Case Name: In re McPHEE
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1913-11-29
Citations: 209 F. 143
Docket Number: No. 9,886
Parties: In re McPHEE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 209
Pages: 143–143

Head Matter:
In re McPHEE.
(District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
November 29, 1913.)
No. 9,886.
Aliens (§ 68 )—Naturalization—Construction of Statute.
Tbe certificate from tbe Department of Labor, which an applicant for naturalization is required to file with his petition by Naturalization Act June 29, 1906, e. 3592, § 4, 34 Stat. 596 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911. p. 529), showing tbe date, place, and manner of bis arrival, is not necessarily tbe same certificate wbicb it is’provided by section 1 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 124) shall be issued to an immigrant on bis registry by tbe Commissioner of Immigration, nor need it be made up from tbe record of bis registry, since be may be admitted to citizenship on proof of tbe requisite facts, although be did not come into the United States through a regular port of entry.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Aliens, Cent. Dig. §§ 138-145; Dec. Dig. § 68. ]
In the matter of the petition for naturalization of George McPhee.
Petition granted.
Jerome C. .Shear, Chief Naturalization Examiner, of Collinswood, N. J., for the United States.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dep. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
THOMPSON, District Judge.
The objection of the Naturalization Examiner to the granting of the petition for naturalization in this case raises the identical questions considered by Judge Orr in the Western district of Pennsylvania in the case of In re Schmidt, 207 Fed. 678. Aside from the desirability of conformity with the decisions of the courts in this circuit, I entirely concur in the reasoning and conclusions of Judge Orr in .that case, in which Judge Young concurred.
It is therefore ordered that the prayer of the petition be granted. The petitioner may be admitted to citizenship on taking the proper oath at a naturalization hearing in this court.