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First Schedule., * The Extradition Act, 1870, and the Acts amending the same apply to the Colony.

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LIST OF CRIMES. Murder and attempt and conspiracy to murder. Manslaughter. Counterfeiting and altering money and uttering counterfeit ar altered money. Sees. 2 and 16. 1020 Cap. 89] Fugitive Criminals Surrender Forgery, counterfeiting and altering and uttering what IS forged or counterfeited or altered. Embezzlement and larceny. Obtaining money or goods by false pretences. Offences by bankrupts against bankruptcy law or any indictable offence under the laws relating to bankruptcy. Fraudulent misappropriations and frauds by a bailee made criminal by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance for the time being in force. Rape. Abduction. Child stealing. Burglary and housebreaking. Arson. Robbery with violence. Bribery. Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort. Piracy by law of nations. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so. Assault on board a ship on the high sea with intent to destroy life or to do grievous bodily harm. Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master. Offences against the Slave Trade Act, 1873, or otherwise in connection with the slave trade, committed on the high seas or on land, or partly on the high seas and partly on land. Kidnapping and false imprisonment. Perjury and subornation of perjury. Any offence not before mentioned, being an indictable offence under the following Acts of Parliament of 1861, or any of them, or under any Act ameTlding or substituted for the same- 24 and 25 Victoria c. 93 Larceny.* , 97 Malicious injuries to property. " , 98 Forgery.t " " 99 False coining.t 100 Murder and other offences against the person.§ Any other crime from time to time added by Act of Parliament to the list of crimes in the first schedule to the Extradition Act, 1870.11 * cf. the Larceny Act, 1913. t cf. infra. ~Repealed and replaced by the Coinage Offences Act, 1936. § cf. the Criminal Law (Amendment) Acts, 1885 and 1922. II The following have been added- Offences against any enactment for the time being in force relating to dangerous drugs and attempts to commit such offences (added by section 1 of the Extradition Act, 1932). Attempts to forge bank notes, attempts to utter forged bank notes, and <tttempts to commit in relation to bank notes any indictable offence under the Forgery Act, 1913, or any Act amending or substituted for the same, heretofore included (added by section 4 of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935). Attempts to counterfeit or alter money, attempts to utter counterfeit or altered money, and attempts to commit any indictable offence under the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, or any Act amending or substituted for the same (added by section 4 of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935). The Coinage Offences Act, 1861, has been repealed and replaced by the Coinage Offences Act, 1936.

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