New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-04
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary of State.
g PROCLAMATION.

| By CHE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States of America and Sweden and Nor
turaiization.-Signed May %
| 1869; ratified December II, 1870: Ex-
| changed June IA, 1871; proclaimed Janu-
airy u, 1872.
| WHEREAS, 4 convention and protGtOl be-
! tween the United States Of America and his
| Majesty the KING of Sweden and Norway
were concluded and signed by their respec-
| tive plenipOtentiaries, at the city of
| Stockholm, on the tHentY-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 Plenipotentiaries to conclude q 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
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
nf tho TTuitaH Gtata tn ha Gua1 oh
| 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 a continuous period of at last
five years, and 5duriDg such residence have
become naturalized citizens of the United
States, shall be held by the government of
Sweden and Norway to be American citi-
Gems, and shall be treated as SUCH
The declaration of an intention to become
a citizen of the one or the other country has
not Tor 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 tor an
action punishable by the laws OF his
original country and committed before his
emigration, but not for the emigration itself,
Saving al" aye JuC 1IulItdLlDDB
by the laws of his original country and any
other remission of liability to punishment.
ARTICLE III.
If a citizen of the one party, who has be-
come 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 az a citizen, on such con
ditions as the said government may think
proper.
ARTICLE ".
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-frst
OF March, 1860, remains in force without
change.
ARTICLE V.
The present convention shall 90 into ef-
feet Immediately ON the exchange of rach-
cations and shall continue in force Tor ten
yGRr5. If neither party shall have given
the other six months previous notice of its
intention then to terminate the same, IL
shall further remain in fcr"e until athe end
Of twelve months after either of the con-
tracing parties shall have given notice to
the other OF such intentiOm
ARTICLE VI.
The present convention shall be ratified