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Oath of aliens on naturaliza-tion.
Penalty for not taking
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ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1869.
Promissory Oaths.
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having been appointed Clerk of the Councils in this Colony, do swear that I will not directly or indirectly reveal such matters as shall be debated in the Executive Council and committed to my secrecy. So help me God."
The said oaths shall be tendered by the Colonial Secretary.
10. Aliens on naturalization shall take the oath of allegiance only, and the same shall be tendered by the Clerk of the Councils in the presence of the Colonial Secretary.
11. If any person declines or neglects when any oath or affirmation required oath. required to be taken or made by him under this Ordinance is duly tendered he shall, if he has already entered on his office, vacate the same, and if he has not entered on the same be disqualified from entering on the same; but no person
shall be compelled in respect of the same appointinent to the same office to take such oath or make such affirmation more times than one.
In case of aliens on naturaliza-tion.
Oath of allegiance herein prescribed to be substituted for oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration.
The name of the Sovereign for the time being to be used in the oath.
Provision in favor of persons permitted to make affirmations.
12. If any alien who shall have applied for a certificate of natura-lization shall decline or neglect to take the oath or make the affirmation required to be taken or made by him under this Ordinance when duly tendered, he shall be disqualified from obtaining the said certificate and if the same shall have been already granted, it shall become ipso facto void.
13. Where previously to the passing of this Ordinance the taking of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration, or any two or one of such oaths, or any oath substituted therefor; formed a condition precedent or subsequent to the attainment by any person of any office, privilege, civil for such oaths or any two or one of them, or for such substituted oath, the oath of allegiance prescribed by this Ordinance.
athonts, exemption or other benefit, there shall be substituted
14. Where in any oath under this Ordinance the name of Her present Majesty is expressed, the name of the Sovereign for the time being shall be substituted from time to time.
15. When an oath is required to be taken under this Ordinance every person for the time being by law permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration instead of taking an oath may instead of taking such oath, make a solemn affirmation in the form of oath hereby