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Transfer back to Consolidated Fund.
13. Any money for the time being standing to the
credit of the account opened with the Admiralty,
may from time to time, under the direction of the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, be trans-
ferred by the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England to the account kept by them with Her
Majesty's Exchequer, and when so transferred shall
be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund
of the United Kingdom.

Agreements for Loans.
14. Every agreement for a loan under this Act shall
be laid before both Houses of Parliament within
thirty days after the making thereof, if Parliament
is then sitting, and if not then within thirty days
after the next meeting of Parliament.

Agreements before passing of this Act confirmed.
15. Any agreement made before the passing of
this Act by the Admiralty, and approved by the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for a loan
for such a purpose as aforesaid, is hereby confirmed;
and any money may be lent, and all interest agreed
for shall be paid, and all instalments of principal
money agreed for shall be repaid, as nearly as may
be in all respects as if the agreement were made
under this Act.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1866.

THE following Despatch with enclosures from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

[CIRCULAR.]
Downing Street, 5th June, 1866.

SIR,—Her Majesty's Government have had under
their consideration certain applications that
Foreigners naturalized in one or other of Her
Majesty's Colonies may be enabled, like Foreigners
naturalized in this Country, to obtain British Pass-
ports for Foreign Travel, with their attendant
advantages.

A Circular which Lord Clarendon has addressed
to Her Majesty's Ministers and Consular Officers
abroad, and of which I enclose a Copy, will show you
the extent to which Passports granted under the
authority to be conferred upon you by his Despatch
will be available for the holders in Countries beyond
Her Majesty's Dominions.

I have now to authorize you to issue Passports to
persons naturalized as British Subjects in the
Colony under your government. In exercising this
authority care must be taken that every Passport is
signed by the Officer administering the Government,
that it contains an express declaration that the
person receiving it is naturalized as a British
Subject in the Colony under your government, and
that it states the period for which it is available,
which must not exceed twelve months from the date
of issue. A Memorandum on a separate Paper
should be given with each Passport, stating that it
may be exchanged in London for a Foreign Office
Passport on the recommendation of the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, but that it will not be
renewed at any of Her Majesty's Missions or Con-
sulates abroad but only at the Foreign Office in
London, except under the special circumstances
stated in the Foreign Office Circular, when it may
be exchanged once for all at any of those Missions or
Consulates for a Passport strictly limited to such a
length of time as will enable the bearer to reach
England or any of Her Majesty's possessions abroad,
and that the Passport will not confer on the bearer
any claim to British protection in the country of his
birth.

I annex a Form of Passport which may be adopted,
and of the Memorandum which should be given
with it.

I have, &c.,

EDWARD CARDWELL.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

Foreign Office, 21st May, 1866.

I have to acquaint you that I have arranged with
the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department
that I should send instructions to Her Majesty's
Ministers and Consuls abroad, directing them to
extend to persons naturalized in British Colonies,
and holders of Passports either from the Colonial
Governors or from the Foreign Office, bearing on the
face of them the place of naturalization and the
period for which the Passports are good, the same
protection during that period as they are now in the
habit of extending to persons holding Passports in
which they are described as "Naturalized British
subjects."

I have to instuct you to act in conformity with
this arrangement.

You will understand that Passports granted to
persons naturalized in the Colonies, like Passports
granted to naturalized British subjects generally,
cannot, as a general rule, be renewed by any of Her
Majesty's Ministers or Consuls abroad; but, in order
to relieve any such persons from inconvenience in
case they should have remained abroad beyond the
time specified in their Passports, you are authorized
in any such cases to give such parties, in exchange
for their original Passports, Passports strictly limited
to the time required for a direct journey back to the
United Kingdom, or to any of Her Majesty's posses-
sions abroad; but no second Passport of the same
kind must be given, without the case being sub-
mitted to this office, to a person who shall appear to
have prolonged his stay beyond that limit.

I have, &c.,

CLARENDON.

Form of Passport.

This Passport is granted to A. B., naturalized as
a British Subject of , to enable him to travel
in Foreign Parts, and is available for the period of
months, from the day of
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(Signed) C. D.,
Governor [or otherwise as the case may be]
of the Colony of

Memorandum.

The Passport accompanying this Memorandum
may, on the recommendation of the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, be exchanged in London for a
Foreign Office Passport, available for the unexpired
portion of the period for which it was originally
granted.

It can be renewed only at the Foreign Office in
London, on the recommendation of the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, but it may be exchanged, if
run out, at any of Her Majesty's Missions or Con-
sulates in Foreign Countries, for a Passport strictly
limited to such length of time as will enable the
bearer to reach England, or any of Her Majesty's
Possessions abroad. Such limited renewal may be