3. The oath in this chapter referred to as the oath of allegiance shall be in the form following, that is to say:

“I, allegiance to Her according to law.

do swear that I will be faithful and bear true Majesty Queen Victoria, her heirs and successors, So help me God."

NATIONAL STATUS OF INFANT CHILDREN.

4. The following enactments shall be made with respect to the national status of children:

(1) Where the father, or the mother being a widow, has obtained a certificate of naturalization in this colony, every child of such father or mother, who during infancy has become resident with such father or mother in any part of this colony shall within this colony be deemed to be a naturalized British subject.

SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.

5. The certificate of naturalization shall be in the form given in schedule A of this chapter.

6. The oath of allegiance shall be taken and subscribed within sixty days of the date of the certificate of naturalization, and shall be administered by the colonial secretary or the chief justice, or any justice of the peace whom a dedimus shall be epecially directed for that purpose by the governor.

7. The certificate of naturalization, and oath so taken shall within three months from the date of such certificate, be recorded in the office of the keeper of records, in a special register book to be kept for the purpose, otherwise such certificate shall be void, and of no effect.

8. The fees enumerated in schedule B to this chapter shall be payable by the applicant in respect of a certificate of naturalization, and such fees shall be payable into the public treasury.

9. It shall be lawful for the governor in council to make further regulations in respect of the afore-mentioned supplemental provisions, and to alter or vary the forms or the fees specified in the schedules, and to repeal or alter any such regulation made in pursuance of this section.

10. The following regulations shall apply with respect to evidence under this chapter:

(1) A certificate of naturalization may be proved in any legal proceeding by the production of the original certificate or of any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the keeper of records. (2) Entries in any register authorized to be made in pursuance of this chapter shall be proved by copies certified by the keeper of records, and the copies of such entries shall be evidence of matter by this chapter authorized to be inserted in the regis

ter.

MISCELLANEOUS.

11. Nothing in this chapter contained shall qualify an alien to be the owner of a British ship.

12. Nothing in this chapter contained shall affect the provisions of chapter 5.

13. The fees in schedule C to this chapter shall be paid to the officers respectively as therein directed, in cases where any matter or thing may be done in this colony under the provisions of the imperial act, 33 Victoria, ch. 14, "to amend the law relating to the legal condition of aliens and British subjects," and such fees shall be payable by such officer into the public treasury.

BRITISH HONDURAS, to wit:

SCHEDULE A (SECTION 6).

Know all men by these presents, that by virtue of the provisions of chapter 38 of the consolidated laws, the governor in council has this day been [SEAL.] pleased to grant this certificate of naturalization to

Governor.

of

Given under my hand and the public seal of the colony, this
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day of

N. B.-The above certificate is of no effect unless the following oath is taken within sixty days of the above date. (Section 6.)

I.

do swear that I will be faithful, and bear allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

Name of applicant.

Sworn before me this

day of

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Colonial Secretary (or as the case may be).

N. B. The above must be recorded in the office of the keeper of records, within three months from the date of the certificate, otherwise it is void and of no effect.

(Section 7.)

CANADA.

[Enclosures in despatch from Mr. Foster, consul-general, Ottawa, Canada, September 3,

1906.]

[Revised Statutes of Canada.]

CHAP. 113.-AN ACT RESPECTING NATURALIZATION AND ALIENS.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This act may be cited as "the naturalization act." 44 V., c. 13, s. 3.

INTERPRETA ΓΙΟΝ.

2. In this act, unless the context otherwise requires

(a) The expression "disability " means the disability of being an infant, lunatic, idiot, or married woman;

(b) The expression "officer in the diplomatic service of Her Majesty" means any ambassador, minister, or chargé d'affaires, or secretary of legation, or any person appointed by such ambassador, minister, chargé d'affaires, or secretary of legation, to execute any duty imposed upon an officer in the diplomatic service of Her Majesty by the act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, known as the naturalization act, 1870;"

(c) The expression "officer in the consular service of Her Majesty" means and includes consul-general, consul, vice-consul, and consular agent, and any person for the time being discharging the duties of consul-general, consul, vice-consul, or consular agent;

(d) The expression "oath" includes affirmation, in the case of a person allowed by law to affirm in judicial cases;

(e) The expression "county" includes a union of counties and a judicial district or other judicial division;

(f) The expression "alien " includes a statutory alien;

(g) The expression "statutory alien" means a natural-born British subject who has become an alien under this act or any act or acts in that behalf;

(h) The expression "subject " includes a citizen when the foreign country referred to is a republic. (44 V., c. 13, s. 1, and s. 20, part.)

RIGHTS OF PROPERTY OF ALIENS.

3. Real and personal property of any description may be taken, acquired, held and disposed of by an alien in the same manner, in all respects, as by a natural-born British subject; and a title to real and personal property of any description may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien, in the same manner, in all respects, as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject; but nothing in this section shall qualify an alien for any office, or for any municipal, parliamentary, or other franchise; nor shall anything therein entitle an alien to any right or privilege as a British

subject, except such rights and privileges in respect of property as are hereby expressly conferred upon him:

(2) The provisions of this section shall not affect any estate or interest in real or personal property to which any person has or may become entitled, either mediately or immediately, in possession or expectancy, in pursuance of any disposition made before the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, or in pursuance of any devolution by law on the death of any person dying before the said date; nor shall the provisions of this section qualify an alien to be the owner of a British ship. (44 V., c. 13. s. 4.)

EXPATRIATION.

4. Whenever Her Majesty has entered into a convention with any foreign state to the effect that the subjects of that state who are naturalized as British subjects may divest themselves of their status. as British subjects, and whenever Her Majesty, by order in council, passed under the third section of the act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom known as "The Naturalization Act, 1870," has declared that such convention has been entered into by Her Majesty, from and after the date of such order in council, any person originally a subject of the state referred to in such order, who has been naturalized as a British subject within Canada, may, within such limit of time as is prescribed in the convention, make a declaration of alienage, and from and after the date of his so making such declaration such person shall, within Canada, be regarded as an alien, and as a subject of the state to which he originally belonged, as aforesaid. (44 V., c. 13, s. 5.)

5. Any such declaration of alienage may be made before any of the persons following, that is to say:

(a) If the declarant is in the United Kingdom, in the presence of any justice of the peace;

(b) If elsewhere in Her Majesty's dominions, in the presence of any judge of any court of civil or criminal jurisdiction, or 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:

(c) If out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the presence of any officer in the diplomatic or consular service of Her Majesty. (44 V., c. 13, s. 6.)

6. Any person who, by reason of his having been born within the dominions of Her Majesty, is a natural-born subject, but who, also, at the time of his birth became, under the law of any foreign state, a subject of such state, and is still such subject, may, if of full age, and not under any disability, make a declaration of alienage in manner aforesaid, and from and after the making of such declaration of alienage such person shall, within Canada, cease to be a British subject.

(2) Any person who is born out of Her Majesty's dominions of a father being a British subject may, if of full age, and not under any disability, make a declaration of alienage in manner aforesaid, and from and after the making of such declaration shall, within Canada, cease to be a British subject. (44 V., c. 13, s. 7.)

REPATRIATION.

7. Any British subject who has, at any time before or at any time after the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, when in any foreign state and not under any disability, voluntarily become naturalized in such state, shall, from and after the time of his so having become naturalized in such foreign state, be deemed, within Canada, to have ceased to be a British subject, and shall be regarded as an alien; but when

Any British subject has, before the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, voluntarily become naturalized in a foreign state and yet is desirous of remaining a British subject, within Canada, he may, at any time within two years after the said last-mentioned date, make a declaration that he is desirous of remaining a British subject, and upon such declaration (hereinafter referred to as a declaration of British nationality) being made, and upon his taking the oath of allegiance, the declarant shall be deemed to be and to have been continually a British subject, within Canada, with this qualification, that he shall not, when within the limits of the foreign state in which he has been naturalized, be deemed, within Canada, to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that state in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that effect:

(2) Such declaration of British nationality may be made, and the oath of allegiance be taken, before any of the persons following, that is to say:

(a) If the declarant is in the United Kingdom, in the presence of a justice of the peace;

(b) If elsewhere in Her Majesty's dominions, in the presence of any judge of any court of civil or criminal jurisdiction, or 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;

(c) If out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the presence of any officer in the diplomatic or consular service of Her Majesty. (44 V., c. 13, s. 9.)

NATURALIZATION.

8. Any alien who, within such limited time before taking the oaths or affirmations of residence and allegiance and procuring the same to be filed of record as hereinafter prescribed, as is allowed by order or regulation of the Governor in Council, has resided in Canada for a term of not less than three years, or has been in the service of the government of Canada or of any of the Provinces of Canada, or of two or more of such governments, for a term of not less than three years, and intends, when naturalized, either to reside in Canada or to serve under the government of Canada or of the government of one of the Provinces of Canada, or two or more of such governments, may take and subscribe the oaths of residence and allegiance. or of service and allegiance in the Form A in the schedule to this act, or to the like effect, and apply for a certificate in the Form B in said schedule. (44 V., c. 13, s. 10.)

9. Every such oath shall be taken and subscribed by such alien, and may be administered to him before any of the following persons, that