Chapter 3624. To validate certain certificates of naturalization
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CHAP. 3624.— An Act To validate certain certificates of naturalization. June 29, 1906. [[H. R. 18713](/us/bill/59/hr/18713).] [[Public, No. 370](/us/pl/59/370).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Naturalization. Validation of certain certificates. Vol. 32, p. 1222. That naturalization certificates issued after the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” went into effect, which fail to show that the courts issuing said certificates complied with the requirements of section thirty-nine of said Act, but which were otherwise lawfully issued, are hereby declared to be as valid as though said certificates complied *Proviso*.
Applications for new certificates. with said section: *Provided*, That in all such cases applications shall be made for new naturalization certificates, and when the same are granted, upon compliance with the provisions of said Act of nineteen hundred and three, they shall relate back to the defective certificates, 631 and citizenship shall be deemed to have been perfected at the date of the defective certificate. Sec. 2. That all the records relating to naturalization, all declarations Certificates, etc., issued by criminal court of Cook County, Ill. of intention to become citizens of the United States, and all certificates of naturalization filed, recorded, or issued prior to the time when this Act takes effect in or from the criminal court of Cook County, Illinois, shall for all purposes be deemed to be and to have been made, filed, recorded, or issued by a court with jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized.
Approved, June 29, 1906.