No. XVIII. [No. XVIII.] 14 Geo. III. c. 84.-An Act to prevent 14 Geo. III. certain inconveniences that may happen by Bills of 14 Geo. III. Naturalization. c. 84. WHEREAS it hath been found that many persons, born out of the 14Geo.III.c.84. allegiance of the Crown of Great Britain, obtain Bills of Natu'ralization for the purpose of availing themselves in foreign countries of 'the immunities and indulgences belonging to his Majesty's trading 'subjects, by treaties, or otherwise: and in order to apply the said im'munities and indulgences to promote the trade of the country to which 4 the persons so naturalized originally belonged, and not with any design ' of fixing their residence in Great Britain, or of becoming useful sub'jects thereof: And whereas it is neither just nor expedient to permit such abuses of the true intent of Naturalization;' may it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parlia- " ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, That no person shall persons how to hereafter be naturalized, unless in the Bill exhibited for that there shall be a Clause or Proviso inserted to declare that such person shall not thereby obtain, or become intitled to claim, within any foreign country, any of the immunities or indulgences in trade which are or may be enjoyed or claimed therein by natural-born British subjects, by virtue of any Treaty, or otherwise, unless such person shall have inhabited and resided within Great Britain or the dominions thereunto belonging, for the space of seven years, subsequent to the first day of the Session of Parliament in which the said Bill of Naturalization shall have passed, and shall not have been absent out of the same for a longer space than two months, at any one time, during the said seven years; and that no Bill of Naturalization shall hereafter be received, in either House of Parliament, unless such Clause or Proviso be first inserted or contained therein. purpose [ No. XIX.] 6 Geo. IV. c. 67.-An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of his Majesty King James the First, intituled An Act that all such as are to be naturalized or restored in Blood shall first receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Supremacy. 22d June 1825. WHEREAS an Act was passed in the seventh year of the reign of his be naturalized hereafter. Majesty King James the First, intituled An Act that all such as are to 7 J. 1. c. 2. be naturalized or restored in Blood shall first receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Supremacy: And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Act should be altered and amended; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act it Not necessary shall not henceforth be necessary for any person who is to be naturalized for any person or restored in Blood to receive the Sacrauient of the Lord's Supper, as naturalized or directed by the said Act. restored in Blood to receive the Sacrament. Proviso as to II. And be it further enacted, That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the House of Parliament, in which a Bill shall originate for restoring persons to be any person in Blood, that the person intended by such Bill to be so restored in Blood is unable from sickness or bodily infirmity, or other sufficient cause, to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance in the Parliament House, before his or her Bill shall be twice read, as directed restored in Blood taking the Oaths. 56 G. 3. c. 86. Every Alien who shall be in the realm at the commence by the said Act, it shall and may be lawful for such House of Parliamen to receive in lieu thereof sufficient proof, before any such Bill shall be twice read, that the said Oaths have been taken within one year before a Justice of the Peace or Mayor or other Chief Magistrate in any county or city or town in Great Britain or Ireland, or before one of his Majesty's Judges or Justices in any of his Majesty's Courts of Judicature in the Colonies or foreign possessions of his Majesty. [ No. XX.] 7 Geo. IV. c. 54.-An Act for the Registration of Aliens.-26th May 1826. WHEREAS in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty an Act was passed, intituled An Act for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens arriving in or resident in this Kingdom, in certain cases, for two years from the passing of this Act, and until the end of the Session of Parliament in which the said two years shall expire, if Parliament shall be then sitting; which Act has by several subsequent Acts been continued, and will expire in the course of the present year: And whereas it is expedient that in lieu of the regulations of the said Act provision should be made for a complete registration of all Aliens in this realm; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That every Alien who shall at the commencement of this Act be in this realm, shall on the same day, or within fourteen days thereafter, make a declaration in writing of his or her place of abode, names, rank, occupation, and description; and if a domestic servant, then also the place of abode, names, rank, and description of his or her master or mistress, and of the country and place from whence he or she came, or of which he or she is a native, and of the time when he or she last came from