THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

I likewise transmit to you a copy of the Order in legation, or consulate], this day of
Council of the 17th of August, 1870, declaring, as 187
required by the 3rd section of the Act 33 Vict., cap.
14, that the Convention of the 13th of May, 1870,
had been entered into by Her Majesty; and I have
now to instruct you to publish a Notification, reciting
that section of the Act, together with the Order in
Council and the two Conventions, and calling upon
all British subjects who have become naturalized
within the United States, and who may desire to
resume their allegiance as British subjects, to make
the declaration in the form prescribed before the
12th of May, 1872.-

You will at the same time point out that, although
the supplemental Convention of the 23rd of February
last only requires that American citizens who have
been naturalized as British subjects should make the
declaration of renunciation before an United States'
Court of Justice or Diplomatic or Consular Officer of
the United States, it will be necessary, in order to
meet the requirements of the British Act of Parlia-
ment, that the declaration should also be made before
one of the British Judicial, Diplomatic, or Consular
Officers mentioned in the 3rd section.

You will add that no fee will be levied for re-
ceiving these declarations.

The declarations are to be made in triplicate, one
copy to be delivered to the Declarant, or retained in
your archives, and the third forwarded to this De-
partment for registration by the Home Office, in the
same manner as the declarations which you were
instructed to take in my Circular of the 30th of
December last.

I take this opportunity of stating that, as some
misapprehension has arisen with regard to the form
of "Declaration of British Nationality" annexed to
that Circular, you must be careful in all cases when
you are called upon to receive a Declaration of
British Nationality to append to it the Note given in
the form, and which is to be considered as part of
the declaration.

A similar Circular has been addressed to Her
Majesty's Consuls.

I have, &c.,

(for Earl Granville).

Article III.

The present Convention shall be ratified by Her
Britannic Majesty, and by the President 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.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their
respective seals.

Done at Washington, the twenty-third day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.

(L.S.) EDWD. THORNTON.
(L.S.) HAMILTON FISH.

Annex (A).

I, A.B., of [Insert abode], being originally a citizen
of the United States of America [or a British subject],
and having become naturalized within the dominions
of Her Britannic Majesty as a British subject [or a
citizen within the United States of America, do
hereby renounce my naturalization as a British subject
[or citizen of the United States]; and declare that it
is my desire to resume my nationality as a citizen of
the United States [or British subject].

(Signed) A.B.
Made and subscribed before me, in (Insert
country or other subdivison, and state, province, colony,

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(Signed) E. F.,
Justice of the Peace [or other title].
(L.S.) EDWD. THORNTON.
(L.S.) HAMILTON FISH.

ENCLOSURE 2.

Convention between Her Majesty and the United
States of America relative to Naturalization.—
Signed at London, May 13, 1870. (Ratifications
exchanged at London, August 10, 1870.).

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and the President of the
United States of America, being desirous to regulate
the citizenship of British subjects who have emigrated
or who may emigrate from the British dominions to
the United States of America, and of citizens of the
United States of America who have emigrated or
who may emigrate from the United States of America
to the British dominions, have resolved to conclude a
Convention for that purpose, and have named as their
Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable
George William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Baron
Hyde of Hindon, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a
Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council, Knight of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Britannic
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs:

And the President of the United States of America,
John Lothrop Motley, Esquire, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America to Her Britannic Majesty;

Who, after having communicated to each other
their respective full powers, found to be in good and
due form, have agreed upon and concluded the fol-
lowing Articles :—

Article I.

British subjects who have 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 Britain to be in all respects and for all pur-
poses citizens of the United States, and shall be
treated as such by Great Britain.

Reciprocally, citizens of the United States of
America who have 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 all respects and for all purposes
British subjects, and shall be treated as such by the
United States.

Article II.

Such British subjects as aforesaid who have become
and are naturalized as citizens within the United
States, shall be at liberty to renounce their natu-
ralization and to resume their British nationality,
provided that such renunciation be publicly declared
within two years after the twelfth day of May,
1870.

Such citizens of the United States as aforesaid who
have become and are naturalized within the domi-
nions of Her Britannic Majesty as British subjects,
shall be at liberty to renounce their naturalization,
and to resume 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 present Convention.