THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 23

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 naturali-
zation and to resume their British nationality, pro-
vided 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 dominions
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
ratification of the present Convention.

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

Article III.

If any such British subject as aforesaid, naturalized
in the United States, should renew his residence
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 impose, readmit him to the character and
privileges 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 naturali-
zation.

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 residence 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 privileges
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.

Article IV.

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 London as soon as may be within twelve
months from the date hereof.

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

Done at London, the thirteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy.

(L.S.) CLARENDON.
(L.S.) JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.

Regulation.

In exercise of the powers contained in the

Naturalization Acts, 1870, I the Right Honourable
Granville George Leveson Gower, one of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, make the
following Regulation :-

Form.

The form of declaration of Alienage to to be made
in pursuance of the Convention between Her Majesty
and the United States of America respecting
Naturalization, signed at Washington on the 23rd of
February, 1871 :-

I, A. B. [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 as
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 subdivision and state, province, colony,
legation], or consulate, this
day of
(Signed) A.Β.
(Justice of the Peace or other title).

(Signed) GRANVILLE.

Foreign Office,
6th September, 1871.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 8th January, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

SAMUEL CROKER, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, for the District of Matakana, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of 24th day of
October, 1871, and published in New Zealand Gazette,
No. 57, of the 25th day of October, 1871, vice Patrick
Warner Croker, Esq., resigned.

W. GISBORNE.

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

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause
133 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,"
the name of the under-mentioned person has been
sent in to this office by the Town Clerk as having
been elected Mayor for the Borough of the City of
Wellington:-

JOE DRANSFIELD, Esq.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 11th January, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

MICHAEL JOHN MALAGHAN, Esq., and
WILLIAM WARREN, Esq.,
both of Queenstown, Otago, and
ALEX. GROVES DUFF, Esq., and
WILLIAM HENRY HOSKING, Esq.,
both of Ross, in the County of Westland, to be
Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 8th January, 1872.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WILLIAM MCCAW NELSON, Esq.,
of Blenheim, to be a Crown Solicitor for the Nelson
Judicial District.

W. GISBORNE.