New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-25
PROTOCOL.

DONE AT STOCKHOLM, MAY IS, 1869.
The undersigned met to-day to sign the
| convention agreed upon in conformity with
their respective full powers, relating to the
| citizenship of those persons who emf
| crate from the United States of America
to Sweden and Norway and from Sweden
| and Norway to the United States of Amer
| lea; on which occasion the following OBJ
| servations, more exactly defining and ex
| planning the contents of this convention,
were entered in the following protocol:
l. Relating to the first article of the cen
vention.
1t is understood that if a citizen of the
United States OF America he's been dis
charged from his American citizenship, or,
on the other side, if a Swede or Nor
wegian has been discharged from his Swed-
ish or Norwegian citizenship, in the man
ner legally prescribed by the government
of his original country, and then in the
other country in a rightful and perfectly
valid manner acquires citizenship, then an
additional tive years residence shah no
l"nges be required; but a person who has IN
that manner been recognized as citizen OF
the other country shalt. from the moment
thereof. be held and treated as q Swedish Or
Norwegian citiz.h. and. feoiprocally. as
citizen of the United States.
2 Relating TO the second article q the
convention
If former Swede or Norwegian. syho,
under the first article, il t.. hB held as an
adopted citizen of the United States OF
America has emerated after he has at.
famed the age when he becomes liza bic 20
military service, aud returns again to his
original country. it IS agreed that he re-
main. Ha bic te trial and punishment, for an
action punishable by che Ia VS. of his original
country and committed before his euigra
ii0n. bu. not for the act OF emigration it
self, unless thereby have been committed
any punishable action against Sweden or
Norway. or against Swedish or Norwegian
citizen. such as non-fulfilment Of military
service. or desertien from the military
force or from a ship, saving always the
limitation established by the laws Of
the original country. and any other
remission of liability to punishment; aud
that he can be held to fulfil, aecO, ding to
the laws. his military SERVICE or the remain.
ing part thereof.
3. Relating to the third article of the
convention.
The intent not 70 return 60 America may
be held TO exist when the person so nat
uraliZed resides more than two years in
Sweden or Norway.
JOSEPH J. BARTLETT.
And whereas the said convention and
protocol as amended have been duly rati
he'd on both parts. and the respective raft.
hCatiOnS of the same were exchanged at
Stockholm on the fourteenth day of June.
in the year one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, by c. c. Andrews. Min.
lister &, siGent of the United States, and
Count &. Wachtmeister, Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs of his majesty the King
of Sweden and Norway:
And whereas the Senate, by their resofu.
ton of the eighth instant 1.-TWO thirds of the
Senators present coHcurringl. did advise
and consent to the said exchange. notwith
standing said exchange was delayed beyond
the time appointed therefor. and resolved
that the said exchange may be regarded as
valid as if it had taken place within the
time mentioned in the resolution OF the
Senate on the subiect. Of the ninth Of De.
cember. 1870:
Now. therefore. Be it known that I.
Ulysses s. Grant, President of the United
States Of America, have caused the said
convention and protocol to be made public,
to the end that the same. and every clause |
end article thereof, may be observed and |
fulfilled with good faith by the United |
States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof | have hereunto set |
my hand and caused the seal of the United |
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this |
twelfth day Of January, in the year of our |
Lord one thousand eight hundred and |
two, and of the independence of |
the United States of America the ninety |
sixth.
q. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
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