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9. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer at the request of any person licensed to transfer his licence from the store for which it may have been granted to any other store; and nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any person from taking out as many licences for dealing in arms and ammunition at as many stores as he may desire; provided that the sum of 57. shall be paid in respect of each licence.

10. The Treasurer or any officer specially authorized by him to that effect or any constable may at any time during daylight enter any store licensed for dealing in arms or ammunition, in order to inspect the stock-in-trade therein; and if any person shall conceal or refuse to point out where the same or any part thereof is kept or otherwise obstruct such Treasurer, officer or constable, he shall incur a penalty not exceeding 201.

11.-(1.) Every person licensed to deal in arms or ammunition shall enter in a book or books to be kept by him for the purpose and in the forms given in Schedule (B) hereto :

(a.) An account of all the stock-in-trade which he has from time to time in his possession or control, entering under its true date every addition thereto and the name of the ship by which the same was imported, if imported by the dealer, or otherwise the name and address of the person from whom he purchased the same;

(b.) The name, place of residence and addition of every person purchasing or otherwise receiving arms or ammunition dealt in by him ;

(c.) The name, place of residence and addition of the master or employer of the person purchasing or receiving arms, where that person is a servant or agent; and

(d.) The description and quantity of the arms or ammunition sold and delivered to every such purchaser or receiver together with the true date of every such sale and delivery.

(2.) Such books shall be open at all times to inspection by the Treasurer or Inspector of Police or any officer authorized by the Governor in that behalf, who may take copies of all entries therein contained.

(3.) The Governor may require such books to be kept in duplicate and one of the duplicates to be delivered to the Treasurer or any officer of the Treasury Department at such times as he may think fit.

(4.) If any person so licensed neglects or fails to keep such book or books or to make therein any of the entries that are hereby required, or if any person prevents or obstructs the inspection of any such book or books, or makes any false entry therein, or fails to deliver any duplicate which he may be required to deliver as aforesaid, he shall for every such offence incur a penalty not exceeding 201.

12. It shall not be lawful for any person, save and except officers holding commissions in His Majesty's army and navy, to carry, keep, or possess any article coming within the definition of arms contained in this Ordinance, excepting for the purposes of public duty, without a licence in that behalf first obtained from the Treasurer in the form prescribed in Schedule (C); and every person offending against this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding 201.

13. Before granting any such licence the Treasurer shall demand and receive from the person applying for the same the sum of 2s. 6d. for one arm and a further sum of 6d. for each arm after the first for the use of the Presidency, and shall satisfy himself that the applicant is a fit and proper person to be licensed; and the Treasurer may refuse to grant any such licence without assigning any reason to the applicant.

14. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Treasurer to grant to him a licence under section 7 or 13 of this Ordinance may appeal against such refusal to the Governor, and the Governor in Council shall affirm or disallow the decision of the Treasurer.

15. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, every licence to carry arms granted under this Ordinance shall have effect from the date thereof until the close of the 31st day of December of the year in which it shall have been granted.

16. The Treasurer may at any time during the currency of any licence cancel and withdraw the same upon refunding to the holder of the licence the sum paid by him for such licence: Provided that before exercising this power the Treasurer shall have obtained authority from the Governor-in-Council so to do.

17. The Treasurer is hereby required to publish in the "Gazette" a list of the names of all persons to whom he shall have granted licences or whose licences shall have been revoked under this Ordinance.

18. Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall produce his licence or licences for inspection whenever required by a Justice of the Peace or Inspector of Police or constable, and for every breach of this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding 51.

19. The Treasurer may before granting or renewing any licence to keep arms require as a condition precedent to the issue of the licence the production to him of the arm which it is intended to keep.

20. Whenever any person in the possession of any arm is refused a licence to keep the same, or is unable or unwilling to license the same, he shall forthwith surrender the said arm to the Treasurer, who shall pay to him, upon the warrant of the Governor, out of the public revenues of the Presidency the value thereof, such value to be ascertained by the valuation of two persons appointed-one by the

Treasurer and the other by the owner of the arm, or in the event of disagreement by an umpire chosen by such valuers.

21. If it shall appear to any District Magistrate that arms or ammunition are kept or deposited or suspected to be kept or deposited upon any premises or in any place contrary to any of the provisions of this Ordinance or for any unlawful purpose, he shall forthwith issue his warrant to cause search to be made in and upon such premises or place; and if any arms or ammunition shall be found to be there so kept or deposited as aforesaid, the same shall be forfeited, and the owner of such arms or ammunition and the occupier and, in default of any occupier, the owner of the premises or place shall each be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100%.

