New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-27
BY the Presidents
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of Stat8s
Z PROCLAMATION
By GEIB PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED gfSfE8
or AMERICA.

By GZiS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ct sfE8
or AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between t6e United
States OF America and Sweden aud Nor
ura!zdtiOn.-Signed May Is,
1852 ratified December II, l810;. Elk
changed June l. 1891; proclaimed Janu-
airy u, 1922
WHEREAS, A convention and protocol he
tween the United States of America and his
Majesty the KING of Sweden and Norway
were concluded and signed by their resp@c-
tive pienjpOtentiaries, at tho city Of
Stockholm, on the twonty-sixth day Of May,
1869, which convention and protocol az
amended by the Senate of the United Statee,
and being in the English and Swedish
languages, are word for word as follows:
The President Of the United States Of
America and his Majesty the King Of
Sweden aad Norway, led by the wish to
regulate the citizenship of those persons
who eMigTat0 from the United States Of
America TO Sweden and Norway, and their
dependencies and territories, and from
Sweden and Norway to the United States
Of America, have resolved to treat on this
subject and have for that purpose ap-
pointed PIenjpOtentiaries to conclude a con
yenti0n, that is ~ say: The President OF the
United Sta5es of America, Joseph j. Bart
lett, Minister Resident, and his Majesty the
\ "
Wacbtmeister, Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs; who have agreed to and signed the
following articles:
ARTICLE Z.
Citizens Of the United States Of America
who have resided in Sweden or Norway for
~ continuous period of at least FIVE years,
and during such residence have become and
are lawfully recognized as citizens of Nor
way or Sweden, shall be held by the gov
eminent of tho United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated
as such.
ReciprocaiIy, citizens of Sweden or Nor
way who havo resided in the United States of
America for continuous period of at least
five years, and during such residence have
become naturalized citizens of the United
States shall be held by the government OF
Sweden and Norway to be American citi-
zens, and shall be treated as such.
The declaration of an intention to become
a citizen Of the one or the other country has
not for either party the effect Of citizenship
legally acquired.
ARTICLE IL
A recognized citizen of the one party, on
returning to the territory of tho other, re-
mains liable to trial and punishment Tor an
action punishable by the laws of his
original country and committed before his
emigration, bat not for the emigration itself,
saving always the limitations established
by the laws of his original country aud any
other remission of liability to punishment.
ARTICLE III.
II citizen Of the one party, who has he
come recognized citizen of the other
party, takes up his abode once more ID his
original country and applies to be restored
to his former cjtiz nship, the government
of the last named country Is authorized 70
receive him again as q citizen, on such con
ditions as the said government may think
proper.
ARTICLE ".
The convention l2r the mutual delivery
of criminals, fugitives from justice, a Ger
tain cases concluded between the United
States on the one part, and Sweden and
Norway on the other part. the twenty first
OF March, 1860, remains in force without
change,
ARTICLE Y.
The present convention shall 90 into eff |
feet Immediately ON the exchange of ratlti- |
and shall continue in force for ten |
years. If neither party shall have given |
the other six months previous notice Of its |
intention then to terminate the same, it |
shall further remain in force until the end |
Of twelve months after either of the con |
tracing parties shall have given notice to
the other Of such intention
ARTICLE VI
Ths PCasenS convention shall be- setiaea