foreign parts into this realm; and shall, within the said fourteen days, transmit such declaration by the post, if in Great Britain, to one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State at the Alien Office in Westminster, and if in Ireland, to the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor of Ireland; such declaration being signed by the party making it, if he or she be able to write, or otherwise being attested by a Magistrate of the place, or by the officiating minister of the parish, or by one or more of the churchwardens or overseers of the poor of the parish or township where such Alien shall be: Provided always, that one declaration shall be sufficient for a parent or parents and any number of children, if made for each family. in manner aforesaid by the father, or in case of his death or incapacity, by the mother. ment of this Act shall make a Declaration of his abode, name, &c.; and traus mit the same within 14 days to the Alien Office in Great Britain, or to the chief Secretary of Ireland One Declaration sufficient Masters of vessels arriving from foreign parts to declare what Aliens are on board or have landed; II. And be it further enacted, That the master of every vessel which, after the commencement of this Act, shall arrive in this realm from foreign parts, shall immediately on his arrival declare in writing to the chief officer of the Customs at the port of arrival, whether there is, to the best of his knowledge, any Alien on board his vessel, and whether any Alien hath, to his knowledge, landed therefrom at any place within this realm; and shall in his said declaration specify the number of Aliens (if any) on board his vessel, or who have, to his knowledge, landed therefrom, and their names, rank, occupation, and description, as far as he shall be informed thereof; and if the master of any such vessel shall refuse or neglect to make such declaration, or shall make a false declaration, he shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, and the further sum of ten pounds for each Alien who shall have been on board at the time of the arrival of such vessel, or who shall have, to his knowledge, landed therefrom, within this realm, whom such master shall wilfully have refused or neglected to declare; and in case such master shall neglect or refuse forthwith to pay such penalty, it shall be lawful for any officer of the Customs, and he is hereby required to detain such Not to extend vessel until the same shall be paid: Provided always, that nothing hereto Foreign mariners navigating the vessel. Penalty for omission, or for false Declaration. in-before contained shall extend to any mariner whom the master shall certify in writing by him subscribed, to be actually employed in the navigation of such vessel during the time that such mariner shall remain so actually employed; which Certificate so subscribed every such master is hereby required to give. III. And be it further enacted, That every Alien who shall after the commencement of this Act arrive in any part of the United Kingdom from Foreign Parts, or pass from Great Britain to Ireland, or from Ireland to Great Britain, shall immediately after such arrival or passage deliver to the chief officer of the Customs at the port of debarkation any passport which shall be in his or her possession, and declare in writing to such chief officer, or verbally make to him, a declaration, to be by him reduced into writing, of the name of the vessel in which he or she shall have arrived, and also of his or her names, rank, occupation, and description, and if a domestic servant, then also the names, rank, and description of his or her master or mistress; and shall also in like manner declare the country and place from whence he or she shall then have come, and the place within this realm to which he or she is then going, and the name and place of abode of the person within this realm (if any) to whom he or she is known, which declaration shall be made in or reduced into such form as shall be approved by one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; and if any such Alien coming into this realm shall neglect or refuse to deliver up his or her passport, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds; and if he or she shall neglect or refuse to make such declaration, or shall wilfully make any false declaration, he or she shall be punished in the manner herein-after mentioned. IV. And be it further enacted, That the officer of the Customs to whom such passport shall be delivered and declaration made, shall immediately register such declaration in a book to be kept by him for that purpose (in which book Certificates shall be printed in blank, and counterparts thereof, in such form as shall be approved by one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State), and shall insert therein the several particulars by this Act required in proper columns, in both parts thereof, excepting such particulars as shall be inserted in the column of remarks, which shall be entered only in one of such parts, and shall cut off one part of such Certificate containing all the particulars, excepting such as shall be contained in the column of remarks, and deliver the same to the Alien who shall have made such declaration. V. And be it further