New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-16
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TREATIES AND PROCLAr1ATIoNs.
A PROCLAMATION.

BY TIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
Supplemental Convention between the
United States and Great Britain, concern
ing the Remuneration of Naturalization II
certain Cases Signed February q, 1871
Ratified March D. 1871 Notifications e1
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental Il
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 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, 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 effecting such agreement,
have resolved to conclude supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ipOtentiaries, that is to say, the President
Of the URited 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-l.
ANY person, being originally citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May -, 1870, been naturalized as
British subject may, at any time before
August 10, 1872, and any British subject
who, at the date first aforesaid, had been
naturalzed as a citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before May II,
1872, publicly declare his remuneration of
such naturalization by subscribing an in
strulneut 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-
thOnOtaTy 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
IL
tOdv of the court or officer in whose
presence it was made the other shall be,
without delay, transmitted to the Depart
mcnt 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 tho declarant 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 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 dOmiuiOns, 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 dOminiOns 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
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- |
potentiaTies 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.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
ANNEX A.
|, 4. b., Of insert abOdeI, being origin |
ally a citizen Of the United States of Amer |
lCd vi n lDLAblSu SublECLl anu NALAS DC-
come naturalized within the dOminiOns of |
her Britannia Majesty as a British subject |
I or as a citizen within.the United States OF |
America. do hereby renounce my natural
zatiou as a British subject Tor citizen Of the /
United Statesl, and declare that it is my |
desire to resume my nationality as citi- |
zen Of the United States for British suhjectl |
lSigned) A. B.
Made and subscribed to before me, --,
in insert country or other subdivision, and |
State, province, colony, legation or consul
.atel this - day of -, 49,.
(Sigued E. F.,
Justice of the Peace, for other titlel
HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con
eu..on has been duly ratified on both
parts, and the respective notifications of
the same were exchanged in this city on the
fourth day of May, 1871, by Hamilton Fish,
of State of the United States, and |
Sir Edward Thornton, X. c. B., Her Britain
mic Malesty's envoy extraordinary and min
steC plenipOtentary accredited to this gOvs
2rnment, on the part OF their respective
Now, therefore, be it known thatI. Ulysses
5 Grant, President of the United States of
America, have caused the said supplemental
convention to be made public to the end |
hat the same and every clause and article
hereof may be observed and fulfilled with
-,,l 4,;+l Nv thu 4 United States and +ba |