[CHAPTER 832-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7828] AN ACT For the relief of John Sweeney. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purposes of all laws of the United States and all regulations thereunder, John Sweeney, of Paris, Tennessee, shall be deemed to be, and to have been since his birth, a citizen of the United States. Approved, December 24, 1942. To smend section 24 of the Immigration Art of February & 18 Be it enacted by the Senate 2nd House & Rimanestina ** zie United States of Americo in Congress assemblad. That the sord paragraph of section 24 of the Immigration As of February À 1917 (Stat. 8:31, as amended (U. S. C., title & sea 18, be amended to read as follows: Immigrant inspectors shall be divided into fire cases & A w Grade 1. salary $2000: grade 1, salary £2300; grade & salary £10; grade 4, salary $2100: grade 3 salary 8800; and. Servater inspectors shall be promoted sucessrey to gads 2 and 3 at the beginning of the next quarter following one year's sitisÄTET STIP (determined by a standard of enclenty which is to be defined by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Attorney General) in the next lower grade; and to grades 4 and 5 for meritorious service after no less than one years erræ in grades 3 and 4, respectively: Provided tecken. That when of cers, inspectors, or other employees of the Immigration and Natural ization Service are criered to perform duty in a foreign ovunity, de transferred from one station to another, in the United States er in a foreign country, they shall be allowed their traveling exenes in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney Geveral may deem advisable, and they may also be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Attorney General, the expens incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent minor chil dren: their household effects and other personal property, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, and drayage thereof in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940 (34 Stat. 103; U. S. C, title 5. sec. 73c-1). The expense of transporting the remains of such officers, inspectors, or other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a foreign country in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment and preparation for shipment at their posts of duty or at home, are hereby authorized to be paid on the written order of the Attorney General: Prx vided further, That the appropriation of such sum as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act is hereby authorized." Approved, June 20, 1942. [CHAPTER 585-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7152] AN ACT To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens residing abroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter IV of the Nationality Act of 1940, section 409, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 409. Nationality shall not be lost under the provisions of section 404 or 407 of this Act until the expiration of four years following the date of the approval of this Act: Provided, however, That a naturalized person who shall have become subject to the presumption that he has ceased to be an American citizen as provided for in the second paragraph of section 2 of the Act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1228), and who shall not have overcome it under the rules in effect immediately preceding the date of the approval of this Act, shall continue to be subject to such presumption for the period of four years following the date of the approval of this Act unless it is overcome during such period." Approved, October 9, 1942. [CHAPTER 690-2D SESSION] [H. R. 4167] Providing for the naturalization of certain alien veterans of the World War. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a new section is hereby inserted between sections 323 and 324 of the Act entitled "An Act to revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code", approved October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1149): "SEC. 323a. A person who was a member of the military or naval forces of the United States at any time after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, or at any time after April 20, 1898, and before July 5, 1902, or who served on the Mexican Border as a member of the regular Army or National Guard from June 1916, to April 1917, who is not an alien ineligible to citizenship, who was not at any time during such period or thereafter separated from such forces under other than honorable conditions, who was not a conscientious objector who performed no military duty whatever or refused to wear the uniform, and who was not at any time during such period or thereafter discharged from the military or naval forces on account of his alienage, shall, if he has resided in the United States continuously for at least two years pursuant to a legal admission for permanent residence in lieu of the usual five years' residence within the United States and six months' residence within the State of his residence at the time of filing the petition for naturalization, during all of which two-year period he has behaved as a person of good moral character, be entitled at any time within one year after the date of approval of this Act to naturalization upon compliance with all of the requirements of the naturalization laws, except that "(1) no declaration of intention shall be required; "(2) no certificate of arrival shall be required unless such person's admission to the United States was subsequent to March 3, 1924; and "(3) no residence within the jurisdiction of the court shall be required. "Such petitioner shall verify his petition for naturalization by the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses who are citizens of the United States, or shall furnish the depositions of two such witnesses made in accordance with the requirements of subsection (e) of section 327 of the Nationality Act of 1940, to prove the required residence, good moral character, attachment to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and favorable disposition toward the good order and happiness of the United States. On applications filed for any benefits under this Act, the requirement of fees for naturalization documents is hereby waived." Approved, December 7, 1942. |