whose renewal forms, at this time, the subject of a negotiation between the Courts of Sweden & Norway and Russia, said stipulations, being in no manner connected with the existing regulations for foreign Commerce in general, the Two High Contracting parties anxious to remove from their commercial relations all kinds of ambiguity or motives of discussion, have agreed that the eighth, ninth and tenth Articles of the present Treaty shall not be applicable either to the navigation and commerce above mentioned, nor consequently to the exceptions in the general Tariff of custom-house duties, and in 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. [SEAL.] G. COUNT DE WETTERSTEDT. [SEAL.] 1860. EXTRADITION CONVENTION. Concluded March 21, 1860; ratification advised by the Senate June 26, 1860; ratified by the President December 14, 1860; ratifications exchanged December 20, 1860; proclaimed December 21, 18€0. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1066.) This treaty of seven articles was concluded between the United States and Sweden and Norway. It was superseded as to Norway December 8, 1893, by the Treaty of June 7, 1893, page 594; and as to Sweden April 17, 1893, by the Treaty of January 14, 1893, page 764. 1869. NATURALIZATION CONVENTION. Concluded May 26, 1869; ratification advised by the Senate with amendment December 9, 1870; ratified by the President December 17, 1870; ratifications exchanged June 14, 1871; exchange of ratifications consented to by the Senate January 8, 1872; proclaimed January 12, 1872. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1068.) I. Recognition of naturalization. II. Liability for prior offenses. ARTICLES. III. Restoration to former citizenship. IV. Extradition convention continued. VI. Ratification. 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 appointed plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention, that is to say: The President of the United States of America; 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: ART. 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. Reciprocally: citizens of Sweden or Norway 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 citizens, and shall be treated as such. The declaration of an intention to become a citizen of the one or the other country has not for either party the effect of citizenship legally acquired. ART. II. A recognized citizen of the one party on returning to the territory 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. ART. III. 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 citizenship, the Government of the last-named country is authorized to receive him again as a citizen on such conditions as the said Government may think proper. ARTICLE IV. 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 other part, the 21st March 1860, remains in force without change. a See p. 761. ARTICLE V. The present Convention shall go into effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for ten years. If neither party shall have given the other six months previous notice of its intention then to terminate the same, it 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. 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 26th 1869. JOSEPH J. BARTLETT. PROTOCOL. Done at Stockholm, May 26th 1869. The undersigned met to-day to sign the Convention agreed upon in conformity with their re-pective 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. It is understood that if a citizen of the United States of America has been discharged from his American citizenship, or, on the other side, if a Swede or a Norwegian has been discharged 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. 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, has emigrated after he has attained the age when he becomes liable to military service, and returns again to his original country, it is agreed that he 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 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. It is further agreed that if a Swede or Norwegian who has become a naturalized citizen of the United States, renews his residence in Sweden or Norway without the intent to return to America, he shall be held by the Government of the United States to have renounced his american citizenship. 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. Concluded January 14, 1893; ratification advised by the Senate February 2, 1893; ratified by the President February 8, 1893; ratifications exchanged March 18, 1893; proclaimed March 18, 1893. (U. S. Stats., vol. 27, p. 972.) 1. Surrender of accused. II. Extraditable crimes. III. Procedure. IV. Provisional detention. V. Nondelivery of citizens. VI. Political offenses. VII. Limitation. ARTICLES. VIII. Restrictions on trials. IX. Property seized with fugitive. XI. Expenses. XII. Effect; ratification. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, being desirous to confirm their friendly relations and to promote the cause of justice, have resolved to conclude a new treaty for the extradition of fugitives from justice between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden, and have appointed for that purpose the following Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, John W. Foster, Secretary of State of the United States; and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, J. A. W. Grip, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles: ARTICLE I. The Government of the United States and the Government of Sweden mutually agree to deliver up persons who, having been charged with or convicted of any of the crimes and offenses specified in the following article, committed within the jurisdiction of one of the contracting parties, shall seek an asylum or be found within the territories of the other: Provided, that this shail only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his or her apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offense had been there committed. ARTICLE II. Extradition shall be granted for the following crimes and offenses: 1. Murder, comprehending assassination, parricide, infanticide and poisoning; attempt to commit murder; the killing of a human being, when such act is punishable in the United States as voluntary manslaughter, and in Sweden as manslaughte 2. Arson. 3. Robbery, defined to be the act of feloniously and forcibly taking from the person of another money or goods, by violence or putting him in fear; burglary; also house-breaking or shop-breaking. 4. Forgery, or the utterance of forged papers; the forgery or falsification of official acts of government, of public authorities, or of courts of justice, or the utterance of the thing forged or falsified. 5. The counterfeiting, falsifying or altering of money, whether coin or paper, or of instruments of debt created by national, state, provincial, or municipal governments, or of coupons thereof, or of banknotes, or the utterance or circulation of the same; or the counterfeiting, falsifying or altering of seals of state. 6. Embezzlement by public officers; embezzlement by persons hired or salaried, to the detriment of their employers; larceny; obtaining money, valuable securities or other property by false pretenses, or receiving money, valuable securities or other property knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen or fraudulently obtained, when such act is made criminal by the laws of both countries and the amount of money or the value of the property fraudulently obtained or received is not less than $200 or kronor 740. 7. Fraud or breach of trust by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee or other person acting in a fiduciary capacity, or director or member or officer of any company, when such act is made criminal by the laws of both countries and the amount of money or the value of the prop•erty misappropriated is not less than $200 or kronor 740. 8. Perjury; subornation of perjury. 9. Rape; abduction; kidnapping. 10. Willful and unlawful destruction or obstruction of railroads which endangers human life. 11. Crimes committed at sea: a. Piracy, by statute or by the law of nations; b. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the master; c. Wrongfully sinking or destroying a vesel at sea, or attempting to do so; d. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas with intent to do grievous bodily harm. 12. Crimes and offenses against the laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery and slave trading. Extradition is also to take place for participation in any of the crimes and offenses mentioned in this treaty, provided such participation may be punished, in the United States as a felony, and in Sweden by imprisonment at hard labor. ARTICLE III. Requisitions for the surrender of fugitives from justice shall be made by the diplomatic agents of the contracting parties, or in the absence of these from the country or its seat of government, may be made by the superior consular officers. If the person whose extradition is requested shall have been convicted of a crime or offense, a duly authenticated copy of the sentence of the court in which he was convicted, or if the fugitive is merely charged with crime, a duly authenticated copy of the warrant of arrest in the country where the crime has been committed, and of the depositions or other evidence upon which such warrant was issued, shall be produced. |