NATURALIZATION REGULATIONS.

These Regulations supersede those of August 22, 1917. Department of Labor,

Office of the Secretary.

Washington, November 23, 1917.

1. Since September 26, 1906, naturalization jurisdiction of State courts is confined to such as have "a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited."

2. Any alien who prior to September 27, 1906, has declared his intention in conformity with the law in force at the date of his declaration, shall not be required to renew such declaration.

This regulation has been rescinded by the Department,

3. Aliens who lawfully declared their intention on and after June 29, 1906, and prior to September 27, 1906, must comply with all of the requirements of the naturalization act of June 29, 1906, in petitioning for naturalization, with the exception that those arriving prior to June 29, 1906, are not required to furnish certificates of arrival.

Aliens who declared their intention prior to June 29, 1906, in accordance with the requirements of law, must comply with all of the requirements of the naturalization act of June 29, 1906, in petitioning for naturalization, except that they will not be required to file certificates of arrival, sign their petitions in their own handwriting, or to speak the English language.

4. Any alien who declares his intention after June 29, 1906, and files his petition thereon, must sign said petition in his own handwriting and must be able to speak the English language, unless excepted by the provisos in section eight of the naturalization act. If an alien is physically unable to speak, that fact should be stated in his petition in lieu of the statment, "I am able to speak the English language." Aliens who arrive in the United States before reaching 18 years of age can not obtain citizenship without making declaration of intention, which may be made in a court having naturalization jurisdiction over the place of their established residence after reaching that age.

Regulations 5, 6, 7 and 8, are instructions to clerks of courts on blanks to use and books to keep. Not important to aliens.

9. No certificate of naturalization shall be issued to a petitioner until after the judge of the court granting naturalization has signed the order to that effect.

Regulations 10, 11 and 12 are instructions to clerks of court regarding books and blanks and their reports to the Bureau. Not important to aliens.

13. Where the same court holds sessions at different places, whether a clerk is appointed at each of said places or the one clerk is required to transact the business of the court wherever it may sit, separate supplies shall be kept, in order to comply with the requirements of section 14 of the naturalization act, which provides that the bound declarations of intention and of petitions for naturalization shall be in chronological order.

14. In every case in which the name of a naturalized alien is changed by order of court, as provided in section 6, the clerk of the court is required to report both the original and the new name of the said person to the Bureau of Naturalization when transmitting to it the duplicate of the certificate of naturalization of the alien whose name is changed.

15. On the first working day of each month the clerk shall inform the Bureau of Naturalization on Form 2209 of the date of posting notice on Form 2206, as required by section 5, and of the day, month, and year, as near as may be, for the final hearing of each and every petition for naturalization filed and posted during the preceding month. These reports on Form 2209 must specify only the petitions filed in the month to which the report relates and no others. In continued cases notice on Form 2206 must be amended to show the postponed date and remain posted until final action is had.

16. On the first working day of each month following the sitting of a court in naturalization cases the clerk of such court shall forward to the Bureau of Naturalization on Form 2210 a list containing the name of each and every alien who, during such sitting of court, has been denied

naturalization and shall state the reason or reasons for such denial.

17. Application for lost or destroyed naturalization papers issued prior to September 27, 1906, should be disposed of in accordance with the rules in force in the court at the time of the issuance of the papers.

The following rule applies exclusively to naturalization papers issued since September 26, 1906.

Applications for the issuance of declarations of intention (Form 2203) or certificates of naturalization (Form 2207), in lieu of declarations of intention or certificates of naturalization claimed to have ben lost or destroyed, shall be submitted in affidavit form to the clerk of the court by which any such declarations of intention or certificates of naturalization were originally issued, and shall contain full information in regard to the lost or destroyed papers, and as to the time, place and circumstances of such alleged loss or destruction. (Form 2225 prepared for this purpose may be obtained from the clerk of any naturalization court.) The clerk shall forward to the Bureau of Naturalization the above mentioned applications, together with such information as he may have bearing upon the merits thereof, for investigation, and no such paper so applied for shall be issued until the Bureau of Naturalization reports the results of its investigation as to the merits of the application.

