certificate been sentenced by any Court in His Majesty's Dominions or in a British Protectorate to imprisonment for a term of not less than twelve months or to a term of penal · servitude; or

(c.) Was not of good character at the date of the grant of the certificate; or

(d.) Has since the date of the grant of the certificate been for a period of not less than seven years ordinarily resident out of the Colony otherwise than as a representative of a British subject, firm, or company carrying on business, or an institution established in the Colony, or in the service of the Crown, and has not maintained substantial connection with the Colony;

And that (in any case) the continuance of the certificate is not conducive to the public good.

(3.) An enquiry under this section shall be held by a committee constituted for the purpose by the Governor, presided over by a judge of the Supreme Court appointed by the Governor, and shall be conducted in such manner as the Governor may direct.

Any such committee shall have all such powers, rights, and privileges as are vested in the Supreme Court or in any judge thereof on the occasion of any action, in respect of the following matters:

(a.) The enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining them on oath, affirmation, or otherwise, and the issue of a commission or a request to examine witnesses abroad; and

(b.) The compelling the production of documents; and (c.) The punishing persons guilty of contempt;

and a summons signed by one or more members of the committee may be substituted for and shall be equivalent to any formal process capable of being issued in any action for enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents.

(4.) Where the Governor in Council revokes a certificate of naturalisation, the revocation shall have effect from such date as the Governor in Council may direct, and the Governor may order the certificate to be given up and cancelled, and any person refusing or neglecting to give up his certificate shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of 1001.

3. Where a certificate of naturalisation is revoked, the Governor in Council may by order direct that the wife and minor children (or any of them) of the person whose certificate is revoked shall cease to be British subjects, and any such person shall thereupon become an alien; but except where direction is made as aforesaid, the nationality of the wife and minor children of the person whose certificate is

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revoked shall not be affected by the revocation, and they shall remain British subjects:

Provided that it shall be lawful for the wife of any such person within six months after the date of the order of revocation to make a declaration of alienage, and thereupon she and any of the minor children of her husband and herself shall cease to be British subjects and shall become aliens.

4. Section 10 of "The Naturalisation of Aliens Ordinance, 1916," is hereby repealed.

Assented to in His Majesty's name, this 18th day of April,

1918.

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor-General.

AN ORDINANCE of the Legislative Board of the Turks and Caicos Islands to enable British Diplomatic and Consular Officers to administer Oaths and take Affidavits and do Notarial Acts abroad.

[1917.-No. 7.]

I assent.

W. H. MANNING, Governor.

[March 30, 1918.]

Be it enacted by the Legislative Board of the Turks and Caicos Islands, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Oaths and Notarial Acts Ordinance, 1917."

2.—(1.) Every British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, and Secretary of Embassy or Legation exercising his functions in any foreign country, and every British Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, and Consular Agent exercising his functions in any foreign place may, in that country or place, administer any oath and take any affidavit, and also do any notarial act which any notary public can do within this Dependency; and every oath, affidavit, and notarial act administered, sworn, or done by or before any such person shall be as effectual as if duly administered, sworn, or done by or before any lawful authority in this Dependency.

(2.) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person authorised by this section to administer an oath in testimony of an oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken, or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or

signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.

G. WHITFIELD SMITH,

President.

Passed the Legislative Board this 28th day of December,

1917.

W. A. DARRELL, Acting Clerk of the Board.

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT between the Chilean Government and the Nitrate of Soda Executive for the Sale and Purchase of Nitrate of Soda.-London, October 3, 1918.*

WHEREAS Conversations have taken place and certain notes exchanged between his Excellency Don Agustin Edwards, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Chile to the Court of St. James, and the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill, His Britannic Majesty's Minister of Munitions;

And whereas his Excellency Don Agustin Edwards has been empowered to act on behalf of certain companies producing nitrate of soda in Chile who are desirous of selling the nitrate of soda produced by them through the medium of the Chilean Government;

And whereas the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill has been empowered to act for and on behalf of the Nitrate of Soda Executive and all the powers represented thereon, it has now been agreed as follows:

:

1. The Nitrate of Soda Executive agrees to purchase, and the Chilean Government, on behalf of the companies producing nitrate of soda in Chile and whose names will be set out in a list to be furnished by the Chilean Government to the Nitrate of Soda Executive in the manner set out in paragraph 3-sub-paragraph (a) below, agrees to sell 15 million quintals (approximately 680,000 tons) of nitrate of soda at the price of 138. 6d. per quintal f.a.s. for refined and 138. per quintal f.a.s. for ordinary.

