New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-17
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TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs.

A PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
| 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 May s.,
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May l3, 1870, between the
United States of America and Her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and ireland, concerning
naturalization, was concluded and signed
at Washington by their respective pleni-
potentiaries, on the twenty-third day of
February, 1871, which supplemental con-
ventiOn 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-
teenth 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-
claFed, should be agreed upon by the gov
ernments of the respective countries, 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 supplemental
convention, and have named as their pIen-
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-
binary and minister plenipOtentiary to the
United States of America, who have agreed
as follows
ARTICLE ].
Any person, being originally citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May Is, 1870, been naturalized as
a 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 r.
1879, 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.
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 by
law for the time being to admit aliens to
naturalization, or before the clerk or pro
monetary of any such court; if the declar-
ant oe beyond the territories of the United
states, 1t 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 Deparf.
ment of State.
Such remuneration, if declared bv an
original British subject, Of his acquired ma