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EXTRADITION TREATY-—ESTHONIA. Novmmmz 8, 1923. 1853 Article XII. In every case of a re uest made by either of the High Contracting L°¤¤l¤=·*¤*¤¤°·>· Parties for the arrest, detention or extradition of fugitive criminals, the appropriate le al officers of the countr where the roceedings of extradition aregheld, shall assist the oflfcers of the Government demanding the extradition before the respective judges and magistrates by every legal means within their power; and no claim what- C°mP°¤¤°°i°¤· ever for compensation for any of the services so rendered shall be made against the Government demanding the extradition; provided, however, that any officer or officers of the surrendering Government so giving assistance who shall, in the usual course of their duty, receive no salary or compensation other than specific fees for services gerformed by them, in the same manner an to the same amount as t ough such acts or services had been performed in ordinary criminal proceedings under the laws of the country of which they are officers. ' Article XIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting ¤£§Yh“°“° °'"‘"°°“' Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional methods and shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratiiications which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. Article XIV. The present Treaty shall remain in force for a period of ten D°mu°°‘ years, and in case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice one year before the expiration of that period of its intention to terminate the Treaty, it shall continue in force until the expiration of one year from the date on which such notice of termination shall be given by either of the High Contracting Parties. . . In witness whereof the above-named Pleni otentiaries have signed Signatum the present Treaty and have hereunto affixed) their seals. Done in duplicate at Tallinn this eighth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-three. [smh.] F. W. B. Conmmx [sr:A1..]· F12. AKEL. _ AND WHEREAS the said treaty has been duly ratified on both ch§,§‘,QQ§l°“"°“s “ parts, and the ratiiications of the two Governments were exchanged 1n the city of Washington on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Calvin Coolidge, P'°°l°“‘“"°“‘ President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sux,.] twenty-four, and of the Inde endence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-ninth. CALVIN Coomnca By the President: CHARLES E. Hucmzs Secretary of State. 45822°—vor. 43-rr i.£— 33