New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-07
OF FIG IA L.
TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs.
A APROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF

A PROCLAMATION.
| BY THE 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 Notifications eX-
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5,
1871.
| WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May I3, 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
I 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 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 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,
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
\
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 extTaor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiarv 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 I3, 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 citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before May Il,
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 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 decar-
ant be beyond the territories of the United
States, it shall be made in duplicate, before
any diplomatic or consular officer of the
A-l nv7a ,f oh 4
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 declaTant 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 Maiesty'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 anv judicial OF other legal purpose !
if out of Her Majesty's 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 dOruiniOns and territories, |
or before their diplomatic and consular |
officers, have declared their renunciatiOn |
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 ratifcatiOns shall be ex- |
changed at Washington as soon as may be |
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
potentaries 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.
FDW'D THORNTON