enacted, That the chief Officer of the Customs in every port shall within two days transmit the declaration of every master of a vessel, and every passport, and a true copy of every such Certificate, if in Great Britain, to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State at the Alien Office in Westminster, and if in Ireland, to the chief Secretary for Ireland. VI. And be it further enacted, That every Alien arriving in this realm after the commencement of this Act, shall, within one week after his or her arrival at the place which shall be expressed in such Certificate as the place to which he or she proposes to go, produce such Certificate, if such place shall be in the city of Westminster, or within five miles thereof, at the Alien Office in Westminster, and shall declare in writing at what place he or she intends to reside, and if the place expressed in the Certificate shall be out of the limits aforesaid, shall make a declaration in writing at what place he or she intends to reside, and transmit the same by the post, if in Great Britain, to one of his Majesty's principal Secre taries of State at the Alien Office in Westminster, and if in Ireland, to the chief Secretary for Ireland; and if any such Alien shall neglect or refuse to produce such Certificate, or to make or transmit such declaration as aforesaid, or shall wilfully make or transmit any false declaration respecting any of the particulars aforesaid, he or she shall be punished in the manner herein-after mentioned. VII. And be it further enacted, That every Alien being in this realm after the commencement of this Act, shall, on the first day of January and on the first day of July in every year, or within one week after those No. XX. 7 Geo. IV. c. 54. Secretary of State, &c., may require a more frequent Declaration. Penalty on Alien for false Declarations, or neglecting to make the same. Certificate to ting forth place of abode, &c. Penalty for not having Certificate, or residing elsewhere. Alien on departure may have his passport sent to the port, and delivered to him on making Declaration. respective days, make a declaration in writing of his or her place of residence, and therein state at what place he or she intends in future to reside, and shall within the same week transmit such declaration by the post, if in Great Britain, to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State at the Alien Office in Westminster, and if in Ireland, to the chief Secretary for Ireland, and if any Alien shall neglect or refuse to make or transmit such declaration as last aforesaid, or shall wilfully make or transmit any false declaration, he or she shall be punished in the manner herein-after mentioned. VIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State to require any Alien, being in Great Britain, and for the chief Secretary for Ireland to require any Alien, being in Ireland, to make a declaration of his or her actual place of residence, and of the place at which he or she intends to reside in future, at shorter intervals than such a declaration is herein-before required, which intervals may be either limited by time, or made to depend on the Alien's change of residence, as to such principal Secretary or chief Secretary respectively shall seem meet; and such requisition may be made either by a warrant under the hand and seal of such principal Secretary or chief Secretary respectively, to be delivered to the Alien, or left at his or her last declared place of residence, or otherwise by a notice to be published in the London Gazette, or in the Dublin Gazette, as the case may be; and every Alien named in any such warrant or notice shall make and transmit such declaration as often as he or she shall be required so to do by such warrant or notice, and if he or she shall neglect or refuse so to do, he or she shall be punished in the manner herein-after mentioned. IX. And be it further enacted, That if any Alien in any of the cases aforesaid shall neglect to make such declaration as is by this Act required, or to transmit the same, in the cases in which he is required so to do, within the time in that behalf limited, or shall wilfully make or transmit any false declaration, every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof before two Justices of the Peace, for every such offence, either forfeit any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, or be imprisoned for any time not exceeding six months, at the discretion of such Justices. X. And be it further enacted, That upon the receipt at the Alien Office, or at the office of the chief Secretary for Ireland, of any declaration, in any of the cases aforesaid, such Clerk as shall be for that purpose nominated by one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, or by the chief Secretary for Ireland respectively, shall within three days make out, in such form as shall be for that purpose approved by one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, a Certificate, setting forth the names, rank, occupation, and description of the Alien, and his or her place of abode, and shall transmit the same by the post to such Alien; and if any Alien shall, by his or her default, not be possessed of such Certificate, or shall without any lawful excuse reside in any other place than that