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 576 PUBLIC TREATIES. [See convention one part and Prussia and other States of Germany on the other part, with P'“”*°· °“d the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, is gg3Q’§63S{“°°°' pp' hereby extended to all the States of the North German Confederation. Anrrcnn IV. R,,,,u,,c;,,,tg0,, of If a German naturalized in America renews his residence in North naturalization. Germany 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 North Germany renews his residence in the United States, without the intent to return to North Germany, he shall be held to have renounced his naturalization in North Germany. Intent not to re- The intent not to return may be held to exist when the person natural- Wm- ized in the one country resides more than two years in the other country. Anrrcnn V. Dq¤>ti¤¤ of <=<>¤~ The present convention shall go into efect 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 contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of such intention. · Anrrcma VI. Ratiiicntions. The present convention shall be ratiied by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, and by His Majesty the King of Prussia, in the name of the North German Confederation; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Berlin within six months from the date hereof. Signatures. In faith whereof, the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this convention. I ` Dato. BERLIN, the 22d of February, 1868. ` GEORGE BANCROFT. sun. BERNHARD KONIG. san.. June 12, 1871. PROTOCOL• P,.0,m°1_ Whereas a convention was made on the 22d of February, 1868, between the United States of America and the North German Confederation, to regulate the citizenship of those personsgwho emigrate from the United States of America to the territory of the North German Confederation, and from the North German Confederation to the United States of America; And whereas the Senate of the United States of America, to leave no doubt of the true interpretation of the first article of the said convention, ` did, on the 26th day of March, 1868, adopt as the conclusion of the said article an amendment in the words following, to wit: Aynondmen t to “This article shall apply as well to those already naturalized in either Amm I- country as those hereafter naturalized ;” And whereas this amendment was communicated by the United States to the Government of the North German Confederation before the exchange of ratitications of the convention, and was then accepted by the North German Confederation as the true and'0nly just interpretation of the said first article of the said convention: The undersigned Plenipotentiaries, who were formerly appointed to treat on the regulation of citizenship as aforesaid, and who concluded and signed the said convention of the 22d of February, 1868, that is to say: