The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1906-09-20
Foreigners will Have Hard
Time low Bao0aIirC
Americans
new ACT soon EFFECTIVE
ALIENS WILL NOW HAVE TO GO
THROUGH Red TAPE PROCEED
lNGS TO BECOME CITIZENS OF
AMERICA.

The new act Of the recent congress-
establishing 4 bureau of Immigration
and naturalization ANA providing for
uniform rule for the Naturalization
Of aliens throughout the United States
will become effective ON Seplemboe
20, Saturday week
After that date it will be ienrol
harder for a foreigner TO become a
citizen of this country than it is nj
present 1He new system is a radical
departure from the system applied by
the act of 1903, under which aliens
are now being permitted.
Clerks OF courts having jurisdiction
to naturalizd aliens, and others con-
cerned, are receiving copies OF the
new law. Accompanying his copy the
bureau Of NATURALIZATION of the de
partment of commefce and labor is
mailing out rulp$ and regulation r..
lating to the enforcement of the nat.
uralization laws. Copies of The act
and instructions were received by
the proper authorities in Brunswick
yestordayq:
Those With Jurisdiction.
jurisdiction to naturalize aliens is
conferred ufon United States circuit
and district courts in any state in
the United States district courts for
the territories Of Arizona, New Mex
leo, Oklahoma, Hawaii and Alaska,
the supreme court Of the district e
Columbia and the United States
court for the Indian territory; also
all the courts of record OF any state
or territory having a seal, a clerk
and jurisdiction in actions at law or
equity.
These courts shall, upon requis1.
tion Of their clerks, be furnished by
the bureau of immigration and natuI
alizationi with such blank forms as
may be required in the naturaliza.
ton of aliens, and they shall be con,
| secutiVely numbered Heretofore,
while there was a fixed form proyd-
ed by the federal statute, the clerks
of each court had them printed at
the expense of the county, and no
return on them was made to the nat
ional government
Under the nsH law when an alien,
who has declared hjs intention 10
/ become citizen of the United States
dies before he is actually uaturai2ed
the WIDOW and minor children of the
alien may, by complying with the
provisions Of the law, b. naturalized
without making any declaration Of IN
1 tention.
This is a new wrinkle tmmcdiat u
after the filing Of a petition to be.
come citizen the clerk shall give
notice thereof by posting in a pubic
place under an appropriate heading
the name, nativity and residence Of
the alien, and date and pace OF his
arrival in the United States. and the
date as nearly as possible for the
final hearing of the petition; the nam
cant expects tNsummon n his beHalr
), Ninety days mast elapse between tbe
posting Of theI application ana the
signing of the hecrec.
Petition for naturalization may be
filed during tIe terT line Or vaca-
shall s'SI be had FS<tated rys. Enter
prising politicians and henchmen
must needs get in thier work long be
fore election time else they are cut
off, for the act provides Provide
that no person shall be paturalized
nor shall any certificate oAnaturali2a
ton be issued by any cdIrt within
thirty days preceding the holding ol
any general election within its terri
toriaI jurisdiction
} The act excludes all aliens "waf
cannot speak the English language,
ana then adds a proyiso THAT thi:
requirement shall not agplyIto alien
who are physically unable y comply
herewith, If they are Otherwise quai
flied 10 become citizens Of tn Unite.
r States The provisions Of tbs act d
q not apply to any alien who las prie,
= 10 the passage Of it acc bred hi
intention to become a citizd IN cor
/ formity with the law then In force