The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-15
FOR NEW
CITIZENS
Naturalization Method
to Undergo a
Change.

commissioner General of Immigration
Sargent has advised Governor Carter OF
/ the new naturalization law and method
of naturalizing aliens, to go into effect
| September p, in the following letter
which was given out yesterday by the
Governor for publication:
Department of Commerce and Labor,
Bureau of Immigration and Nat
Washington, July a, 1906.
| The Attorney General, Territory of Ha-
waii Through the Governor), Ho-
nolulu.
Sir: / enclose herewith for your in
formation a copy Of the recent natural
ization act.
Among other things to which your at
tention is particularly invited you viii
observe that for the first time the Fed
eral Government, through an executive
office is charged with the general con-
troll of the naturalization of aliens, and
that in future. as a preliminary, clerks
of courts upon which jurisdiction Is
conferred are required to obtain ali
blank forms and other papers from the
said executive office.
You will also note in paragraph ? of
section 3, that only those courts OF any
state or territory which have a seal,
clerk and jurisdiction III actions at
law or equity, or law and equity, in
which the amount in controversy is I'M
limited can hereafter entertain appi-
cations for naturalization.
The object of this communication is
to request that you advise the courts of
your state that on or after the 9th day
of September. next, their naturalization
jurisdiction ceases unless they come
within the above-mentione terms.
1t is also requested either that you
furnish the Bureau with a list of the
courts of your state, and OF the clerks
thereof, which come within the deflnl-
ton in section 3 of the said act, or
that you inform all of said clerks that
before making requisition for the blank
forms, etc, they must obtain from you,
for transmission TO the Bureau, GER
tificate to the effect that they are clerks
of such courts.
The Bureau respectfully urges that
prompt action be taken in this matter,
for the reason that an act was passed
upon the 29th of June, last, for the
purpose of validating certificates OF
naturalization which had been issued
since the immigration act of March 5,
1903. but which failed to comply with
the requirement in said act. This vail
dation is to be accomplished by the IS
snknce of new certificates of natuEallza-
tibn in lieu of the defective ones; but
such new certificates are to be Identical
with those prescribed by the general
naturalization law, and of course to be
issued under the like conditions and by
the same courts. Doubtless applications
for valid certificates viii be made
shortly after the new law becomes OPP
erative and, to avoid any unnecessary
delay. it Is desired that the courts, and
the clerks thereof, shall be authorlta-
lively designated to the Bureau so that
the necessary blank forms and certlh-
Gates of naturalization may be prompt,
ly forwarded upon the receipt OF the
requisition therefor.
Upon the receipt of this letter will
you be good enough TO make prompt ac-
acknowledgements, in order that the Bu-
reau may know that you have been APP
prised of the provisions of the new
law2 Respectfully,
F. P. SARGENT,
Commissioner General.