New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-24
OFF1CIAL.
TREATIES AND PROCLANfATIONs.

Supplemental Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, concern
ing the Remuneration Of Naturalization in
certain Cases. Signed February %, 1871;
changed May A, 1871; Proclaimed May 5,
1871.
WHEREAS q convention supplemental to
the convention of May ID, 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 plenic
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 enligrated, or may emigrate, from
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
and her Majesty the Queen Of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for
the purpose of effecting such agreement,
have resolved to conclude supplemental
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,
49, r1or IF fho mn
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 citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May Is, 1870, been naturalized as
British subject, may, at any time before
August 10. 1872 and any British subject
naturalized as 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
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
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 remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
tiOnality as 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
Britannia Majesty'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 any judicial OF other legal purpose:
if out Of Her Majesty's dominions. in tripl-
cate, in the presence Of any officer in the
diplomatic or consular service of Her
Majesty.
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 Maj
esty, and the notifications 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-third
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON. .
ANNEX A.
/, A. B., of insert abode1, being origin
ally citizen of the United States of Amer
lea Tor British subject, and having be-
come naturalized within the dominions of
her Britannia Majesty as British subject
for as q citizen within the United States of
America, do hereby renounce my natural
izatiOn as a British subject Tor citizen of the
United States], and declare that it is my
desire to resume my nationality as citi-
zen of the United States Tor British subject.
(Signed) A. b.
Made and subscribed to before me,
in insert country or other subdivision, and
State, province, colony, legation, or consul
late1 this - day of =, 49,.
(Signed) fM. f. f.,
Justice of the Peace, for ether title]
HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con-
vention has been duly ratified on both
parts, and the respective ratifcations of
the same were exchanged in this city on the
fourth day of May, 1871, by Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State of the United States, and
Sir Edward Thornton, K. G. b., Her Britain
mic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary accredited to this gov
eminent, on the part OF their respective
governments
Now, therefore, be it known that l. Ulysses
5. Grant, President Of the United States of
America, have caused the said supplemental
convention to be made public, to the end
That the same and every clause and article
thereof may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and the
citizens thereof.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
day OF May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy one,
and OF the independence of the United
States Of America the ninety-ffth.
.- U. s. GRANT.
By the President: