27'88 EXTRADITION, ETC., TREATY-AUSTRIA. JANUARY 31, 1930. Ratifications ex- clIanged. Proclamation. AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been d1.ily ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Vienna on the twelfth day' of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, have caused the said 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 WlJEREOF, 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 fourteenth day of August in the' year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] thirty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fifth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: WILBUR J. CARR Acting Secretary oj State. [Exchange of notes concerning the deeth NOTES CONCERNING THE DEATH PENALTY, EXCHANGED AT THB penalty,) TIME OF SIGNATURE OF THE EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THlII From the American Minister, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND AUSTRIA The American Minister to the Austrian Federal O/w,nceUor EXCELLENCY: AMERICAN LEGATION, VIENNA, January 918t, 1990. At the moment of signing the Treaty of Extradition between the United States of America and the Republic of Austria, I have the honor to state that I have been duly authorized to inform Your Excellency that in the event of the conviction in the United States of a person extradited from Austria where such conviction is followed by a sentence of death, the Government of the United States will undertake to recommend to the appropriate authorities the exercise of mercy by way of the commutation of the sentence to life imprison- ment. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest con- sideration. ALBERT H. WASHBURN HIS EXCELLENCY DR. JOHANN SCHOBER, Austrian Federal O/w,nceUor.
