EXTRADITION Convention signed at London April 12, 1905, supplementing convention of July 12, 1889, as supplemented Senate advice and consent to ratification December 13, 1905 Ratified by the United Kingdom November 14, 1906 Ratified by the President of the United States December 21, 1906 Ratifications exchanged at Washington December 21, 1906 Proclaimed by the President of the United States February 12, 1907 34 Stat. 2903; Treaty Series 458 The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of enlarging the list of crimes on account of which extradition may be granted under the Conventions concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the 12th July, 1889, and the 13th December, 1900, with a view to the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime in their respective territories and jurisdictions, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Convention for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit: The President of the United States, the Honourable Joseph Hodges Choate, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of His Britannic Majesty: And his Britannic Majesty, the Most Honourable Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; 1TS 849, post, p. 482. 'Terminated for South Africa Apr. 30, 1951, by treaty of Dec. 18, 1947 (TIAS 2243. ante, vol. 11, p. 512, SOUTH AFRICA). TS 139, ante, p. 211. • TS 391, ante, p. 256. Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following Articles: ARTICLE I The following crimes are added to the list of crimes numbered 1 to 10 in the Ist Article of the said Convention of the 12th July, 1889, and to the list of crimes numbered 11 to 13 in Article I of the Supplementary Convention concluded between the United States and Great Britain on the 13th December, 1900, that is to say: 14. Bribery, defined to be the offering, giving or receiving of bribes made criminal by the laws of both countries. 15. Offences, if made criminal by the laws of both countries, against bankruptcy law. ARTICLE II The present Convention shall be considered as an integral part of the said Extradition Conventions of the 12th July, 1889, and the 13th December, 1900, and the Ist Article of the said Convention of the 12th July, 1889, shall be read as if the lists of crimes therein contained had originally comprised the additional crimes specified and numbered 14 and 15 in the Ist Article of the present Convention. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged either at Washington or London as soon as possible. It shall come into force ten days after its publication in conformity with the laws of the High Contracting Parties, and it shall continue and terminate in the same manner as the said Convention of the 12th July, 1889. In testimony whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate, and have thereunto affixed their seals. Done at London, this 12th day of April, 1905. JOSEPH H. CHOATE [SEAL] [SEAL] PROTECTION OF TRADEMARKS IN CHINA Exchange of notes at Peking June 28, 1905 Made obsolete by U.S. relinquishment of extraterritorial rights in China, 1 I Malloy 800; Treaty Series 477 The American Minister at Peking to the British Minister AMERICAN LEGATION, Peking, China, June 28, 1905 MR. MINISTER AND DEAR COLLEAGUE: The Acting Secretary of State of the United States has informed me in an instruction dated April 17, 1905, that you have been authorized by your Government to enter into a reciprocal agreement with me for the mutual protection of trade marks registered in the United States and Great Britain against infringement in China by the citizens or subjects of our respective nations, and he has given me authority to effect with you by an exchange of notes an agreement for the reciprocal protection of American and British trade marks in China. In pursuance of the general agreement reached between our respective governments on the subject, it affords me much satisfaction to agree on behalf of the government of the United States, that henceforth trade marks of British subjects, having been duly registered in the United States of America, will be protected against infringement by such persons as come under the jurisdiction of the United States Consular Courts in China, in which effectual provision exists for the punishment of such infringements by American citizens. I have the honor to be, my dear colleague, your obedient servant, 1 TS 984, ante, vol. 6, p. 739, CHINA. 274 The British Minister at Peking to the American Minister PEKING, June 28, 1905 MR. MINISTER AND DEAR COLLEAGUE: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, informing me that you have been authorized by your Government to effect with me by an exchange of notes an agreement for the reciprocal protection of American and British trademarks. I beg to thank you for this communication and to assure that it affords me much satisfaction to enter into this reciprocal agreement, and henceforth protection will be afforded in China by His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Corea and the Provincial Courts to trademarks of citizens of the United States which have been duly registered in Great Britain in conformity with "The Patents, Designs, and Trademarks Acts, 1883 to 1888." At the same time it appears necessary to mention that the consent in writing of His Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires must be obtained on each occasion, which consent will be given as a matter of course in consequence of the assurance contained in your Note under reply that effectual provision exists for the punishment in the United States Consular Courts in China of infringement, by such persons as come under the jurisdiction of those Courts, of the trademarks of British subjects which shall have been duly registered in the United States of America. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, His Excellency, the Honourable W. W. RoCKHILL, etc., etc., etc. ERNEST SATOW BOUNDARIES: ALASKA AND CANADA Convention signed at Washington April 21, 1906 Ratified by the President of the United States July 10, 1906 Proclaimed by the President of the United States August 21, 1906 34 Stat. 2948; Treaty Series 452 Whereas by a treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, for the cession of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States, concluded March 30, 1867,1 the most northerly part of the boundary line between the said Russian possessions and those of His Britannic Majesty, as established by the prior convention between Russia and Great Britain, of February 28/16, 1825,2 is defined as following the 141st degree of longitude west from Greenwich, beginning at the point of intersection of the said 141st degree of west longitude with a certain line drawn parallel with the coast, and thence continuing from the said point of intersection, upon the said meridian of the 141st degree in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean; And whereas, the location of said meridian of the 141st degree of west longitude between the terminal points thereof defined in said treaty, is dependent upon the scientific ascertainment of convenient points along the said meridian and the survey of the country intermediate between such points, involving no question of interpretation of the aforesaid treaties but merely the determination of such points and their connecting lines by the ordinary processes of observation and survey conducted by competent astronomers, engineers and surveyors; And whereas such determination has not hitherto been made by a joint survey as is requisite in order to give complete effect to said treaties; 1 1TS 301, ante, vol. 11, p. 1216, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. * For text, see British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 12, p. 38. 2 |