LITHUANIA - SUPPLEMENTARY
Supplementary extradition treaty between the United States of America and Lithuania.
Signed at Washington, May 17, 1934;
Ratification advised by the Senate, June 15, 1934;
Ratified by the President, August 18, 1934;
Ratified by Lithuania, November 14, 1934;
Ratifications exchanged at Washington, January 8, 1935;
Proclaimed, January 9, 1935.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a Supplementary Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and Lithuania was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, the original of which Supplementary Treaty is word for word as follows:
The United States of America and the Republic of Lithuania desiring to promote the cause of justice by enlarging the list of crimes on account of which extradition may be granted under the Treaty concluded between the United States of America and the Republic of Lithuania on April 9, 1924, have resolved to conclude a Supplementary Treaty for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:
The President of the United States of America, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and
The President of the Republic of Lithuania, Mikas Bagdonas, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the Republic of Lithuania at Washington,
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and concluded the following articles:
ARTICLE I
The following crimes are added to the list of crimes numbered 1 to 24 in Article II of the said Treaty of April 9, 1924, on account of which extradition may be granted, that is to say:
- Crimes and offenses against the bankruptcy laws.
- Crimes and offenses, or attempted crimes or offenses, against the laws relating to the traffic in narcotic drugs.
ARTICLE II
The present Treaty shall be considered as an integral part of the said Extradition Treaty of April 9, 1924, and Article II of the last-mentioned Treaty shall be read as if the list of crimes therein contained had originally comprised the additional crimes specified and numbered 25 and 26 in the first Article of the present Treaty.
The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional methods, and shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals.
DONE, in duplicate, at Washington this seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.
CORDELL HULL
[SEAL]
MIKAS BAGDONAS
[SEAL]
AND Whereas the said Supplementary Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty- five;
Now, Therefore, be it known that I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Supplementary 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 ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-ninth.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
[SEAL]
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.
49 Stat 3077, 1935 WL 30032 (U.S. Treaty)