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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TILLC.O. 885

14 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue-and-in-exercise of the powers by the Foreign Jurisdie- tion-Act, 1800; or otherwise-in Her Majesty vested, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:-

Short title.

I. This Order Council, 1898.

Definitions.

Aliens may

Own property.

Alien may apply for letters of naturaliza- tion,

Naturaliza- tion in Southern

may be cited as the Southern Rhodesia Naturalization Order in

II. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,

Southern Rhodesia " means the territory for the time being within the limits

of the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1898.

"The Administrator" means, if there be two or more Administrators the senior

of such Administrators, and includes an acting Administrator. The Gazette

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means any Official Gazette published in Southern Rhodesia. III. An alien may in Southern Rhodesia purchase, acquire, own, or dispose of movable or immovable property of any description in like manner as natural-born sub- jects of Her Majesty. Provided that this section shall not qualify an alien for any office or franchise which such alien does not now by law possess, nor entitle an alien to any right or privilege except such rights and privileges as are hereby expressly given to him.

IV. (1) An alien who within such limited time before making the application hereinafter mentioned as may be allowed by the Administrator, either by general order or on any special occasion, has resided in Southern Rhodesia for a term of not less than twelve months, and intends if such application be granted to continue to reside in Southern Rhodesia, may apply to the Administrator for letters of naturalization in the form provided in the first schedule hereto.

(2) The applicant shall adduce in support of his application such evidence of his residence and intention to continue to reside and of the matters set forth in the said schedule as the Administrator may require, and shall furnish proof to the satisfaction of the Administrator that notice of his intention to apply for letters of naturalization has been published in two issues of the Gazette.

(3) The Administrator, if satisfied with the evidence adduced, shall take the case of the applicant into consideration, and may, with or without assigning any reason, give or withhold letters of naturalization as he thinks most conducive to the public good, and no appeal shall lie from his decision, but such letters of naturalization shall not take effect until the applicant has made a declaration of allegiance to Her Majesty as hereinafter provided

V. Any person resident in Southern Rhodesia who has previously obtained a certificate of naturalization as a British subject elsewhere than in Southern Rhodesia, may, notwithstanding that he has not resided within Southern Rhodesia for a period of aliens not less than twelve months prior to the date of his application, submit such certificate naturalized and make an application to the Administrator stating that-

Rhodesia

elsewhere.

Declar

tion of

(a) He is the person named in such certificate.

(b) That the certificate has been obtained without any fraud or intentionally

false statement.

(c) That the signature and seal (if any) thereto are, to the best of his knowledge

and belief, genuine.

(e) That he intends, if naturalized, to reside in Southern Rhodesia,

and shall adduce in support of his application such evidence concerning the matters aforesaid and concerning the matters set forth in the first schedule hereto as the Administrator may require. The Administrator, if satisfied with the evidence adduced, shall take the case of the applicant into consideration, and may, with or without assigning any reason, give or withhold letters of naturalization as he thinks most conducive to the public good, and no appeal shall lie from his decision, but such letters of naturalization shall not take effect until the applicant has made a declaration of allegiance to Her Majesty as hereinafter provided."

VI. Every alien to whom the Administrator may grant letters of naturalization shall before the delivery of such letters to him make and subscribe before a Magistrate a allegiance declaration of allegiance in the form contained in the second schedule hereto, which

declaration shall be of the same force and effect as an oath of allegiance.

to be raken. Rights of

VII An alien to whom letters of naturalization have been granted shall in naturaliz Southern Rhodesia be entitled to all political and other rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all obligations to which a natural-born British subject is entitled or subject in Southern Rhodesia.

aliens.

VIII. (1) A married woman shall in Southern Rhodesia be deemed to be a subject of the State of which her husband is for the time being a subject.

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(2) The following persons shall be deemed and taken to be naturalized, and shall, Persone have all the rights and privileges and obligations in Southern Rhodesia of natural-born deemed to subjects of Her Majesty.

bo-natur- alized:

(+) (a) Any alien woman who is already, or who shall hereafter be, married to any National person who shall be or become naturalized under this Order in Southern Status of Rhodesin.

married

(2) All minor children alien born of any alien-parent who shall be or become naturalised ander women and

this order, if they shall either-be-within Southern Rhodesia at the time-of-the infant naturalisation of their parent, or shall become resident with such parent-therein children. during minority.

IX.

(b) Where the father or the mother being a widow shall be or become naturalized

under this Order, any child of such father or mother who during infancy shall be or become resident with such father or mother in Southern Rhodesia.

A return of persons to whom letters of naturalization shall have been Returns to granted under this Act shall be published in the Gazette half yearly, in the months of be publish- January and July, and such return shall shew;

(1) Names of such person in full.

(2) Their birth-place.

(3) Nationality prior to grant of letters of naturalization.

(4) Occupation.

(5) Residence in Southern Rhodesia.

(6) Date of the issue of letters of naturalization.

ed of letters issued.

X. If any person shall wilfully make any false statement in any application made Penalty for under the provisions of this Act for the purpose of obtaining letters of naturalization, false de-

he shall, upon conviction, incur the same penalties as are by law provided against claration. persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury. And in case letters of naturalization shall have been granted such letters shall be void.

XI. Every person obtaining letters of naturalization under this Act shall pay Fee. for the same a fee, to be collected by means of stamps, of one pound.

XII. The Administrator shall cause a register to be made and kept of all letters Register to of naturalization granted under this Order, and shall upon the application of any

be kept. person, and upon payment of a fee of one shilling in respect of every name, permit a search to be made for the name of any person upon, or supposed to be upon, the register.

A certificate under the hand of the Administrator attesting the fact of the issue. C'ertificate

of letters of naturalization to any person whose name appears upon the said register of attesting. may, at the discretion of the Administrator, be issued upon payment, by means of stamps, of a fee of five shillings. Every such certificate shall be received as evidence of the facts therein stated.

XIII. Every letter of naturalization, and every such certificate as aforesaid, Evidence. shall be admissible in evidence without proof of the signature or seal attesting the same, and shall be primâ facie evidence of the person named therein being duly naturalized, and of the signature or seal attesting the same, and of the official character of the persons appearing to have signed the same.

R. E. W. R. B. F.

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