to murder. 2. Manslaughter. 3. Administering drugs or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of women. 4. Rape. 5. Carnal knowledge or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of puberty according to the laws of the respective countries. 6. Indecent assault. 7. Kidnapping and false imprisonment, child-stealing. 8. Abduction. 9. Bigamy. 10. Maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 11. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. 12. Threats, by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort money or other things of value. 13. Perjury or subornation of perjury. 14. Arson. 15. Burglary or housebreaking, robbery with violence, larceny, or embezzlement. 10. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, director, member, or public officer of any company. 17. Obtaining money, valuable security, or goods by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained. 18. («.) Counterfeiting or altering money or bringing into circulation counterfeited or altered money, {b.) Knowingly making without lawful authority any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of the coin of the realm, (c.) Forgery or uttering what is forged. 19. Crimes against bankruptcy law. 20. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any persons travelling or being upon a railway. 21. Malicious injury to property, if such offence be indictable. 22. Piracy and other crimes or offences committed at sea against persons or things which, according to the laws of the high contracting parties, are extradition offences, and are punishable by more than one year's imprisonment. 23. Dealing in slaves in such manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States. Extradition shall also be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting parties. Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the law of both the contracting parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made. Article 111. Neither party is obliged to surrender its own subjects or citizens to the other party. Article IF. Extradition shall not take place if the person claimed on the part of His Majesty's Government, or of the Government of Cuba, has already been tried and discharged or punished, or is awaiting trial in the territory of the United Kingdom or in the Republic of Cuba respectively, for the crime for which his extradition is demanded. If the person claimed on the part of His Majesty's Government, or of the Government of Cuba, should be awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for any other crime in the territory of the United Kingdom or in the Republic of Cuba respectively, his extradition shall be deferred until after he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or on expiration of sentence, or otherwise. Article V. Extradition shall not be granted if exemption from prosecution or punishment has been acquired by lapse of time, according to the laws of the State applying or applied to. Neither shall it be granted if, according to the law of either country, the maximum punishment for the offence charged is imprisonment for less than one year. Article VI. 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 if he proves that the requisition for his surrender has, in fact, been made with a view to try or punish him for an offence of a political character. Article VII. A person surrendered shall in no case be kept in prison or be brought io 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, until he has been restored, or has had an opportunity of returning to the State by which he has been surrendered. This stipulation does not apply to crimes committed after the extradition. Article VIII. The requisition for extradition shall be made through the diplomatic agents of the high contracting parties respectively.