New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-12
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION


By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States of America and Sweden and Nor
ralization.-Signed May 26,
1869; ratified December II, 1870; Ex-
changed June IA, 1871; proclaimed Janu-
airy IL, 1872
WHEREAS, A convention and protocol be
tween the United States of America and his
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway
were concluded and signed by their respec-
tive plenipotentiaries, at the city of
Stockholm, on the twenty-sixth Gay Of May,
1869, which convention and protocol 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 Norway, led by the wish to
regulate the citizenship of those persons
who emigrate 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 APP
pointed Plenipotentiaries to conclude con-
vention, that is to say: The President of the
United States of America, Joseph J. Bart
lett, Minister Resident, and his Majesty the
King of Sweden and Norway, Count Charles
Wachtmeister, Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs; who have agreed to and signed the
following articles:
ARTICLE I.
Citizens of the United States of America
who have resided in Sweden OF Norway for
a 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 the United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated
as such.
Reciprocally, citizens of Sweden OF Nor
way who have residedin the United States Of
America for a 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 citl-
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 II.
A recognized citizen of the one party, on
returning to the territory OF the other re-
mains liable to trial and punishment for an
action punishable by the laws of his
original country and committed before his
emigration, but not for the emigration itself,
saving always the limitations established
BY the laws of his original country and any
other remission Of liability to punishment.
ARTICLE III.
If citizen of the one party. who has be-
come 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 named country Is authorized to
receive him again as a citizen, on such con-
ditions as the said government may think
proper. 8.
ARTICLE I've
The convention for the mutual delivery
of criminals, fugitives from justice, in GER
tain cases, concluded between the United
States on the one part, and Sweden and
Norway on the other part the twenty-frst
of March, 1860, remains in force without
change.
ARTICLE V
The present convention shall 60 into eff
feet Immediately On the exchange of ratIti-
cations, and shall continue in force Tor ten
years. If neither party shall have given
the other six months previous notice OF It's
intention then to terminate the same 1t
shall further remain in force uRtu the end
Of twelve months after either of the con
tracing parties shall have given notice to
the other Of such intention.
ARTICLE VI.
The present convention shall DO GatiAed