The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-10-13
NATURALIZATION LAWS
FOR WOMEN CHANGED
Changes Made Necessary Because Of
Suffrage. Marriage Does Not
Change Status.

The clerk of the district court Of the
Seventeenth judicial district, J. B.
Christophersen, is in receipt this week
of the new requirements in connection
with the naturalization of women, es-
pecially those women who may marry
un-naturalized foreigners. The change
is worthy of comment as it is the di-
rect result of women obtaining the
right of franchise by the seventeenth
amendment. The complete text of the
law as passed by the 9th congress, en-
titled "An act relative to the naturali
zation and citizenship of married
women" is as follows:
"Be it enacted by the senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, that the right of any wo-
man to become a naturalized citizen
of the United States shall not be
denied or abridged because of her sex
or because she is married woman.
Sec. 2. That any woman who mar
ries citizen of the United States af-
ter the passage of this act, or any
woman whose husband is naturalized
after the passage of this act, shall
not become a citizen of the United
States by reason of such marriage or
naturalization; but, if eligible to cit
izenship, she may be naturalized upon
full and complete compliance with all
requirements of the naturalization
laws, with the following exceptions:
(a) No declaration Of intention
shall be required;
(b) In lieu of the five-year periot
of residence within the United States
and the one-year period of residence
within the state or territory where
the naturalization court is held, she
shall have resided continuously in tn
United States, Hawaii, Alaska, OF
Porto Rico for at least one year i'm
> mediately preceding the filing of the
: petition.
Sec. 8 That woman citizen of thu
United States shall not cease to be ;
citizen of the United States by reason
of her marriage after the passage O.
this act, unless she makes a forma
l remuneration of her citizenship befor'
, court having jurisdiction over natur
) alization of aliens: Provided, that an.
/ woman citizen who marries an aliel
: ineligible to citizenship shall cease t.
be a citizen of the United States. I
2 at the termination of the marital sta
tus she is a citizen Of the Unite
States she shall retain her citizen
S ship regardless of her residence. /
r during the continuance of the marta
e status she resides continuously fo
: two years in foreign state of whic
: her husband is citizen or subject, o
for five years continuously outsid
: the United States, she shall thereafte
be subject to the same presumptio
:, as is a naturalized citizen of the Unit
ed States under the second paragrap
: Of section of the act entitled "a
act in reference to the expatriatio
= of citizens and their protectio
abroad" approved March 2, 190'
: Nothing herein shall be construed
repeal or amend the provisions of RI
5, vised Statutes 1899 or of section 2 {
the Expatriation Act of 1907 with re.
2, erence to expatriation.
Sec. 4. That woman who, befol
4, the passage of this act, has lost he
United States citizenship by reason {
= her marriage to an alien eligible fl
citizenship, may be naturalized {
r provided by section 2 of this act; pr
vided, that no certificate of arriv'
t, shall be required to be filed with HI
petition if during the continuance I
s, the marital status she shall have r
sided within the United States.