New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14
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AND PROCLAMATIONs.
4 PROCLAMATION.

a PROCLAMATION.
By TIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or
AMERICA.
SuDUlemcntal Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, concern
ny the Remuneration OF Naturalization IN
certain Cases. Signed February %, 1871;
Ratified March -, 1877 Notifications eX-
changed May 4, 1915 Proclaimed May .,
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention OF May 10, 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 pieni-
pOtentiares, on the twenty-third day of
Februaryy 1871, which supplemental con-
yention 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 dOniniOns 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 etfectng such agreement,
have resolved to conclude a 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
Al I'll loo -
Britain and Ireland, Sir Edward Thornton,
Knight Commander of the most honorable
Order Of the Bath and her envoy eXtraQr
binary and minister plenipOtentlary to the
United States Of America, who have agreed
as follows:
ARTICLE !.
Anv person, being originally a citizen
Of the United States who had pre-
yiou.iv TO Nav 10, 1870, been naturalized as
q British subject, may, at any time before
August TO- 1872, and any British subject
&hO, at the date first aforesaid, had been
naturalizcd 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
strumeat 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
naturalization, or before the clerk or pro
thOuOtaFy 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. i declared by an
original British subject of his acquired ma
tiOnality as citizen of the United States.
shall. if the decarant be in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be
made in duplicate, in the presence OF
justice of the peace If elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dOminions. in trIplicate,
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 dOuiniOns 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 |
aud with the advice and consent of the Sen |
ate thereof and by Her Britannia Maj |
esty. and the Publications shall be eX-
changed at Washington as soon as may be |
convenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
POteutiares 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 |