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milled within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum within 

 any of the countries of the other, provided that this shall only be done 

 ' on such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the 

 24 place, where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, 

 would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if 

 the offence had there been committed. The expense of such appre- 

 hension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed by those who make 

 the requisition and receive the fugitive. 



ARTICLE XXVIII. 



It is agreed that the first ten articles of this treaty shall be perma- 

 nent, and that the subsequent articles, except the twelfth, shall be 

 limited in their duration to twelve years, to be computed from the 

 day on which the ratifications of this treaty shall be exchanged, but 

 subject to this condition, that whereas the said twelfth article will 

 expire by the limitation therein contained, at the end of two years 

 from the signing of the preliminary or other articles of peace, which 

 shall terminate the present war in which His Majesty is engaged, it is 

 agreed that proper measures shall by concert be taken for bringing 

 the subject of that article into amicable treaty and discussion, so early 

 before the expiration of the said term as that new arrangements on 

 that head may by that time be perfected and ready to take place. 

 But if it should unfortunately happen that His Majesty and the 

 United States should not be able to agree on such new arrangements, 

 in that case all the articles of this treaty, except the first ten, shall 

 then cease and expire together. 



Lastly. This treaty, when the same shall have been ratified by His 

 Majesty and by the President of the United States, by and with the 

 advice and consent of their senate, and the respective ratifications 

 mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on His Majesty 

 and on the said States, and shall be by them respectively executed and 

 observed with punctuality and the most sincere regard to good faith ; 

 and whereas it will be expedient, in order the better to facilitate 

 intercourse and obviate difficulties, that other articles be proposed and 

 added to this treaty, which articles, from want of time and other cir- 

 cumstances, cannot now be perfected, it is agreed that the said parties 

 will, from time to time, readily treat of and concerning such articles, 

 and will sincerely endeavour so to form them as that they may con- 

 duce to mutual convenience and tend to promote mutual satisfaction 

 and friendship; and that the said articles, after having been duly 

 ratified, shall be added to and make a part of this treaty. In faith 

 whereof we, the undersigned Ministers Plenipotentiary of His Majesty 

 the King of Great Britain and the United States of America, have 

 signed this present treaty, and have caused to be affixed thereto the 

 seal of our arms. 



Done at London this nineteenth day of November, one thousand 

 seven hundred and ninety-four. 



GRENVILLE. [L. s.] 

 JOHN JAY. [L. s.] 



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