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ROIT

THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

Published by Authority.

No. 44.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1870.

VOL. XVI.

No. 134.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Circular Despatch from the Right Honorable The Earl of KIMBERLEY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th October, 1870..

Circular.

Hongkong.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET, 27th August, 1870.

SIR-I have the honor to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of an Order of Her Majesty in Council, declaring the making of a Convention with the United. States of America under the Naturalization Act, 1870. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,

The Officer Administering

[L.S.]

the Government of Hongkong.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,

the 17th day of August, 1870.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

KIMBERLEY.

WHEREAS by "The Naturalization Act, 1870," it is enacted that where Her Majesty has entered into a Convention with any Foreign State to the effect that the Subjects or Citizens of that State who have been naturalized as British Subjects may divest themselves of their status as such subjects, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to declare that such Convention has been entered into by Her Majesty ; and from and after the date of such Order in Council any person being originally a Subject or Citizen of the State referred to in such Order, who has been naturalized as a British Subject, may, within such limit of time as may be provided in the Convention, make a declaration of Alienage, and from and after the date of his so making such declaration, such person shall be regarded as an alien, and as a subject of the State to which he originally belonged as aforesaid: And whereas on or about the 13th day of May last past, a Convention between Iler Majesty and the President of the United States of America, was duly signed at London, the Ratifications whereof were duly exchanged at London, the 10th day of August instant, whereby the Subjects or Citizens of the United States of America, who have been naturalized as British Subjects, are at liberty to renounce their naturalization and divest themselves of their status as such British Subjects, provided that such renunciation be publicly declared within two years after the exchange of the Ratifications of the said Convention. Now therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth hereby declare that Her Majesty has entered into a Convention with the said United States of America to the effect that the Subjects or Citizens of those States who have been naturalized as British Subjects may divest themselves of their status as such Subjects.

(Signed)

ARTHUR HELPS.