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8. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger persons in a railway train. 9. Embezzlement or larceny. 10. Receiving any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen, or feloniously obtained. 11. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences. 12. Crimes by bankrupts against bankrupcy law. 13. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company, made criminal by any law for the time being in force. 14. Rape. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge, of a girl under sixteen years of age, so far as such acts are punishable by the law of the State upon which the demand is made. Indecent assault. Indecent assault without violence upon children of either sex under thirteen years of age. 15. Abduction. 16. Child-stealing. 17. Kidnapping and false imprisonment. 18. Burglary or housebreaking. 19. Arson. 20. Robbery with violence (including intimidation). 21. Threats by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort. 22. Piracy by law of nations. 23. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so. 24. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas with intent to destroy life or to do grievous bodily harm. 25. Revolt or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master. 26. Perjury and subornation of perjury. 27. Malicious injury to property, if the offence be indictable. 28. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Malicious wounding, or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 29. Offences in connection with the slave trade punishable by the laws of both States. Provided that the surrender shall be made only when, in the case of a person accused, the commission of the crime shall be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person accused shall be found would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been there committed, and in the case of a person alleged to have been convicted, on such evidence as, according to the laws of the country where he is found, wonld prove that he had been convicted. In no case can the surrender be made unless the crime shall be punishable according to the laws in force in both countries with regard to extradition. In no case, nor on any consideration whatever, shall the high contracting parties be bound to surrender their own subjects, whether by birth or naturalization. Article 11. In the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, other than the colonies or foreign possessions of His Majesty, the manner of proceeding shall be as follows : — 1. In the case of a person accused — The requisition for the surrender shall be made to His Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of' State for Foreign Affairs by the Minister or other Diplomatic Agent of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by a warrant of arrest or other equivalent judicial document issued by a Judge or Magistrate duly authorised to take cognizance of the acts charged against the accused in Belgium, together with duly authenticated depositions or statements taken on oath or upon solemn affirmation before such Judge or Magistrate, clearly setting forth the said acts, and containing a description of the person claimed, and any particulars which may serve to identify him. The said Secretary of State shall transmit such documents to His Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, who shall then, by order under his hand and seal, signify to some Police Magistrate in London that such requisition has been made, and require him, if there be due cause, to issue his warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive. On the receipt of such order from the Secretary of State, and on the production of such evidence as would, in the opinion of the Magistrate, justify the issue of the warrant if the crime had been committed in the United Kingdom, he shall issue his warrant accordingly. When the fugitive shall have been apprehended, he shall be brought before a competent Magistrate. If the evidence to be then produced shall be such as to justify, according to the law of England, the committal for trial of the prisoner if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England, the Magistrate shall commit him to prison to await the warrant of the Secretary of State for his surrender, sending immediately to the Secretary of State a certificate of the committal and a report upon the case. After the expiration of a period from the committal of the prisoner, which shall never be less than fifteen days, the Secretary of State shall, by order under his hand and seal, order the fugitive criminal to be surrendered to such person as may be duly authorised to receive him on the part of the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians. 2. In the case of a person convicted— The course of proceeding shall be the same as in the case of a person accused, except that the warrant to be transmitted by the Minister or other Diplomatic Agent in support of his requisition shall clearly set forth the crime of which the person claimed has been convicted, and state