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PROCLAMATION

Of accession to the treaty of extradition between the United States and Prussia by the Government of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

WHEREAS it is provided by the second article of the convention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia, and other States of the Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that convention shall be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto:

And whereas the Government of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has declared its accession to the said convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States:

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith in respect to the Government of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at Washington the sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, [L. S.] and of the independence of the United States the seventyeighth.

By the President:

W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.

FRANKLIN PIERCE

PROCLAMATION

Of accession to the treaty of extradition between the United States and Prussia by the Government of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

WHEREAS it is provided by the second article of the convention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia, and other States of the Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that convention shall be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto :

And whereas the Government of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has declared its accession to the said convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States:

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith in respect to the government of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at Washington the twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty[L. S.] four, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-eighth.

By the President:

W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

PROCLAMATION

Of accession to the treaty of extradition between the United States and Prussia by the Government of Oldenburg.

WHEREAS it is provided by the second article of the convention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia and other States of the Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that convention shall be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto:

And whereas the Government of Oldenburg has declared its accession to the said convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States:

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith in respect to the Government of Oldenburg by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at Washington the twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty[L. S.] four, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-eighth,

By the President:

W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

PROCLAMATION

Of accession to the treaty of extradition between the United States and Prussia by the Government of Schaumburg-Lippe,

WHEREAS it is provided by the second article of the convention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia, and other States of the Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that convention shall be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto:

And whereas the Government of Schaumburg-Lippe has declared its accession to the said convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States:

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith in respect to the Government of Schaumburg-Lippe by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at Washington the twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty[L. S.] four, and of the independence of the United States the seventy-ninth.

By the President:

W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

Extradition Treaty with the Swiss Confederation, promulged November 9, 1855.

The United States of America and the Swiss Confederation, on requisitions made in their name through the medium of their respective diplomatic or consular agents, shall deliver up to justice persons who, being charged with the crimes enumerated in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, shall seek asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other: Provided, That this shall be done only when the fact of the commission of the crime shall be so established as to justify their apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been committed in the country where the persons so accused shall be found.

Persons shall be delivered up, according to the provisions of this convention, who shall be charged with any of the following crimes, to wit: Murder, (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poisoning;) attempt to commit murder; rape; forgery, or the emission of forged papers; arson; robbery with violence, intimidation, or forcible entry of an inhabited house; piracy; embezzlement by public officers, or by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers, when these crimes are subject to infamous punishment.

On the part of the United States the surrender shall be made only by the authority of the executive thereof; and on the part of the Swiss Confederation by that of the Federal Council.

The expenses of detention and delivery, effected in virtue of the preceding articles, shall be at the cost of the party making the demand.

The provisions of the aforegoing articles relating to the surrender of fugitive criminals shall not apply to offences committed before the date hereof, nor to those of a political character.

The present convention is concluded for the period of ten years, counting from the day of the exchange of the ratifications; and if, one year before the expiration of that period, neither of the contracting parties shall have announced, by an official notification, its intention to the other to arrest the operations of said convention, it shall continue binding for twelve months longer, and so on, from year to year, until the expiration of the twelve months which will follow a similar declaration, whatever the time at which it may take place.

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