New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-10
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AND IATIDSS.
A PROCLAMATION

a PROCLAMAIlON.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or
AMERICA.
! Supplemental Convention between the
| United States and Great Britain. concern
ing the Remuneration OF Naturalization in
certain Cases. Signed February 3D. 1871;
Ratified March u. 1871; Qualifications cx-
changed MAY 1, 1871: Proclaimed May ).
! ISL.
WHEREAS convention supplemental to
| the convention OF May -, 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
| February, 1871. which supplemental con
vention is word for word a, 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 domnions of the one to those of the
| other party, signed at London on the thir-
| tecnth 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 etfectlng such agreement,
have resolved to conclude a supplemental
convention. and have named as their pen-
ipOtentiaries. that is to say, the President
of the United States of America, Hamilton
iSl atpyr f,f toto N,;D
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 pienipotentiary 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 -, 1870 been naturaized 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 citizen within the United
States, may. at any time before May II,
1872, publicly declare his remuneration of
slch 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 dcclar-
ant be beyond the territories OF the United
States, it shall be made in duplicate. before
any diplomatic or consular officer OF the
Il h,,L -
shall remain Of record in the Gus
toGy Of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made; the other shall be-
without delay. transmitted to the Depart
meIt of State.
such Remuneration. if declared By an
original British subject, Of his acquired ma
tlcnailty as citizen Of the United States, !
she'll, Ii the declarant be in the United |
Kingdom OF Great Britain aud Ireland. be |
made in duplicate, in the presence Of a
justice OF the peace; il elsewhere III iier |
lSr!tannic Majesty dominions, in tripicate, !
IN the presence of any Judge of civil Or |
criminal jurisdiction, of any justice OF the |
peace, or OF any other officer for the tiIle
being authorized by law, i'll the place in |
which the dcclarant is, to administer an
oatA for any judicial OF other legal purpose:
ii out of Her Majesty's dOminions, in trip!i-
cate. i'll the presence OF any officer III the
diplomatic or consular service Of Her
Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage 20
each to the other, from time
TO time, lists OF the persons who, within
their respective GOhiniGns and territories,
Dr. before their diplomatic and consular
,tiicers have declared their Remuneration
If naturalization, with the dates and places
IF making such declarations. and such in
formation as to the abode OF the declarants,
md the times and places of their natural
zation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified
,y the President of the United States, by
md with the advice and consent Of the Sen
tie thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj