New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-19

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| lent.
1t is also understood that the quarterly
account shall be paid, respectively, in gold
| and in the denomination Of the money o
the creditor Office.
Signed at Washington, the first day O
May, 1869, and at Florence, the twentyfiftl
day Of May, 1869.
JOHN A. j. CRESwELL,
| Postmaster General
| Director General of Posts
ADDITIONAL CONVENTION to the con
| vention for the amelioratiOn of the pOsta
| intercourse between the United States OF
| America and the Swiss Confederation
| signed at Berne the eleventh day of DC
| tober, A. d. 1867.
| An additional convention between the
General Post Office of the United States Of
| America and the General Post Office OF the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land, having established reduced charge
! of six cents per ounce or per thirty grammes
| for the sea conveyance across the Atlantic
| of letters sent in closed mails through the
United Kingdom, the undersigned, duly au.
| thOrized by their respective governments,
have agreed upon the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
The single rate of letter postage on the
direct correspondence, exchanged between
the two administrations by closed mail, via
England, subject to the reserve mentioned
in article seven of the convention of Octo-
Der IL, 1867 shall be as follows:
l. On letters from the United States, ten
cents.
2. On letters from the Swiss Confedera-
ton, fifty centimes.
And for the sea conveyance Of letters in
closed mails across the waters of the At
lantic Ocean the United States office shall
receive six cents per ounce or per thirty
grammes.
ARTICLE II.
The conditions of articles and Is of the
convention between the United States of
America and the Swiss Confederation,
signed at Berne the eleventh day of OctO-
Der, A. D. 1867, so far as they are contrary
to the preceding article, are repealed.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention, which shall be
considered as additional to the convention
of the eleventh Of October, 1867, shall come
into operation on the first Of May, 1870.
Done in duplicate and signed in Berne the
seventh day Of February, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, and in Wash
ington the thirteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred seventy.
[sEAL.] JOHN. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
The Department of Posts,
[sEAL.] F. CHALET VENEL.
l hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof I have
caused the seal Of the United States to be
affixed.
[sEAL.] U. S. GRANT
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Washington, April Is, 1870.
A PROCLAMATION by the President of
the United States of America
Whereas. a treaty concerning the citizen
ship of emigrants between the United States
of America and his Majesty the King of
Wurttemberg, 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 convention, that is to say:
The President of the United States of Amer
lea, George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary, and his Males
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 l.
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 Reciprocallv,
citizens Of the United States of America who
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 II. II
A naturalized citizen Of the one party on
return to the territory Of the other partv
remains liable to trial and punishment for
an action punishable by the laws of his
original country, ana 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.
tain cases, concluded between Wurttemberu
and the United States the sixteenth June
1882, thirteenth October, 1853, remains in
force without change.
ARTICLE la.
Ii Wurttemberger, naturalized in Amer.
ca, renews his residence in Wurttemherg
without the intent to return to America he |
shall be held to have renowned his natnr-
AVIATION IN the United States. Recinro-
ally, II an American naturaIized in W,,rt.
emberg, renews his residence in the Tinted |
states without the intent to return TO Wurt.
emberg, he shall be held to have renowned |
us naturalization in Wurttemberg. The
ntent not to return may be held to exist |
Shen the person naturalized in the one
olmtry resides more than two years in the
'ther country
ARTICLE V.
Inc present convention shall 90 into
meet immediately on the exchange of rati-
lcatlons, and shall continue in force for ten