New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-12
OFFICIAL.
TREATIES AND PROCLAMATIONs
A PROCLAMATION.

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 il
certain Cases. Signed February g, 1871
Ratified March "a, 1871 Ratifcations ex
changed May 4, 1871 Proclaimed May 5
1871.
WHEREAS a convention supplemental te
the convention OF May I3, 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 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
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 l3, 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
naturalized as citizen within the United
States, may, at any time before May H.
1872, publicly declare his remuneration of
such naturalization by subscribing an in
strulnent in writing, substantially in the
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
or before the clerk or pro-
thonotary of any such court: if the dec!ar-
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
tionality as q 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
Justice of the peace if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dominions, in triplicate,
in the presence of any judge of civil or
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: |
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.
The contracting parties hereby engage 10
communicate each to the other, from time |
o time, lists of the persons who, within
heir respective doIninions and territories, |
IT before their diplomatic and consular
Ulcers, have declared their remuneration
# naturalization, with the dates and places
# making such declarations, and such in
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
y the President of the United States, BY
nd with the advice and consent of the Sen
te thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj
sty, 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-thir,l
ay of February, in the year of our Lord
ne thousand eight hundred and seventy
ne.
HAMILTON FISH.
EDW'D THORNTON.
ANNEX A.
I, A. B., of insert abOde]. being origin
lily citizen of the United States of Amer
"a Tor British subject, and having be-
ome naturalized within the dorninions Of
er Britannia Majesty as British subject
u as citizen within the United States Of
merica] do hereby renounce my natural
alton as British subject for citizen of the
nited States], and declare that it is my
esire to resume my nationality as a citi-
N of the United States for British subject.
(Signed) A. B.
Made and subscribed to before me, e..
insert country or other subdivision, and
tate, province. colony, legation, or consul |
tel this - day of -, 1877.
(Signed) E. F.,
Justice of the Peace. for other title]
HAMILTON FISH,
EDW'D THORNTON.
And whereas the said supplemental con-
antion has been duly ratified on both
arts, and the respective ratiications Of
lie same were exchanged in this city on the
urth day of May, 1871. by Hamilton Fish,
.eretary Of State of the United States, and
r Edward Thornton, X. c. B.. Her Britain
C Majesty's envoy extraordinary and min
ter plenipotentiary accredited to this gov
nment, on the part of their respective
Now, therefore, be it known thatI Ulysses ,
Grant, President of the United States of
merca, have caused the said supplemental
invention to be made public, to the end
lat the same and every clause and article
lereot may be observed and fulfilled with
,,od 1alth by the United States and the
items thereof.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set
y nand ana caused the seal of the United |
ates to be affixed. ' WV 1-''
Done at the city of Washington this fifth !
~ OF May, in the year of our Lord one |
lousand eight hundred and seventy one,