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 the 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 every thing 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 Thailand.
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 Governor 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 Majest shall, however, be at liberty to make special arrangements in the British Colonies and foreign possessions for the surrender of criminals from Thailand who may take refuge within such Colonies and foreign possessions, on the basis, as nearly as may be, and as 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 ratifications 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 fourth day of March, 1911, in the 129th Year of Ratanakosindr.***
(Signed) ARTHUR Peel {L.S.)
(Signed) DEVAWONGSE VAROPRAKAR (L.S.)
*** Ratifications exchanged in London, 1st August 1912.
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