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 2426 NATURALIZATION TREATY-CZECHOSLOVAKIA. JULY 16, 1928. Exchange of ratifica· tions. Duration. Signatures. Ratifications ex· changed. Proclamation. held to have lost the nationality acquired by naturalization. The intent not to return may be held to exist when a person naturalized in the one country shall have resided more than two years in the other. Article IV. The present Convention, drawn up in English and Czechoslovak, both texts being authoritative, shall be subject to ratification by the High Contracting Parties in conformity with their respective constitutions, and shall become operative immediately upon the exchange of ratificatIons, which shall take place at Washington as soon as possible. The present Convention shall remain ill force for ten years. If neither of the High Contracting Parties states its intention of denouncing it at least one year before the end of the above- mentioned period, it will remain in force and will not terminate until a year after one or the other of the High Contracting Parties shall have denounced it. In WITTNESS WHEREOF, the respective plenipotentiaries have SIgned this Treaty and have herelmto affixed their seals. Done in duplicate at Prague, this 16th day of July 1928. ztratil pfisluSnost nabytou natu- ralisaci. lJmysl nevratiti se mozno pfed- pokl8.dati, kdyz osoba naturaliso- vana v jedne zemi, bydlila po vice nez dva roky vd ruhe zeIDl. Clanek IV. Tato lJmluva, sepsana anglicky a ceskoslovensky, jejiZ obe zneni jsou stejne autenticka, bude rati- fikovana VysokYmi Smluvnimi Stranami podIe jejich pfisluSnych ustav a nabude pftsobnosti bez- prostfedne po vYmene ratifikaci, ktera. bude provedena co nej- dfive ve Washingtonu. Tato lJmluva zftstane v plat- nosti deset let. N eprojevili zadna z Vysokych Smluvnich Stran u.myslu vypoyedeti ji alespoii rok pied uplynutim vyse uvedeneho obdobi, zftstane umluva v plat- nosti 0; ~ozbude ji aZ za rok po tom, kdy ji vypovi jedna nebo druha z Vysokych Smluvnich Strano TOMU NA SVEDO:rvIf, zmoc- nenci podepsali tuto lJmluvu a opatfili ji svy-mi pecetmi. Dano dvojmo v Praze, dne 16 cervence 1928. [SEAL] LEWIS EINSTEIN [SEAL] DR K KROFTA AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged ill the city of Wash.ington on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundrea: and twenty-nine' NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Herbert Hoover, Presi- dent of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-fourth. HERBERT HOOVER By the President: J P COTTON Acting Secretary oj State.