Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-02
By the President Of the United States ofAnreri
.nrA PROCLAMATION. E~

.Hr A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, a convention supplemental to
the convention of May -, 1870, between
the United States of America and Her
Majesty the Queen of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, con-
corning naturalization, was concluded and
signed at Washington by their respective
plenipOtentiares, on the twenty-third day
of February, 1871, which supplemental
convention is word for word as follows:
Whereas, by the second article of the
convention between the United States of
America and Her Majesty the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, for regulating the citizenship OF
citizens and subjects of the contracting
parties, who have emigrated, or may emil
CRATE, from the dOminiOns of the one to
those of the other party, signed at London,
on the 18th of May, 1870, it was stipulated
that the manner in which the renuncia-
ton by citizens and subjects of their Hatu-
raization, and the resumption of their
native allegiance may be made and pub
licly declared, should be agreed upon by
the Governments of the respective cOun-
tries, the President of the United States of
America and Her Majesty the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, for the purpose of effecting such
agreement, have resolved to conclude a
supplemental convention, and have named
as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say,
the President of the United States of
America, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of
State, and Her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Sir Edward Thornton, Knight
Commander of the most honorable Order
of the Bath, and her envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipOtentiary to the United
States of America, who have agreed as fol-
lows:
- ARTICLE /. #. |EF.
Any person, being originally citizen of
the United States, who had previously to
May Is, 1871, been naturalized as British
subject, may, at any time before August
10th, 1872, and any British subject who, at
the date first aforesaid, had been naturally
ed as citizen within the United States,
may, at any time before May 18th, 1872,
publicly declare his remuneration of such
naturalization by subscribing an instru-
ment in writing, substantially in the form
hereunto appended, and designated as An
mex a. ,..r....
Such remuneration, by an original citi-
zen of the United States, of Bristish ma
tionality, shall, within the territories and
jurisdiction of the United States, be made
in duplicate. in the presence of any court
authorized by law for the time being to adj
nit aliens to naturalization, or before the
clerk or prothonotary of any such court
if the declarant be beyond the territories of
the United States, it shall be made in du-
plicate, before any diplomatic or consular
officer of the United States. One of such
duplicates shall remain of record in the
custody of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made the other shall be,
without delay, transmitted to the Depart
ment of State. t.I
Such remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired
nationality as citizen of the United
States, SHALL if the declarant be in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, be made in duplicate, in the pres
ence of justice of the peace; if elsewhere
in Her Britannia Majesty's dominions, in
triplicate, in the presence of any judge OF
civil or criminal jurisdiction, of any JUS
tice of the peace, or of any other officer
for the time being authorized by law, in
the place in which the declarant is, to adj
minister an oath for any judicial or other
legal purpose if out of Her Majesty's do
minions, in triplicate, in the presence of
any officer in the Diplomatic or consular
service of Her Majesty. sa !
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage |
to communicate each to the other, from
time to time, lists of persons who, within |
their respective dominions and territories, |
or before their diplomatic and consular
offices, have declared their remuneration OF
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