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 GREAT BRITAIN, 1870. 349 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 following articles c - ·An.·r10L1:. I. Citizens of H10 Ulllttld States of AIDBIICQI who have become, or shall who tobcdceuled become, and are naturalized according to law within the British domin- naturalized citiions as British subjects, shall, subject to the provisions of Article II, ”°““· be held by the United States to be in all respects and lor all purposes British subjects, and shall be treated as such by·the United States. R-eciprocally, British subjects who have become, or shall become, and are naturalized according to law within the United States of America as citizens thereof, shall, sulnect 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. Amcrrcma II. Such citizens of the United States as aforesaid who have become and Renunciation or are naturalized within the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty as Brit- p¤¤yi¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤liish 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. 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. The manner in which this renunciation may be made and publicly [See suppledeclared shall be agreed upon by the Governments of the respective ¤¤¤¤=g},{=¤¤v¤¤*£;· countries. gs; ’ PI" ’ Amicus III. ` If any such citizen of the United States as aforesaid, naturalized Reueyvelor resiwithin the dominions of Her Britannic Majesty, should renew his resi· d¤¤¤° ¤¤ ****8*****] dence in the United States, the United States Government may, on his °°““°"‘ own application and on such conditions as that Government may think at to impose, re-admit 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. In the same manner, if any such British subject as aforesaid natural- .ized 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 tit to impose, re-admit 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. ARTICLE IV. The present convention shall be ratified by the President of the R,,,m;m;°m,_ United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty, and the ratitications 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 S,g,,,,t,m,,_ same, and have ailixed thereto their respective seals. Done at London the thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord DW, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY. EAL.] GLARENDON. sun.]