the regulations of navigation resulting therefrom, nor to the special advantages which are, or may be granted to the importation of tallow and candles from Russia, founded upon equivalent advantages granted by Russia on certain articles of importation from Sweden and Norway. The present separate article shall have the same force and value as if it were inserted word for word in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In faith whereof we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present separate article, and affixed thereto the seals of our arms. Done at Stockholm the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. J. J. APPLETON. [L. S.] G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT. [L. S. SWEDEN AND NORWAY, 1860. CONVENTION FOR THE SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE IN CERTAIN CASES, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. CONCLUDED AT WASHINGTON MARCH 21, 1860; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON DECEMBER 20, 1860; PROCLAIMED DECEMBER 21, 1360. Whereas, it is found expedient, for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the territories and jurisdiction of the parties respectively, that persons committing certain crimes, being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up; and also to enumerate such crimes explicitly: The United States of America on the one part, and His Majesty the King Contracting parties. of Sweden and Norway on the other part, having resolved to treat on this subject, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries to negotiate and conclude a convention, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the United States, and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, Baron Nicholas William de Wetterstedt, Knight of the Orders of the Polar Star and of St. Olaff, Commander of the Order of Dannebrog of Denmark, his said Majesty's Minister Resident near the Govern ment of the United States; Who, after reciprocal communication of their respective powers, have agreed to and signed the following articles : Extradition. ARTICLE I. It is agreed that the high contracting parties shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, their Diplomatic or Consular Agents, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with or condemned for any of the crimes enumerated in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of either party, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other: Provided, that this surrender and delivery shall not be obligatory on either of the high contracting parties except upon presentation by the other, in original or in verified copy, of the judicial declaration or sentence establishing the culpability of the fugi Proof, &c. tive, and issued by the proper authority of the Government who claims the surrender, in case such sentence or declaration shall have been pronounced; said document to be drawn up and certified according to the forms prescribed by the laws of the country making the demand. But if such sentence or declaration shall not have been pronounced, then the surrender may be demanded, and shall be made, when the demanding party shall have furnished such proof of culpability as would have been sufficient to justify the apprehension and commitment for trial of the accused if the offence had been committed in the country where he shall have taken refuge. ARTICLE II. Crimes. Persons shall be so delivered up who shall have been charged with or sentenced for any of the following crimes, to wit: Murder, (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poisoning,) or attempt to commit murder; rape; piracy, (including mutiny on board a ship, whenever the crew or part thereof, by fraud or violence against the commander, have taken possession of the vessel;) arson; robbery and burglary; forgery, and the fabrication or circulation of counterfeit money, whether coin or paper money; embezzlement by public officers, including appropriation of public funds. ARTICLE III. The expenses of any detention and delivery, effected in virtue of the preceding provisions, shall be borne and defrayed by the party who makes the requisition and receives the fugitive. dition ARTICLE IV. Expenses of extra This convention Neither of the contracting parties shall be bound to deliver up, under the stipulations of this convention, any person who, according to the laws of the country where he shall be found, is a not to apply to citicitizen or a subject of the same at the time his surrender is demanded. ARTICLE V. The provisions of the present convention shall not be applied to any crime or offence of a political character. ARTICLE VI. zens or subjects, &c Nor to political of fences. New crimes com Whenever any person, accused of any of the crimes enumerated in this convention, shall have committed a new crime in the territories of the State where he has sought an asylum or mitted, &c. shall be found, such person shall not be delivered up under the stipulations of this convention until he shall have been tried, and shall have received the punishment due to such new crime, or shall have been acquitted thereof. ARTICLE VII. This convention shall not take effect until ten days after its publication, made according to the laws of the respective Govern ments. When this convention takes effect. It shall remain in force until the end of six months after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same. How long to be in force. To be ratified withn ten months. It shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and the ratifications shall be exchanged within ten months from the date of its signature, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this convention, and have hereunto affixed their seals. Doue in duplicate, at Washington, the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and the eighty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States. Signature, March 21, 1860. LEW. CASS. N. W. DE WETTERSTEDT. