New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-11
OF FICIAL.
TREATIES AND. PROCLAMATIONs.
A PROCLAMATION,

Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications ex-
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5,
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 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 emf grated, or may emigrate, FROM
| the douinions 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 etfecting such agreement,
!
| 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:
ANY person. being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May l3, 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
naturalizcd as IA citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before May II.
1872. publicly declare his IT nuncation of
such naturalization by subscribing an in
strument in writing. substantially in the
form hereunto appended, and designated as
annex 4.
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 III 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-
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 III the Gus
todv 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
;ni, R,it oil
tonality as citizen of the United States, |
shall, if the declarant he 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 doniniOns 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 Majesty 5 dominions. 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 doininions and territories
or DclOIt lLtlT uIpicIudlIc anu couotlldI
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 ne ratified
by the President Of the United States, by
and with the advice and consent of the Ser
ate thereof. and by Her Britannia Ma
eSty, and the Publications shall be .eS-
changed at Washington as soon as may be
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
have signed the same. and
have affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twcntv-third
dav Of February. in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
/. A. B., of insert abodel. being origin
ally citizen Of the United States of Amer
lea Tor British subject, and having be-
come naturalized within the dominons of
her Britannia Majesty as a British subject
or as citizen within the United States OF
do hereby renounce my natural
lzation as a British subject Tor citizen of the
United States !, and declare that it is my
desire to resume my nationality as a citi-
zen of the United States Ior British subject.
(Signed) A. B.
Made and subscribed to before me. -,
in insert country or other subdivision. and
State, province. colony. legation, or consul
late this - day of =, 49,.
(Signed) f. F.,
Justice OF the Peace, for other titlel
HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con-
vention Las been duly ratified Cd both
parts. ard the respective Publications of
the same were exchanged in this city on the
fourth day of MAY, 1871. by Hamilton Fish
Sir Edward Thornton, X. c. l., Her Britain
bic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and min
ster plenipotentiary accredited to this gov
ernnent, On the part Of their respective
Now. therefore. be it known thatI Ulysses
). Grant. President of the tuted States %
merica, have caused the said supplemental
convention to be made public, 10 the end
hat the same and every clause and article |
hereof may be observed and fulfilled with
rood faith by the United States and the
,itizens thereof.
In witness whereof ! have Lereunto set
Nv hand and caused the seal Of the United
states to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fifth
lav of MAY. in the year OF our lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy ore,
nd Of the independence OF tie United
States of America the ninetyhfth.
L. 5. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary OF State.