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TREATY—GREAT BRITAIN. MAY rs, woe. 2035 Treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning recip- H•y18, ms. rocal rzyhta for United States and Chnada in the conveyance of W prisoners and wrecking and eabvage. Signed at Plizshington, May 18, 1908; ratification advised by the Senate, May 20 1908; ratified 0:; the 1'recident, June 19, 1908; raéifed by Great Britain, June 3, 1908; ratificationa eaxc/ranged at aehington, June 30, 1908; proclaimed July 10, 1908. BY Tun Pnmsinnur or THE Umrnn STATES or Arunmca. A PROCLAMATION.· Whereas a Treaty between the United States of America and the ncorgvevgnce off;: United Kin dom 0 Great Britain and Ireland, providing for reci ing ¤1$°¤¥e.`"°° rocal rights Ior the United States and the Dominion of Canada in th; P’°"'“’ °- matters of conveyance of risoners and wrecking and salvage, was . concluded and signed by tllieir respective Plenipotentiaries at Wash- ° ington on the eig teenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the original of which Treaty is word for word as follows: ‘ The Unite States of America and His Majesty the King of the °°”“*°“”¤P°"°’°· United Kinidgom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions yond the Seas, Emperor of India, bein desirous to make provision for the conveyance of persons in lawfud custody for trial or punishment either ir1 the United States or the Dominion of Canada through the territor of the other, and for reciprocal rights in wrecking and salvage in the waters contiguous to the boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, have for that purpose resolved to conclude a treaty, and to that end have appointed as their plenipotentiaries: _ The President of the United States of America, Robert Bacon, Act- "°"'¥’°°°“““'*“”· ing Secretary of State of the United States; and His Magesty the Kin of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland an of the Britisii Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, the Right Honorable James B ce, O. M., His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington; who, after communicating 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: Anrrcrn I. convnrrurcn or rnrsounns. Any officer of the United States of America or of any state or terri- Cvnveyuncc or we tory thereof, having in his custody without the borders of Canada, by iiiieiiriiiigusiiiiiiurirfiai virtue of any warrant or a.ny other lawful process issued by authority °“”· of the United States or of an state or territory thereof, any person charged with or convicted ofy any of the criminal offences specified below, committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any state or territory thereo , may, in executing such warrant or process, convey such person through any part of Canada to a lace in _the United States, if such war·rant or process is endorsed, or backed,