New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-15

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 subjPcts of their natural
lzatlOn, 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
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 a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May l3, 1870, been naturaIized 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,
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-
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 a
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
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
if out of Her Maiesty's dOminiOHs, 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
to time, lists of the persons who, within
their respective dolniniOns and territories,
or before their diplomatic and consular
officers, 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 times and places of. their natural
zation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified
by the President of the United States, by
and with the advice and consent of the SEN
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
esty, and the notifications shall be ex-
changed at Washington as soon as may be
convenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
potentiaries have signed the same, and
have affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty-third
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy