New Orleans Republican., 1872-07-23
OFFICIAL.
rREAT1Es AND PRoCLAMATIoNs.
A PROCLAMATION.


changed May /, 1871; Proclaimed May 5,
| 1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental to
the convention of May l3, 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 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 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 ettecting 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 honora ble
Order of the Bath, and her envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the
United.States Of America who have agreed
as follows:
ARTICLE l.
Any person, being originally a citizen
of the United States who had pre-
viously to May l3, 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
natQralized 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 hereuutO 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 decIar- |
ant be beyond the territories of the United |
States, it shall be made in duplicate, before |
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 10 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, II the decarant 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 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
each to the other, from time
to time, lists of the persons who, within
their respective dOuiniOns and territories,
DR. before their diplomatic and consular
officers, have declared their remuneration
If naturalization, with the dates and places
If making such declarations, and such in
ormatiOn as to the abode Of the declarants,
md the times and places Of their natural :
zatiOn, as they may have furnished.
ARTICLE III.
The present convention shall be ratified | :
" the President of the United States, by
md with the advice and consent of the Sen
tie thereof, and By Her Britannia Mai 7
stv, and the ratifcatiOns shall be eX-
hanged at Washington as soon as may be 7
convenient.
In witness whereof the respective pleni-
'Otentiaries have signed the same, and
AVE affixed thereto their respective seals. i
Done at Washington the twenty-third t
ay Of February, in the wear Of our Lord S
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy b
ne.
HAMILTON FISH. !,
EDW'D THORNTON. q
|, A. B., Of insert abOdeJ, being origin q
lly citizen OF the United States Of Amer II
"a Tor British subject, and having be- T
ONE naturalized within the domini0ns of il
er Britannia Majesty as British subject q
1r as citizen within the United States Of q
meIical, do hereby renounce my natural
alton as a British subject Tor citizen of the
uited Statesl, and declare that it is my
esire to resume my nationality as a citi- h.
N of the United States Tor British subject. G
(Signed) A. B. Il
Made and subscribed to before me, -, a.
insert country or other subdivision, and =
ate, province, colony, legation, or consul
tel this +" day Of -, lS7-. =
(Signedl Z. F., II
Justice Of the Peace, Tor other titIel
. HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental CON IN
sntlon mas been duly ratified on both
tIt9, ana the respective ratifcatiOns of
G Isl. same were exchanged in this city on the
urth day OF May, 1871. bv Hamilton Fish. II
'cretary OF State of the United States. and 4
Edward Thornton, K. G. b. Her Britan- L.
c MaJesty's envoy extraordinary and min IT, H.
eF plenlpotentlary accredited to this g0v- j
nneht, on the part of their respectiye -
w :
Now, therefore, be it known thatI. ULYSSES
Grant, President Of the United States o4 ~,
Eeuca have caused the said suppIemen-9i
invention TO be made public. to tbe end
at Jle same and every clause and article II
erect may be observed and fulfilled Win fel
va ia 1@lth 10y the United States and tile Es
i ~ witness witness whereof I have hereunto set cha
"a ia ana caused the seal Of the United Ho
IIes TO be affixed. str
Done at the city of JVasb;nu+on this fF+b AY
,,DI oI May, IN the year of our Lord one A
! JlUsStnu elght hundred and seveutv.One. trio
= - " tLe independence of the United M
N'0s u america the ninety-ffth. no
5y the President: s.
HAMILTON FISH, T
Secretary Of State. IL