New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-26

the United States.
In entering the foreign charges On the
letter-bill, in the money OF the despatchlng
office, the cent of the United States and five
centesimi Of Italy shall be taken as equlva-
lent.
1t is also understood that the quarterly
account shall be paid, respectively, in gold.
and in the denomination Of the money OF
the creditor office.
Signed at Washington, the first day OF
May, 1869, and at Florence, the twentyffth
day Of May, 1869:
Postmaster General.
G. BARBAVARA,
Director General of Posts
ADDITIONAL CONVENTION to the con-
ventiOn for the ameiOration of the postal
intercourse between the United States Of
America and the Swiss Confederation,
signed at Berne the eleventh day Of Oc-
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 II, 1867, shall be as follows:
I I'm 1affarS from tho limited Sfataa Ton
cents. t. 4..e ..
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 III.
The conditions of articles Sand 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to the preceding article, are repealed.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 Nav, 1870.
seventh day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, and in Wash
ington the thirteenth day of April, one
eight hundred seventy.
[sEAL.] JOHN. A. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States.
The Department of Posts,
[sEAL.] +. CHALET VENEL.
hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
ton, and in testimony thereof, have
caused the seal OF the United States to be
affixed.
[sEAL.] L. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH Secretary Of State.
Washington, April IL, 1870.
A PROCLAMATION by the President of
the United States of America.
Whereas treaty concerning the citizen
ship of emigrants between the United States
of America and his Majesty the King of
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
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,
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 citizen of
the one or the other country has not for
SAeACA pal tuc eucCU VI III,
ARTICLE II.
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
saving always the limitation
established by the laws of his original
country, or any other remission Of liability
TO punishment
The convention for the mutual delivery
of criminals, fugitives from Justice. in Ger
tain cases, concluded between Wurttemberg
and the United States the sixteenth June.
1852, thirteenth October, 1853, remains in
force without change. .,,.'......
ARTICLE IA.
Ii Wurttemberger, naturalized in Amer
ca, renews his residence in Wurttemberp
without the intent to return to America, he
shall be held to have renowned his natur
ilization in the United States. Recipro-
,ally, II an American naturaHzed in Wurt-
emberg, renews his residence in the United
states without the intent to return to Wurt-
emberg, ne shall be held to have renowned
lis naturalization in Wurttemberg. The
intent not to return may be held to exist
when the person naturalized in the one
country resides more than two years in the
'ther country. :
ARTICLE V.
The present convention shall 90 into
.ffect Immediately on the exchange of rati-
lcatlons. and shall continue in force for ten
ears. II neither party shall have given to
ne otner SIX months previous notice of its
ntentlon then to terminate the same, it
mall further remain in force until the end of
we've months after either Of the high con-
ractlng parties shall have given notice to
he other Of such intention.
ARTICLE VI.