Oath of allegiance. Further, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God. Description of applicant.-Age, forehead, —; eyes, ion, -; face, Identification. years; stature, feet Notary Public. inches, English; -; nose, ; mouth, —; chin, ; hair, -; complex 18-, I hereby certify that I know the above-named personally, and know him to be the identical person referred to in the within-described certificate of naturalization, and that the facts stated in his affidavit are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. [Address of witness.] Applicant desires passport to be sent to following address: [Inclosure 3.] General instructions in regard to passports-1888. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, D. C. Citizens of the United States visiting foreign countries are liable to serious inconvenience if unprovided with authentic proof of their national character. The best safeguard is a passport from this Department, certifying the bearer to be a citizen of the United States. Passports are issued only to citizens of the United States upon application, supported by proof of citizenship. Citizenship is acquired by nativity, by naturalization, and by annexation of territory. An alien woman who marries a citizen of the United States thereby becomes a citizen. Minor children resident in the United States become citizens by the naturalization of their father. When the applicant is a native citizen of the United States he must transmit his own affidavit of this fact, stating his age and place of birth, with the certificate of one other citizen of the United States to whom he is personally known, stating that the declaration made by the applicant is true. The affidavit must be attested by a notary public, under his signature and seal of office. When there is no notary in the place the affidavit may be inade before a justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths; but if he has no seal, his official act must be authenticated by certificate of a court of record. A person born abroad, who claims that his father was a native citizen of the United States, must state in his affidavit that his father was born in the United States, has resided therein, and was a citizen of the same at the time of the applicant's birth. This affidavit must be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts. If the applicant be a naturalized citizen, his certificate of naturalization must be transmitted for inspection (it will be returned with the passport), and he must state in his affidavit that he is the identical person described in the certificate presented. Passports can not be issued to aliens who have only declared their intention to become citizens. Military service does not of itself confer citizenship. A person of alien birth who has been honorably discharged from military service in the United States, but who has not been naturalized, should not transmit his discharge paper in application for a passport, but should apply to the proper court for admission to citizenship, and transmit a certified copy of the record of such admission. In issuing passports to naturalized citizens the Department will be guided by the naturalization certificate; and the signature to the application and oath of allegiance should conform in orthography to the applicant's name as written in the naturalization paper. Every applicant is required to state his occupation and the place of his permanent legal residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn and intends to return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the du ties of citizenship therein. The wife or widow of a naturalized citizen must transmit the naturalization certificate of the husband, stating in her affidavit that she is the wife or widow of the person described therein. The children of a naturalized citizen, claiming citizenship through the father, must transmit the certificate of naturalization of the father, stating in their affidavits that they are children of the person described therein, and were minors at the time of such naturalization. The oath of allegiance to the United States will be required in all cases. The application should be accompanied by a description of the person, stating the following particulars, viz: ; Age, years; stature, feet inches (English measure); forehead, eyes, nose,; mouth, -; chin, -; hair, ; complexion,; face, If the applicant is to be accompanied by his wife, minor children, or servants, it will be sufficient to state the names and ages of such persons and their relationship to the applicant, when a single passport for the whole will suffice. For any other person in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may include her minor children and servants. By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, a fee of $1 is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency, postal money-order, or postal note should accompany each application. Orders should be payable to the disbursing clerk of the Department of State. A passport is good for two years from its date and no longer. A new one may be obtained by stating the date and number of the old one, paying the fee of $1 and furnishing satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at the time within the United States. The oath of allegiance must also be transmitted when the former passport was issued prior to 1861. Citizens of the United States desiring to obtain passports while in a foreign country must apply to the chief diplomatic representative of the United States in that country, or in the absence of a diplomatic representative then to the consul-general, if there be one, or, in the absence of both the officers last named, to a consul. Passports can not be lawfully issued by State authorities or by judicial or municipal functionaries of the United States. (Revised Statutes, section 4075.) To persons wishing to obtain passports for themselves blank forms of application will be furnished by this Department on request, stating whether the applicant be a native or a naturalized citizen. Forms are not furnished, except as samples, to those who make a business of procuring passports. Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, indorsed “Passport Division," and each communication should give the post-office address of the person to whom the answer is to be directed. Professional titles will not be inserted in passports. No. 1133. To the consular officers of the United States having extraterritorial jurisdiction. [Circular.