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 746 CONVENTION WITH GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE. AUG. 1, 1868. Duke of Hesse, and by Rhine, &c. chen Hoheit dem Grossherzoge von The ratification of the first is to take Hessen und bei Rhein, etc. Die Raeifect by and with the —advice and tiiication des Ersteren erfolgt unter consent of the Senateof the United und mit- Genehmigung des Senate States; on the Grand Ducal Hes- der Vereinigten Staaten. Grossbersian side, the assent of the States zoglich Hessischer Seits wird die of the Grand Duchy is reserved, in Zustimmung der Stands des Grosy so far as it is required by the con- herzogthums, soweit dieselbe verstitution. fassungsgernass erforderlich ist, vorbehalten. The ratifications shall be ex- Die Ratifikationen sollen zu Berchanged at Berlin within one year lin innerhalh eines Jahres vom hen. of the present date. ggen Datum ausgewechselt weren. Execution. In faith whereof the plenipoten- Zur Urkund dessen haben die tiaries have signed and sealed this Bevollmachtigten diese Uebereinconvention. kuntt unterzeichnet und besiegelt. Ddrmstadt, the 1st of August,1868. Darmstadt, dm 1. August, 1868. FRIEDRICH FREIHERR _ [sun,.] GEO. BANOROFT. . [sm;.] VON LINDELOF. R¤·ti¤¤¤·¤¤¤· And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications were exchanged at Berlin, the twenty- third day of July, last: Pmolsimed. Now, therefore, be it known that I, U. S. GRANT, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the UnitedStates and the citizens thereoii In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be atiixed. Done in the city of Washington this thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of the dependence of the United States the ninety-fourth. [U- s- snr,.] U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hsmrmonx Fxsn, Secretaq; of State.