New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-22
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TREATIES AND PRoCLAs1Ar1oNs.
A PROCLAMATION.

| BIZ 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 81. 1871; Ratifcations ex,
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5,
1871.
WHEREAS convention supplemental to
| the convention Of May 10, 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 subircts of their natural
ization, and the resumption Of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly dee
GIdICuy SuUlIlll NC dSlCGu UPON Ny JLIS SOEs
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 etfectng such agreement
have resolved to conclude a supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ip0tentiaries, 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 7.
Amy person, being originally a 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 II,
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.
Such pronunciation, 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 tine being to admit aliens to
or before the clerk or pro-
thonotary of any such court; if the declaF-
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
shah 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
m mt 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 be 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 |
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, Co administer an I
oath for any judicial or other legal purpose: !
f out Of Her Majestys dominions, in tripi- /
eate, in the presence Of any officer in the /
diplomatic OF consular service Of Her
MGestyo
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage 20.
each to the other. from time
o tineo lists of the persons who, within
heir respective -doiuinions and territories, !
II before their diplomatic and consular
,tficers, have declared their remuneration
II naturalization, with the dates and places
i making such declarations, and such in
as to the abode Of the declarants,
md the times and places Of their natural
cation. as they may have furnished
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified |
" the President of the United States, by
nd with the advice and consent of the SEN
tie thereof, and by HeT Britannia Maj
stv, and the notifications shall be ex'
hanged at Washington as soon as may be
onyenients II
In witness whereof the respective pIeni-
otentiaries have signed the same and
ave affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the tweaty-third
ay of February, in the year OF our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy
nee
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON
ANNEX A.
I, A. B., of insert abOdej being origin
lly citizen of the United States of Amer
"a Tor British subectl and having be
ONE naturalized within the dOLninions of |
er Britannia Majesty as British. subject
or as q citizen within the United States OF