In every case in which the clerk of the court issues, in accordance with the foregoing, a declaration of intention (Form 2224) or a certificate of naturalization (Form 2207), upon proof of the loss or destruction of the original, he shall make an entry on the original declaration showing the issuance of a certified copy, or on the stubs of both the new and the old certificates of naturalization, showing the issuance of a new certificate, giving the numbers of the new and old certificates, and shall immediately thereafter forward to the Bureau of Naturalization the duplicate of any such paper so issued.

One certified copy of declaration of intention (Form 2215) or certificate of naturalization (Form 2216) may be furnished by the clerk of the issuing court under his hand and the seal of the court for the use only of the person concerned to establish his citizenship status in connection with any

entry under the public land laws of the United States. When issued these forms must be made in duplicate, one to be given to the person applying therefor and the duplicate forwarded with other naturalization papers on the first working day of the succeeding month to the Bureau of Naturalization. Unless the applicant presents to the clerk his original declaration or certificate for comparison, these forms can under no conditions be issued. In case the alien makes a second land entry he may support his second entry by describing the first land claim with which his declaration or certificate is filed.

The fees to be collected for the issuance of each of the copies of declarations of intention and of certificates of naturalization described in this regulation, and the disposal to be made of such fees when collected, will be determined in accordance with the law and the rules in force in the respective courts. No part of these fees is required to be forwarded to this Department. Clerks are, however, required to make quarterly reports, on Form 2217, on the first working day of January, April, July, and October, of the number of such papers issued during the preceding quarter.

18. Original declarations of intention, or certificates of naturalization, issued subsequent to September 26, 1906, and surrendered to the General Land Office in support of entries upon public land, may be returned upon proper application. In cases of declarations of intention the clerk will forward the application to the Bureau of Naturalization, accompanied by a certified copy on Form 2215. In cases of certificates, the application will be accompanied by a personal description of the applicant. In both instances, a description of the land should be included, giving the section, township, and range, together with the date and place of making the entry. The originals will then be procured from the General Land Office and returned to the clerk of the court.

19. For recording the affidavits of substituted witnesses under section 5, of the Act of June 29, 1906, blank forms (Form 2218) have been prepared as pasters to be affixed to the backs of petitions in the bound volume, following the "Order of court admitting petitioner." Copies of this form may be procured by the usual requisition (Form 2201).

Do not send copies of this form to the Bureau of Naturalization.

20. Aliens making declaration of intention, or filing petitions for naturalization, must sign their names in full and without abbreviation in the appropriate places on the various blank forms, and the entries of their names by the clerk must correspond in every particular. Where a name contains an initial which is used only to distinguish one individual from another with the same surname that fact should be noted on the paper.

21. Clerks of courts shall not receive declarations of intention (Form 2202) or file petitions for naturalization (Form 2204) from other aliens than white persons and persons of African nativity or of African descent.

Any alien, other than a Chinese person, who claims that he is a white person in the sense in which that term is used in section 2169, R. S., U. S., should be allowed, if he insists upon it after an explanation is made showing him the risk of denial, to file his declaration or his petition, as the case may be, leaving the issue to be determined by the court.

Declaration should not be received from, nor petitions for naturalization filed by, persons not residing in the judicial district within which the court is held.

Regulations 22 and 23 are instructions to clerks of court regarding blanks and reports of fees collected. Not interesting to aliens.

24. (a) Where a petition for naturalization is filed under section 2166, R. S., U. S., exempting honorably discharged soldiers from the necessity for filing declarations of intention and proving more than one year of residence in the United States in addition to good moral character, insert in lieu of the information regarding declaration of intention: "Petitioner is an honorably discharged soldier and applies for citizenship under section 2166, R. S., U. S. He enlisted in the (name of organization) on the (day, month, and year)." (Complete the petition according to paragraph (d) of this rule.)

(b) Where an alien files his petition for naturalization under the act of July 26, 1894, and claims exemption from the necessity for filing a declaration of intention on account of service in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, the