New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-10
OFFICIAL.
TREATIES AND PROCLAMAT1ONs.
A PROCLAMATION.

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 5,
1871.
WHEREAS 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
izaGiOn, 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 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 plen-
ipOtentiaries, that is to say, the President
of the United States of America, Hamilton
Il H.. H.
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 l.
Anv 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 TO- 1872, and any British subject
who, at the date first aforesaid, had been
naturalized as a 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.
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
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
tiOnality as a 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 |
in the presence Of any Judge of civil or |
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 /
path for any judicial OF other legal purpose: |
f out of Her Majestys dOminiOns, in tripli- |
cate, in the presence of any officer in the \
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Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage to
each to the other, from time
to time, lists of the persons who, within
their respective doininiOns and territories,
1r before their diplomatic and consular
officers, have declared their Remuneration
IF naturalization, with the dates and places
If making such declarations, and such in
formation as to the abode of the declarants,
and the times and places of their natural
cation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified
1y the President of the United States, by
md with the advice and consent of the Sen
tie thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
'sty, and the notifications shall be ex-
hanged at Washington as soon as may be
convenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
,Otentiaries have signed the same, and
lave affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty-third
lay of February, in the year of our Lord
me thOusand pi0ht hundred and aHveutv- |