of naturalization, without requiring from the applicant any further residence in New Zealand or (if the applicant has previously taken a similar oath) the oath prescribed under this act, and upon his complying with the following conditions:

(1) He shall submit such certificate or letters of naturalization to the governor, and also present such memorial as required by the preceding provisions of this act.

(2) He shall further state in such memorial that he is the person named in such certificate or letters of naturalization, and that the same has been obtained without any fraud or intentional false statement, and that the signature, and the seal, if any thereto, are, to the best of his belief and knowledge, genuine.

(3) Every such memorial shall be verified by a statutory declaration to be subscribed by the applicant.

8. The colonial secretary shall enrol for safe custody, as of record, a duplicate of all letters of naturalization.

He shall also enrol certified copies of every such certificate or letters of naturalization previously obtained as aforesaid, and upon which letters of naturalization are issued under this act.

Every person to whom letters of naturalization are granted under this act shall pay to the colonial secretary the fee of one pound in respect of such enrolment.

9. The colonial secretary shall cause proper indices to be made to letters of naturalization and certificates enrolled by him, and shall permit every person desirous of so doing to inspect the same and make copies of such letters and certificates on payment of the fee of one shilling for every such inspection.

Copies of letters of naturalization or certificates enrolled as before provided, if certified to be true copies by the colonial secretary, shall be admissible in evidence for all purposes.

Such fees shall be charged for certified copies as the colonial secretary may prescribe.

10. If any person to whom letters of naturalization have been granted be convicted of having wilfully made any false statement in his memorial, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and such letters of naturalization shall, except against a bona fide purchaser from such person for valuable consideration, become thereby void.

PROPERTY AND RIGHTS OF ALIENS.

11. Every alien friend resident in New Zealand may inherit or otherwise take by representation, acquire, hold, convey, assign, devise, bequeath, or otherwise dispose of every description of property, whether real or personal, in the same manner as if he were a naturalborn subject of Her Majesty.

12. Every grant, conveyance, assignment, demise, devise, or bequest to or by any such alien made prior to the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been made to or by a natural-born subject of Her Majesty.

13. Every person now born or hereafter to be born out of Her Majesty's dominions of a mother being a natural-born subject of the

United Kingdom shall be capable of taking to him, his heirs, executors, or administrators, any estate within this colony, real or personal, by devise or purchase or inheritance of succession.

14. Any alien woman married, or who shall be married, to any natural-born subject of Her Majesty or naturalized person, shall be deemed and taken to be herself naturalized, and have all the rights and privileges of a natural-born subject.

FEES UNDER THE IMPERIAL ACT 33 AND 34 VICT., CAP. 14.

15. In respect of any act or thing specified in the first column of the first schedule hereto, when done, taken, made, granted, or given in New Zealand under the authority of the act of the Imperial Parliament called "The naturalization act, 1870," or any regulations made or to be made thereunder, there shall be payable the fees respectively set forth in the second column of the said schedule, and the same shall respectively be paid to the persons denominated and be applied as set forth in the third column of the said schedule.

16. The acts enumerated in the second schedule hereto are hereby repealed.

1870, No. 40. The aliens act, 1870.

1871, No. 47. The naturalization act, 1870; fees act, 1871.

1892, No. 19.

AN ACT Relating to the children of naturalized persons and the charge for letters of naturalization. [24th September, 1892.]

Be it enacted by the general assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The short title of this act is "The aliens act amendment act, 1892."

2. Where the father, or the mother being a widow, has obtained letters of naturalization in New Zealand, every child of such father or mother who during infancy has become resident with such father or mother in any part of New Zealand shall be deemed and taken to be himself or herself naturalized, and have all the rights and privileges of a natural-born subject.

3. Section seven of "The aliens act, 1880," is hereby repealed, and, in lieu thereof, it is enacted as follows:

If any person resident in New Zealand, who has previously obtained any certificate or letters of naturalization in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any part thereof, or in any British colony or possession, desires to be naturalized in New Zealand, he shall submit such certificate or letters of naturalization to the governor, together with a statutory declaration, to be subscribed by the applicant, to the effect that he is the person named in the said certificate or letters of naturalization, and that the same has been obtained without any fraud or intentional false statement, and that the signature and the seal (if any) thereto are, to the best of his belief and knowledge, genuine; And thereupon the governor may, at his discretion, without requiring from the applicant any further residence in New Zealand, or (if the applicant has previously taken a similar oath) the oath prescribed under the aforesaid act, direct the colonial secretary to indorse upon such certificate or letters a memorandum, in the form or to the effect in the schedule hereto, and a note of such certificate or letters and memorandum, with the particulars of the applicant's name, age, and nationality, shall be enrolled in the same manner as in the case of the issue of letters of naturalization in the colony.

The person named in the said certificate or letters of naturalization shall, for all purposes, from the date of the aforesaid memorandum, be deemed to be naturalized within the colony as if letters of naturalization, under the seal of the colony, had been issued to the said person.

4. No fee shall be paid henceforth by any person in respect of the enrolment or indorsement of letters of naturalization by the colonial secretary, excepting in the case of persons of the Chinese race, who shall pay in respect of such enrolment or indorsement such fee, not exceeding one pound, as the governor in council from time to time may appoint.

