Prior to 1896 declarations of intention could be filed in the records of any of the district courts, the Supreme Court, or in the Salt Lake County Probate Court. Since Salt Lake County has been part of the 3rd district since 1856 and part of the lst district from 1851 through 1855, records of these two courts would be most likely to contain citizenship papers of county residents. For other possible sources consult the Research Guide to Naturalization records. Most of the volumes have indices at the beginning. By volume 28, they are only recorded in the composite index.
Entries are alphabetic by the first letter of the petitioner's surname.
The series was microfilmed in 1981 and 1991. Archival processing by A.C. Cone was completed in in 1989. 2, Sept. 4, 1903-Apr. 3, Jan. 3, 1905-Sept.