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2080 EXTRADITION CONVENTION——PORTUGAL. MAY 7, 1908. nmsmses. And whereas, the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged at Washington on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight; _ _ And whereas, in giving their advice and consent to the ratification of the said Convention, and as a part of the act of ratincation, the Senate of the United States did, in a resolution adcépted on May 22, 1908, state theiI· Imderstanding "that it is agree by the United States that no person charged with crime shall be extraditable from Portugal upon whom the death penalty can be inflicted for the offence charged b the laws of the jurisdiction in which the charge is pending, and dat this agreement on the part of the United States will be mentioned in the ratiiications of the treaty and will, in effect, form part of the treaty." P¤>¤¤¤¤¤¤¤<>¤- Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clauce thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof, subject to the understanding stated in the said resolution of the Senate. In testimony whereof, I have herenmto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washing:>n this foiuteenth day of December in the year of our rd one thousand nine hundred and [sEA1..] eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and thirty-third. Tnnonoim Roosnvmxr By the President: ELIHU Roor Secretary of State. mf $$1 gmyw NOTES CONCERNING THE DEATH PENALTY, EXCHANGE!} BETWEEN Am'p_m THE 1>o1z·rUoUEsE MINISTER AND THE SECRETARY or- s·rATE AT . THE TIME or SIGNATURE OF THE EXTRADITION coNvENTIoN BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND PORTUGAL. Lnoaoao mu PORTUGAL. Nos Esrmos Uumos. *""°¤*’·°*°¤-1 O abaixo assignado, Enviado The undersigned Envoy Ex- Extraordinario e Ministro Pleni- traordinary and Minister Plenitenciario de Sua Magestade potentiaryl of His Most Faithful Fidelissima o Rei de Portugal e Iajestyt e King of Portugal and dos Algarves, tem a honra de the Algarves has the honor to ininformar Sua Excellencia o Se- form the Secretary of State of the cretario d’Estado dos Estados United States that he has been Unidos que recebeu de Sua Ex- instructed by His Excellency the cellencia o Ministro e Secretario Minister for Foreign Affairs of d’Estado dos Negocios Estran- Portu al to lace on record on geiros de Portugal instruccoes no behalfg of the Tortuguese Govern. sentido de deixar exarado, em ment, with reference to the Exnome do Govemo Portuguez, tradition Treaty which the Secrecom relacao ao tratado de tary of State and the undersigned extradicao que 0 abaixo assi- have just signed, its understandgnado acaba de iirmar com Sua ing that the Government of the xcellencia o Secretario d’Es- United States assures that the tado: que flea entendido ue o death penalty will not be enforced Governo dos Estados l?nidos against criminals delivered by toma o compromisso de que nao Portugal to the United States for sera applieada a pena de morte any of the crimes enumerated in aos cnminosos entregues por Por- the said treaty, and that such as-