New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-14

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 eiVl-
zens and subjects Of the contracting parties
who have emigrated or may emigrate, from
the doninions 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
I such citizens and subircts of their natrlra !
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 effecting such agreement,
/ have resolved to conclude a supplemental
/ convention, and have named as their plen-
/ ipOtentiares that isto 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
s 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 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 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 time being to admit aliens to
naturalization, or before the clerk or pro
thOnOtary of any such court; if the deelar-
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. .r
Such remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
tiOnality as a citizen of the United States,
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be
made in duplicate, in the presence of a
Justice of the peace; if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Maiesty's dOminions, in triphcate,
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 Majesty's dOminions, in trlpli-
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 doininiOns 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
ization, 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 Publications 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
one.
HAMILTON FISH.