New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-24
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary Of State.
! PROCLAMATION.

A PROCLAMATiON.
By 5IiE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States OF America and Sweden and Nor-
alization-Signed May %,
1869; ratified December II. 1870: Eek
changed June Il. 1871: proclaimed Janu-
ary 70, 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 respec-
tive plenipotentiaries, at the city of
Stockholm, on the twenty-sixth day.o May,
1859, 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 10
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 PienipOtentlarIes to conclude con
ventiOn, that is to say: The President OF the
United States of America, Joseph j. Bart
ltbJ, IlIIlSLtL ItSlutuJr anu ms Majesty IH6
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
d 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 United States of
America for 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.
4 recognized citizen of the one party, on
returning to the territory OF the other, re-
mains liable to trial and punishment tor 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.
II a 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 con
ditions as the said government may think
proper.
ARTICLE w.
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 twenty first
of March, 1660, remains Z force without
change.
ARTICLE Y.
The present convention shall 20 into eff
feet Immediately on the exchange OF ratIh
cations, and shall continue in force Tor ten
years. If neither party shall have given
the other six months previous notice of its
intention then to terminate the same, it
shall further remain in force until tbs end
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