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972 TREATY WVITH PRUSSIA, &C. J UNE 16, 1852. Germanic Confederation, for the mutual delivery of criminals, fuvitives from justice in certain cases, that the stipulations of that Convention shad be applied to any other State of the Germanic Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto: Oldenburg. And whereas the Government of Oldenburg has declared its accession to the said Convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said Convention may be observed and fulfilled with good faith m respect to the Government of Oldenburg by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at lVashington the twenty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and of the independence [L. s.] of the United States the seventy-eighth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State. ·Y¤¤¢ 16. 1852- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is provided by the second article of the Convention of the 16th June, 1852, between the United States and Prussia, and other States of the Germanic Confederation; for the mutual delivery of criminals, fu itives from justice, in certain cases, that the stipulations of that Convention shad be applied to any other State of the Gcrmamc Confederation which might thereafter declare its accession thereto: Schaumburg. And whereas the Government of Schaumburg-Lippe has declared its acces- Lippe. sion to the said Convention, and has caused the said declaration to be lodged in the Department of State of the United States: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused this information to be made public, in order that the stipulations of the said Convention ma be observed and fulfilled with good faith in respect to the Government of Schaumburg-Lippe by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at Washington the twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence [1.. s.] of the United States the seventy-ninth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT: WV. L. MARCY, Secretary of Stale.