may require that a Customs officer be carried on board and maintained in a proper manner until the arrival of the said merchantvessel at the custom-house where the seals have to be removed.

(I.) Merchant - vessels, whether in transit or otherwise, shall conform to the local Sub-Regulations which shall from time to time. be made as to anchoring in the fair-way, and other matters necessary for facilitating the safe passage of vessels on the waterways of the Niger Territories, and such local Sub-Regulations shall be published in the same manner as the lists referred to in clause (G) of this Regulation, and all such local Sub-Regulations shall apply equally to the merchant-vessels of Great Britain and of all other nationalities.

(J.) The person in charge of every merchant-vessel in transit shall, on entering and clearing in transit, make a declaration at the custom-house of all the arms and ammunition on board, and no such arms or ammunition shall pass the custom-house into either the land or waterways of the Niger Territories without the written permission of the Government of the Niger Territories. Any infringement of this provision shall be taken as an attempt to pass such arms or ammunition illicitly into the Niger Territories, and shall make such merchant-vessel and its cargo, and the person in charge, and any persons aiding or abetting, liable to the penalties prescribed for such a breach of the territorial regulations of the Niger Territories. Applications for the said permissions should be made in writing to the Governor and Council of the Company in London, so as to expedite their reference to Her Majesty's Secretary of State if necessary.

Given under the seal of the Company, this 19th day of April,

REGULATIONS made by the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, in pursuance of "The Rules Publication Act, 1893."-August 9, 1894.

[56 &

WHEREAS by "The Rules Publication Act, 1893 57 Vict., cap. 66]* hereinafter referred to as "the Act," Regula

* Vol. LXXXV, page 1270.

tions are authorized to be made by the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, for such purposes in relation to Statutory Rules as are therein mentioned:

Now, therefore, we, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in pursuance of the said Act, and of all other powers in that behalf, do hereby, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Speaker of the House of Commons, make the following Regulations:

1. Every exercise of a Statutory power by a Rule-making authority, which is of a legislative and not an executive character, shall be held to be a Statutory Rule within section 3 of the Act and these Regulations.

2. An exercise of a Statutory power which is confirmed only by a Rule-making authority shall not be held to be a Statutory Rule within section 3 of the Act or these Regulations.

3. Except as mentioned in Regulation 2, the volumes of Statutory Rules and Orders published by the Stationery Office in 1890, 1891, and 1892 shall form a practical guide for determining those exercises of Statutory powers which should be treated as Statutory Rules within section 3 of the Act and these Regulations.

4. A distinction shall be drawn between Statutory Rules which are general and those which are local and personal.

5. The distinction shall follow, unless in exceptional circumstances, that adopted between public Acts and local and personal Acts of Parliament.

6. All Statutory Rules when sent to the Queen's printer of Acts of Parliament, as required by the Act, shall be numbered consecutively as nearly as may be in the order in which they are received by the Queen's printer, and either with or without a second number for a particular class of rules.

7. The main series of numbers shall be a separate series for each calendar year, but Statutory Rules made in December in any year, and received by the Queen's printer of Acts of Parliament within fourteen days after the end of that year, may be numbered with the Statutory Rules of that year and included in the annual volume of that year.

8. All Statutory Rules shall be printed and sold, unless, in the case of Rules not required to be published in any Gazette, the Rule-making authority declare that it is unnecessary to print and sell them, and such declaration is not overruled on a reference under Regulation 15.

9. Statutory Rules similar to public general Acts shall be printed in an annual volume, and that volume shall include a list of the Statutory Rules which are similar to local and personal Acts.

10. The Rule-making authority in sending any Statutory Rule to the Queen's printer of Acts of Parliament shall state whether they consider the Rule to be general or local and personal, and that statement shall be followed unless overruled on a reference under Regulation 15.

11. In the annual volume of Statutory Rules the general Rules shall be published in a classified form, as in the volumes mentioned above in Regulation 3, which have been hitherto published.

