CONVENTIONS RELATIVES A LA NATURALISATION

1*. — Convention du 43 mai 4870.

Art. I. — British subjects who hâve become, or shall become, and are naturalized according to law within the United States of America as citizens thereof, shall, subject to the provisions of Article II, be held by Great B ri tain to be in ail respects and for ail purposes citizens of the United States , and shall be treated as such by Great Britain.

Reciprocally , citizens of the United States §1 America who hâve become , or shall become , and are naturalized according to law within the British dominions as British subjects, shall, subject to the provisions of Article II, be held by the United States to be in ail respects and for ail purposes British subjects , and shall be treated as such by the United States.

Art. II. — Such British subjects as aforesaid who bave become and are naturalized as citizens within the United States , shall be at liberty to renounce their naturalization and to résume their British nationality, provided that such renunciation be publicly declared within two years after the twelRh day of May, 1870.

Such citizens of the United States as aforesaid who bave become and are naturalized within the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty as British subjects, shall be at liberty to renounce their naturalization and to résume their nationality as citizens of the United States, provided that such renunciation be publicly declared within two years after the exchange of the ratifications of the présent Convention.

The manner in which this renunciation may be made and publicly declared shall be agreed upon by the Governments of the respective countries.

Art. III. ^ If any such British subject as aforesaîd, naturalized in the United States, sbould renew his résidence within the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, Her Majesty's Government may, on his own application and on such conditions as that Government may think fit to \mpose, readmit him to the character and privilèges of a British subject, and the United States shall not, in that case, claim him as a citizen of the United States on account of his former naturalization.

In the same manner, if any such citizen of the United States as aforesaid, naturalized within the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, should renew his résidence in the United States , the United States Government may, on his own application and on such conditions as that Government may think fit to impose , readmit him to the character and privilèges of a citizen of the United States , and Great Britain shall not, in that case, claim him as a British subject on account of his former naturalization.

Art. IV. — The présent Convention shall be rati6ed by Her Britannic Majesty and by the Président of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senale thereof, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as may be within twelve months from the date hereof.

2«. — Convention additionnelle du 23 février /57/.

Art. I. — Any person being originally a citizen of the United States who had, previously to May 13, 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 12, 1872, pubiicly déclare his renunciation of such naturalization by subscribing an instrument 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 présence of any court authorized by law for the time being to admit alieos to naturalization , or before the clerk or protonotary of any such court : if the déclarant be beyond the territories of the United States , it shall he made in duplicate, before any diplomatie or consular ofQcer of the United States. One of such dupHcates shall remain of record in the custody of the court or officer in whose présence il was made; the other shall be, without delay , transmitted to the department of State.

Such renunciation , if declared by an original British subject of his acquired nationality as a citizen of the United States, shall, it the de-

clarant be in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be made in duplicate , in the présence of a justice of the peace ; if eisewhere in Her Britannic Majesty's dominions , in triplicate , in the présence 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 déclarant is , to administer an oath for any judicial or other légal purpose ; if out of Her Majesty's dominions , in triplicate , in the présence of any officer in the diplomatie or consular service of Her Majesty.

Art. 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 diplomatie and consular ofQcers, hâve declared their renunciation of naturalization , with the dates and places of making such déclarations, and such information as to the abode of the déclarants , and the times and places of their naturalisation , as they may hâve fumished.

Art. m. — The présent Convention shall be ratified by Her Britannic Majesty, and by the Président of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as may be convenient.