New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-18
OF FICIAL.
TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs.
A PROCLAMATION.

Supplemental Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, concern.
Ing the Remuneration Of Naturalization in
certain Cases. Signed February %. 1871.
Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications ex,
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed Nav 5.
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May IL, 1870, between the
United States Of America and Her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom Of
Great Britain and Ireland, concerning
was concluded and signed
at Washington by their respective pleni-
February, 1871, which supplemental con.
ve1tion 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 Ire.
land, for regulating the citizenship of citi-
zens and subjects OF the contracting parties
who have emigrated, or may emigrate from
the dOminiOns of the one to those OF the
other party, signed at London on the thir-
tenth Of May, 1870, it was stipulated that
the manner in which the remuneration by
such citizens and subjrcts of their natural.
ization, and the resumption of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly de-
clared, should be agreed upon by the gov
ernments Of the respective countries, the
President of the United States of Amsrtea
and her Majesty the Queen Of the Unied
Kingdom-Of Great Britain and ireland flor
the purpose of effecting such agreement,
have resolved to conclude supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ipOtentiaries, 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 ner envoy extraor-
United States of America. who have agreed
as follows:
ARTICLE l.
ANY person, being originally citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May l3, 1870, been naturalized as
British subject, may, at any time before
August 10, 1872, and any British subject
who, at the date first aforesaid, had been
naturalized as citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before May Il.
1872, publicly declare his remuneration Of
such naturalization by subscribing an in
strument in writing. substantially in the
form hereunto appended, and designated as
annex A.
SuSH ACu " GA VI N-t-ASA
of the United States. of British nationality,
shall, within the territories and jurisdiction
Of the United States, be made III duplicate,
in the presence Of any court authorized by
la for the time being to admit aliens to
or before the clerk or pro
thonotary OF any such court; if the declar-
ant be beyond the territories of the United
States, it shall be made in duplicate, before
any diplomatic or consular officer OF the
United States. One of such duplicates
shall remain of record in the Gus
tody of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made: the other shall be,
without delay, transmitted to the Depart
ment of State.
Such remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
as citizen Of the United States,
shall, if the declarant he in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be
made in duplicate, in the presence of a
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 justice OF the
peace, or OF any other officer for the time
being authorized by law, in the place in
which the declarant is, to administer an
oath for any judicial OF other legal purpose
if out of Her Majesty's doIninions. in tripli-
cate. in the presence of any officer IN the
diplomatic or consular service OF Her
Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage 10
each to the other, from time
TO time, lists Of the persons who, within
their respective douinions and territories,
or before their diplomatic and consular
officers. have declared their remuneration
Of naturalization, with the dates and places
Of making such declarations, and such in
formation as to the abode of the declarants,
and the times and places of their natural
iZatiOn, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE ILL.,
The present convention shall be ratified
by the President of the United States, by
and with the advice and consent of the Sem
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai
esty, and the notifications shall be ex-
changed at Washington as soon as may be
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
have signed the same, and
have affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty third
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
ANNEX A.
/, A. B., of insert abode], being origin
ally citizen of the United States of Amer
ca Tor British subject, and having be-
come naturalized within the dominions of
her Britannia Majesty as British subject
for as citizen within the United States of
do hereby renounce my natural
zation as British subject or citizen of the
United States], and declare that il is my
desire to resume my nationality as a citi-
zen of the United States Tor British subject.
(Signed) a. B.
Made and subscribed to before me, -,
n insert country or other subdivision, and
State, province, colony, legation, or consul
ate] this - day Of =, lS-.
(Signed) E. F.,
Justice of the Peace, for ether titlel
HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con-
ventiOn has been duly ratified on both
parts, and the respective Publications of
The same were exchanged in this city on the
fourth day of May, 1871, by Hamilton Fish.
Sir Edward Thornton, X. c. b., Her Britain
tic Maiesty's envoy extraordinary and min.
ster plenipOtentiary accredited to this gov
on the part of their respective
Now, therefore, be it known that l, ULYSSES
J. Grant, President of the United States of
America, have caused the said supplemental
convention to be made public, to the end
hat the same and every clause and article
hereof may be observed and fulfilled with
ood faith by the United States and the
itizens thereof.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
ay hand, and caused the seal of the United
tates to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fifth
ay of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventv one
nd Of the independence of the United
tates OF America the ninety fifth.
U. 5. GRANT.
By the President: