New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-10
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TREATIES AND PRoCLAMATIoNss
A PROCLAMATION.

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A PROCLAMATION
! BY TIE PRESIDENT OF TIE 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 Ratiications ex-
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5,
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-
! vtntiOn 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 emgrate, 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 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 etfecting 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
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 the
United States of America, who have agreed
as follows
ARTICLE T.
ANY person, being originally citizen
of the United States who had pre-.
viously to May 49, 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
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 hereunto appended, and designated as
annex A.
Such renunciation, 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; il the declar
ant be beyond the territories of the United
States, it shall he 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
tionality 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, i'll the presence of a
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
or consular service OF Her |
Majesty.
ARTICLE II.
The contracting parties hereby engage to |
each to the other, from time |
to time, lists of the persons who, within |
their respective dolninions 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 decarants, !
and the times and places of their natural |
zation, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE Ill.
The present convention shall be ratified
by the President of the United States, by
and with the advice and consent Of the Sen
ate thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
esty, and the notifications shall be ex-
changed at Washington as soon as may be |
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
Dotentiaries have signed the same, and
nave affixed thereto their respective seals.
Done at Washington the twenty-thirtl.
lay of February, in the year of our Lord
me thousand eight hundred and seventy
me.
HAMILTON FISH.