Exercise of Secretary of State may be exercised by him throughout the powers of Secretary dominions of Her Majesty, and such powers and jurisdiction of State executive or chief may also be exercised by any of the following officers, in this authority. Act referred to as the chief executive authority, within their respective jurisdictions; that is to say, Appeal from Court of Admir alty. Indemnity to officers. Indemnity to Secretary of (1.) In Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant or other the chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being, or the chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant: (2.) In Jersey by the Lieutenant Governor : (3.) In Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the dependent (4.) In the Isle of Man by the Lieutenant Governor : A copy of any warrant issued by a Secretary of State or by any officer authorised in pursuance of this Act to issue such warrant in Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man Ishall be laid before Parliament. 27. An appeal may be had from any decision of a Court of Admiralty under this Act to the same tribunal and in the same manner to and in which an appeal may be had in cases within the ordinary jurisdiction of the Court as a Court of Admiralty. 28. Subject to the provisions of this Act providing for the award of damages in certain cases in respect of the seizure or detention of a ship by the Court of Admiralty no damages shall be payable, and no officer or local authority shall be responsible, either civilly or criminally, in respect of the seizure or detention of any ship in pursuance of this Act. 29. The Secretary of State shall not, nor shall the chief executive authority, be responsible in any action or other legal chief exe- proceedings whatsoever for any warrant issued by him in pursuance of this Act, or be examinable as a witness, except State or cutive authority. at his own request, in any Court of justice in respect of the circumstances which led to the issue of the warrant. Interpretation Clause. tion of 30. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the Interpretafollowing terms have the meanings herein-after respectively terms. assigned to them; that is to say, state: "Foreign state" includes any foreign prince, colony, pro- "Foreign vince, or part of any province or people, or any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province or people: 66 service: Military service" shall include military telegraphy and "Military any other employment whatever, in or in connexion with any military operation : "Naval service" shall, as respects a person, include service "Naval as a marine, employment as a pilot in piloting or direct- service: " vateer or ship under letters of marque: "United Kingdom" includes the Isle of Man, the Channel "United Islands, and other adjacent islands: Kingdom:" posses99 "British possession" means any territory, colony, or place "British being part of Her Majesty's dominions, and not part of sion: the United Kingdom, as defined by this Act: "The Secretary of State" shall mean any one of Her "The SecMajesty's Principal Secretaries of State: retary of State:" "The Governor" shall as respects India mean the Governor General or the governor of any presidency, and where a British possession consists of several constituent colonies, mean the Governor General of the whole possession or the Governor of any of the constituent colonies, and as respects any other British possession it shall mean the officer for the time being administering the government of such possession; also any person acting for or in the capacity of a governor shall be included under the term "Governor": "Court of Admiralty" shall mean the High Court of Admiralty of England or Ireland, the Court of Session of Scotland, or any Vice-Admiralty Court within Her Majesty's dominions : Ship" shall include any description of boat, vessel, floating battery, or floating craft; also any description of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery, made to move either on the surface of or under water, or sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under water: "Building" in relation to a ship shall include the doing any act towards or incidental to the construction of a ship, and all words having relation to building shall be construed accordingly: Equipping" in relation to a ship shall include the furnishing a ship with any tackle, apparel, furniture, provisions, arms, munitions, or stores, or any other thing which is used in or about a ship for the purpose of fitting or adapting her for the sea or for naval service, and all words relating to equipping shall be construed accordingly : Ship and equipment" shall include a ship and everything in or belonging to a ship. "Master" shall include any person having the charge or "Master." command of a ship. Repeal of Acts and Saving Clauses. ment Act. 59 G. 3. c. 31. From and after the commencement of this Act, an Act Repeal of Foreign passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of His late Majesty Enlist King George the Third, chapter sixty-nine, intituled "An Act to prevent the enlisting or engagement of His Majesty's sub- 69. jects to serve in foreign service, and the fitting out or equipping, in His Majesty's dominions, vessels for warlike purposes, without His Majesty's license," shall be repealed: Provided that such repeal shall not affect any penalty, forfeiture, or other punishment incurred or to be incurred in respect of any offence committed before this Act comes into operation, nor the institution of any investigation or legal proceeding, or any other remedy for enforcing any such penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid. to commis 32. Nothing in this Act contained shall subject to forfeit- Saving as ure any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any sioned British Court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recog- ships. foreign nition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed. not to ex persons 33. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be con- Penalties strued to extend to subject to any penalty any person who enters tend to into the military service of any prince, state, or potentate in entering Asia, with such leave or license as is for the time being required tary serby law in the case of subjects of Her Majesty entering into Asia. the military service of princes, states, or potentates in Asia.1 1 "Instructions for the guidance of the Commanders-in-Chief, or the senior officers present, as to the course to be pursued in carrying into effect, and in assisting the civil authorities to carry into effect, the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870," will be found in the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, 1879, p. 141. into mili vice in 59 G. 3. c. 69, s. 12. No. XIII. Short title. Capacity of an alien as to pro perty. NATURALIZATION ACT, 1870. An Act to amend the law relating to the legal condition of Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the legal condition of aliens and British subjects: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Naturalization Act, 1870." Status of Aliens in the United Kingdom. 2. Real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject; and a title to real and personal property of every description may be derived through, from, or in succession to an alien, in the same manner in all respects as through, from, or in succession to a natural-born British subject: Provided,(1.) That this section shall not confer any right on an alien to hold real property situate out of the United Kingdom, and shall not qualify an alien for any office or for any municipal, parliamentary, or other franchise : |