New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-17
OF FICIAL.
TREATIES AND PRoCLA1lArIoNs


A PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF 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 %, f871 I;
Ratified March "a, 1915 Ratifcati0ns ex-
changed May 4, 1871 !; Proclaimed May. s.
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May I3, 1870, between the
United States Of America and Her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom of
naturalization, was concluded and signed
at Washington by their respective pleni-
potentiaries, on the twenty-third day Of
February, 1871, which supplemental COR
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 citizenshipof citi-s
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-
teenth Of May, 1870, it was stipulated that
the manner IN which the remuneration by
such citizens and subiPcts Of their natural
lAhbluAs dIA LHo res tlll pllJu u buClA uhllN6
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 tha F1gffpA States of ATpnpion 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 ].
Any person, being originally citizen
Of the United States who had pre-
viously to May -, 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 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
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 if the declar-
ant be beyond the territories Of the United
States, it snail be made in dunlieate, before
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United States. One Of such duplicates
shall remain of record in the Gus
t0dy 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
as e citizen of the Enited States,
shall, if the declarant be In the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland, be
made in duplicate, in the presence of q
justice Of the peace if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dominions, in triplieate
in The presence Of any Judge OF civil or i
criminal Jurisdiction, OF any Justice Of the
peace, or Of any other officer for the time I
icing authorized by law, in the place in
'~3i,eh the deelarant Is to administer an
'9 81 "a tQr any iudieialo other legal purpose;
i CUT o. HeE.M aiestyss dominions, ia tripli- I
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Majesty. -''-- ~ = AZ
ARTIcLE II.
The contracting parties herebv. ENGAGE "a
c0nllnuhleare each to the ofIse,. ffss', si,,,e /
q time, hsTs Of the. persons MIN 1,-;tlsin /
lhelr respective dofuInions aud fe3,,iscTies |
q before their diplomatic ana eass-issg /
officers, have declared their -,
OF naturalization, with the dates and 1Tosl
Of making such declarations, aud such ii.
formation as TO the abode of the declarant4s
and the times and places Of their-narnrai,, |
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 Mai
eSty' and the Publications shall be ex-
changed = Washington as soon as may be |
4n.Nltpess whereof the respective pIeni- 4
performances have signed the same. and
have athxed thereto Their respective. seals.
Done at Washington the twentv-third |
day OF February, in the year Of our Lord |