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CONVENTION WITH THE SWISS CONFEDERATION. Nov. 25, 1850. 595 and so on, from year to year, until qui suivront une pareille declaration the expiration of the twelve months de renonciatiomquelquesoit1’époque which will follow a similar declara- a laquelle elle aura été notihée. tion, whatever the time at which it may take place. ARTIGLE xxx. ARTICLE xxx. This convention shall be submit- Cette convention sera soumise, de Rm6,,,m,,,,_ ted, on both sides, to the approval part et d’autre a l’approbation et a and ratification of the respective la ratification des autorités compecompetent authorities of each of the tentes respectifs de chacune des parcontracting parties, and the ration- ties contractantes ; et les ratifications tion shall be exchanged at the city en seront échangées 5. Washington, of Washington as soon as circum— aussitdt que les circonstanees le perstances shall admit. mettront. In faith whereof, the respective En foi de quoi les plénipoten— plenipotentiaries have signed the tiaires respectifs ont,sous reserve des above articles, under reserve of the ratihcations qui viennent d’etre menabove-mentioned ratifications, both tionnées, signé les articles ci-dessus, in the English and French lan- dans les langues Anglaise et Franguages, and they have thereunto gaise, et y ont apposé leurs sceaux. aiiixed their seals. _ Done, in quadruplicate, at the city Ainsi fait, par quadruplicata a. s,g¤,¤,m_ of Berne, this twenty-fifth day of Berne, ce vingt-cinq Novembre de November, in the year of our Lord 1’an de Grace mil-huit-cent-cim one thousand eight hundred and quante. rift . A DUDLEY MANN. 1.. s.] H. DRUEY. [L. s. HJ DRUEY. L. s. F. FREI-HEROSEE. |_L. s.] F. FREI-HEROSEE. L. s.} A. DUDLEY MANN. [1.. s.] And whereas the convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and Exchange of the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged in the city of ratificsticns, Washington on the 8th instant, by William L. Marcy, Secretary of State N°v‘ 8* um of the United States, and John Hitz, Consul General of the Swiss Confederation, on the part of their respective governments: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, 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 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 adixed. Done in the city of Washington, this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. s.] fifty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eightieth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.