New Orleans Republican., 1872-06-13

oonvention 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 1t was stipulated that
| the manner IN which the remuneration by
such citizens and subircts Of their natural
lzation, and the resumption of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly de-
elared, 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
hlngdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for
the purpose Of effecting such agreement,
nave resolved to conclude q supplemental
| cOnVenuons and have named as their plen-
| lpotentlaries, that is to say, the President
/ OF Jne 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 l.
Any person, being originally o citizen
of the United States who had pre-
vi0nsly 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
naturalzed as citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before MAY u
1879, publicly declare his renuneiation of
such naturalization ny subscribing an in
strument in writing, substantially in the
form hereunto appended, and designated as
annex A.
Such renunciation, 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 renunciation, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
tiOnality as a citizen of the United States,
shall, if the deelarant 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 Majesty's dominions, in tripleate,
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 deelarant is, to administer an
oath for any judicial OF other legal purpose
if out Of Her Majesty 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 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 Mai
esty, and the ratiications shall be ex-
changed at Washington as soon as may be
convenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
have signed the same, and
have affixed thereto their respective SEALS
Done at Washington the twenty-thrd
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.