transgress the legal provisions on military duty by any acts or omissions other than those above enumerated, in the clauses numbered one to three, can, on his return to his original country, neither be held subsequently to military service, nor remain liable to trial and punishment for the non-fulfillment of his military duty. Moreover, the attachment on the property of an emigrant for non-fulfillment of his military duty, except in the cases designated in the clauses numbered one to three, shall be removed so soon as he shall prove his naturalization in the United States according to the first article. ARTICLE III. Extradition treaty of 13th January, 1857, to remain in force. ARTICLE IV. The emigrant from the one state, who, according to the first article, is to be held as a citizen of the other state, shall not on his return to his original country be constrained to resume his former citizenship; yet, if he shall of his own accord re-acquire it, and renounce the citizenship obtained by naturalization, such a renunciation is allowed, and no fixed period of residence shall be required for the recognition of his recovery of citizenship in his original country. ARTICLE V. The same as the preceding treaties. (United States Treaties, 1870, p. 329.) (4.) CONVENTION WITH HESSE-DARMSTADT, CONCLUDED AUGUST 1, 1868, For the portion of the Grand Duchy not then included in the North German Confederation. Preamble Accords with the North German and other Treaties. ARTICLE I. The same as the treaty with Bavaria. ARTICLE II. The same as the North German treaty. ARTICLE III. Extradition treaty of the 16th of June, 1852, to remain in force. ARTICLES IV. AND V. The same as the North German treaty. (United States Treaties, 1870, p. 337.) (5.) CONVENTION WITH WÜRTEMBERG, The Preamble Accords with the Preceding Treaties. ARTICLES I. AND II. The same as the treaty with Bavaria. ARTICLE III. Extradition convention of 16th June, 1852, to remain in force.' ARTICLES IV. AND V. The same as the North German and Bavarian treaties. (United States Treaties, 1870, p. 333.) II. CONVENTION WITH MEXICO, CONCLUDED JULY 10, 1868. ARTICLE I. Those citizens of the United States who have been made citizens of the Mexican republic by naturalization, and have resided without interruption in Mexican territory five years, shall be held by the United States as citizens of the Mexican republic, and shall be treated as such. Reciprocally: citizens of the Mexican republic who have become citizens of the United States, and who have resided uninterruptedly in the territory of the United States for five years, shall be held by the republic of Mexico as citizens of the United States, 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. This article shall apply as well to those already naturalized in either of the countries contracting, as to those hereafter naturalized. ARTICLE II. Naturalized citizens of either of the contracting parties, on return to the territory of the other, remain liable to trial and punishment for an action punishable by the laws of his original country, and committed before his emigration; saving, always, the limitations established by his original country. ARTICLE III. The convention for the surrender, in certain cases, of criminals, fugitives from justice, concluded between the United States of America of the one part, and the Mexican republic on the other part, on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall remain in full force without any alteration. ARTICLE IV. If a citizen of the United States, naturalized in Mexico, renews his residence in the United States without the intent to return to Mexico, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in Mexico. Reciprocally: If a Mexican, naturalized in the United States, renews his residence in Mexico, without the intent to return to the United States, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in the United States. The intent not to return may be held to exist when the person naturalized in the one country resides in the other country more than two years, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence to the contrary. ARTICLE V. (The provision as to the duration of the treaty is the same as in the preceding conventions.) (United States Treaties, 1870, p. 233.) III. CONVENTION WITH BELGIUM, CONCLUDED NOVEMBER 16TH, 1868. ARTICLE I. Citizens of the United States, who may or shall have been naturalized in Belgium, will be considered by the United States as citizens of Belgium. Reciprocally: Belgians who may or who shall have been naturalized in the United States will be considered by Belgium as citizens of the United States. ARTICLE II. Citizens of either contracting party, in case of their return to their original country, can be prosecuted there for crimes or misdemeanors committed before naturalization, saving to them such limitations as are established by the laws of their original country. ARTICLE III. Naturalized citizens of either contracting party, who shall have resided five years in the country which has naturalized them, cannot be held to the obligation of military service in their original country, or to incidental obligation resulting therefrom, in the event of their return to it, except in cases of desertion from organized and embodied military or naval service, or those that may be assimilated thereto by the laws of that country. ARTICLE IV. Citizens of the United States, naturalized in Belgium, shall be considered by Belgium as citizens of the United States when they shall have recovered their character as citizens of the United States, according to the laws of the United States. Reciprocally: Belgians, naturalized in the United States, shall be considered as Belgians by the United States when they shall have recovered their character as Belgians, according to the laws of Belgium. ARTICLE V. The present convention shall enter into execution immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force for ten years. If, at the expiration of that period, neither of the contracting parties shall have given notice six months in advance of its intention to terminate the same, it shall continue in force until the end of twelve months after one of the contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of such intention. (United States Treaties, 1870, p. 341.) IV. NATURALIZATION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. SHOWING THE (1.) PROTOCOL, PRINCIPLES AGREED UPON BY THE BRITISH AND THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTS ON THE QUESTION OF NAT URALIZATION.—SIGNED AT LONDON, OCT. 9, 1868. The undersigned, Edward Henry Lord Stanley, of Bickerstaffe, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Reverdy Johnson, Esquire, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, being respectively authorized and empowered to place on record the desire of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the President of the United States of America, to regulate the citizenship of British subjects who have emigrated, or who may emigrate, from the British dominions to the United States of America, and of citizens of the United States of America who have emigrated, or who may emigrate, to the British dominions, have agreed upon the following Protocol: 1. Such British subjects, as aforesaid, who have become, or shall become, and are naturalized, according to law, within the United States of America, as citizens thereof, shall, subject to the provisions of Articles II and IV, be held by Great Britain to be in all respects, and for all purposes, American citizens, and shall be treated as such by Great Britain. Reciprocally: Such citizens, as aforesaid, of the United States who have become, or shall become, and are naturalized, according to law, within the British dominions as British subjects, shall, subject to the provisions of Articles II and IV, be held by the United States to be in all respects, and for all purposes, British subjects, and shall be treated as such by the United States. II. Such British subjects as aforesaid, who have become and are naturalized as citizens within the United States, and such United States citizens as aforesaid, who have become and are naturalized |