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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 295. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 16th December, 1915:

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BILL

Short title.

Schedule of fees.

Governor- in-Council to have

power to amend schedule.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the fees to be paid in this Colony in respect of various things and matters to be granted or done under the provisions of the British Nation- ality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the British Nation- ality and Status of Aliens (Fees) Ordinance, 1915.

2. The fees appointed in the schedule hereto shall be taken in the various matters respectively specified, and shall be paid to the officers and in the manner therein shown.

3. The Governor-in-Council shall have power to amend or add to the said schedule in any manner whatsoever.

Schedule.

Table of Fees.

The matter in which the fee shall be taken.

The amount

of the fee.

How and to whom payment of the fee is to be made.

The grant of a certificate of na- turalization to a woman who was a British subject previously to her marriage to an alien and whose husband has died, or whose marriage has been dis- solved, and the registration of the certificate and the oath of allegiance in respect thereof.

The grant of a certificate of na- turalization in other cases, and the registration of the certificate; and the oath of allegiance in res- pect thereof.

$

3.00

35.00

To the Colonial Trea-

surer.

To the Colonial Trea.

surer.

By means of stamps to be affixed to the declaration or form of oath and to be cancelled by the person by whom the declaration is taken or the oath is administered.

Taking a declaration of alienage or of retention or resumption of Pritish nationality,

2.00

Administering the oath of al-

legianco.

The registration of a declaration of alienage or of retention or re- sumption of British nationality.

6.00

surer.

Certified copy of any declaration or certificate with or without oath.

6.00

To the Colonial Trea-

surer.

To the Colonial Trea-

Of the fee of $35 payable in respect of the grant of a certificate of naturalization, $10 shall be payable on the submission of the application for a certificate, and shall in no circumstances be returned; and the remaining $25 shall be payable on the receipt of the decision to grant a certificate.

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