New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-17
OF FICIAL.
TREATIES AND PRocLAmArroNs.
A PROCLAMATION.

A EKOCLAMAlION.
By TIE 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 RatifcatiOns ex-
changed May 4, 1871 ; Proclaimed May 5,
1871.
WHEREAS a 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-thrd day of
February, 1871, which supplemental con-
yentiOn 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 ono 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 renunciatiOn by
such citizens and subrcts Of their natural
ization, and the resumption of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly de-
giared, should be agreed upon by the gov
eTuments 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 etfectlng such agreement,
nave resolved to conclude supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ipOtentaries, 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 aud Ireland, Sir Edward Thornton,
Knight Commander of the most honorable
Order of the Bath, and her envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipOtentiary to the
United States Of America, who have agreed |
as follows; !
ARTICLE I.
Any person, being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre- |
viously to May l3, 1870, been naturalizcd 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 renunciatiOn OF
such naturalization by subscribing an in
stTument in writing, substantially in the
form hereuntO appended, and designated as
annex A.
Such remuneration, by an original citizen
% Y.
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 deciar-
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
todv of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made; the other shall be,
without delay, transmitted to the Depart
meut 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 tine presence of
Justice of the peace if elsewhere in Her !
Majesty'5 dOminiOns, intrplicate,
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 deClaUant is, to administer an /
oath for any judicial OF other legal purpose:
f out of Her Maiesty's dOminiOns, in tripli-
'ate 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
o time, lists of the persons who, within
heir respective dOIninions and territories q
" before their diplomatic and consular l
,hicers, have declared their remuneration /
If naturalization, with the dates and places S
# making such declarations, and such in /
as to the abode of the declarants,
md the times and places of their natural a
zation, as they may have furnished. S
ARTICLE H.
The present convention shall be ratified
" the President of the United States, by h
nd with the advice and consent of the Sen p
te thereof and by Her Britannia Mai
sty, and the ratifcations shall be eX-
hanged at Washington as soon as may be
onyenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni- +
otentiaries have signed the same, and 7
ave affixed thereto their respective seals. !
Done at Washington the twenty-third +
ay Of February, in the year of our Lord Il
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy p