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 triplicate, in the presence of any officer in the diplomatic or consular service of Her Majesty. ARTICLE II. The contracting parties hereby engage to communicate 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. 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 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.) (L.S.) EDWD. THORNTON. 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 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,) A.B. in (insert country or other subdivision, and state, province, colony, lega 35 & 36 VICT., c. 45-1872. An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between Her WHEREAS a treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America was signed at Washington on the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and was duly ratified on the seventeenth day of June of that year, which, amongst other things, contained the articles set out in the schedule to this Act: And whereas an Act intituled "An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871," has been passed by the Parliament of Canada for the purpose of carrying into operation the said articles; And whereas an Act intituled "An Act relating to the Treaty of Washington, 1871," has been passed by the Legislature of Prince Edward's Island, for the purpose of carrying into operation the said articles; And whereas the Congress of the United States of America have not as yet passed any Act for carrying into operation on the part of the United States the said articles; And whereas it is expedient to make provision by Act of Parliament for carrying into operation the said articles, Be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: ance with 1. As soon as the law required to carry into operation, on suspension of the part of the United States of America, the articles set out Acts at vari in the schedule to this Act has been passed by the Congress articles. of the United States and come into force, all Acts of Parliament and laws which operate to prevent the said articles from taking full effect, shall so far as they so operate be suspended and have no effect during the period mentioned in the article numbered thirty-three in the schedule to this Act. (Sec. 2 provided for the extension of the articles in the schedule to Newfoundland.) 3. This Act may be cited as "The Treaty of Washington Short Title. Act, 1872." SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE. Articles of the Treaty of Washington of the 8th May, 1871, which are referred to in the foregoing Act: Article XVIII, which is set out in the schedule, gives to the inhabitants of the United States, in common with the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, the liberty, for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of this Treaty, of the sea fishing of the Provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the colony of Prince Edward's Island, provided that they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the use of any part of the said coasts for the same purpose. Article XIX, which is also set out in the schedule, gives similar rights to British subjects with respect to the fisheries on the eastern sea coasts and shores of the United States north of the 39th parallel. Article XX provides that certain places reserved under the First Article of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States, concluded at Washington on the 5th of June, 1854, from the common right of fishing under that Treaty, shall be regarded as reserved from the common right of fishing under the preceding articles, and provides also for the settling of disputes as to the common right of fishing. ARTICLE XXI. It is agreed that, for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of this Treaty, fish oil and fish of all kinds, (except fish of the inland lakes, and of the rivers falling into them, and except fish preserved in oil,) being the produce of the fisheries of the United States or of the Dominion of Canada, or of Prince Edward's Island, shall be admitted into each country respectively, free of duty. Articles XXII-XXV, which are set out in the schedule, provide for the appointment and prescribe the mode of proceeding of Commissioners to determine, having regard to the privileges accorded by the United States to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, as stated in Articles XIX and XXI of this Treaty, the amount of any compensation which ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII. ARTICLE XXX. It is agreed that, for the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII of this Treaty, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty may Courts in one part of Her Majesty's Dominions may remit a case for Opinion to be authenticated and certified copy given 238 239 239 Her Majesty in Council, or House of Lords, on appeal, may adopt or Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to have same limits as before Con- ..... 248 Governor General, powers of, to be executed with advice of Privy Council or alone Application of provisions referring to Governor General in Council... 249 Seat of Government....... Legislative Power: Constitution of Parliament of Canada Privileges of Houses...... Yearly Session of Parliament 249 ... 249 249 |