2. The Chilean Government agrees on behalf of the said companies as follows:

(a.) That the vendors shall pay the export duty on the said 680,000 tons of nitrate.

Signed also in the Spanish language by the Chilean Minister in London, October 3, 1918. Parliamentary Paper, "Miscellaneous, No. 22 (1918)."

(b.) That the said 680,000 tons of nitrate shall be available for delivery in the ports of Chile as set out in the list to be furnished by the Chilean Government to the Nitrate of Soda Executive in the manner set out in paragraph 3-subparagraph (b) below at the following rates:

320,000 tons during September 1918; 120,000 tons during October 1918;

120,000 tons during November 1918; and 120,000 tons during December 1918.

(c.) That in the event of any failure in the rates of delivery as set out above the Associated Governments shall be free to go upon the open market and purchase nitrate of soda from all or any of the companies producing nitrate of soda in Chile, enjoying in that event all necessary assistance from the Chilean Government.

3. The Chilean Government on its own behalf agrees

(a.) To furnish at once a list showing the oficinas from whom they will obtain the said 680,000 tons of nitrate of soda, the quantity each oficina will supply, the quantity already manufactured by the individual oficinas, and the quantities still to be manufactured by them. This list will also show the quantities of oil, coal and bags at present in the possession of or under the control of the said oficinas.

(b.) To furnish a further list showing the exact dates on which the quantities will be available for delivery at the various ports.

(c.) To take all necessary steps to cause the contracts between the said companies and the purchasers duly authorised by the Nitrate of Soda Executive to be executed forthwith, and to maintain in the ports forthwith ample supplies of nitrate of soda.

(d.) That the purchase and delivery of the said 680,000 tons shall in no way interfere with or delay the purchase and delivery of all or any other quantities purchased by the Nitrate of Soda Executive.

(e.) That the Nitrate of Soda Executive shall be free to purchase nitrate of soda from all or any of the oficinas not included on the list to be furnished by the Chilean Government to the Nitrate of Soda Executive as set out in paragraph 3-sub-paragraph (a) above, provided they do not pay to any producer from whom they may so purchase a price exceeding 138. 6d. per quintal for refined and 138. per quintal for ordinary nitrate of soda.

(f.) That they will facilitate all such purchases and the delivery f.a.s. Chilean port of all quantities purchased in accordance with the conditions laid down in the immediately preceding sub-paragraph.

(9.) That the Nitrate of Soda Executive agreeably with

residing and carrying on missionary or educational work in Nigeria at the commencement of this Ordinance.

6.-(1.) The master of a ship arriving in any port in Nigeria having on board any non-native passenger who intends to disembark at such port shall furnish to the Immigration Officer a return in the prescribed form of all such passengers.

(2) The master of a ship arriving in any port in Nigeria shall not permit any non-native passenger to disembark from such ship until such disembarkation has been authorised by an Immigration Officer.

7. Every non-native passenger disembarking at any port in Nigeria shall, unless he has previously obtained a certificate under section 10 and such certificate has not been cancelled, appear before the Immigration Officer either on board such ship or at such time and place as the Immigration Officer shall direct, and the Immigration Officer shall after such examination as he may consider necessary, inform such person and the master of the ship whether the passenger is a prohibited immigrant or not.

8. Every non-native who enters Nigeria otherwise than by sea shall, unless he has previously obtained a certificate under section 10 and such certificate has not been cancelled, forthwith proceed to and appear before the nearest Immigration Officer who, after such examination as he may consider necessary, shall inform such non-native whether he is a prohibited immigrant or not.

9. If any non-native shall fail to comply with the requirements of either of the last two preceding sections or shall withhold any fact or information which would bring such person within any of the classes of prohibited immigrant as defined in section 5, he shall be liable to a fine of 50l. or imprisonment for six months and may be dealt with as a prohibited immigrant.

10. The Immigration Officer shall furnish every nonnative immigrant who shall appear to be a fit and proper person to be received as an immigrant with a certificate in the prescribed form.

11. Any non-native appearing to be a prohibited immigrant within the description (a) in section 5 and not within any of the other descriptions, may be allowed to enter Nigeria upon the following conditions:

(a.) He shall deposit with the Immigration Officer the sum of 30l. provided that the Immigration Officer may in lieu of requiring the said deposit permit the intending immigrant to give security by bond in the prescribed form in the sum of 301. with one or more sureties to be approved by the Immigration Officer conditional on the intending immigrant