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PUBLICATION No. 123

NOTICE TO BEARERS

OF PASSPORTS

WARNING.-A naturalized citizen should read carefully Section II and those parts of Sections III or IV which relate to the country of which he was originally a national. Persons born in the United States of alien parents should also read these sections with care.

I. MISCELLANEOUS

INFORMATION OF

GENERAL INTEREST

1. Signature. The signature of the person to whom a passport is issued should be affixed in the places indicated therein immediately upon its receipt. Failure to do so may occasion inconvenience or difficulty in the use of the document.

2. Loss, destruction, or mutilation of passport.-A passport, whether valid or expired, is an important document. It

should not be allowed to pass into the possession of an unauthorized person.

3. The loss, destruction, or mutilation of a valid passport should be reported immediately to the Passport Division, Department of State, Washington, D. C., or to the nearest American consular officer.

4. As a rule, new passports can be issued in such cases only after an exhaustive inquiry.

5. The application for a new passport to replace a valid passport which has been lost, destroyed, or mutilated must be accompanied by a detailed statement of the circumstances under which the passport was lost, destroyed, or mutilated.

6. Passports may be amended to inIclude the American wife and American minor children of the person to whom issued upon the written request of the bearer. The passport agents in Boston, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Seattle have authority to amend passports. Passports may also be amended by American consular officers and, in the absence thereof, by American diplomatic officers; and they

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