legation in the country in which the consulate is situated and to the Secretary of State at intervals and under regulations to be prescribed by him. No fee will be charged for registration nor for any service connected therewith, nor for certificates of registration. This paragraph shall go into effect July 1, 1907. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, April 8, 1907. NATURALIZATION REGULATIONS. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, Washington, October 2, 1906. 1. On and after September 27, 1906, declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States shall be filed with the clerks of such state courts only 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. Declarations of intention made prior to September 27, 1906, before clerks of courts having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens under the provisions of the law existing at the time such declarations were made, may be used in lieu of the declarations required by the act of June 29, 1906, at any time after the expiration of two years from the date when made. 3. Aliens who have made declarations of intention prior to September 27, 1906, under the provisions of law in force at the time of making such declarations, cannot be required, as a preliminary to filing their petitions for naturalization, to file new declarations of intention under the act of June 29, 1906; nor are such aliens required, as a condition precedent to naturalization, to speak the English language. 4. Aliens who make the declaration of intention required by law prior to September 27, 1906, unless they can be naturalized before that date under the laws then in force, must comply with the requirements of the act of June 29, 1906, in regard to the filing of petitions for naturalization and furnishing proof, except that they will not be required to speak the English language or to sign petitions in their own handwriting. 5. Declarations of intention will be furnished in bound volumes (Form 2202, 2202A, or 2202B), as a court record, varying in size according to the amount of such business transacted by the court. In addition to the bound records, the duplicate and triplicate declarations of intention (Form 2203) will be furnished as loose sheets attached together and perforated, so that they can be readily torn apart, the triplicate to be given to the petitioner and the duplicate to be forwarded to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization). Each bound record will consist of the original declarations of intention, paged in consecutive order and indexed. These volumes are to be numbered and will form a permanent record of the court. 6. The original of the petitions for naturalization will also be furnished in bound volumes (Form 2204, 2204A or 2204B) of varying size, paged in consecutive order and indexed. The duplicate petitions (Form 2205) will be furnished as loose sheets and must be forwarded to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization) within thirty days after execution. The original petitions for naturalization must be filled out and signed in the bound volumes, and remain as a part of the permanent records of the office in which filed. 7. Certificates of naturalization (Form 2207) will be supplied in bound volumes consisting of original and duplicate certificates and stubs. Each original and duplicate certificate and the stub will be given the same serial number, the stub to the original certificate bearing a page number in addition to its serial number. Each book will bear a volume number, and the volume number and page of the stub must be given on the face of the certificate. The original certificate will be given to the petitioner in accordance with the final order of the court, and the duplicate shall be forwarded to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization) by registered mail within thirty days after the issu ance of the original, the stub to the original constituting a part of the permanent records of the court. 8. 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. 9. Clerks of courts will be furnished with requisition blanks (Form 2201) on which are listed, by number and title, all blank forms, including record and order books, to be used in the naturalization of aliens, and these forms must be obtained exclusively from the Department of Commerce and Labor (Division of Naturalization), none other being official. Manila envelopes or jackets (Form 2211) will be furnished to clerks in which to place the triplicate declaration of intention or the original certificate of naturalization before delivering them to the person making the declaration or to the person naturalized. 10. The first supply of blank forms will be furnished upon the written application of the clerks of courts having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, accompanied, in the case of clerks of state courts, by authoritative evidence (preferably the certificate of the attorney-general of the state) that the courts of which such clerks are officers 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." Subsequent supplies of such blank forms will be furnished the clerks of courts having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens upon the receipt by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization) of requisitions made on Form 2201. 11. Clerks of courts when first making applications to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization) for supplies of the blank forms required in the naturalization of aliens shall state, as to the two years next preceding the date of such application, the number of declarations of intention filed with them and the number of orders of naturalization made by their courts, respectively. 12. All applications for supplies of certificates of naturalization (Form 2207) should be accompanied by a statement of the number, if any, of certificates of naturalization issued by the clerks of courts making such applications since June 1, 1903, if such certificates failed to comply with the requirements of the Immigration Act of March 3, 1903. 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 clerks of courts are required to report to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization), when transmitting to it the duplicate of the certificate of naturalization of the alien whose name is changed, both the original and the new name of the said person. 15. Within thirty days after posting the notice (Form 2206) required by Section 5 of the Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906, the clerk shall inform the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (Division of Naturalization), on Form 2209, of the date, as near as may be, for the final hearing of each and every petition for naturalization. 16. 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 been lost or |