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CHAP. 30.

An Act to provide for further advances to the Harbour
Commissioners of Montreal.

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[Assented to 27th April, 1907.]

IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

advanced to

Harbour

1. The Governor in Council may from time to time advance $3,000,000 and pay to the Corporation of the Harbour Commissioners of may be Montreal, hereinafter called "the Corporation," in addition to Montreal the moneys authorized to be advanced to the Corporation by Commissionthe Governor in Council by chapter 36 of the statutes of 1903, ers. such sums of money, not exceeding in the whole the sum of three million dollars, as are required to enable the Corporation 1903, c. 36. to complete the terminal facilities of the port of Montreal now under construction and to construct such further terminal facilities as are necessary to properly equip the said port.

submitted.

2. No such advances shall be made unless the plans, specifi- Plans of cations and estimates for the works to be performed by the works to be Corporation, and on which the money so to be advanced is to be expended, have first been submitted to and approved by the Governor in Council.

3. The Corporation shall, upon any advance being made, Debentures deposit with the Minister of Finance and Receiver General to be deposited debentures of the Corporation equal in par value to the advance with Minister so made, (which debentures the Corporation is hereby author- of Finance. ized to issue), and such debentures so issued shall be of such amounts as the Minister of Finance and Receiver General determines, and shall bear date on the day when such advance is made, and shall be repayable within twenty-five years from the date of their issue, and in the meantime shall bear interest at the rate of three per cent per annum, such interest to be payable half-yearly, on the first day of July and the first day of January in each year.

Payment of loans.

1896 (1st

sess.), c. 10.

4. The principal and interest of the sums advanced under the authority of this Act to the Corporation shall be paid by the Corporation out of its revenue mentioned in section 8 of chapter 10 of the statutes of 1896 (first session), and shall be a charge upon the said revenue in the same manner and to the same extent as if the sums so advanced had been borrowed by the Corporation under the said chapter 10.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty.

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CHAP. 31.

An Act to amend the Naturalization Act.

[Assented to 30th January, 1907.]

IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The Naturalization Amendment Short title. Act, 1907.

persons

naturalized

2. Any person resident in Canada, or in the service of the NaturalizaGovernment of Canada or of any province of Canada, who has tion of obtained a certificate or letters of naturalization in the United already Kingdom, or in any part thereof, or in any British colony or in another possession, which certificate or letters remains or remain in full part of the force and effect, and who desires to be naturalized in Canada empire. may, if he intends when naturalized either to reside in Canada or to serve under the Government of Canada or the government of any such province, apply for a certificate of naturalization in manner hereinafter prescribed, without having complied with the condition as to residence required under section 13 of The Naturalization Act, chapter seventy-seven of the Revised R.S., c. Statutes, 1906.

77, s. 13.

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3. The applicant shall take and subscribe, before some Oaths and person competent to administer oaths under section fourteen evidence in of the said Act, the oath of allegiance, in form A in the schedule of such to the said Act, and one of the oaths, forms 1 and 2 in the application. schedule to this Act, and shall produce to such person his certificate or letters of naturalization aforesaid, and adduce, in support of his application, such evidence of his residence or service, and intention to reside or serve, as such person requires, and such person, on being satisfied with such evidence and that the applicant is of good character, shall grant to him a certificate in form 3 in the schedule of this Act.

Certificate.

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4. The provisions of sections sixteen to twenty-three of the said Act with regard to the presentation and filing of the certificate in form B and the proceedings thereupon and with respect thereto shall, mutatis mutandis, and except as hereinafter provided, apply to the presentation and filing of the certificate granted under the last preceding section, and the proceedings thereupon and with respect thereto.

5. There shall in such cases be presented to the court, or to the authority or person prescribed under section twenty-one of the said Act, together with the certificate in form 3, the certificate or letters of naturalization aforesaid.

6. The certificate of naturalization to be granted to the applicant may be in form 4 in the schedule to this Act.

SCHEDULE.

FORM 1.

The Naturalization Amendment Act, 1907.

Oath of Residence.

I, A. B., do swear (or, being a person allowed by law to affirm in judicial cases, do affirm) that I have obtained in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (or as the case may be) a certificate (or letters) of naturalization dated

which I now produce and which is (or are), to the best of my knowledge and belief, in full force and effect; that I desire to be naturalized in Canada; that I now reside in Canada, and that I intend, when naturalized, to continue to reside therein.

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I, A. B., do swear (or, being a person allowed by law to affirm in judicial cases, do affirm), that I have obtained in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (or as the case may be) a certificate (or letters) of naturalization, dated

which I now produce, and which is (or are), to the best of my knowledge and belief in full force and effect; that I desire to be naturalized in Canada; that I am now in the service of the Government of Canada (or of the government of the province

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intend, when naturalized, to reside in Canada (or to serve under , (as the case may be).

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I, C. D., (name and description of the person before whom the oaths have been taken) do certify that A. B., a British subject formerly of (country of origin), who

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the took, before me, the oaths (or affirmations) of residence and allegiance (or service and allegiance, as the case may be) prescribed by section 3 of The Naturalization Amendment Act, 1907; that I have reason to believe, and do believe, that the said A. B. is a resident of Canada (or is in the service of the Government of Canada, or of the province of , in Canada) that the said A. B. intends, when naturalized, to continue to reside in Canada (or to serve under the Government of

as the case may be); that the said A. B. is a person of good character, and that there exists, to my knowledge, no reason why the said A. B. should not be granted the rights and capacities in Canada of a natural born British subject.

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