New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-11
q PROCLAMATiOH.

HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary OF SsataS
4 PROCLAMATIOE
BT fHa PRECEDENT OF THE UszyED sfATsB
OF AMERICA.
Convention and protocol between tao United
States OF America and Sweden aad Nor
alisation.--Signed May 20,
1869; ratified Decembe< II, 1870; Rx-
changed June 10 1915 Pfoci*inles yaan
airy IL, 1872.
WHEREAS, A convention ana prososOf be-
tween the United States of America and his
Majesty the KING of Sweden and Norway
were concluded and signed by their respeo-
tive pieniPOtentiaries, 81 the city cf
Stockholm, on tho twsnty-sixth cay Of May.
1863. 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 asdollowee
The President of the United StateB 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 AID Norway to the United States
of America, have resolved TO treat on this
subject and have for that purpose ap-
pointed PienrpOtentiaries tn conclude con
ventioR, that is 70 saya The President of the
United states Of Ameries, Joseph j. Bart
lett, Minister Resident, and his Ii sjesty the
King of Sweden and Norway, Count Charles
Wachtmeister, Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs; who have agreed 10 and signoa the
following articles:
ARTICLE {
$itisens OF the United States Of s1erica
Id n
u con tinuouS period of at least FIVE geaIs,
and during such residence have beoo me and
are lawfully recognized a. citizeRs of Nor
way or Sweden, ehau be held by the gov
eminent of the United States to be Swedish
or Norwegian citizens, and shall DO treated
rs such
Reciproeally, sitisen. Of Sweden or Tsf-
way who have resided in the United States of
America for a continuous period of a: least
five years, and during such residence hsve
become nsturali8ed eitiEens of the United
States, shall be held by tho government of
Sweden and Norway to be American eiti-
zeDs, and shall be treated as such.
The declaration of an intention TO become
q citizen OF the one or she other country has
not for either part. the sffess 0t eitiSenship
legally Acquired.
ARTICLE ~
4 Recognized citizen of the one PREY. OF
to the territory Of the otaor, re-
Inaius liable to trial and punishment tor an
action punishable by the lass Of his
original country and committed before his
but not for Che nigratiou itself,
saving always the limitations sstablisbed
BY the laws Of his original country and any
,.hss Eeu...aoa OF liability "a yunis!assa..
ARTICLE AK
II y sitisa0 g: the one party. Ces hss ~
.-ms secogai.e! sisaer III .be :ti"-
ls.tv. tasss up his a6.i. sTsca more :n ri.
'r'|aa! country sn'' app.!1. lo he res c.rsl
- "'S former cItlz"R..'s.. .t!. government
y fii.' last 0aBteS oount.s !. ..usEu.lsaa 81 !
'"cei'" hiis ag+l. "a . .IiHeH. sE snsG rsa-
hsiobs s.s :Hs aei3 Sov.sE..es. mas sls,sa ,
,EoycEo
aRPE.. ~.
The "oD sest:ro fog tho mRsuas .syRSnsY }
,! criminals. .ugitives frGU. ju5ti,%. ia ser |
am eases. concluded between tae United
states On the one part, Sud Sweden an.i |
Norway ON the other part. the twenty-frsi !
u MARCH, $50. semains in tosSS W3ssouo |
ih.pEa.
ARTICLE
Ths present esHven ;iOi. sRHR so tHss e. |
ect immediately on the exchange VI Fauti |
atoms, and shall continue in force Ter ten |
ears. 1t neither party shall have given |
he other rlx months previous notice of it. !
Intention then TO terminate tho same, II |
hall further remain in force until this end |
Il Twelve months after either Of the cen |
racting parties shall have given R0tiee "
he other 0f such intention
ARTICLE VI
The pcsseAs convention shA1 b ssssfed