New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-25
By tho President;
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION.

| II L ACSNA4EAhl u L C4Ns
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
| OF AMERICA.
| Convention and protocol between the United
| States of America and Sweden and Nor
aIization.-Sgned May %,
1868; ratified December II, 1870; Elk
| changed June IA, t87l proclaimed Janu-
| airy T., 1872
| WHEREAS, A convention and protocol be-
| tween the United States Of America and bis
| Majesty the KING Of Sweden and Norway
were concluded and signed by their respec-
| tive plenipOtentiaries, at the city of
| Stockholm, on the twentysixth day 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 7.
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 the United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated
as such.
Reciprocally, citizens of Sweden or Nor
way who have resided in the Uuited States of
America for d 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 eiti-
zens, and shall be treated as such.
The declaration of an intention to become
q citizen of the one or the other country has
mot for either party the effect Of citizenship
legally acquired,
ARTICLE Il.
4 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 q 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 DIS the said government. may think
proper.
ARTICLE ".
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 twentyfUst I
of March, 1850, remains IN force without |
change.
ARTICLE Z.
The present convention shall 90 into af-
feet Immediately on the exchange OF rauf-
cations, aud shall continue in force Tor ten
years. If neither party shall have given
the other six months previous notice of it,
intention then to terminate the same, it
shall further remain IN force until the cad |
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 be ratified