New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-24
O FFECIAL.
TREATIES AND ORGANIZATIONS.
a PROCLAMATION.

| A PROCLAMAllON.
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 %, 1871;
Ratified March "a, 1871; Notifications ex-
changed May 4, 1871 f.; Parliamentary >,
1871.
I 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-
| poten6a1ies, 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 pronunciation by
such citizens and subircts Of their natural
ization, and the resumption of their native
allegiance may be made and publicly de-
CidICtl, sLOulu Dt dSICtIl u JUN DA JuC 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 supplemental
convention, and have named as their plen-
ipOtentiaries, that is to say, the President D.!
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 pIenipotentiary to the |
United States Of America, who have agreed I
as follows:
ARTICLE i.
Any person, being originally citizen
of the United States who had pre-
vioUsIy to May l3, 1870, been naturalized as
a British subject, may, at any time before
who, at the date first aforesaid, had been !!
naturalized as a citizen within the United !
States, may, at any time before May H. |
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 remuneration, by an original citizen
of the United States, of British nationality,
SHALL within the territories ard 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-
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
do hh how. I.o11 L. !
without delay transmitted to the Depart
mant of State.
Such remuneration, if declared BY an
original British subject, of his acquired ma.
5ionality as citizen of the United States,
'hall, if the declarant be in, the United I
Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelando be
made in duplicate, in the presence of a :
ustce of the peace; if elsewhere in Her
Britannia Majesty's dominions in triplicate, :
Il the presence of any judge of civil or
criminal jurisdiction, of any justice Of the g
,eace, or of any other officer for the time
,eing authorized by law, in the place in
which the declarant is, to administer an !
,ath for any judicial OF other legal purpose: +
out of Her Majesty's dominions, in tripli.
ate, in the presence Of any officer in the !
diplomatic or consular service of Her
iajesty.
ARTICLE H. c
The contracting parties hereby engage to
communicate each to the other, from time
0 time, lists Of the persons who, within
heir respective doruinions and territories, q
T before their diplomatic and consular
Ulcers, have declared their Remuneration a
naturalization, with the dates and places t,
+ making such declarations, and such in II
Drnatien as to the abode of the declarants, 8,
nd the times and places Of their natural j
5ation, as they may have furnished. O.
ARTICLE III. >,
The present convention shall be ratified y
Y the President of the United States, by c,
nd with the advice and consent Of the Sen
tie thereof, and by Her Britannia Maj D.
sty, and the notifications shall be ex- in
hanged at Washington as soon as may be in
onyenient. st
In witness whereof the respective pIeni- q =.
Otentiaries have signed the same, and &C
ave affixed thereto their respective seals. ST.
Done at Washington the twenty-third be
ay of February, in the year of our Lord 81
Re thousand eight hundred and seventy re-
le. tV