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1. A warrant must purport to be signed by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the other State. 2. Depositions or affirmations, or the copies thereof, must purport to be certified under the hand of a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the other State to be the orginal depositions or affirmations, or to be the true copies thereof, as the case may require. 3. A certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of a conviction must purport to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate, or officer of the other State. 4. In every case such warrant, deposition, affirmation, copy, certificate, or judicial document must be authenticated either by the oath of some witness, or by being sealed with the official sea! of the Minister of Justice or some other Minister of the other State ; but any other mode of authentication for the time being permitted by the law of the country where the examination is taken may be substituted for the foregoing. Article 11. The extradition shall not take place unless the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the State applied, to, either to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial, in case the crime had been committed in the territory of the said State, or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the Courts of the State which makes the requisition, and that the crime of which he has been convicted is one in respect of which extradition could, at the time of such conviction, have been granted by the State applied to. The fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered until the expiration of fifteen days from the date of his being committed to prison to await his surrender. Article 12. If the individual claimed by one of the two high contracting parties in pursuance of the present treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers, his extradition shall be granted to that State whose demand is earliest in date. Article 13. If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the apprehension of the fugitive, or within such further time as the State applied to, or the proper tribunal thereof shall direct, the fugitive shall be set at liberty. Article 14. All articles seized which were in the possession, of the person to be surrendered at the time of his apprehension shall, if the competent authority of the State applied to for the extradition has ordered the delivery thereof, be given up when the extradition takes place; and. the said delivery shall extend not merely to the stolen articles, but to everything that may serve as a proof of the crime. Article 15. The high contracting parties renounce any claim for the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by them in the arrest and maintenance of the person to be surrendered, and his conveyance till placed on board the ship ; they reciprocally agree to bear such expenses themselves. Article 16. The stipulations of the present treaty shall be applicable to the colonies and foreign possessions of His Britannic Majesty, so far as the laws for the time being in force in such colonies and foreign possessions respectively will allow. The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal, who has taken refuge in any such colony or foreign possession may be made to the Governor or chief authority of such colony or possession by any person authorized to act in such colony or possession as a consular officer of Siam. Such requisitions may be disposed of subject always, as nearly as may be, and so far as the laws of such colonies or foreign possessions will allow, to the provisions of this treaty, by the said Governors or chief authorities, who, however, shall be at liberty either to grant the surrender or to refer the matter to His Britannic Majesty's Government. His Britannic Majesty shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of criminals from Siam who may take refuge within such colonies and foreign possessions, on the basis, as nearly as may be and so far as the laws of such colonies or foreign possessions will allow, of the provisions of the present treaty. Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any colony or foreign possession of His Britannic Majesty'shall, be governed by the rules laid down in the preceding articles of the present treaty. Article 17. The present treaty shall come into force ten days after its publication, in conformity with the forms prescribed, by the laws of the high contracting parties. ' It may be terminated by either of the high contracting parties at any time on giving to the other six months' notice of its intention to do so. The treaty shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done in duplicate, at Bangkok, the 4th day of March, 1911, in the 129 th year of " Ratanakosindr." Arthur Peel. Devawongse Vakoprakar.