12. Regulations 6 and 8 shall apply to temporary Statutory Rules, but if they have ceased to be in force at the time of the publication of the annual volume, or will so cease a short time afterwards, they shall not be included in that volume, unless the Rule-making authority inform the Queen's printer of Acts of Parliament that they desire them to be so included.

13. The Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, may direct the exclusion from publication at length in any annual volume of any Rules which it seems to them unnecessary so to publish by reason of their annual or other periodical renewal; as, for instance, the Militia Regulations, the Volunteer Regulations, or the Education Code.

14. Any Statutory Rule or class of Statutory Rules which, on the application of the Rule-making authority, may be determined by the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, to be confidential, shall be exempted from section 3 of the Act and from these Regulations.

15. Any question which arises under Regulation 8 as to the printing and sale of Statutory Rules, or under Regulation 10 as to Statutory Rules being general or local and personal, or which arises on the application or interpretation of these Regulations, shall be referred to the Treasury, and determined by them with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons.

SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS as to Cases where an Application for a Certificate of Naturalization, or for a Certificate of Readmission to British Nationality, is made out of Her Majesty's Dominions by an Officer in Her Majesty's Service.-London, November 30, 1894.

IN exercise of the powers contained in "The Naturalization Acts, 1870,"* I, the Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, make the following Regulations.

The following Regulations shall apply only to cases where an application for a certificate of naturalization, or for a certificate of readmission to British nationality is made out of Her Majesty's dominions by an officer in Her Majesty's service :

Oath of Allegiance.

1. The oath of allegiance may, out of IIer Majesty's dominions, be administered by and subscribed in the presence of any officer in the Diplomatic or Consular service of Her Majesty, and the oath so taken and subscribed may be proved in any legal proceedings by the production of the original certificate, or of any copy thereof certified to be a true copy by one of Her Majesty's Principal or UnderSecretaries of State.

Registration.

2. Every certificate of naturalization and every certificate of readmission to British nationality, and every oath of allegiance taken with respect to any such certificate, shall be registered in the office of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

Copies certified by one of Her Majesty's Principal or UnderSecretaries of State to be true copies of any certificate or oath which has been registered may be obtained at such office as aforesaid.

Fees.

3. With the consent of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, I prescribe that a fee of 10s. shall be taken for every certified copy of any certificate of naturalization, or of any certificate of readmission to British nationality, with or without the oath of allegiance, and such fee shall be paid into the receipt of Her

* Vol. LX, pages 267 and 291.

Majesty's Exchequer in such manner as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from time to time direct, and be carried to the Consolidated Fund.

No fee shall be required in respect of any of the following

matters:

(a.) For the grant of a certificate whether of naturalization or of readmission to British nationality;

(b.) For administration of the oath of allegiance;

(c.) For transmitting for registration or for registering any certificate or oath of allegiance.

November 30, 1894.

H. H. ASQUITH.

NOTIFICATION to British Subjects having Claims against the Government of Chile arising out of the Civil War of 1891.— Santiago, November 14, 1894.*

NOTICE is hereby given to claimants that the Undersigned, British Vice-Consul at Santiago, has been appointed Her Majesty's Agent for the British claims arising out of the acts committed against their persons or property during the period between the 7th day of January and the 28th day of August, 1891, inclusive.

The Mixed Commission, established under the Anglo-Chilean Convention of the 26th day of September, 1893,† held their first meeting on the 24th ultimo, and in accordance with Article I of the above-named Convention every claim must be presented to the Commissioners within six months from that date.

And whereas various claims, and documents in support of them, have from time to time been transmitted to the Foreign Office in London and to Her Majesty's Legation in Santiago, the claimants are hereby notified that each claim must be accompanied by a Memorial to the Commissioners, and their claims formulated in conformity with the Rules of Procedure adopted by the Commissioners.

By order of the Commissioners the Memorials must be in print, and twelve copies thereof in Spanish and English must be forwarded for the use of the Commissioners.

Such claimants as may desire copies of the Rules of Procedure,‡

* Inserted in the

London Gazette" of January 18, 1895.

+ Vol. LXXXV, page 22.

See Rules on page 173.