New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-08
A PROCLAMATION.


BY TIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between the United
States of America and Sweden and Nor
uralization.-Signed May 26,
1869; ratified December II, 1896 Ex-
changed June Ia, 1871; proclaimed Janu-
airy II, 1872.
WHEREAS, x 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 plenipotentiaries, 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 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 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
a continuous period of at least five years,
and during such residence have become and
are lawfully recognized as citizens of Nor
chal ha hold hv tho
eminent of the United States to De 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 a 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
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 tor all
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.
If 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 as a citizen, on such cen
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 first
OF March, 1850, remains in force without
| change.
ARTICLE V.
The present convention shall 20 into Of
| feet Immediately on the exchange of ratlti
| cations, and shall continue in force Tor ten
| years. If neither party shall have given
| the other six months previous notice OF IT.
| intention then to terminate the same, II
| shall further remain in force until the enc
| Of twelve months after either OF the con
| tracing parties shall have given notice x
| the other of such intention.
| ARTICLE VI
| The present convention shall DO ratified