New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-28
f4y the Presidens
HAMILTON Fish.
Secretary of State.
3 PROCLAMATION. \

Y PROCLAMATION
BY TEPE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED sTAPaB
OR AMERICA
Convention and protocol between the United
States OF America and Sweden and Nor
uraii2ation.-Signed May &c,
| 1850 ratified December II, 1870; En-
changed jane ID l87d; proclaimed Janu-
9ry ~, 1872
| WHEREAS, p convention and protocol be-
tween the United States Of America and his
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway
were concluded nnd signed by their respeo-
tive pienipotent2riea, as the city of
Stockholm, on tue twonty-sixth day of May
1863, which convention and protocol az
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 tho United States Of
America and his Majesty the King Of
Sweden and Norway, led by the wiah 10
regulate the citizenship of those pHrs So.
who emigrate from tho United States .t
America TO Sweden and Norway, and thnig
dependencies and t8rritUries, ami from
Sweden and Norway to the United ,at-s
of America, have resolved to treat ON this
subject and have for that purpose ap-
pointed PienipOtcntiaries to conclude oOn-
vention, that is to say: The President of the
United States of America, Joseph g. 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 (
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 citizens of Nor
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eminent of tho United s ates to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall DO treated
ss such.
ReCipr0oally, citizrns Of Sweden or Nor
way who have resided in the United Statos of
America for q 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 oiti-
zenE, and shall be treated as such.
The declaration of An intention to become
q citizen of the on8 or the other country has
not for either party tho 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 gu
action punishable by the laws of his
original country and committed before his
bat not for the migration itself,
saving always the linitations established
by the laws Of his original country and any
other remission Of liability to punishment. |
ARTICLE III.
II q citizen of the one party, who has BE- |
come recognized citizen of the other |
party, takes up his abode once more in his |
country ana applies to he res. ore4 |
10 h;s former citizenship, the government |
OF the last named country i auth u. iz.d to |
receive hun again rs citizen, On auch Co.'S |
diticus as the said goYern.ueH5 may think |
proper.
ARTICLE ".
. The convention for the mutual delivery
Of criminals, fugitives FROM justice, n GER
tain cases, o0ncipdUd between the U4itrd
States on the ORs part, and Sweden ana
Norway on the Other part, the twenty-first
1t March, 1850. remains III tUrse without
change.
ARTICLE "
The present convention shall 20 into 81
feet immediately on the exchange Of rath
cations, and shall son'iHue in force tor ten
years. If neither party shall have given
he other six months previous notice Of it5
Intention then to terzalnApe the same, il
shall further remain in force until tn enj I
# Twelve months after either of the coz
racting parties shall have given notice TO
he other Of suoh intention.
ARTICLE VI
The pseReut convention shaA be Rati6ed