WÜRTTEMBERG. (SEE GERMAN EMPIRE.) 1844. CONVENTION ABOLISHING DROIT D'AUBAINE AND TAXES ON EMIGRATION. Concluded April 10, 1844; ratification advised by the Senate June 12, 1844; ratified by the President June 22, 1844; ratifications exchanged October 3, 1844; proclaimed December 16, 1844. ARTICLES. I. Taxes abolished. II. Disposal of real property. V. Civil suits. VI. Extent of convention. The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Württemberg, having resolved, for the advantage of their respective citizens and subjects, to conclude a convention for the mutual abolition of the droit d'aubaine and taxes on emigration, have named for this purpose their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely: The President of the United States of America has conferred full powers on Henry Wheaton, their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Royal Court of Prussia; and His Majesty the King of Württemberg, upon Baron de Maucler, his Captain of the Staff and Chargé d'Affaires at the said court; who, after having exchanged their said full powers, found in due and proper form, have agreed to and signed the following articles: ARTICLE I. Every kind of droit d'aubaine, droit de retraite, and droit de détraction or tax on emigration, is hereby and shall remain abolished, between the two contracting parties, their States, citizens, and subjects respectively. ARTICLE II. Where, on the death of any person holding real property within the territories of one party, such real property would by the laws of the land descend on a citizen or subject of the other, were he not disqualified by alienage, such citizen or subject shall be allowed a term of two years to sell the same, which term may be reasonably pro longed according to circumstances, and to withdraw the proceeds thereof without molestation, and exempt from all duties of detraction. ARTICLE III. The citizens or subjects of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal property within the States of the other, by testament, donation, or otherwise, and their heirs, legatees, and donees, being citizens or subjects of the other contracting party. shall succe[e]d to their said personal property, and may take possession thereof, either by themselves, or by others acting for 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 taken in a like case of property belonging to the natives of 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, according to the laws, and by the judges of the country where the property is situated. ARTICLE VI. All the stipulations of the present convention shall be obligatory in respect to property already inherited or bequeathed, but not yet withdrawn from the country where the same is situated at the signature of this convention. ARTICLE VII. This convention is concluded subject to the ratification of the Presi Ident of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, and of His Majesty the 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. [SEAL.] SEAL. HENRY WHEATON. 1853. DECLARATION OF ACCESSION TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE EXTRADITION OF CRIMINALS, FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, OF JUNE 16, 1852, BETWEEN THE UNITED States and PRUSSIA AND OTHER STATES OF THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION. Dated October 13, 1853; proclaimed December 27, 1853. Inasmuch as a convention for the reciprocal extradition of fugitive criminals in certain cases, was concluded between Prussia and other States of the Germanic Confederation on the one hand, and the United States of North America on the other, under date of June 16, 1852, at Washington, by the Plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties, and was ratified by the contracting Governments; and whereas, in the second article thereof, the United States of North America declare that they agree that the stipulations of the aforesaid convention shall be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation that shall subsequently declare its accession to the convention, now therefore, in pursuance thereof, the Government of His Majesty the King of Württemberg declares its accession to the aforesaid convention of June 16th, 1852, the text of which is word for word, as follows: [The original declaration here includes a copy, in German and English of the convention of June 16, 1852] and hereby gives the express assurance that each and every article and provision of this convention shall be faithfully observed and executed within the territory of the Kingdom of Württemberg. In testimony whereof, the Royal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Württemberg has, in the name of His Majesty the King of Württemberg, executed this certificate of accession, and caused the Royal Official Seal to be thereunto affixed. Done at Stuttgart, October the 13th, 1853. [SEAL.] VON NEURATH, Royal Minister of Foreign Affairs at Württemberg. 1868. CONVENTION AS TO NATURALIZATION AND EXTRADITION. Concluded July 27, 1868; ratification advised by the Senate April 12, 1869; ratified by the President April 18, 1869; ratifications exchanged August 17, 1869; exchange of ratifications consented to by the Senate March 2, 1870; proclaimed March 7, 1870. I. Naturalization recognized. II. Liability for prior offenses. III. Extradition treaty renewed. ARTICLES. IV. Renunciation of naturalization. V. Duration. VI. Ratification. The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Württemberg, led by the wish to regulate the citizenship Translation. 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: ARTICLE I. Citizens of Württemberg, who have become or shall become naturalized citizens of the United States of America, and shall 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 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 citizen of the one or the other country has not for either party the effect of naturalization. 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 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. ARTICLE III. The convention for the mutual delivery of criminals, fugitives from justice, in certain cases, concluded between Württemberg and the United States the 16June 185 remains in force without change. 13 October, 1853, ARTICLE IV. 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 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 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. 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 to 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 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 Kingdom, and by the President by and with the advice and 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. PROTOCOL EXPLANATORY OF THE CONVENTION. Done at Stuttgart the 27th July, 1868. The undersigned met to-day to sign the treaty 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 Wurtemberg and from Wurtemberg to the United States of America; on which occasion the following observations, more exactly defining and explaining the contents of this treaty were entered in the following protocol. I.-Relating to the first article of the Treaty. (1) It is of course understood that not the naturalization alone, but a five years uninterrupted residence is also required, before a person can be regarded as coming within the treaty; but it is by no means requisite, that the five years residence should take place after the naturalization. Yet it is hereby agreed, that if citizens of the one state become legally naturalized in the other state before they have resided there five years; the persons so naturalized from the moment of their naturalization, have to exercise all civil rights and are liable to all civil duties in the state into which they have been adopted. (2) The words; "resided uninterruptedly" are obviously to be understood, not of a continual bodily presence, but in the legal sense; and therefore a transient absence, a journey or the like, by no means interrupts the period of five years contemplated by the first article. II.-Relating to the second article of the treaty. On the side of Wurtemberg, it is agreed that all former Wurtembergers, who under the first article of this treaty are to be held as American citizens may, whether they have emigrated before or after |