New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-07
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TREATIES AND PROCLAMAyIONse
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AMERICA

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"A PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
Supplemental Convention between Che
United States and Great Britain, concern
ing the Remuneration of Naturalizati0nsi in
certain Gases. Signed February %, 1871
Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications ex-
changed May 4; 1881 Proclaimed May )
1871.
WHEREAS a 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 pleni-
potentiaries, on the twenty -third day of
February, 1871, which supplemental con-
| ventiOn is word Tor 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 emlgrate, from
the dominions of the one to those of the
other party, signed at London on the thir-
teenth Of May, 1870, 1t was stipulated that
the manner in which the remuneration by
such citizens and subircts 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 ettecting 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 tho
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
a British subject, may, at any time before |
August 10, 1872, and any British subject |
who, at the date first aforesaid, had been |
as citizen within the United |
States, may, at any time before May II, |
1879, 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
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
shall remain of record in the Gus
5ody Of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made; the other shall be,
without delay, transmitted to the Depart
nent of State.
Such remuneration, if declared by an
original British subject, Of his acquired ma
ionality as a citizen of the United States
hail, if the declarant be in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be
made in duplicate, in the presence of a
ustice of the peace; if elsewhere in Her
Majesty's dominions, in triplicate,
n the presence of any judge of civil or
riminal jurisdiction, of any Justice of the
'eace, or OF any other officer for the time
eing authorized by law, in the place in
which the declarant is, to administer an
ath for any judicial OF other legal purpose:
out of Her Ma8sty's dOminions, in tripli-
ate, in the presence of any officer in the
lplomatc or consular service OF Her
iajesty.
ARTICLE IL 1
The contracting parties hereby engage to
each to the other, from time f
, time, lists Of the persons who, within +
heir respective doruinions and territories,
r before their diplomatic and consular
Ulcers, have declared their remuneration
naturalization, with the dates and places /
making such declarations, and such i'll c
,rmation as TO the abode Of the declarants. {
nd the times and places of their natural 7
alton, as they may have furnished. t
ARTICLE III. I
The present convention shall be ratified
? the President of the United States, by :
I'd with the advice and consent of the Sen :
q thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai |
ty, and the Publications shall be ex- !
ranged at Washington as soon as may be u
,nvenient. +
In witness whereof the respective pleni- :,
jtentiaries have. signed the same, and y
ave affixed thereto their respective seals. !
Done at Washington the twenty-third !,
" Of February, in the year of our Lord :
le thousand eight hundred and seventy !,
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