New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-11
WHAT PASSPORT IS, AND HOW TO GET ONE.

WHAT A PASSPORT Is. AND HOW TO GET ONE
Citizens of the United states going abroad should
not fail 10 secure passports They may be had OF the
Government for the asking, the only necessary ex-
pense being the rs cents 81 which the notary may
properly charge for swearing the applicant passport
is simply letter of the Secretary Of the United states
anybody and everybody In foreign lands requesting
that the bearer be alO we'd TO go unmoested III Is
printed paper bearing the watermark ana seal OF the
Department State with space for the insertion Of the
proper names and dates The letter is accompanied by
pen and description Of the individual who bears IT,
and should also be signed by him.
Passports are by the Government only to its
own citizens native or naturalized. The application
must be supported by proof Of citizenship The oath Of
allegiance the United States prescribed By law re-
qured IN all cases. When the applicant is native citi-
zen OF the United States he must transmit affidavit OF
the fact signed by himself aud giving his age and place
birth This must be attested by other citizen OF
United named therein, to whom the applicant
IA personally known, and 10 the best OF whose
knowledge and belief the declaration made by him is
truc The affidavit must he also attested by notary
public under his seal and signature Of office When there
notary convenient the affidavit may be made be-
fore justice Of the peace other officer authorized TO
administer Oaths If the applicant be naturazed eiti-
he must transmit his certificate of naturalization for
inspection. and must state under oath that he is the
identical person described in the certificate presented
The wife widow OF naturazed citizen II desiring to
travel without her husband must transmit the natural
lzaon ceri1nCate or her nusDaDd S unuer odJn thdt
such wife widow. The children of naturalized
clifton, II desiring TO travel without the father, must
transmit the fathers certificate Of naturalization, affirm
ing under oath that they such children, aud were
nnors at the time Of such naturalization.
When the applicant is to be accompanied by bis wife,
children or servants it is sufficient to give the
and ages of such persons Husband, wife, and MINOR
children expecting TO travel together may take pass
port for party If the children, whether male or fe
male above the legal age they must make appica-
ton in their for separate passports must
any other persons the party The disregard of this
rule often causes applicants much inconvenience. If
wife COOS abroad alone the application and oath of the
husband will not The woman must do her own
swearing.
50 many of those who are daily leaving shore
perplexed by the question 4" How TO get passport"
that few hints and suggestions may be of Those
who wish passports should set about in time If one has
sufficient TO write TO Washington and await reply
he may send to the State Department for blank appl
cation and Instructions" This will put him in posses
sion all needful information He may take them 10
notary puble make OATH and send back to the Depart
tneDt for passport. But the preliminary application
for forms is necessary, if one is pressed for time
one IA native citizen, he has simply to take some friend
who can swear his citizenship, 60 to notary pubic
or passport agent who has the proper blanks on hand
make required adavits tell the notary where he de-
rs his passport sent and have him put the address on
the application. II the applicant is naturalzed czen
he need not take any friend with him. as his naturaiza
ton paper is sufficient The applicant should be sure TO
have this paper sent with his application, and also to
have the address his notary his written on the
snplication The neglect of this simple, cOmmonsense
duty is often the cause OF much delay to applicants
HoTARIAL CREED.
The rapacity Of notares in connection with the pass
mort business deserves some notice. Applicants cannot
Inc too cautious how they suffer themselves TO be cheated
v them as many OF them get rich from their exorbtant
exactons from ignorant customers charge OF 81 for
earing each applicant much as any notary should
maize Five dollars is the usual charge. when the
notary fills the paper and makes the application MIN
salt Yet some of those men have sometimes the
gontery to charge $40 SIS for the passport they
urooure proper way to avoid this extortOn Is 10 re-
fuse 20 nav it, The notary may then represent that the
state Department imposes tax Of s. on every passport
tssued and may show statement TO that effect on
the bottom Of last years edition OF passport Dlauks
But IT may be replied by act OF Congress the tax OF IS
abolished the 1s Of October 1870, and all moneys
received by the Bureau since that time have been re-
turned No fee whatever, not postage stamp, is
exacted by the State Department; and If the notary
PERSISTS the applicant should 90 TO some one else The
ppicant should to it that the notary puts his sigma
ture and seal Office to the application, and should sign
his own name legby The applicant should also be sure
that his personal description is not caricature 1t Is
NOT perhars an easy matter describe in 10 or ~
words; but STILL what is attempted in that direction
,nay be done ia entire harmony with reason and the
revelations Of physiology.
NAruRALIZYD AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD
The status of naturaized citizens abroad Is question
NJ at interest to the hundreds who returning daily
IN visit their mother country. The United States has
concluded treaties regulating the rights of persons who
have emjgrated from the dominions OF Of the con-
tracing parties and have been naturazed in those OF
the other with the following powers: Austria and Hun
gary Baden Bavaria, Belgium Great Britain, Hesse
Darmsadf Mexico, the North German Union, and Wurt-
eberg These treaties provide in general that subjects
OF these powers respectively, who have become natural
lied citizens OF the United States and who have resided
uninerruptedly within the United States for five years.
shall be held 10 be and treated citizens Of the United
States The treaties with Belgium and Great Britain do
not require residence OF i've years within the United
States recognize citizenship where under our laws
IL has been acquired after a shorter period.
The exceptions 10 the requisition OF five years. resi-
dence under our laws That Of soldiers who have
been honoraby discharged from the armies OF the United
States Such persons, years Of and upward may
be naturszed without any previous declaration Of nten
ZION TO become citizens, and without being required 10
proys moro than one years residence In the United
states previous 70 their application This exception was
made lawful by Of Congress, July IT, 1884, There
Is an erroneous impression prevalent TO some extent
that the mere Of and discharge operate as
naturalization whereas they only part of the evil
dence on which naturalization may be granted 2. The
children OF parents duly naturalized, being under
years Of age at the time that their parents are 80 natural
lied are IL dwelling within the United States considered
as citizens Act OF April H. 1901 Persons born out
OF the United States whose fathers at tho time Of such
pirtb. citizens Of the United Satesi and Women