THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1871.
ARTICLE I.
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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 purposes 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 naturalization 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 dominions of Her Britanic 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 renunciations be publicly declared within two years after the exchange of the ratifications 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 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 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.) (L.S.)
CLARENDON. 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 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. of (insert abode), being originally a citizen of the United States of America (or a British subject), and having become naturalized within the dominious 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).
Made and subscribed before me,
(Signed)
country or other sub-division and state, province, colony, legation, or consulate), this
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E. F.,
(Justice of the Peace or other title).
(Signed)
Foreign Office,
September 6th, 1871.
GRANVILLE.