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BILATERAL EXTRADITION TREATIES
Supplementary extradition treaty between the United States of America and Rumania.
Signed at Bucharest, November 10, 1936;
Ratification advised by the Senate, April 27, 1937;
Ratified by the President, May 19, 1937;
Ratified by Rumania, July 7, 1937;
Ratifications exchanged at Bucharest, July 27, 1937;
Proclaimed, July 30, 1937.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a supplementary extradition treaty between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Rumania was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Bucharest, on the tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, the original of which supplementary extradition treaty, being in the English and French languages is word for word as follows:
The United States of America and The Kingdom of Rumania judging it necessary to conclude an additional treaty to the treaty of extradition signed at Bucharest on July 23, 1924, to complete the cases in which extradition is granted between the two States, have appointed for this purpose as plenipotentiaries as follows:
The President of the United States of America:
Mr. Leland Harrison, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in Rumania; and
His Majesty The King of Rumania:
Mr. Victor B?dulescu, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs;
Who, after having exchanged their credentials, recognized in due and good form, have agreed to the following provisions:
ARTICLE I.-
The crimes and offenses which follow are added to Article II of the above mentioned treaty, for which extradition may be granted, that is:
24. Crimes and offenses against the bankruptcy laws.
ARTICLE II.-
The present treaty will be considered as forming an integral part of the treaty of July 23, 1924, and, consequently, the list in Article II shall be so completed that point 24 of the principal treaty shall become point 25.-
ARTICLE III.-
The present treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties according to their respective constitutional provisions and will come into force on the day of exchange of ratifications, which will take place at Bucharest as soon as possible.
ARTICLE IV.-
The present treaty will be in force for the duration of enforcement of the treaty of July 23, 1924, and their application will cease at the same time.
In witness whereof the above-named plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty, drawn up in the English language and in the French language, and have hereunto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate, at Bucharest, the tenth day of the month of November 1936.
LELAND HARRISON.
[SEAL]
VICTOR BADULESCU
[SEAL]
AND WHEREAS the said supplementary extradition treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Bucharest, on the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said supplementary extradition 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 of America and the citizens thereof.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the city of Washington this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
[SEAL]
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.
50 Stat 1349, 1937 WL 33166 (U.S. Treaty), T.S. No. 916
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