CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 32

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THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

HOME OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W. 1, and the following number quoted

399,010/2.

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a directed by Mr. Secretary Shortt to refer to your Jov letter/3524/21-22) of the 6th instant forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the certificate of naturalization granted to Mr. N.S.Moses, and to say for the information of Mr. Secretary Churchill that he agrees that in view of the considerations indicated in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of your letter it is both unnecessary and might lead to objections and difficulties that a fresh certificate should be issued in this or any other case of similar nature.

The point raised by the Governor in paragraph 2 of his despatch, as regards the use of the word "allen" in a certificate (in Form 'D' or 'E' following the forms used in the United Kingdom) granted to a person in respect to whose nationality as a British subject a doubt exists, had not hitherto been noticed in this Department and appears to Mr. Shortt to be a good one; and he proposes to arrange that the word "signed" shall be substituted for the words "signature of alien" in any Certificates in the se forms bereafter issued so as to follow precisely the wording of No.11(2) of the Naturalization Regulations.

The Under Secretary of State,

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