New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-14

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 citizen
of the United States who had pre-
vioUsly to May Is, 1870, been naturalized as
British subject, may, at any time before
August TO- 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 remuneration, 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
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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 reconciliation, 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 the presence of a
justice of the peace if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dOminions, in triplicate,
in the presence of any judge of civil OF
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 Majestys 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 doiuiniOns 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,
anu INC lILutS ana pldceS OF Jutf HdLuIdl-
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 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-thirl |
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
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