The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-03
BY the President Of the United States n A,asrica


A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas convention and protocol between
the United States of America and His Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway were concluded
and signed by their respective Plenjpotentiari
at the city of Stockholm, on the twenty-sixt til
DAY OF May, 1859, which convention and protc.
col as amended by the Senate of the United
States, 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 and Nor.
way, led by the wish to regulate the citizenship
of those persons who emigrate from the United
states of America 10 Sweden and Norway and
their dependencies and territories, and from
Sweden and Norway to the United States of
America, have resolved to trent on this subiect
ana have for that purpose appointed Plenipoten
tiar1es 10 conclude q convention, that is to say:
The President of the United States of America
Joseph J. Bartlett, Minister Resident !; and His
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, Count
Charlos WachtIneister, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs; who have agreed to and signed
ARTICLE 1.
Citizens of the United States of America who
have resided in Sweden or Norway for a CON
tinuous period of at least five years, and during
such residence have become and are lawfully
recognized as citizens of Sweden and Norway
shall be held by the government of the United
States to be Swedish or Norwegian citizens, and
shall be treated as such.
Reciprocally, citizens of Sweden or Norway
who have resided in the United States of Anne.
rica for continuous period of at least five years
lied citizens OF tho United States shall be held
by the government of Sweden and Norway to be
American citizens, and shall be treated as such.
The declaration of an intention to become 8
citizen of the one or the other country has not
for either party the effect of citizenship legally
acquired
ARTICLE II.
A recognized citizen of the one party on re-
turning to the territory of the other, remains
liable to trial and punishment for an action pun
ishable by the laws OF his original country and
committed before his emigration, but not for the
emigration itself saving always the limitation
established by the laws of his original country
and any other remission of liability TO punish
ment.
ARTICLE III.
If citizen of the one party, who has become
a recognized citizen of the other party takes up
his abode once more in his original country and
applies to be restored to his former citizenship
the government of the last-na country Is aiI,
thorized to receive him again as a citizen, on
such conditions as the said government may
think proper.
ARTICLE ".
The convention for the mutual delivery of
criminals, fugitves from justice, in certain cases
concluded between the United States on the one
part, and Sweden and Norway the other part,
the 2lst OF March, 1850, remains in force without
change.
ARTICLRv.
The present convention shall go into effect i'm
medlateiy on the exchange of notifications, and
shall continue in force for ten years. If neither
party shall have given the other six months pre-
yious notice of It's intention thcn to terminate
the same, it shall further remain in force until
the end of twelve months after either of the
parties shall have given notice tothe
other of such intention.
ARTICLE VII
The present convention shall be ratified by the
President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate of the United States and by His
M ajesty the King of Sweden and Norway and
the Publications shall be exchanged at Stockholm
within twenty four months from the date hereof
In faith whereof the Tlenpotentiaries have
signed and sealed this convention.
Stockholm, May IS, 1860
ZEAL JOSEPH J. BARTLETT