New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-22
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State,
& PROCLAMATION.

4 PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States OF America and Sweden and Nor
ati0n.-Signed May 26,
1863; ratified December II, 1870; Ex-
changed June IA, 1871; proclaimed Janu-
airy II, 1872.
WHEREAS, A convention and protocol be-
tween the United States of America and his
Majesty the KING of Sweden and Norway
We're concluded and signed by their respee-
tive plenpOtentiaries, at the city of
Stockholm, on the twenty sixth 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 aud Norway, and their
dependencies and . territOlica, 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 PienipOtentiaTics 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 Z.
Citizens of the United States of America
who have resided in Sweden or Norway for
a continuous period of at least five years,
and during such residence have become and
are lawfully recognized as citiZe n5 of Nor
way or Sweden, shall be held by the gov
eminent of the United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizense and shall be treated
rs 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 uaturaIized 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.
4 recognized citizen of she enc party, on
returning to the territory OF the other, re-
mains liable to trial and punishment for an
action punishable by the flaws of his
original country and committed before his
bat not for the emigration itself,
saving alwaye tho limitations established
by the laws of his original country and any
.I5cg remission ef liability to punishment,
ARTICLE IIIo
II citizen OF the one party, who has be-
come a recognized citizen OF the other
party. takes up his abode once moro 10 his
original country and applies to be res cred
to his former citizenship, the government
of the last named country is authorized to
receive him again as q citizen, ON such con-
ditions as tho said government may think
proper
ARTICLE ".
The convention for the mutual delivery
Of criminals. fugtiYes from justice, in GER
'aln cases. concluded between the United
States nn she On" pav'. n sweden and
Norway on the Is: '. ..U. le twenty-frst
OF March, 69ts}o 80 earns IN tcgcs without
ohanGeo
&RTICeE. "
The present conven li0n shall 20 into eff
feet immediately on the exchange Of ratIfi
cations, and shall continue i'll force tor ten
years. If neither party shall have given
the other six months previous notice Of its
then 10 terminate the same it
shall further remain in fore" until tbs end
ef Twelve months after either OF the CON
tracing parties shall have given notice to
the other OF such intention
ARTICLE VI
1:v resent COL gendon shall be ra&i6od !