[voveo]

They probably, out of exuberance, printed all govt docs with “Republic” as soon as they declared Independence. They sure didn't want to continue with anything that had Britain associated with it. I was just looking at the time-line.

[PowerPro]

Possibly.

A good way to find out would be to find other paperwork from that era and see if it bears the same “Republic” seal at the top.

[Red Steel]

They probably, out of exuberance, printed all govt docs with “Republic” as soon as they declared Independence. They sure didn't want to continue with anything that had Britain associated with it. I was just looking at the time-line.

Yup, that's the most likely scenario.

[djf]

That’s my thinking.

Anything that had Great Britain associated with it could very likely have been destroyed very close to the time of independence.

So even if the “Republic of Kenya” was officially established late 64, they had to have SOMETHING on their paperwork that mentions “Kenya” in some form.

The sequence number at the top of the doc is 495. That’s pretty low, an indication that the forms were recently printed.