22. All penalties incurred under this Ordinance may be recovered upon summary trial and conviction, and in such cases every District Magistrate shall have jurisdiction to the extent of the said penalties, and upon non-payment the said penalties shall be enforced under the provisions of the Magistrates' Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

23. The informer who shall prosecute to conviction, and any other person who may have contributed to the conviction by giving information or otherwise, shall, subject to the discretion of the Governor, receive out of every penalty recovered a sum not exceeding one half thereof, distributed in such proportions as the Governor may direct, and the remainder shall form part of the public revenue of the Presidency; provided that the Governor may remit the whole or any part of any penalty, notwithstanding the interest of any informer or other person therein.

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24. (1.) The Court imposing any penalty upon any person licensed under this Ordinance may, if it appear that the offence is of such a nature as to require that any licence or licences of such person be suspended or revoked, make an order to that effect, and the licence or licences shall be suspended or revoked accordingly. (2.) The Court making any order for the suspension or revocation licence shall forthwith intimate the same to the Treasurer. 25. The Governor may, by any order made with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, make rules consistent with this Ordinance and, subject to the provisions thereof, for further and better carrying into effect the purposes of this Ordinance, and attach a penalty which may extend to 50l. to the breach of any such rule, and alter or revoke all or any of such rules. Every such order shall come into operation upon the publication thereof in the "Gazette," or at such time thereafter as shall be in the order provided, and shall have the like force and effect for all purposes as if the same had been made by Ordinance, subject to disallowance by His Majesty.

F. H. WATKINS, President.

Passed the Legislative Council the 10th October, 1905.

HENRY DYETT, Clerk.

Dated at Antigua, the 18th day of October, 1905, in the fifth year

of His Majesty's reign.

Duly published and proclaimed the 28th October, 1905.

F. H. WATKINS, Provost-Marshal.

[Here follow Schedules (A), (B), and (C).]

ORDINANCE of the Government of the Orange River Colony to amend "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903.”* [No. 7.]

WHEREAS it is desirable to amend in certain respects Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903":

[1905.] "The

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. Sub-section (1) of section 1 of "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903," shall be and is hereby repealed, and there shall be substituted therefor the following provisions :

"An alien who has been in the service of the Crown or who within such limited time before making the application hereinafter mentioned as may be prescribed by the Lieutenant-Governor either by general order or on any special occasion, has resided in the Orange River Colony for

"(a.) A term of not less than five years; or

"(b.) Who having resided in the Orange River Colony for a term of one year immediately before making the application hereinafter mentioned has also resided in any part of His Majesty's Dominions for such period as together with the period of one year aforesaid will make up five years in all;

And who intends when naturalized to reside or to serve under the Crown in the Orange River Colony, may apply for a certificate of naturalization in the form prescribed in the First Schedule hereto."

2. Notwithstanding anything in "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903," contained, any person who shall have been granted a certificate of naturalization in the United Kingdom under section 7 of "The Naturalization Act, 1870," of the Imperial Parliament, or who shall have been granted a certificate of readmission to British nationality under section 8 of the said Act, and

* Vol. XCVI, page 609.

shall not subsequently have divested himself of his status as a British subject, shall, subject to any existing or future laws of this Colony, be entitled in this Colony to all the rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all the obligations to which he would be entitled and subject if he had been granted a certificate of naturalization under the provisions of "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903," or of this Ordinance.

3. The form prescribed in the First Schedule to "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903," shall be and is hereby repealed, and there shall be substituted therefor the form set forth in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed.

4. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Naturalization of Aliens Amendment Ordinance, 1905," and shall be read as one with "The Naturalization of Aliens Ordinance, 1903."

SCHEDULE.

Form of Application for Certificate of Naturalization.

To the Colonial Secretary of the Orange River Colony :

I, A. B., do hereby apply for a certificate of naturalization in the Orange River Colony, and I declare that the following statements are true and correct in every particular :

1. Name of applicant in full.

2. Married or single...............

3. Names and ages of children (if any).

4. Present nationality, and whether acquired by birth or naturaliza

tion...

5. If applicant has resided in British dominion other than the Orange

River Colony, state place or places and period or periods of such
residence

6. Names and nationality of parents......

7. Birthplace (state fully name of place and country)

8. Age next birthday

9. Occupation.......

10. Place of residence in Orange River Colony..

11. Period or periods during which, and place or places in which, applicant has resided in Orange River Colony, giving dates and addresses...

12. Length of time during which applicant has been in service of

Crown.....

13. Does the applicant, if naturalized, intend to reside in Orange

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