New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-23
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TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONS.
A PROCLAMATION.

| A PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O.
| AMERICA.
Supple mental Convention between tn
United States and Great Britain concern
Ing the Remuneration Of Naturalization j,
certain Cases. Signed February %, 1871
Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications ex
changed May 4, 1871; Proclaimed May 5
| 1871.
| the convention OF May ID, 1870, between tn,
United States of America and Her Majesty
| the Queen Of the United Kingdom o.
| Great Britain and Ireland, concerning
/ naturalization, was concluded and signed
| at Washington by their respective pleni
potentialies, on the twenty-third day 81
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 dOnlinions 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
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 eifecting such agreement,
have resolved to conclude q supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ipotentiaIies, that is to say, the President
<,f. -, 49, o1 C4o4o &c
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 !.
Any person, being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May 13, 1870, been naturalized as
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 H.
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 4.
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
or before the clerk or pro-
thonotary Of any such court; if the declar-
ant be bevoDd the territories of the United
States, it shall be made in duplicate, before
ony dJ,aln Of ,F H.
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 Remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, of his acquired ma
tionality as a citizen of the United States,
shall. if the declarant he 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, |
n the presence of any judge of civil or I,
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: |
f out OF Her Majesty's dominions, in tripli- |
diplomatic or consular service of Her
Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage to
each to the other, from time |
o time, lists of the persons who, within
heir respective doininions and territories,
IT before their diplomatic and consular
ulcers, have declared their remuneration
If naturalization, with the dates and places
# making such declarations, and such in
as to the abode of the declarants,
md the times and places of their natural
cation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified |
y the President of the United States, by
nd with the advice and consent Of the Sen
tie thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai
sty, and the notifications shall be eS-
hanged at Washington as soon as may be
onvenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
otentiaries have signed the same, and
ave affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty-thir,l
ay of February, in the year of our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy
ne.