New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-21
A PROCLAMATION,


BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States of America and Sweden aud Nor
rali8ation.-Signed May 70,
1863; ratified December II, 1870; Ex-
changed June Il, 1871; proclaimed Janu-
airy y, 1872.
WHEREAS, 4 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 twenty sixth day OF May,
1863, which convention and protocol as
amended by the Senate of the United States,
aud being in the English and Swedish
langu8 ges, are word for word az 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, aud their
dependencies and territories, aud from
Sweden and Norway TO the United States
of America, have resolved to treat on thus
subject, and have for that purpose ap-
pointed Pienipotentiariee to conclude a 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 or Norway for
q continuous period of al least five years,
and during such residence have become and
are lawfully recognized as citizens of Nor
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eminent of the United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated
| as such.
ReciprOcaIly, citizens of Sweden or Nor
way who have resided in 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 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 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 Ill
II a citizen of the one party, who has be-
come O recognized citizen OF the ether
party. takes up his abode once more in his
original country and applies to be restored
to his former citizenship, tho government
of the last named country Is authorized to
receive him again az citizen, on such con-
ditions as the said government may think
proper.
ARTICLE ~.
The convention for the mutual delivery
of criminals, fugitiyes from justice, in GER
tain cases, concluded between the United
States on the one part, and Sweden and
Norway on tie other part, the twenty-hrst
of March 1860, remains in force without
change,
ARTICLE ',
The present convention shall go into eff
feet Immediately on the exchange OF ratlh-
cations, and 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, II
shall further remain in force until th3 end
| of twelve months liter either of the con
tracing parties shall have given notice to
| the other of such intention.
ARTICLE VI.
The present convention shall be ratified