New Orleans Republican., 1872-12-14
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION.

BG THE PRE6IDEHf OF THE UNITED STATES
or AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States OF America and Sweden and Nor
uralizatjon.-Signed May 26,
1863; ratified December II. 1870; Ex-
changed June IA. 1871; proclaimed Janu-
aly 10, 1872.
WHEREAS, y 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 plenpotentiaries, at the city OF
Stockholm, on the SWenty-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 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 ap-
pointed PIenipotentiaries 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
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 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
IL A. -,
OF Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated
as such.
Recipr0caIly, citizens of Sweden or Nor
way who have resided in the United States of
America for continuous period of at least
Ave 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
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 LII.
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 cone
ditiOns as the said government may think
propeyo
ARTICLE So
The convention foP the mutual SieiiveSy
OF criminals, fugitiyes 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 karcbo Io0OO GemaIns JH 6og9S "s.A0ut
change
ARr:cLET.
5hs present convention shaIf &C into ef.
feet jmmedia:e'! or shp exchange ot ratlti-
catiUDso and shall continue IL force 80: ten
years. Ii neither party shall have given
the other six months. previous notice OF 1T
intention shen 10 terminate the sames 1t
shall further remain in force until the end
Of twelve months after either Of the con
tracing parties shall have giVG0 NOTICE to
the otheg OF such intention.
ARTIcLE ~.
The pfesepG convention shall be ratified