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VI. Visits of Civil Servants. That it is in the interests of the Imperial Government, and also of the Governments of the oversea Dominions, that visits of selected officers of the respective Civil Services should take place from time to time, with a view to the acquirement of better knowledge for both services with regard to questions affecting the respective Governments. VII. Emigration. Having heard the interesting and explanatory statement from Mr. Burns, resolved, That the present policy of encouraging British emigrants to proceed to British Dominions rather than foreign countries be continued, and that full co-operation be accorded to any Dominion desiring immigrants. VIII. Provision for Desertf;d Wives and Children. That, in order to secure justice and protection for wives and children who have been deserted by their legal guardians either in the United Kingdom or any of the Dominions, reciprocal legal provisions should be adopted in the constituent parts of the Empire in the interests of such destitute and deserted persons. IX Court of Appeal. That, having heard the views of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Haldane, the Conference recommends that the proposals of the Government of the United Kingdom be embodied in a communication to be sent to the Dominions as early as possible. X. Naturalisation. That the Conference approves the scheme of Imperial citizenship, based on the following five propositions : — (1) Imperial nationality should be world-wide and uniform, each Dominion being left free to grant local nationality on such terms as its Legislature thinks fit. (2) The Mother Country finds it necessary to maintain five years as the qualifying period. This is a safeguard to the Dominions as well as to her, but five years anywhere in the Empire should be as good as five years in the United Kingdom. (3) The grant of Imperial nationality is in every case discretionary, and this discretion should be exercised by those responsible in the area in which the applicant has spent the last twelve months. (4) The Imperial Act should be so framed as to enable each selfgoverning Dominion to adopt it. (5) Nothing now proposed would affect the validity and effectiveness of local laws regulating immigration and the like or differentiating between classes of British subjects. XL Uniformity in Law of Accident Compensation. That it is in the best interests of the Empire that there should be more uniformity throughout its centres and dependencies in the law of accident compensation,

June 8. P. 196.

June 9. P. 205.

June 9. P. 2)2.

June 12. P. 243.

June 13. P. 271.

June 13. P. 273.