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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this ninth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1872.

THE following Despatch, with enclosures, from
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is
published for general information.

W. GISBORNE.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 23rd September, 1871.

SIR,—With reference to my Circular Despatches of
the 27th August, 1870, and 2nd February last, on the
subject of Naturalization, I transmit to you, for your
information and guidance, a copy of a Circular
Despatch and its enclosures, which has been
addressed by Earl Granville to Her Majesty's Di-
plomatic Representatives and Consuls, containing
instructions for their guidance in carrying into effect
the Naturalization Conventions with the United
States of the 13th May, 1870, and the 23rd of
February, 1871. I also enclose a copy of the
original Convention and of the form of the Declara-
tion of Alienage given in the Convention, which, as
you will see, has been regulated by a Secretary of
State, in accordance with the Imperial Act.

I have to call your attention to the provisions in
Article II. of the Convention, enclosed in the Foreign
Office Circular, as to communicating from time to
time to the Government of the United States lists of
the persons who have declared their renunciation of
American naturalization, and at the same time to
request that you will make the notifications pointed
out by the Foreign Office in their Circular Despatch
of the 4th September.

The instructions as to the mode of making the
Declarations, which were given in my Circular
Despatch of the 2nd February, apply to Declarations
of Alienage made under the Conventions with the
United States.

I have, &c.,
KIMBERLEY.

The Officer Administering
the Government of New Zealand.

ENCLOSURE 1.

Convention between Her Majesty and the United States
of America, Supplementary to the Convention of
13th May, 1870, respecting Naturalization.—Signed
at Washington, 23rd February, 1871. (Ratifications
exchanged at Washington, 4th 1871.)

WHEREAS by the Second Article of the Convention
between Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the
United States of America, for regulating the citizen-
ship of subjects and citizens 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 13th of May, 1870, it was
stipulated that the manner in which the renunciation
by such subjects and citizens of their naturalization,
and the resumption of their native allegiance, may
be made and publicly declared, should be agreed upon
by the Governments of the respective countries;
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the
United States of America, for the purpose of effect-
ing such agreement, have resolved to conclude a
Supplemental Convention, and have named as their

Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: 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 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the United States of America; and the President
of the United States of America, Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State, who have, agreed as follows:—

Article I.

Any person being originally a citizen of the United
States who had previously to 13th May, 1870, been
naturalized as a British subject, may at any time
before 10th August, 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, publicly declare his renun-
ciation 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 presence of any Court
authorized by law for the time being to admit aliens
to naturalization, or before the Clerk or Prothonotary
of any such Court: if the declarant 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 custody of the Court or
officer in whose presence it 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, if the declarant 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 Britannic 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 or 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 com-
municate each to the other, from time to time, lists
of the persons who, within their respective dominions
and territories, or before their Diplomatic and
Consular Officers, have declared their renunciation
of naturalization, with the dates and places of making
such declarations, and such information as to the
abode of the declarants, and the times and places of
their naturalization, as they may have furnished.

CIRCULAR.
Foreign Office, 4th September, 1871.

With reference to my Circular Despatches of the
30th of December and 22nd of April last, I
transmit to you herewith a copy of a Supplementary
Convention concluded between Her Majesty and the
United States of America, on the 23rd of February
last, the ratifications of which were exchanged at
Washington on the 4th of May, prescribing the
manner and form in which the renunciation by
subjects and citizens of Great Britain and of the
United States respectively, of their naturalization
and the resumption of their native allegiance in
accordance with the provisions of the previous Con-
vention of the 13th of May, 1870, of which a copy
is also enclosed, may be made and publicly declared.