File No. 23700/39.
Chargé Bailly-Blanchard to the Secretary
of State.
American Embassy,
Paris, July 30,
1910.
Sir: In compliance with the department’s
instruction No. 122, I have the honor to send herewith a copy of the
letter and inclosure which I addressed to Minister Beaupré at the Hague,
with reference to the transit through France of a fugitive from the
justice of the United States whose extradition has been granted by the
Government of Luxemburg.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure.]
Chargé Bailly-Blanchard to Minister Beaupré.
American Embassy,
Paris, July 30,
1910.
Sir: Acting under instructions from the
Department of State I have the honor to send you herewith a copy of
an extract from the treaty of extradition between France and
Luxemburg as far as relates to the question of transit. When Mr.
Paxton Hibben, secretary of your legation, was in Paris I fully
explained to him the requirements and method of procedure in case of
transit through France. For your information I will repeat what I
said to Mr. Hibben.
In order that transit be granted through France of a fugitive from
the justice of the United States whose extradition has been granted
by the Government of Luxemburg it is necessary that a formal demand
be made to the foreign office through this embassy, accompanied by
either the original or an authenticated copy of the order of arrest
or other document upon which the extradition was granted by the
Government of Luxemburg. Transit is only allowed by the French
Government under the same conditions that extradition would have
been allowed.
Further, when transit is granted the prisoner will be taken to the
frontier by the Luxemburg authorities, who will deliver him to the
French authorities, and by the latter the prisoner will be taken to
the port in France decided upon and there handed over to the
American official duly authorized to receive him.
I am, etc.,
