JAPANESE AND KOREAN IMMIGRATION TO CONTINENTAL TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES-Continued.

tal territory of the United States. Among other things in said regulations, it is stated that aliens from Japan and Korea are subject to the general immigration laws. Circular, April 18, 1907.

JAPANESE WIVES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THEIR CHILDREN BORN IN JAPAN. See under Passports and Regulations.

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LANDING CERTIFICATES. According to an amendment of the Treasury Regulations as to the execution of landing certificates, the form heretofore required. (Nos. 150, 151, 153, and 154), which contained the oaths of the master and mate of the exporting vessel, and verification by a consular officer, may still be used in all cases, but is no longer required, except in the case of goods imported into the United States and subsequently exported therefrom in the condition in which imported under Revised Statutes 2977 and 2979. cular, August 13, 1907. LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES. Paragraph 172, Consular Regulations, requires consuls to keep registers of American citizens residing within their respective districts. Consuls in Latin-American countries directed to supply the Department with alphabetical lists of American citizens and corporations or companies in their districts, giving place of residence of each citizen and location of business office of each corporation or company. Circular, September 26, 1905.

LAWS, FOREIGN, REPORTS IN RELATION TO. In reporting new laws, two copies of the law in original language should be appended to report. impossible to obtain copy, reference must be made to name and date of official publication containing same, and title of law in original language, and the date. Circular, June 15, 1906.

LEGAL SERVICES, PERFORMANCE OF, BY CONSULAR OFFICERS. The drawing of wills, powers of attorney, and performance of other legal services do not properly come within the scope of the functions of consular officers. Instructed to decline to perform legal services, except in cases where a different course is rendered absolutely necessary by reason of there being no lawyer available or where delay would work hardship upon an American citizen. In such case interested persons should be informed that the services are performed at their risk and that the Government assumes no responsibility therefor. No fee whatsoever is to be charged for such services beyond the fees for copying and translation as provided in Tariff of Fees. Circular, December 17, 1906.

LEGISLATION.

Officers of United States Government forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually or through associations, to solicit an increase of pay, or to influence or attempt to influence in their own interest any other legislation whatever, either before Congress or its committees, or in any way save through the heads of the Departments in or under which they serve, on penalty of dismissal from the Government service. Circular,

April 21, 1902.

The immediate purpose of the above order, so far as the Consular Service is concerned, is to prevent that indiscriminate request for legislation which has in the past greatly impeded the efforts of the Department to secure symmetry in the compensation of consular officers. The Department reserves to itself the right to decide, upon a study of the service as a whole, what should be the compensation of each officer. Strict compliance with. this order is expected. Circular, December 30, 1902. LOSS BY EXCHANGE. See under Accounts.

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PHILIPPINE

ISLANDS. See under Philippine Islands.

MARKET VALUE. See under Invoices.

MARRIAGES. There is no law requiring American diplomatic or consular officers to permit use of legations or consulates for the performance of marriage ceremonies. Only statute in any manner bearing upon subject of marriage in presence of consular officers is section 4082, Revised Statutes, which see. See also under China. Circular, June 16, 1905. MEAT-INSPECTION LAW. Encloses copy of ad

dress given by Mr. George P. McCabe, Solicitor of Department of Agriculture, explaining meat-inspection law of June 30, 1906. Circular, February 26, 1907. METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION.

Weather Bureau.

See under

MEXICO. Cooperation between diplomatic and consular officers. Department insists emphatically on the most. perfect cooperation between the two services, and expects attitude and practice of frank, mutual helpfulness and painstaking consideration. Ambassador or chargé d'affaires has, under Department, supervision and authority over whole consular service in Mexico.

Amplifying instruction of July 16, 1906, and amending paragraphs 102 and 103 of the Consular Regulations, states that every consul, vice-consul in charge, or consular agent shall immediately report directly to embassy all political information and all contentious. matter likely to become subject of diplomatic action. Replies may also be made direct to embassy. Copies of all such reports from consular officers, and also of all instructions from embassy, shall be sent to consul-general or other supervising officer for his information. Circular, September 17, 1906.

MINERAL WATER. See under Fees.

MOORE ON RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CONSULS. Copy sent to all consular officers of chapter 16 of Moore's Digest of International Law. Attention especially directed to Section VI on amenability of consular officers to local jurisdiction, Section VII on powers and duties, and Section VIII on shipping and seamen. Circular, July 27, 1906.

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NAPHTHALIN PROCESS OF DISINFECTION. See under Quarantine.

NATURALIZATION, INVALID CERTIFICATES

OF. See under Passports-Fraudulent Citizenship and Invalid Certificates.

NATURALIZATION, REPORTS OF FRAUDULENT. After paragraph 170 of the Diplomatic and Consular Regulations the following paragraph is added by Executive order of April 6, 1907:

Reports of Fraudulent Naturalization.-When any alien who has secured naturalization of the United States shall proceed abroad within five years after his naturalization and shall take up his permanent residence in any foreign country within five years. after the date of his naturalization, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence that he did not intend in good faith to become a citizen of the United States when he applied for naturalization, and in the absence of countervailing evidence it shall be sufficient in the proper proceedings to authorize the cancellation of his certificate of citizenship as fraudulent. Diplomatic and consular officers shall furnish the Department of State, to be transmitted to the Department of Justice, the names of those within their jurisdictions, respectively, who are subject to the provisions of this requirement, and such statements from diplomatic and consular officers shall be certified to by such officers under their official seals, and are under the law admissible in evidence in all courts to cancel certificates of naturalization.-Act of June 29, 1906, sec. 15.

Accordingly, whenever a naturalized citizen goes abroad

and takes up a permanent residence in a foreign country within five years after his naturalization, it may be assumed that his naturalization was not obtained in good faith, and upon certification by a diplomatic or consular officer of the fact of the foreign residence, proceedings may be taken through the Department of Justice to set aside the naturalization.

NATURALIZATION, REPORTS OF FRAUDULENT-Continued.

No specified form of certification is prescribed, as circumstances in each case vary, but officers should state:

(1) that the person is a permanent resident in a foreign country, and

(2) that the permanent residence was taken up within

five years after naturalization was conferred, and must certify not only to the facts, but to their means of knowledge.

It is not necessary that the residence shall have been

acquired during the incumbency of the certifying officer, but he may, if he is in possession of sufficient evidence, certify to a residence which was acquired prior to his having had opportunity to have personal knowledge on the subject.

Such certifications should be sent forthwith to the Department, together with the certificate of naturalization of the person in interest; and pending instructions from the Department, such person's citizenship shall be considered as awaiting adjudication and he may be refused a passport or registration as a citizen of the United States. In the event of actual interposition being required in his behalf with the local authorities, the fact should, if possible, be telegraphed to the Department and its instructions awaited, and the foreign authorities requested to suspend proceedings until such instructions are received.

At the same time that a consul sends a certification to the Department, he should notify the embassy or legation in the country in which his consulate is situated. Circular, April 19, 1907.

NATURALIZED CITIZENS.

See under Passports.

NAVAL COLLIERS. See Colliers, naval.

NAVAL VESSELS.

Etiquette. Visits of ceremony.

Upon arrival in a foreign port where there is a diplo

matic or consular officer of the United States, naval