performed by a district director, subject to a certain supervision by the District Director in charge of his district.

The sub-district offices are organized similarly to the district offices, except that they are directed by a head naturalization examiner. The staff is usually small, the maximum and exception being four or five employees. In some cases a clerk assists the Head Naturalization Examiner, in others additional examiners are provided, and in still others both.

Ellis Island. A division under direct control of the Bureau at Washington is maintained at Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor, to care for the filling out and forwarding of certificates of arrival for aliens desiring to declare their intention and to petition for naturalization.

This division normally consists of a chief of division assisted by eighteen clerks.

General. The basic duties of the naturalization examiners regardless of assignment" are as follows:

They appear on behalf of the United States Government before courts in naturalization proceedings with the right to examine and cross-examine the petitioner and witnesses produced in support of his right to admission to citizenship and have the right to call witnesses, produce evidence, and be heard in opposition to the granting of any petition in such naturalization proceedings.

These officers, before proceeding to the final hearing of any petition for naturalization, require proof of the posting of the petition format in accordance with law, and in default of such proof, move that the final hearing on such petition be continued pending the submission of such proof of posting.

It shall be the duty of all district directors of naturalization, assistant district directors of naturalization, head naturalization examiners, and naturalization examiners, believing or having reason to believe that any certificate of naturalization has been wrongfully issued or fraudulently, or illegally procured, or that an offense has been committed against the naturalization laws, to immediately investigate or cause to be investigated, all facts and circumstances concerning the issuance of such certificate, or the

"That is, whether serving as district directors, assistant district directors, or head naturalization examiners.

commission of such offense, and report the same in writing to the Commissioner of Naturalization, with appropriate recommendations; Provided, That where such investigation indicates the probable commission of an offense, a duplicate of such report shall be forwarded to the proper United States district attorney."

The Commissioner of Naturalization exercises immediate direction over such work.

18 Naturalization Laws and Regulations, June 15, 1924, Rule 1, Sub-Division B, Par. 6.

APPENDIX I

OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of Outlines of Organization in this series of Monographs is to show in detail the organization and personnel of the several services of the national government to which they relate. They have been prepared in accordance with the plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in its outlines of the organization of the United States government.' They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit.

These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposal. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis of plans for determining costs by organization division and sub-division. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization units of any particular kind, such as, laboratories, libraries, blue-print rooms, or other plants, to what services attached and where located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete

162 Cong., H. doc. 458, 1912, 2 vols.

classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institution so listed and classified.

1. General Administration

SCHEDULE I-BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION

(WASHINGTON, D. C., OFFICES)

'In immediate charge in Bureau of legal work of the Bureau and its

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See also Certificate of Arrival Division, Ellis Island.