BORN AT SEA.
WILL BE AMERICANS IF. SHIP BOUND TO UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON.. July 24. The Immigraljpn Commissioner has ruled that babies born on ships bound to America hereafter will he classed as American citizens. This has upset tin' tradition that a child horn at see. assumes the ship’s nationality, which resulted in several infants being ordered to be deported because the quota was full, do.snite the eligibility of the parents.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9573, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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