the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, who shall file, and is hereby required to file, the same in the said office.

8. Upon taking and subscribing the said oath of allegiance and obtaining the certificate of naturalization, the memorialist shall, within the Colony, be deemed a natural-born subject of His Majesty, as if he had been born within the said Colony, and shall be entitled, within the said Colony, to all the rights, privileges, and capacities of a subject of His Majesty born within the said Colony, except such rights, privileges, and capacities (if any) as may be specially excepted in such certificate.

9. If the memorialist do not appear and take the said oath of allegiance within fourteen days from the date of service on him of notice to that effect, the grant of naturalisation shall ipso facto be null and void.

10. If any material statement contained in such memorial shall be false, the Governor-in-Council may, by an order in writing, declare the certificate issued upon such memorial to be null and void to all intents and purposes, and may cancel the said certificate, and from and after such order all the rights, privileges, and capacities derived through such certificate shall cease to exist: Provided, nevertheless, that nothing shall affect the rights of any other person, derived through the naturalization of such person whose certificate shall be declared to be null and void as aforesaid, until, as hereinafter provided, the revocation or cancellation of such certificate shall have been published in the "Gazette," unless such other person as aforesaid shall have been a party to such false statement or shall have been cognisant of such false statement at the time at which the same shall have been made.

11. Every certificate issued under this Ordinance and every order cancelling such certificate shall be published in the "Gazette."

12. There shall be paid to the Treasurer, by a memorialist, the following fees:

13. The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance (Southern Nigeria) is hereby repealed: Provided that every certificate of naturalization granted under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been granted under this Ordinance.

SCHEDULE.

Oath of Allegiance.

I, A.B., of [here state the description of the memorialist] do swear [or, being one of the persons allowed by law to affirm, do affirm] that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George V, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

(Signed) A.B.

Assented to in His Majesty's name this 14th day of December, F. D. LUGARD, Governor-General.

1916.

PROCLAMATION by the High Commissioner for South Africa repealing Section 12 of "The Northern Rhodesia Immigration Regulation Proclamation, 1915."*

[No. 6.]

[May 11, 1916.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend in certain respects "The Immigation Regulation (Northern Rhodesia) Proclamation, 1915 (No. 15 of 1915), hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Law":

Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the powers in me vested, I do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known as follows:

1. Section 12 of the Principal Law shall be and is hereby repealed.

2. This Proclamation shall be read as one with the Principal Law.

God save the King!

Given under my hand and seal at Cape Town this 11th day of May, 1916.

BUXTON, High Commissioner.

By command of his Excellency the High Commissioner.
C. H. RODWELL, Imperial Secretary.

NOTICE of the Government of the Nyasaland Protectorate respecting the application to Guatemala of "The Fugitive Criminals Surrender Ordinance, 1907. [No. 31.] [February 8, 1916.*]

It is hereby notified for general information that under and by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by section 2 of "The Fugitive Criminals Surrender Ordinance, 1907,"t His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the said Ordinance shall apply in the case of Guatemala during the continuance of the arrangement made between His Majesty the King and the President of the Republic of Guatemala for the extension to Nyasaland of the treaty of the 4th July, 1885‡ between Great Britain and Guatemala as modified by the Protocol concluded on the 30th of May, 1914. §

By Command of His Excellency the Governor.
H. L. DUFF,

Zomba, Nyasaland,

Chief Secretary to the Government.

8th February, 1916.

NOTICE of the Government of the Nyasaland Protectorate respecting the application to Paraguay of "The Fugitive Criminals Surrender Ordinance, 1907." [No. 321.] [December 5, 1916.||]

It is hereby notified for general information that under and by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by section 2 of "The Fugitive Criminals Surrender Ordinance, 1907,"t and with reference to the Notice thereunder made and published in "The Gazette" of the 31st July, 1908, by which the said Ordinance was applied to certain Foreign States and Protectorates, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that in the case of the undermentioned Foreign State the said Ordinance shall apply and the said Notice is hereby amended by the inclusion of this State :

The Republic of Paraguay.

