New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-16
OF FICIAL.
AMP PRoCLAnIATIONs.
A PROCLAMATION.

/
\ By THE PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES OF
/ AMERICA
| Supplemental Convention between the
! United States and Great Britain, concern
ing the Remuneration of Naturalization in
certain Cases Signed February %, 1871;
Ratified March "a 1871; RatifcatiOns ex-
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed, May 5,
! 1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May IL, 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-thiFd day of
February, 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 dOminiOns of the one to those of the
other party. signed at London on the thir-
tenth 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 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
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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
as follows: iii
ARTICLE /.
ANY person, being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
vioUsly to May l3, 1870, been natlralized as
a 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 !
such naturalization by subscribing an in |
strument in writing, substantially in the |
form hereunt0 appended, and designated as
annex A.
Such remuneration, by an original citizen
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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
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 ma
iOnality as a citizen of the United States,
shall, if the declarant he 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 Majestyis dOminions, in triplicate,
N the presenee"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
path for any judicial OF other legal purpose
f out of Her Majesty's dOminiOns, in tripli-
,ate, 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
o time, lists of the persons who, within
heir respective dOIuiniOns and territories,
,r before their diplomatic and consular
,fieers, have declared their remuneration
If naturalization, with the dates and places
# making such declarations, and such in
OrmatiOn as to the abode of the declarants,
md the times and places of their natural
cation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified |
y the President of the United States, by
nd with the advice and consent of the Sen
tie thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
sly, and the notifications shall be ex-
hanged at Washington as soon as may be
Onvenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni- ,
otentiaries have signed the same, and
ave affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty-third
ay of February, in the year of our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy
ne. ,