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- nae : a ri” . : . vets . ~ te wn Le nt : so Jere. ee oa ee a ee are ee ee eee Mr. ASHLEY J. NICHOLAS, Assistant to Hi G SIGHT, Director, Passport Office, advised SA on 2/12/58, that the period of exchanging new passports Tor the then valid old (red) passports took about one year, Wo and that the new (green) passports given to holders of valid (red) passports were issued without regard to passport number, That is, if a holder had old (red) passport number 123456, issued 12/1/39, originally valid to 12/1/41, and he Presented it for reseval on 11/1/41, he would have been issued a new (green) passport, valid for the remainder of the initial validity period of his old (red) passport. At the time of issuance of this new replacement passport, no regard rsiA laa rein Pe Attn ne ue aes +hn sau would vu gi ¥ eu Ppasspor t gui. wer S; hb Wh laos TENS Wo» Lille WC replacement would not carry the same serial number as the old. In addition, Mr. NICHOLAS pointed out that serial numbers of passports are changed every time there is a change in the Secretary of State. With the succecsion of a new appointment to that office, the passport numbers start again with the number one, This system permits more than one passport being issued with the same number, because they were issued at different dates, under different regimes of Secretaries of State. In the light of the forego it is seen that inquiry along the lines suggested in a : i wi (s)