By Command of His Excellency the Governor,
WM. WHEELER,

ENACTMENT of the Government of Perlis relative to the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders.

[No. 8.]
(Translation.)

[June 14, 1916.]

ON the 12th day of Shaaban, in the year A.H. 1334, in the reign of His Highness Syed Alwi bin Syed Safi, Raja of Perlis, The Fugitive Offenders Enactment, 1334," was passed by the State Council of Perlis.

1.—(i.) This Enactment may be cited as "The Fugitive Offenders Enactment, 1334," and shall come into force on a date to be fixed by the State Council.

(ii.) Upon the coming into force of this Enactment the Enactment specified in the first schedule shall be repealed.

2.—(i.) In this Enactment, unless the contrary intention appears.

Agreeing State" means any State, over which His Britannic Majesty extends his protection, whose Ruler, being desirous that the rendition of fugitive offenders as between his State and any other such States and between it and the Colony shall take place under the provisions of the Imperial Act, has entered into an agreement with His Britannic Majesty's Government in pursuance whereof an Order in Council shall have been made directing that the Imperial Act shall, subject to the conditions, exceptions and qualifications (if any) contained in the Order, apply to such State or States as if they were British possessions and that Part II. of the Imperial Act shall apply to the Colony and such State or States as if they were a group of British possessions;

"British dominion" includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and any British possession and also includes any place to which, not being a British possession, the provisions of the Imperial Act are by Order in Council, subject to the conditions, exceptions and qualifications (if any) contained in the Order for the time being applied; for the purpose of this Enactment the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man shall be deemed to be part of England and of the United Kingdom and all territories or places to which the Imperial Act applies which are under one legislature shall be deemed to be one British dominion;

oath ;

Deposition" includes any affidavit or statement made upon

"Fugitive means a person accused or convicted of having committed in a British dominion, either before or after the commencement of this Enactment, an offence to which Part I of the Imperial Act applies and which is not excepted from the application of the Imperial Act to Perlis by the Order in Council directing such application or by any subsequent Order; such

person is in this Enactment referred to as a fugitive from the British dominion wherein such offence is alleged to have been committed or such conviction was had;

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Magistrate" means a Magistrate of the First Class ;

· Order in Council" means an Order of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, made by and with the advice of His Privy Council;

"The Colony" means the Colony of the Straits Settlements and includes the several Settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca and Labuan and all other islands and places for the time being forming part of the Straits Settlements and all British waters adjacent thereto;

"The Imperial Act" means the Act passed in the 44th and 45th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter 69, shortly cited as "The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881,' and where an Order in Council is made in pursuance of "The Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915,"† directing that the Imperial Act shall subject to the conditions, exceptions and qualifications (if any) contained in the Order apply to Perlis as though the said State were a British possession the said Act shall apply and come into operation in accordance with the provisions of the said Order in Council. When used in reference to Perlis "The Imperial Act" means that Act as so applied to such State.

(ii.) In the Imperial Act as applied to Perlis "A Superior Court" means the Supreme Court and " Magistrate means a Magistrate of the First Class.

3. The publication by the State Council of an Order in Council applying the Imperial Act to any place not being a British possession shall be conclusive evidence in all Courts of Justice of such application and of the terms thereof; and the publication by the State Council of an Order in Council directing that Part II of the Imperial Act shall apply to the Colony and any State or States as if they were a group of British possessions shall be conclusive evidence in all Courts of Justice that every such State is an agreeing State within the meaning of that expression as defined in section 2; and the Agreement in pursuance whereof the Order in Council has been made shall not be called for by or required to be given in evidence in any Court of Justice.

Return of Fugitives.

4.-(i.) Where in any British dominion a warrant has been issued for the apprehension of a fugitive therefrom and such fugitive is or is suspected of being in or on the way to Perlis, such fugitive shall be liable to be apprehended, transported and detained in manner provided by this Enactment and returned in ↑ Vol. CIX, page 3.

* Vol. LXXII, page 622.