New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-29
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TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs
4 PROCLAMATION.


4 PROCLAMATION.
BIZ THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
SUPPLEMENTAL Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, concern
ing the Remuneration of Naturalization III
certain Cases. Signed February %, 1871:
Ratified March "A, 1871 Ratitications ex-
changet. May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May j.,
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May 49, 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 pieni-
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 emlgrate, 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-
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 etfectiug such agreement,
have resolved to conclude a supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
boz &c
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 tile
United States OF America. who have agreed
as follows:
ARTICLE |.
Any person, being originally a 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 a 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 III writing. substantially III 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
thonotary of any such court if the dec!ar
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
Britannia Maiesty's dominions, in triplcate.
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
ii out OF Her Majesty uOnlnIOnS, IN trlpl1-
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 10 the other, from time
to time, lists uf the persons who, within
their re- pectivc doiniEions and territories,
or before their diplomatic and consular
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 tines 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 |
md with the advice and consent of the Sen |
ate Thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai
,sty, and the Publications shall be eX- |
hanged at Washington as soon az 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-thirh |
lay of February. in the year of our Lord |
me thousand eight hundred and seventy
ne.
HAMILTON LJSJ