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60TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
.18t Session. No. 428.
CONFIRMING PRIOR ADMISSIONS TO CITIZENSHIP IN
CERTAIN CASES, ETC.
MA.cH 27, 1908.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. HEYBURN, from the Committee on Immigration, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 388]
The Committee on Immigration, to whom was refrred the bill (S.
388) to confirm and legalize prior admissions to c tizenship of the
United States where the judge or clerk of the court administering the
oath to the applicant or his witness has failed to sign or seal the
record, oath, or the judgment of admission and to establish a proper
record of such citizenship, has considered the same and recommends
its passage with certain amendments.
This same bill was introduced in the Fifty-seventh Congress and
favorably reported April 24, 1902. At that time no written report
was submitted, but Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
made the following verbal report:
Perhaps before the bill is read Senators may catch the purport of it better if I
make a simple statement. A considerable number of persons were naturalized by
Territorial courts where all the necessary requisites for naturalization were complied
with, but the certificates of the clerk of the court are defective in form. The court
has gone out of existence, so that it now can not amend its record or make a certifi-
cate nunc pro tunc. Of those thus naturalized a few have taken up land, which
they could only do if they were citizens, and all are entitled to vote. This bill,
which was drawn by direction of my honorable friend from North Dakota, provides
that there may be a hearing before a United States court, and if the judge finds that
the requisites were in fact complied with, notwithstanding the defect of the certificate,
he may so adjudge. It makes a general bill for all like cases.
The bill was favorably considered and passed, but failed of passage
in the House. The bill was reintroduced in the Fifty-ninth Congress
and favorably reported, but no written report was submitted.
On December 18, 1906, when the bill came up in the Senate, Senator
McCumber made the following statement as to the purport of the bill
and its object:
When we (in the Territory of North Dakota, now State of North Dakota) had our
political judges and clerks during Territorial days, the records were not always kept
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