them, and dispose of the same at their pleasure, paying such duties only as the inhabitants of the country where the said property lies shall be liable to pay in like cases. ARTICLE IV. In case of the absence of the heirs, the same care shall be taken provisionally of such real or personal property as would be Property of absent taken in a like case of property belonging to the natives of heirs. the country, until the lawful owner, or the person who has a right to sell the same according to article 2, may take measures to receive or dispose of the inheritance. ARTICLE V. If any dispute should arise between different claimants to the same inheritance, they shall be decided, in the last resort, accord- Disputes to be deing to the laws, and by the judges of the country where the cided by the local property is situated. ARTICLE VI. laws. All the stipulations of the present convention shall be obligatory in respect to property already inherited or bequeathed, but Property not yet not yet withdrawn from the country where the same is sit- withdrawn embraced. uated at the signature of this convention. ARTICLE VII. Convention subject This convention is concluded subject to the ratification of the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and of His Majesty the to ratification, &c. King of Württemberg, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Berlin, within the term of twelve months from the date of the signature hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, as well in English as in German, and have thereto affixed their seals. Done in triplicata, in the city of Berlin, on the tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the sixty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, and the twentyeighth of the reign of His Majesty the King of Württemberg. DECLARATION OF ACCESSION TO CONVENTION OF JUNE 16, 1852, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND PRUSSIA AND OTHER STATES OF THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION, FOR EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS. Dated October 13, 1853.-Proclaimed December 27, 1853. [On the 13th of October, 1853, the Government of His Majesty the King of Württemberg formally declared its accession to the convention of the 16th of June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia and other States of the Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals fugitives from justice in certain cases.] WÜRTTEMBERG, 1868. CONVENTION RELATIVE TO NATURALIZATION AND FOR EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS. Concluded July 27, 1868.-Ratification advised by Senate April 12, 1869.—Ratified by President April 18, 1869.-Ratifications exchanged at Stuttgart August 17, 1869.—Exchange of ratifications consented to by Senate March 2, 1870.-Proclaimed March 7, 1870. Contracting parties. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Württemberg, led by the wish to regulate the citizenship of those persons who emigrate from the United States of America to Württemberg, and from Württemberg to the territory of 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, George Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and His Majesty the King of Württemberg, his Minister of the Royal House and of Foreign Affairs, Charles Baron Varnbüler; who have agreed to and signed the following articles: When citizens of be treated as Ameri. can citizens. When Americans ARTICLE I. Citizens of Württemberg, who have become or shall become naturalized citizens of the United States of America, and shall Wurttemberg are to have resided uninterruptedly within the United States five years, shall be held by Württemberg to be American citizens, and shall be treated as such. Reciprocally, citizens of the United States of America who have become or shall become naturalized are to be treated as citizens of Württemberg, and shall have resided uninterruptedly within Württemberg five years, shall be held by the United States to be citizens of Württemberg, and shall be treated as such. The declaration of an intention to become a cititention not to effect zen of the one or the other country has not for either party the effect of naturalization. citizens of Wurttemberg. Declaration of in naturalization. Naturalized citl ARTICLE II. A naturalized citizen of the one party on return to the territory of the other party remains liable to trial and punishment for zens liable for of an action punishable by the laws of his original country, and committed before his emigration; saving always the limitation established by the laws of his original country, or any other remission of liability to punishment. fences committed be fore emigration. ARTICLE III. The convention for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases, concluded between Württemberg remains in force with Extradition. out change. and the United States the 16 June, 1852, 13 October, 1853 ARTICLE IV. Provisions as to re in original country. If a Württemberger, naturalized in America, renews his residence in Württemberg without the intent to return to America, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in the covery of citizenship United States. Reciprocally, if an American naturalized in Württemberg renews his residence in the United States without the intent to return to Württemberg, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in Württemberg. The intent to not to return may be held to exist when the person naturalized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country. ARTICLE V. When intent not return may be held to exist. how long to continue The present convention shall go into effect immediately on the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force for ten When convention years. If neither party shall have given to the other six to go into effect, and 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 high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of such intention. ARTICLE VI. The present convention shall be ratified by His Majesty the King of Württemberg, with the consent of the Chambers of the Convention when Kingdom, and by the President by and with the advice and to be ratified. consent of the Senate of the United States, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Stuttgart as soon as possible, within twelve months from the date hereof. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this convention. Stuttgart, the 27 of July, 1868. [SEAL.] SEAL.] GEO. BANCROFT. FREIHERR VON VARNBÜLER. APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER POWERS, SINCE THE ALPHABETICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES, AND PRIOR TO SEPT. 1, 1873; ALSO, SUCH ANNEXES TO TREATIES AS WERE OMITTED ALSO, CORRECTIONS OF TYPOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER ERRORS IN THAT SERIES. |