New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-23
A PROCLAMATION by the President of
the United States of America.

Wurttelnberg, was concluded and signed
by their respective plenipotentiaries, at
Stuttgart, on the twenty-seventh day OF
July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
which treaty, being in the English and
German languages, is word for word as fol-
lows:
The President of the United States of
America and his Majesty the King of Wurt-
temberg, led by the wish to regulate the
citizenship of those persons who emigrate
from the United States of America to Wurt-
temberg and from Wurttemberg to the ter
ritOry of the United States of America, have
resolved to treat on this subject, and have,
for that purpose, appointed plenipOtentiaries
to conclude a convention, that is to say:
The President of the United States of Amer
lea, George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister PlenipOtentiary, and his Majes-
ty the King Of Wurttemberg, his Minister
of the royal house and of foreign affairs,
Charles Baron Varnbuler, who have agreed
to and signed the following articles:
ARTICLE /.
Citizens Of Wurttemberg, who have be-
come or shall become naturalized citizens of
the United States of America, and shall
have resided uninterruptedly within the
United States for five years, shall be held
by Wurttemberg to be American citizens,
and shall be treated as such. Reciprocally,
have become or shall become naturalized
citizens of Wurttemberg, and shall
have resided uninterruptedly within Wurt-
temberg five years, shall be held by the
United States to be citizens of Wurttemberg,
and shall be treated as such. The declara-
ton OF an intention to become a citizen of
the one or the other country has not for
either party the effect of naturalization.
ARTICLE III
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 by the laws of his
original country, and committed before his
emigration; saving always the limitation
established by the laws of his original
country, or any other remission of liability
to punishment.
ARTICLE III.
The convention for the mutual delivery
OF criminals fugitives from Justice, in Ger
tam eases, concluded between Wurttemberg
and the United States the sixteenth june
1872, thirteenth October, 1853, remains in
force without change.
ARTICLE IA.
1t Wurttemberger, naturalized in Amor
lca renews his residence in Wurttembero
Wltnout the intent to return to America. he
snail be held to have renowned his natur-
allzatiOn in the United States. Rec;nro.
caly, II an American naturalized in Wurt-
temperg, renews his residence in the United
states without the intent to return to Wurt-
temperg, he shall be held to have renowned
ms naturalization in Wurttemberg. The
intent not to return may be held to exist
"hen the person naturaliZed in the one
country resides more than two years in the
other country.
ARTICLE v
The present convention shall 90 into
effect Immediately on the exchange of rati-
hcatlOns, and shall continue in force for ten
years. 1t neither party shall have given to
the other six months previous notice of its
intention then to terminate the same If
shall further remain in force until the end of
twelve months after either of the HIGH con
tracing parties shall have given notice 10
the other OF such intention.
ARTICLE vi.
The present convention shall be ratified
by his Majesty the King Of Wurttemberg.
with the consent of the Chambers of the
Kingdom, and by the President by and with
the ADVICE and consent Of the Senate of the
United States, and the notifications shall he
eXchaHged at Stuttgart as soon as possible.
wIIhln Twelve months from the date hereof.
In faith whereof the plenipotentiaries
nave signed and sealed this convention.
Stuttgart, the twenty-seventh of july.
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight'
lsRAL.J GEORGE BANCROFT.
ana whereas the said treaty has been