New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-12

convention between the DnIbeu obaboS VI
America and her Majesty the 9qeenso1 the
United Kingdom OF Great britain ana re ire
land, for regulating the citizenship OF eItl-
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 thlr-
teenth of MAY, 1870, il was stipulated that
the manner in which the Remuneration by
such citizens and subjects of their natural
izatiOn, and the resumption of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly de-
claTed, 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 ehecting such agreement,
| nave resolved to conclude q 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 plenipotentiaFy to the
| United States Of America, who have agreed
J as follows:
| Article /.
Any person, being originally citizen
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| viouslv to MAY Is, $780, been naturalized as
British subject, may, at any time before
| August 10, 1879, 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 -,
| 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
| 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 Da-
| tiOnality as citizen of the United States,
| shall, if the declaFant be 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 Majestys dOminiOns, in triplicate,
in the presence of any judge eff 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 dO1LiniOns and territories,
or before their diplomatic and consular
officers. have declared their remuneration
of naturalization, with the dates andplaees
| of making such declarations, and such in
| formation as to the abode of the declarants,
| and the times and p2aces 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 ofthe Sen
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Mai
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.