5. All the words of section eight of "The aliens act, 1880," after the words "issued under this act" are hereby repealed, and also " The aliens act amendment act, 1882," is hereby repealed.

SCHEDULE.

Memorandum to be endorsed on letters of naturalization. Accepted, noted, and registered in New Zealand.

The within named is hereby naturalized for all purposes within the colony of New Zealand, from the date of this memorandum.

A. B.,

Colonial Secretary of New Zealand.

Dated at Wellington, New Zealand, this day of

18-.

GREECE.

[Translation.]

GREEK CIVIL LAW-LAW 391 OF OCTOBER 29, 1856.

BOOK I. Concerning persons.

SECTION 1. ON THE ENJOYMENT, LCSS, AND RECOVERY OF CIVIL RIGHTS.

CHAPTER I.-On the enjoyment of civil rights.

ART. 9. The enjoyment of civil rights is independent of the enjoyment of political rights, which are acquired and preserved only in accordance with public law. (French code, 7.)

ART. 10. Every Greek enjoys all civil rights. (French code, 8.) ART. 11. The fetus is regarded as being born, so far as the civil rights accruing to it are concerned, provided it is born alive; however, if there is a doubt as to whether it was born alive or dead the former hypothesis is assumed.

ART. 12. Artificial persons constituted according to the law enjoy civil rights in so far as their enjoyment thereof is not restricted by special laws.

ART. 13. Aliens also enjoy civil rights in Greece, except when the laws of the nation, unmodified by treaties, grant certain civil rights to natives only. (French code, 11.)

ART. 14. The following are Greeks: (a) One born of a Greek father; (b) one born of a Greek mother and an unlawful father; (c) one born in Greece of an unknown father and mother; (d) one born of an alien mother and an unlawful Greek father, if he be legally recognized by the latter. (French code, 8.-Jurisprudence.)

ART. 15. An alien who is of age according to the law of the nation. to which he belongs may become a Greek by naturalization. Every person wishing to be naturalized must declare his desire to the authorities of the place where he wishes to establish his residence, and after the declaration he shall reside in Greece two years if he is of the Greek race, and three years if of a different race; upon the expiration of this period, and upon procuring a certificate from the proper public attorney that he has not committed any of the crimes or offenses embraced within article 22 of the penal code, he must take the oath of a Greek before the proper prefect." (French code, 8.)

a See also law 2320 of 1895, abolishing naturalization by royal decree in future. See also law 2483 of March 8, 1897, on the enlistment of volunteers in the army.

ART. 16. The King may allow an alien who has applied for naturalization full enjoyment of civil rights during the period required for naturalization, but in such a case all his legal relations shall be regulated according to the Greek laws. (French code, 13.-Jurisprudence.)

ART. 17. Children born prior to the declaration regarding naturalization, and the wife of a person who has been naturalized, remain aliens; but if, at the time of naturalization, the wife or the children were minors they may acquire Greek nationality, provided that, within a year after the attainment of their majority, they declare their desire to that effect before the authorities of the place where they wish to establish their residence, reside in Greece, and take the oath of a Greek before the proper prefect.

ART. 18. The children born during the two-year or three-year period referred to in article 15 become Greeks by the naturalization of the father.

ART. 19. A person born of a Greek woman and an unlawful alien father, but recognized by the latter, and one born in Greece of an alien, may acquire Greek nationality according to the provisions of article 17.

ART. 20. A person born of parents who have renounced Greek nationality may always acquire this nationality by fulfilling the requirements of article 17.

ART. 21. An alien woman married to a Greek becomes a Greek.

ART. 22. An alien who renders great services to Greece, who introduces there an important invention or industry, who founds establishments of public utility, or who is distinguished for superior intellectual ability, may be naturalized by a law.

CHAPTER II. The renunciation and recovery of civil rights.

ART. 23. The following persons renounce their Greek nationality: (a) He who is naturalized in a foreign country; (b) he who accepts public employment from a foreign government without royal permission. (French code, 17.-Jurisprudence.)

ART. 24. The wife and children of one renouncing Greek nationality remain Greek.

ART. 25. A Greek woman married to an alien renounces her Greek nationality, but if her husband becomes naturalized as a Greek or she becomes a widow or divorced, she may recover said nationality, if she resides in Greece or returns thither from a foreign country, upon declaring her desire to recover it before the authorities of the place in which she desires to reside. (French code, 19.-Jurisprudence.)

ART. 26. A person naturalized in a foreign country with royal permission recovers Greek nationality if, having returned to Greece, he

a Article 22 is given as modified by law 438 of 1858.

A number of such laws have been enacted, such as law 447 of 1858, on the naturalization of D. Bernadakes; law 448 of 1858, on the naturalization of A. Arsakes; law 449 of 1858, on the naturalization of S. Sinas; law 214 of 1867, on the naturalization of Hel. Makalski (Dora d'Istria); law 840 of 1882, on the naturalization of K. Zappa. See law 1129 of 1883, on the administration of oaths to persons who are naturalized by a law.