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] SWEDEN AND NORWAY, 1869. CONVENTION AND PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND SWEDEN AND NORWAY, RELATIVE TO NATURALIZATION. SIGNED MAY 26, 1869; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED JUNE 14, 1871; PROCLAIMED JANUARY 12, 1872. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, led by the wish to regulate Contracting parties. 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 appointed Plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Joseph J. Bartlett, 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 Sweden or Norway, shall be held by the Government of the United States to be Swedish or Norwegian citizens, and shall be treated as such. When citizens of the United States are to be treated as citizens of Sweden and Norway. When citizens of are to be treated as Reciprocally, citizens of Sweden or Norway who have resided in the United States of America for a continuous period of at least Sweden and Norway five years, and during such residence have become naturalcitizens of the United ized citizens of the United States, shall be held by the Government of Sweden and Norway to be American citizens, and shall be treated as such. States. Declaration of in The declaration of an intention to become a citizen of the one tent not to affect or the other country has not for either party the effect of citizenship legally acquired. naturalization. ARTICLE II. A recognized citizen of the one party, on returning to the territory Naturalized citi ens liable on return to their original country for offenses committed before of the other, remains liable to trial and punishment for an action punishable by the laws of his original country, and committed before his emigration, but not for the emigration itself, saving always the limitation established by the laws of his original country, and any other remission of liability to punishment. ARTICLE III. emigration. Provision as to reship in original If a citizen of the one party, who has become 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 storation to citizencitizenship, the Government of the last-named country is country. authorized to receive him again as a citizen, on such conditions as the said Government may think proper. ARTICLE IV. Convention for the The convention for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases, concluded between the United States on the one part and Sweden and Norway on the extradition of fugiother part, the 21st March, 1860, remains in force without not to be changed. change. ARTICLE V. tives from justice and con The present convention shall go into effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for ten years. Convention when If neither party shall have given the other six months' pre- to go into effec vious notice of its intention then to terminate the same, it tinue. shall further remain in force until the end of twelve months after either of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of such intention. ARTICLE VI. Ratifications, The present convention shall be ratified by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, and by His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Stockholm within twenty-four months from the date hereof. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this convention. STOCKHOLM, May 26, 1869. JOSEPH J. BARTLETT. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] PROTOCOL. DONE AT STOCKHOLM, MAY 26, 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 emigrate from the United States of America to Sweden and Norway, and from Sweden and Norway to the United States of America; on which occasion the following observations, more exactly defining and explaining the contents of this convention, were entered in the following protocol: I. Relating to the first article of the convention. The additional five It is understood that if a citizen of the United States of America has been discharged from his American citizenship, or, on the years' residence not other side, if a Swede or a Norwegian has been discharged required, when, &c. from his Swedish or Norwegian citizenship, in the manner 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 five years' residence shall no longer be required; but a person who has in that manner been recognized as a citizen of the other country shall, from the moment thereof, be held and treated as a Swedish or Norwegian citizen, and, reciprocally, as a citizen of the United States. II. Relating to the second article of the convention. Swedes, &c., naturalized in United States and returning to original country, lia If a former Swede or Norwegian, who under the first article is to be held as an adopted citizen of the United States of America, the has emigrated after he has attained the age when he betheir comes liable to military service, and returns again to his ble to fulfil their original country, it is agreed that he remains liable to trial military service, &c. and punishment for an action punishable by the laws of his original country and committed before his emigration, but not for the act of emigration itself, unless thereby have been committed any punishable action against Sweden or Norway, or against a Swedish or Norwegian citizen, such as non-fulfilment of military service, or desertion 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; and that he can be held to fulfil, according to the laws, his military service, or the remaining part thereof. III. Relating to the third article of the convention. Swedes, &c., naturalized in United States, and It is further agreed that if a Swede or Norwegian, who the has become a naturalized citizen of the United States, rerenewing their resi- news his residence in Sweden or Norway without the intent with the intent not to return to America, he shall be held by the Government United States, held of the United States to have renounced his American citiAmerican citizen- zenship. dence in Sweden, to return to the to renounce their ship. The intent not to return to America may be held to exist when the person so naturalized resides more than two years in Sweden or Norway. JOSEPH J. BARTLETT. [SEAL.] SEAL. |