the same when acquired, as hereinbefore authorizeed, to issue and sell the bonds of such city or town pursuant to and in conformity with the provisions of section fifty-five (55) of this act. (As amended, Acts 1911, p. 563. R. S. 1914, Sec. 8921.) SEC. 425. CHAPTER 10. SOLICITING NATURALIZATION. SEC. Election-Alien citizen-Soliciting 426. Declaration fee-Illegal payment, [Acts 1911, page 672. Approved March 6, 1911. In force April 21, 1911.] 425. Election-Alien Citizen Soliciting Declaration. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, political organization, political party or committee of any political party, to pay or offer to pay for any person of foreign birth or alien, the fee charged by the Clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court of any county, or Clerk of the Federal Court when an alien declares his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or to pay or offer to pay to any such alien for his loss of time or traveling expenses or any other expenses when such alien declares his intention to become a citizen of the United States, or in any other way or manner to lend any pecuniary aid or make any promise of anything of value of any kind whatever, directly or indirectly, to any alien in declaring his intention to become a citizen of the United States, to lend any pecuniary aid or to make any promise of value of any kind whatever, directly or indirectly, to any alien in declaring his intention to become a citizen of the United States. (R. S. 1914, Sec. 2585a.) 426. Declaration Fee-Illegal Payment, Etc. 2. The paying of any fee either to the Clerk of the United States Court or the Clerk of the Circuit or Superior Court of the county where any alien may have declared his intention to become. a citizen of the United States by any person or persons or any combination or association of persons or by any political organization or member of any organization of men for political purposes, for the purpose of procuring a certificate for said alien showing him to have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States shall be grounds for a contest of election for the office of any candidate or candidates who may have received the vote of any such alien, and where any petition for contest has been filed, evidence may be introduced upon the hearing of such contest for the purpose of establishing the fact that the fee necessary to be paid at the time of the declaration of his intention by any alien was paid by some other person than himself and for whom said alien voted, and if it appears that any such votes were cast for the contestee in any such contest, such votes shall not be counted for such contestee and if cast with his knowledge or consent, his election shall be declared invalid, and the contestor, if he received the next highest number of legal votes for said office shall be entitled to said office, and it shall in like manner vitiate and invalidate the election of any contestee in any proceeding for the contest of an election when it is shown upon the hearing thereof that any inducement, solicitation or offer of reward or gain shall have been made to any such alien by such contestor or with his knowledge or consent for the purpose of inducing him to declare his intention to become a citizen of the United States for the purpose of voting at any election either general or special. (R. S. 1914, Sec. b.) 427. Penalty. 3. Any person or persons or corporations violating any of the provisions of this Act, shall, on conviction be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than fourteen years. (R. S. 1914, Sec. c.) 3. Exclusive jurisdiction to naturalize aliens as citizens of the United States is hereby conferred upon the following specified courts: United States Circuit and District Courts now existing, or which may hereafter be established by Congress in any State, United States District Courts for the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Hawaii, and Alaska, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and the United States Courts for the Indian Territory; also all courts of record in any State or Territory now existing, or which may hereafter be created, having a seal, a Clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited. That the naturalization jurisdiction of all courts herein specified, State, Territorial, and Federal, shall extend only to aliens resident within the respective judicial districts of such courts. The Courts herein specified shall, upon the requisition of the Clerks of such courts, be furnished from time to time by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization with such blank forms as may be required in the naturalization of aliens, and all certificates of naturalization shall be consecutively numbered and printed on safety paper furnished by said Bureau. (R. S. 1908 and 1914, §9047.) 429. Anarchists and Polygamists Debarred. 7. No person who disbelieves in or who is opposed to organized government, or who is a member of or affiliated with any organization entertaining and teaching such disbelief in or opposition to organized government, or who advocates or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting of killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States, or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character, or who is a polygamist, shall be naturalized or be made a citizen of the United States. (R. S. 1908 and 1914, §9048; 34 U. S. Stat. L. 598.) 8. No alien shall hereafter be naturalized or admitted as a citizen of the United States who can not speak the English language: Provided, That this requirement shall not apply to aliens who are physically unable to comply therewith, if they are otherwise qualified to become citizens of the United States: And provided further, That the requirement of this section shall not apply to any alien who has prior to the passage of this act declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States in conformity with the law in force at the date of making such declaration: Provided further, That the requirements of Section eight shall not apply to aliens who shall hereafter declare their intention to become citizens and who shall make homestead entries upon the public lands of the United States and comply in all respects with the laws providing for homestead entries on such lands. (R. S. 1908 and 1914, §9040; 34 U. S. Stat. L. 599.) 431. Alien Enemies Debarred. 2171. No alien who is a native citizen or subject, or a denizen of any country, state, or sovereignty with which the United States are at war, at the time of his application, shall be then admitted to become a citizen of the United States. (R. S. 1908 and 1914, §9050; R. S. U. S. §2171.) 432. Alien Soldiers and Sailors. 2166. Any alien, of the age of twenty-one years, and upward, who has enlisted, or may enlist, in the armies of the United |