New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-27
O F F. G AL.
TREATIES And PROCLANIATIONS.
A, PROCLAMATION.

| naturalization, was concluded and signed
at Washington by their respective pleni
potentiaries, on the twenty-five 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 ut 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 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,
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
| az follows:
ANY person. being originally citizen
| of the United States who had pre-
viously to May ID, 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
oSt tha nil cd
States, may, al 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
Uni ed 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,
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 II duplicate, in tie presence of a
Justice of the peace; if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dominions, in triplicate,
4 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 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 til the advice ard consent of the Sen
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
esty, and tt 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 Washing ton the twenty-third
day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred ald seventy
one.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
ANNEX A.
l, A. B., of insert abOde] being origin
ally citizen OF the United States of Amer
lea Tor a British subect1 and having be-
come naturalized within tie dominions of
her Britannia Majesty as British subject
for as citizen within the United States Of
Americal, do hereby renounce my natural
ization as British subject Tor citizen of the
United States], and declare that it is my
desire to resume my nationality as a citi-
zen of the United States for British subject
(SigneG) A. b.
Made anu subscribed to before me, -,
in insert country or other subdivision, and
State, province, colony, legation, or consul
late] this - day of -, 1877.
(Signed) E. 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 ratifcatipas Of
the same were exchanged in this city On the
fourth dav of May, 1871, bv Hamilton Fish,
Secretary O. State OF the United States, and
Sir Edward Thornton, X. C. 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 thatI Ulysses
5. Grant, President of the United States of
America, nave 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
Done at the city of Washington this fifth
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 fifth
U. s. GRANT,
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH