The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-05-24
HOW TO ANSWER
REGISTRATION
QUESTIONS


are set out below with detailed infor-
nation to help you answer them.
All answers will be written on the
Registration Card in ink by the Reg
istrar, who should be careful to spell
all names correctly and to write
legibly.
I. Name in full. Age in years, -
This means all your names spelled
out in full.
State your age today in years only.
Disregard additional months or days.
Be prepared to say 49, or 25", not
''19 yrs. 3 mos" or the like.
2 Home address.
This means the place where you
have your permanent home, not the
place where you work. Be prepared
to give the address in this way: 1892
Main Street, Chicago. Cook County
Illinois," that is, give number and
name of street first. then town. then
county and State.
3. Date of birth.
Write your birthday (month. day
and year, on a piece of paper before
going TO the Registrar, and give the
paper TO him the first thing. Example:
August 5. 1894"
If you do not remember the year,
start to answer as you would if some
one asked you your birthday, as
august s." Then say "on my birth
day this year l will be (or was)"
year old" The Registrar will then
fill in the year of birth Many peo-
pie do not carry in mind the year
they were born. This may be obtain
ed by the Registrar by subtracting
the age in years on this years birth
day from 1917
4. Are you (D a naturai-born citizen,
(2) naturaIized citizen; (3) an
alien; (4) or have you declared your
intention to become citizen (specify
which,?
Q) If you were born in the Unit
ed States including Alaska and
Hawaii. you are a natural born citi-
zen, no matter what may have been
the citizenship or nationality of your
Rico. you are a citizen of the United
States, unless you were born of alien
parentage. If you were born abroad,
you are still a citizen of the United
States if your father was a citizen of
the United States at the time you
were born. unless you have expatri-
ated yourself.
t2) You are a naturaiized citizen
IL you have completed your NATURAL.
zation; that is. if you have taken
final papers" But you are not a
citizen if you have only declared
your intention to become a citizen
tthat is, If you have only taken out
first papers"); in the latter case you
are only a ''declarant."
You are also naturalized citizen
If, although foreign born, your father
or surviving parent became fully nat.
uralized while you were under 21
years of age, and if you came to the
United States under 81.
f3) You are deelarant if, altho
citizen or subject of some foreign
country, you have declared on oath
before naturalization court your in
tention to become a citizen OF the
United States. Receipt from the
clerk of the court of the certified copy
OF such declaration Is often called
taking out first papers," You are
not a declarant if your first paper was
taken out after September 26, 1906
and is more than Z years old.
tDYou are an alien if you do not
fall within one of the three classes
above mentioned.
5. Where were you born?
First name the town. then the State
then the country, as Columbus:
ohio;' vienna, Austria" Paris.
France" Sofia. Bulgaria"
6. II not citizen, Of what country
are you citizen or subject7
This need be answered only by
that n "declarant" is not yet a citi-
zen of the United States. If an alien
or declarant. state the name CT your
country. as France" Japan. )"
China" etc.
2. What is your present trade, oecu-
patton, or office?
This does not ask what you once
did; nor what you have done most of
the time, nor what you are best fitted
to do. 1T ASKS WHAT YOUR JOB
is RIGHT Now. State briefly, as
Farmer" Miner" Student" la