[Mount Athos]

Actually if you check Houghton M.’s source, there is a small error in his representation of it.

The Times of London does not call kenya the “Republic of Kenya”, and that term isn’t in the article. It said that the opposition leaders were announcing their intent to form a “Kenyan Republic”, and they would summon a leader to become its president.
Which they didn’t...

3 months later, they passed a constitution that made the Queen of England their head of state. They didn’t become a republic, nor have a president, until 15 months after this article was published.

It doesn’t matter really, because BP found that a seperate territory of Kenya outside of Kenyan territorial bounds (coastal province, leased from zanzibar?) considered itself a republic before the country did, and that’s the one in question for this document. Confused yet?

[LouieFisk]

Mount Athos: "It doesn’t matter really, because BP found that a seperate territory of Kenya outside of Kenyan territorial bounds (coastal province, leased from zanzibar?) considered itself a republic before the country did, and that’s the one in question for this document. Confused yet?"

Yeah, I really don't have much of an interest in the minutae of Kenyan territorial history, lol. To me the only important question on this point is "Was it the norm usage for vital stats documents at that time & place?".

If this document is the sole one-of-a-kid exception to a rule, then I think it's a problem. Until we have similiar vital stats docs from that time/place for comparison, we can only speculate.

[Houghton M.]

I DID NOT say that the Times of London called Kenya a republic. Please do not misquote me while claiming to correct me.

[SeattleBruce]

It doesn’t matter really, because BP found that a seperate territory of Kenya outside of Kenyan territorial bounds (coastal province, leased from zanzibar?) considered itself a republic before the country did, and that’s the one in question for this document. Confused yet?
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The Taitz image says “Coastal Province, Republic of Kenya”. So it’s not just that that province considered itself a republic, but for the document to be real, there needed to be something officially identifying itself as the ‘Republic of Kenya.’ Are you saying that province referred to itself as the ‘Republic of Kenya?’