[CHAPTER 446-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 3722]

AN ACT

To amend section 342 of the Nationality Act of 1940 in respect to fees for the issuance of certificates of arrival.

Be ii enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives c* the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection (a) of section 342 of the Nationality Act of 1940, approved October 14. 1940 (54 Stat. 1161: U. S. C., title S. sec. 742 (a be, and it hereby is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 342. (a) The clerk of each and every naturalization court shall charge, collect, and account for the following fees:

(1) For receiving and filing a declaration of intention, and issuing a duplicate and triplicate thereof. $3.

(2) For making, filing, and docketing a petition for naruralization. $3. including the final hearing on such petition, if such hearing be beld, and a certificate of naturalization, if the issuance of such certificate is authorized by the naturalization court.

SEC. 2. Subsection (b) of section 542 of the Nationality Act of 1940, approved October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1261; U. S. C., rite 8. sec. 742 (b)), is hereby amended by striking out subparagraph (2) thereof, which reads as follows: "For the issuance of each certificate of arrival $2.50." and by renumbering subparagraphs (5), (4), (5), (6), (7), (6), and (9) as subparagraphs (5), (5), (4), (2), (ỀN, (7), and (8).

Approved September 28, 1944.

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[CHAPTER 608-2D SESSION]

[S. 963] AN ACT

Relating to the imposition of certain penalties and the payment of detention expenses incident to the bringing of certain aliens into the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 15 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 885; 8 U. S. C. 151), is hereby amended by changing the period after the word "hereof", as it appears in the next to the last sentence of the said section, to a colon, and adding the following: "Provided further, That in cases of aliens who arrive in possession of unexpired visas issued by United States consuls within sixty days of the aliens' foreign embarkation, detention expenses and expenses incident to detention shall not be assessed against the vessel if the sole cause of exclusion is one arising under section 13 (a) (1) or (3) of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 161-162; 50 Stat. 165; 46 Stat. 581; 8 U. S. C. 213_(a)-213 (f).”

SEC. 2. Section 18 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, as amended (39 Stat. 887-889; 45 Stat. 1551; 8 U. S. C. 154), is amended by changing the period after the last word in the second sentence thereof to a comma and adding the following: "except that detention expenses and expenses incident to detention, shall not be assessed against the owner or owners of the vessels on which they respectively came when the aliens are in possession of unexpired visas issued by United States consuls within sixty days of the aliens' foreign embarkation if the sole cause of exclusion is one arising under section 13 (a) (1) or (3) of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 161–162; 50 Stat. 165; 46 Stat. 581; 8 U.S. C. 213 (a)–213 (f)."`

After the word "land" as it appears in the third sentence of this section, which reads: "or to fail to pay the cost of their maintenance while on land", add the following: "as required by this section or section 15 of this Act."

SEC. 3. Subsection (b) of section 16 of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 163; 8 U. S. C. 216 (b)), is hereby amended by substituting a colon for the period after the word "assessed" and inserting the following: "Provided, That no fine nor refund, as provided for in this subsection, nor any expense incident to detention in connection with an application for admission to the United States, shall be assessed or required for bringing into the United States any alien, if such alien holds an unexpired visa issued by a United States consul within sixty days of the alien's foreign embarkation."

SEC. 4. Subsection (a) of section 20 of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 164; 8 U. S. C. 167 (a)), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The Attorney General may, upon application in writing therefor, mitigate such penalty to not less than $200 for each seaman in respect of whom such failure occurs, upon such terms as the Attorney General in his discretion shall think proper. This section, as amended, shall apply to all penalties arising subsequent toJune 5, 1940."

Approved December 19, 1944.

[CHAPTER 410-1ST SESSION]
[H. R. 3466]

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 section 409 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (54 Stat. 1171; 55 Stat. 743; 56 Stat. 779; 58 Stat. 747; 8 U. S. C. 809), 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 six 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 six years following the date of the approval of this Act unless it is overcome during such period."

Approved October 11, 1945.

[CHAPTER 437-1ST SESSION]
[H. R. 390]

AN ACT

To amend section 28 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 28 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 168; U. S. C., title 8, sec. 224 (c)), is hereby amended to read as follows:

(c) The term "ineligible to citizenship', when used in reference to any individual, includes an individual who is debarred from becoming & citizen of the United States under section 303 or 306 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (54 Stat. 1140, 1141; U. S. C., title 8, secs. 703, 706), or section 3 (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended (55 Stat. 845; U. S. C., title 50, App. Supp. III), section 303 (a), or under any law amendatory of, supplementary to, or in substitution for, any such sections;".

Approved October 29, 1945.