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and Siam as signed by His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok and the Siamese Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 4th March. 2. I request that you will inform your Ministers that the King's ratification of the treaty is about to be prepared. I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor the Right Hon. Lord Islington, K.C.M.G., D.5.0., &c.

Enclosure. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of Siam, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should under certain circumstances be reciprocally delivered up, the said high contracting parties have named as their Plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty for this purpose, that is to say, — His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India : Arthur Peel, Esquire, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Bangkok, &c. ; And His Majesty the King of Siam : H.R.H. Prince Devawongse Varoprakar, his Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c, — Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : — Article 1. The high contracting parties engage to deliver up to each other persons over whom they respectively exercise jurisdiction who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one party, shall be found within the territory of the other party, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present treaty. Article 2. The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following :— 1. Murder, or attempt, or conspiracy to murder. 2. Manslaughter. 3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money. 5. Knowingly making any instrument, tool, or engine adapted or intended for counterfeiting coin. 6. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged or counterfeited, or altered. 7. Embezzlement or larceny. 8. Malicious injury to property, by explosives or otherwise, if the offence be indictable. 9. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences. 10. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained. 11. Crimes against bankruptcy law. 12. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company made criminal by any law for the time being in force. 13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury. 14. Rape. 1.5. 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. 16. Indecent assault. 17. Procuring miscarriage, administering drugs, or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman. „. 18. Abduction. 19. Child-stealing. 20. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them. 21. Kidnapping and false imprisonment. 22. Burglary or housebreaking. 23. Arson. 24. Robbery with violence. 25. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a railway-train. 26. Threats by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort. 27. Piracy by law of nations. 28. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so. 29. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or do grievous bodily harm. 5—A. 2.