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TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONS.


TREATIES AND PROCLAAIATIONs.
A PROCLAMATION.
BIZ THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O
| @S AMERICA.
Supplemental Convention between th
United States and Great Britain, concerI
ing the Remuneration of Naturalization i
certain Gases. Signed February 23, 1871
Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications OF
changed May 4, ISL; Proclaimed May
1871.
| WHEREAS a convention supplemental t
the convention of May l3, 1870, between th
United States of America and Her Maiest
the Queen of the United Kingdom O
naturalization, was concluded and signe,
at Washington by their respective pleni
potentiaries, on the twenty-third day 0
February, 1871, which supplemental con
vention is word for word as follows:
| Whereas, By the second article of tn,
convention between the United States O
America and her Majesty the Queen of tn,
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land, for regulating the citizenship of citi
| who have emigrated, or may erhigrate, from
| the dOminions Of the one to those Of the
other party, signed at London on the thir
| teenth Of May, 1870, it was stipulated that
| the manner in which the remuneration by
such citizens and subircts 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
and her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, fer
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 her envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States Of America. who have agreed
as follows:
Any person, being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May l3, 1870, been naturalized as
q 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
1872, publicly declare his renunciation of
snch naturalization by subscribing an in
strument in writing, substantially in the
form hereuntO appended, and designated as
annex A.
Such remuneration, by an original citizen
of the United States, of British nationality,
shall, within the territories and jurisdiction
Of the United States, be made in duplicate,
in the presence of any court authorized bv
law for the time being to admit aliens to
naturalization, 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 il 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 renunciatiQn, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
tionality 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 presence 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 justice of the
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 doninions, 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 to
communicate each to the other, from time
their respective dOIniniOns and territories,
Dr. before their diplomatic and consular
officers, have declared their renunciation
IF 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 |
zation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified !
oy the President Of the United States, by |
and with the advice and consent of the Sen
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai |
,sty, and the ratifcations shall be ex- |
changed at Washington as soon as may be |
In witness whereof the respective pleni. |
,otentiaries have signed the same. and |
laye affixed thereto their respective seals. |
Done. at Washington the twenty-third |
lay of February, in the year of our Lord |
me.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
ANNEX A.
l, A. B., of insert abOdel, being origin
lily citizen of the United States Of Amer
ca Tor a British subject, and having be-
ONE naturalized within the dominiOns of
Ter Britannia Majesty as British subject
or as citizen within the United States of
zation as a British subject Tor citizen of the
United States] and declare that it is nv
esire to resume my nationality as citi-
en- of the United States Tor British subject.
(Slgned) A. B.
Made and subscribed to before me, -,
/ insert country or other subdivision, and
tate, province, colony, legation, OF consu-
lte] this - day of -, 1s7-.
(Signedj E. F.,
Justice of the Peace, for ether title1
HAMILTON FISH,
EDWD THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con-
ention has been duly ratified on both
arts, and the respective ratifcations of
le same were exchanged in this city on the |
'urth day of May, 1871, by Hamilton Fish,
scretary Of State of the United States, and
r Edward Thornton, X. C. B., Her Britain
G Majesty's envoy extraordinary and min
ter plenipotentiary accredited to this gov
nment on the part of their respective
Now, therefore, be it known that /, Ulysses
Grant, President of the United States of
merica, have caused the said supplemental
invention to be made public, to the end ,
at the same and every clause and article
ereof may be observed and fulfilled with !.
od faith by the United States and the ..
liens thereof
In witness whereof have hereunto set
? hand, and caused the seal of the United
ates to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fifth
y Of May, in the year Of our Lord one