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, GENTLEMEN: The Secretary of the Navy on the 13th instant called the attention of this Department to the fact that the circular of August 19, 1887, in relation to the status of naval seamen after conviction in consular courts of offenses subjecting them to imprisonment, contravenes, by reason of the generality of its terms, the regulation of November 2, 1875, providing for the concurrent jurisdiction of the naval and consular authorities as to minor offenses of naval seamen. The circular of August 19, 1887, is therefore amended so as to read as follows: A seaman of the Navy who is convicted in a consular court of a felonious offense (as distinguished from cases of overstaying leave, disorderly conduct, drunkenness, and other comparatively minor offenses, of which, under the regulation of November 2, 1875, the naval and consular authorities have concurrent jurisdiction) ceases, from the date of such conviction, to be in the naval service of the United States, and should be dealt with thenceforth as a private individual. Therefore you should promptly notify the commanding officer of the vessel on which the man served, or the H. Ex. 1, pt. 1——105 commander in charge of the squadron, when any such conviction occurs, and he in turn will communicate to you the action subsequently taken by him under orders of the Navy Department. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, G. L. RIVES, Assistant Secretary. No. 1134. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas satisfactory proof has been given to me that no light-house and light dues, tonnage dues, beacon and buoy dues, or other equiva lent taxes of any kind, are imposed upon vessels of the United States in the ports of the island of Guadeloupe, one of the French West India Islands: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section eleven of the act of Congress entitled "An act to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen, and owners of vessels, and for other purposes," approved June nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, do hereby declare and proclaim that from and after the date of this my proclamation shall be suspended the collection of the whole of the tonnage duty which is imposed by said section of said act upon vessels entered in the ports of the United States from any of the ports of the island of Guadeloupe. Provided, That there shall be excluded from the benefits of the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of such foreign country, or their cargoes, or of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of the country in which are the ports mentioned in this proclamation, or the cargoes of such vessels. And the suspension hereby declared and proclaimed shall continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued in the said ports of the island of Guadeloupe and no longer. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth. GROVER CLEVELAND. [SEAL.] By the President: T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State. SUPPLEMENT A. GREAT BRITAIN. Papers relating to the case of Lord Sackville LIST OF PAPERS. September 13, 1888. October 29, 1888. A. Mr. Murchison to Lord Sackville. September 4, 1888. October 30, 1888. No. 990. October 31, 1888. November 2, 1888. No. 845. November 7, 1888. November 20, 1888. No. 858. December 1, 1888. No. 861. December 5, 1888. No. 874. December 29, 1888. No. 893. January 12, 1889. No. 901. January 16, 1889. SIR: The gravity of the political situation here and the duties of those voters who are of English birth, but still consider England the motherland, constitute the apology I hereby offer for intruding for information. Mr. Cleveland's message to Congress on the fishery question justly excites our alarm and compels us to seek further knowledge before finally casting our votes for him as we had intended to do. Many English citizens have for years refrained from being naturalized, as they thought no good would accrue from the act, but Mr. Cleveland's administration has been so favorable and friendly toward England, so kind in not enforcing the retaliatory act passed by Congress, so sound on the free-trade question, and so hostile to the dynamite school of Ireland, that by the hundreds-yes, by the thousands-they have become naturalized for the express purpose of helping to elect him over again. The one above all of American politicians they consider their own and their country's best friend. I am one of these unfortunates, with a right to vote for President in November. I am unable to understand for whom I shall cast my ballot, when but one month ago I was sure Mr. Cleveland was the man. If Cleveland was pursuing a new policy toward Canada temporarily only and for the sake of obtaining popularity and continuation of his office four years more, but intends to cease his policy when his re-election is secured in November and again favor England's interest, then I should have no further doubts, but go forward and vote for him. I know of no one better able to direct me, sir, and I most respectfully ask your advice in the matter. I will further add that the two men, Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Harrison, are very evenly matched, and a few votes may elect either one. Mr. Harrison is a high-tariff man, a believer on the American side of all questions, and undoubtedly an enemy to British interests generally. This State is equally divided between the parties, and a mere handful of our naturalized countrymen can turn it either way. When it is remembered that a small State (Colorado) defeated Mr. Tilden in 1876 and elected Hayes, the Republican, the im portance of California is at once apparent to all. As you are at the fountain head of knowledge on the question, and know whether Mr. Cleveland's present policy is temporary only, and whether he will, as soon as he secures another term of four years in the Presidency, suspend it for one of friendship and free trade, I apply to you privately and confidentially for information, which shall in turn be treated as entirely secret. Such information would put me at rest myself, and if favorable to Mr. Cleveland, enable me, on my own responsibility, to assure many of our countrymen that they would do England a service by voting for Cleveland and against the Republican system of tariff. As I before observed, we know not what to do, but look for more light on a mysterious subject, which the sooner it comes will better serve true Englishmen in casting their votes. SIR: I am in receipt of your letter of the 4th instant, and beg to say that I fully appreciate the difficulty in which you find yourself in casting your vote. You are probably aware that any political party which openly favored the mother country at the present moment would lose popularity, and that the party in power is fully aware of this fact. That party, however, is, I believe, still desirous of maintaining friendly relations with Great Britain, and is still as desirous of settling all questions with Canada which have been unfortunately re-opened since the rejection of the treaty by the Republican majority in the Senate and by the President's message, to which you allude. Allowance must, therefore, be made for the political situation as regards the Presidential elec tion thus created. It is, however, plainly impossible to predict the course which President Cleveland may pursue in the matter of retaliation should he be elected; but there is every reason to believe that, |