Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-04-02

by he fTestdeHt OF the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas treaty concerning the citizenship
OF emigrants, between the United States of
America and his Majesty the King of Wurttem.
berg, was concluded and signed by their re-
speetive plenipotentiaries, at Stuttgart, on the
twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred
and slxty-eight, which treaty, being in the
English and German languages, is word for
word as follows:
The President of the United States of America
and his Majesty the King of Wurttemberg, led
by the wish TO regulate the citizenship of those
persons who emigrate from the United States of
America TO Wurttemberg, and from Wurttem-
berg to the territory of the United States of
America have resolved to treat on this subject
ana have for that purpose appointed plenipo-
tentiarles, to conclude a convention, that is to
say: The President of the United States OF
America, George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenp0tentiary, and his
Majesty the King of Wurttemberg, his Minister
of the royal house and of foreign arfairs, Charles
Baron Narntuer, who have agreed to and
signed the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
Citizens of Wurtte mberg, who have become
or shall become naturaliZed citizens OF the
uninterruptedly within the United States 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 nat
uralzed citizens of Wurttemberg, and shall
have resided uninterruptedy within Wurttem-
berg hve years, shall be held by the United
states to be citizens OF Wurttemberg, and shall
tentiOn to become a citizen of the one or the
other country has not for either party the effect
OF naturalization.
A naturahzed citizen Of the one party on re-
turn to the territory of the other party remains
liable to trial and punishment for an,action pun
ishable 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 la
bility to punishment.
ARTICLE iii.
The convention for the mutual delivery of
criminals, fugitiyes from justice, in certain
United States the Is June, 1928 October
1853, remains in force without change.
ARTICLE ".
III aWurttemberger, naturalized in America
renews his residence in Wurttemberg, without
the intent to return to America, he shall be held
to have renounced his naturalization in the
United States. keciprocally, if an American
dence in the United States without the intent to
return TO Wurttemberg, he shall be held to have
renounced his 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 other country.
ARTICLE V.
The present convention shall 60 into effect
imme diately ON the exchange of ratificatiOns,
and shall continue in force for ten years. III
neither party shall have given to the other six
months previous notice OF its intention then to
terminate the same, it shall further remain i'm
force until the end of twelve months after either
OF the high contracting parties shall have given
notice to 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 con-
sent OF the Senate of the United States, and the
ratification shall be exchanged at Stuttgart as
soon as possible, within twelve months from the
date hereof.
In faith whereof the plenpotentiaries have
signed and sealed this convention.
Stuttgart the twenty-seventh of July, one
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
lsEAI.l GEO. BANCROFT.
fsEAL.l FREIHEER EON VARNBuLER
And whereas the said treaty has been duly
ratified on both parts, and the respective rats
cations have been exchanged:
Now, therefore, be il known that l., ULYSSES s.
Grant, President of the United States of
have caused the said treaty 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 the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof L have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United States to
be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this seventh
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sew
lsEAL.l enty, and of the independence of the
United States the ninety-fourth.
L. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.