The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-14
EXECUTIVE CONTROL
OF NATURALIZATION
INSTRUCTIONS GROWING OUT OF
THE NEW LAW ARE SENT OUT
TO GOVERNOR CARTER.

Governor Carter has been notified by
the Department of Commerce and
Labor of the provisions of the new ma
turalization act and is supplied with
instructions as to applying it here. The
act las shown by an abstract publish
ed some time ago, makes many impor-
tant changes in the methods of ma
turalizing aliens. The letter of notif-
cation is as follows:
"The Attorney General, Territory of
Hawaii( through the GovernoD,
Honolulu
"Sir:-I enclose herewith for your
information copy Of the recent natu-
ralization act
among other things to which your
attention is particularly invited you
will observe that for the first time the
Federal government, through an exc
cutive office is charged with the gen.
eral control of the naturalization Of
aliens, and that in future las a preli-
minary, clerks of courts upon which
jurisdiction is conferred are required to
obtain all blank forms and other pa
pers from the said executive office.
you will also note i'm paragraph 2
of Section g. that only those courts Of
any state or territory which have a
| SEAL clerk, and jurisdiction i'm actions
at law or equity, or law and equity, in
which the amount in controversy is I'M
limited can hereafter entertain appli-
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 natura-
lization jurisdiction ceases unless they
come within the aforementioned 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 defini-
tion in section of the said act, or that
you inform all of said clerks that before
making requistion for the blank forms
| etc, they must obtain from you, for
Transmission to the Bureau, a certificate
to the effect that they are clerk of such
courts
! "The bureau respectfully urges that
prompt action be taken i'm this matter,
for the reason that an act was passed
upon the 29th of June, last, for the
purpose of validating certificates of ma
| turalization which had been issued
since the immigration act of March g.
/ 1903 but which failed to comply with
! the requirement in said act. This
| valuation is to be accomplished by the
| issuance of new certificates of naturali-
Zatiop 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
I issued under the like conditions and by
| the same courts. Doubtless applica-
! tfons for valid certificates will be made
shortly after the new law becomes
| operative and, to avoid any unneces-
sary delay, it is desired that the courts
and the clerks thereof, shall be au-
| thoritatively designated to the Bureau
so that the necessary blank forms and
certificates of naturalization may be
promptly forwarded upon the receipt
of the requisition therefor.
Upon the receipt of this letter you
will be good enough to make prompt
| acknowledgment, in order that the
Bureau may know that you have been
/ apprised of the provisions of the new
| law. Respectfully,
! "F. p. SERGEANT,
Commissioned General"