New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16


TO the government of the United States
Payments Of said sums shall be made IL
equal annual payments, to be COMPLETED
within ten years from the date of TIE ter
ninatiOn Of the labOrs of the commission
the first payment to be made in six month.
from same date. Semi-annual interest shall
be paid on the several sums awarded, at q
rate OF five per cent per annum from the
date of the termination OF the labors of the
commission.
ARTICLE ".
The commission shall terminate its labors
in twelve months from the date of its or.
ganization, except that thirty days exten.
sion may he given to issue certificates, II
necessary, on the decisions of the umpire in
the case referred to in the following article.
They shall keep record OF their proceed
lngs. and may appoint secretary.
ARTICLE v.
The decisions of this commission and those
tiu case there may be any) of the umpire,
shall be final and conclusive as to all pend
ing claims at the date OF their installation.
Claims which shall not be presented within
the twelve months herein prescribed will be
disregarded by both governments, and con-
sidered invalid.
In the event that, upon the termination
Of the labors of said commission, there
should remain pending one or more cases
before the umpire awaiting his decision, the
said umpire is authorized to make his de-
clslon and transmit same to the commits
sioners, who shall issue their certificates
thereupon and communicate [them] to each
government. which shall be held binding
and conclusive; provided, however, that
his decision shall be given within thirty days
from the termination of the labors of the
commission. and after the expiration of the
said thirty days any decision made shall be
void and of no effect.
ARTICLE vi.
Each government shall pay its own COM
missioner, and shall pay one-half Of what
may be due the umpire and secretary, and
oue-half the incidental expenses of the
commission.
The present convention shall be ratified
and the ratification exchanged, 40 soon as
may be practicable, in the city of Caracas.
In testimony whereof the plenipo-
tentiaries have signed this conven-
lion and hereunto affixed the seals
OF the ministry Of foreign relations
OF the United States of Venezuela, and OF
the legation of the United States of America,
ia Caracas, this twenty-tifth day of April, in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.
The Minister Resident of the United
States Of America.
ED. CULVER.
Minister of Foreign Relations OF the
United States of Venezuela
RAFAEL SEIJAS.
And whereas the said convention has
been duly ratified on both parts, and the
respective notifications of the same were
exchanged at Caracas on the tenth day of
April last:
81, no hot An
drew johnson, President of the United
States of America, have caused the said
convention to be made public, to the end
that the same and every clause and article
thereof may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and cit-
zens thereof.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington the
:wenty-ninth day of May. in the year of our
Lord one Thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven. and of the Independence of the
United States of America the nincty-tirst .
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
the United States of America.
Treaty between the United States and the
Grand Duchy Of Baden. Naturalization.
Concluded, July 10, 1863; Exchanged, De-
cember 7, 1869; Proclaimed, January 10,
1870.
WHEREAS. A treaty concerning the citi
zenship of emigrants, between the United
States of America and his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Baden; was concluded
and signed by their respective plenipoten-
tiaries at Carlsruhe on the nineteenth day
of July. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
which treaty, being in the English and Ger
man languages, is word for word as follows:
The President of the United States of
America and his Royal Highness the Grand
Duke Of Baden, led by the wish to regulate
the citizenship of those persons who emf
CRATE from Baden to the United States of
America, and from the United States of
America to the territory of the Grand
Duchy, have resolved to treat on this sub
iect, and have for that purpose appointed
plenipOtentiaries, that is to say: The Presi-
dent of the United States of America.
George Bancroft, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary, from the said
States near the Grand Duke of Baden: and
His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of
Banden, his president of the ministry of the
grand -ducal house and of foreign affairs and
chamberlain, Rudolph Won FreydOrf, who
have agreed to and signed the following
articles
~ ARTICLE l.
Citizens of the Grand Ouch of Baden, who
have resided uninterrnptedly within the
United States OF America five years, and be-
fore. during or after that time have become
or shall become naturalized citizens of the
United States. shall be held by Baden to he
American citizens. and shall be treated as
such. ReciprOcaily, citizens of the United
- r1,,,h n, cd IlI,,y,
terrptedly within the Grand Duchy of
Baden five years. and before, during, or after
that time have become OF shall become
naturalized citizens of the Grand Duchy of
Baden, shall be held by the United States
20 be citizens of Baden, and shall be treated
as such. The declaration of an intention to
become citizen of the one or the other
country has not for either party the effect
Of naturalization.
ARTICLE L..
A naturalized citizen of the one party, on
return to the territory of the other party,
remains liable to trial and punishment for
an action punishable 10y the laws of his origi-
nal country. and committed before his emf
grafton, saving always the limitation estab-
iished by the laws of his original country,
or any other remission of liability to punish
ment. In particular, a former Badener
who, under the first article, is to be held as
an American citizen, is liable to trial and
punishment according to the laws of Baden
for non-f ultillment of military duty:
L. If he has emigrated after he, on oc-
casion OF the draft from those owing military
duty, has been enrolled as a recruit for
service in the standing army.
.. If he has emigrated whilst he stood IN
service under the flag, or had a leave OF alb
sence only for a limited time.
g. If, having leave of absence for an I'M
limited time, or belonging to the reserve or
to the militia, he has emigrated after having