expressed in such Certificate, every such Alien shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds; and if any Alien, being required by any Justice of the Peace to produce such Certificate, shall refuse or neglect so to do, he or she shall be deemed not to be possessed of any Certificate. XI. And be it further enacted, That where any Alien, about to depart from this realm after the commencement of this Act, shall be desirous of having possession of the passport by him or her delivered on his or her debarkation, and shall notify by letter to the Alien Office in Westminster, or to the chief Secretary's office in Dublin, the port at which he or she intends to embaik, the proper Clerk of those respective offices shall forthwith transmit such passport by the post to the chief officer of the Customs of the port so notified, to be by him delivered to such Alien, on his or her making the declaration herein-after next mentioned; and every such Alien shall, before his or her embarkation, declare in writing his or her intention of departing, and shall deliver such declaration to the chief officer of the Customs at the port of departure, who shall forth with transmit the same, if in Great Britain, to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State at the Alien Office in Westminster, and if in Ireland, to the chief Secretary for Ireland; and if any Alien shall neglect to make such Declaration, or to deliver the same to the chief officer of the Customs at the port of departure, he or she shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of five pounds. No. XX. 7 Geo. IV. c. 54. XII. And be it further enacted, That if any Certificate issued to any New certificates Alien by virtue of this Act shall be lost, mislaid, or destroyed, and such to be issued in Alien shall produce to one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace proof lieu of such as thereof, and shall make it appear to the satisfaction of such Justice that are lost. he or she hath duly conformed with this Act, it shall be lawful for such Justice, and he is hereby required, to testify the same under his hand, and such Alien shall thereby be entitled to demand a fresh Certificate, which shall be of the like force and effect as the Certificate so lost, mislaid, or destroyed. XIII. And be it further enacted, That all Certificates herein-before Certificate to be required to be given shall be given without any fee or reward whatsoever; granted without and every person who shall take any fee or reward of any Alien or other fee. person, for any Certificate, or any other matter or thing done under this Act, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds; and Penalty, XIV. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall wilfully forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or shall utter, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, any declaration or Certificate hereby directed, or shall obtain any such Certificate under any other name or description than the true name and description of the Alien intended to be named and described, without disclosing to the person granting such Certificate the true name and description of such Alien, and the reason for concealing the same, or shall falsely pretend to be the person intended to be named and described in any such Certificate, every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof before two Justices, either forfeit any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, or be imprisoned for any time not exceeding six months, at the discretion of such Justices. Penalty for forging Certificates, &c. XV. And be it further enacted, That all offences against this Act Prosecution of shall be prosecuted within six calendar months after the offence com- offences. mitted, except that of not making or delivering a declaration of departure, which shall be prosecuted within six calendar months after the offender's return to this realm; and all such offences shall be prosecuted before two or more Justices of the Peace of the place where the offence shall be committed, who are required, in default of payment of any pecuniary penalty, to commit the offender to the common gaol for any time not exceeding six calendar months, unless the penalty shall be sooner paid, and forthwith to report to one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, or to the chief Secretary for Ireland, as the case nay require, the conviction of every offender under this Act, and the punish ment to which he is adjudged; and no writ of certiorari, or of advocation or suspension, shall be allowed to remove the proceedings of any Justices touching the cases aforesaid, or to supersede or suspend execution or other proceedings thereupon. XVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in Not to affect Fothis Act contained shall affect any Foreign Ambassador, or other public reign Ministers Minister duly authorized; nor any domestic servant of any such Foreign or their serAmbassador or public Minister, registered as such according to law, vants; or being actually attendant upon such Ambassador or Minister; nor any nor Aliens who Alien who shall have been continually residing within this realm for have been resi dent seven years, and obtained Certificate thereof, nor Alien under fourteen year |