Aftonbladet – 3 februari 1871, sida 1

In conformity with instructions which I have this day received from The Earl Granville K. G. Her Britannic Majestys Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, I hereby publish, for the information of British Subjects, the 4:th and 6:th clauses of the Naturelization Act? of the 12:th May, 1870, 33 Viet, Cap. 14. How British-born subject may cease to be such. 4. Any person who by reason of bis having been born within the dominions of Her Majesty is a natural-born subject, but who also at the time of his birth became under the iw of any foreign state a subject of such state, and is still such subject, may, if of full age and not under any disability, make a declaration of alienage in manner aforesaid, and from and after the making of such declaration of alienage such person shall cease to be a British subject. Any person who is born out of Her Majestys dominions of a father being a British subject may, if of full age, and not under any disability, make a declaration of alienage in manner aforesaid, and from and after the making of suchdeclaration shall cease to be a British subject. Capacity of British subject ta renounce allegiance to Her Majesty. 6. Any British subject who has 2: any time before, or may at any time after the forne of this Act, when in any foreign state and not under any disability voluntarily ecome naturalized in such state, shall, from and after the time of his so having become naturalized in such foreign state, be deemed to have seased to be a British subject and be regarded as an alien; Provided, ; (1.) That where any British subject has vefore the passing of ti: Act voluntarily become naturalized in a foreign stat Si et is desirous of remainin a British subject, he may, at any time witlia two years after the passing of thus Act, make a declaration that he is desirous of remaining a British subject, and upor ! such declaration herein-after referred to as a declaration of British nationality being made, and upon his taking the oath of allegiance, the declarant shall be! deemed to be and to have, been continually a British subject; with this qualification, that he ghall not, when within the limits of the foreign state in which he has been naturalized, be deemed to be:a Britieh subject, unless he has ceased to be a subject ot that state in pureuance of the laws thereof, or in pur: suance of a tresty to that effect: (2.) A declaration of British nationality may be made, and the oath of allegiance be taken as follows; that is to say, — if the declarant be in the United Kingdom in the presence of a justice of the peace; if elsewhere in Her Majestys dominions in the presence of any judge of any eourt of civil or criminal jurisdietion, of avy justice of the peace, or of any other officer for the time being authorized by law in the place in which the declarant is to administer an oath for any judicial or other legal purpose. .If out of Her Majestys dominions in the presence of any officer in the diplomatie or consular service of Her Mosjesty.? Further informatioa regarding the Act may be obtained at the Consulate, Gerald Raoul Perry, Her Britannie Majestys Coneul for Eastern Sweden. British Consulate, Stockholm, this 1:st day of Februsry, in the year 1871. (776)