Chapter 401. To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” and for other naturalization purposes
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CHAP. 401.— An Act To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” and for other naturalization purposes. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 16871](/us/bill/61/hr/16871).][[Public, No. 283](/us/pl/61/283).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section thirteen of the Immigration.
Extra allowance to clerks of courts. Vol. 34, p. 600, amended. Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence of the section, which reads as follows: “And in case the clerk of any court collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any one year, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow to such clerk from the money which the United States shall receive additional compensation for the employment of additional clerical assistance, but for no other purpose, if in the opinion of 830 the said Secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance,” and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
" Clerks of courts. Salaries allowed to additional naturalization clerks. *Ante*, p. 765. “And in case the clerk of any court exercising naturalization jurisdiction collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any fiscal year the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow salaries, for naturalization purposes only, to pay for clerical assistance, to be selected and employed by that clerk, additional to the clerical force, for which clerks of courts are required by this section to pay from fees received by such clerks in naturalization proceedings, if in the opinion of said Secretary the naturalization business of such clerk *Provisos*.
Limit. warrants further additional assistance: Provided, That in no event shall the whole amount allowed the clerk of a court and his assistants exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of the office of said clerk from Continuance at beginning of fiscal year. naturalization fees during such fiscal year: Provided further, That when, at the close of any fiscal year, the business of such clerk of court indicates in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor that the naturalization fees for the succeeding fiscal year will exceed six thousand dollars the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may authorize the continuance of the allowance of salaries for the additional clerical assistance herein provided for and employed on the last day of the fiscal year until such time as the remittances indicate in the opinion of said Secretary that the fees for the then current fiscal year will not be sufficient to allow the additional clerical assistance authorized by this Act.
Mode of payment, etc. “That payment for the additional clerical assistance herein authorized shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe.” " Sec. 2. Payment for clerical assistance September 27, 1906, to June 30, 1907. That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to make requisition on the Treasurer of the United States for such amount as may be necessary in his opinion to pay the clerks Vol. 34, p. 596. of the several courts exercising jurisdiction under section three of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page five hundred and ninety-six), for any additional clerical assistance employed by them during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, if in the opinion of said Secretary the business of such clerks, during the aforesaid period, warranted any *Provisos*.
Restriction. allowance for such additional clerical assistance: *Provided*, That no allowance shall be made by said Secretary to any clerk for additional clerical assistance who has not collected fees in naturalization proceedings in excess of the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, and that the total salaries of such additional clerical assistance shall in no instance exceed the fees received by the United States from the clerk of that court during the period from September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and Appropriation. seven, inclusive.
Such amount as may be necessary to pay the additional clerical assistance herein provided for, not exceeding two thousand dollars, is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, Regulations. That payment for the clerical assistance herein provided for shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: *Provided further*, That no moneys Limit. shall be paid to any clerk in excess of the aggregate of the sums paid out by him.
Sec. 3. Petitions for citizenship. Vol. 34, p. 597, amended. That paragraph two of section four of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred 831 and six, be amended by adding after the proviso in paragraph two of section four of said Act the following: " “*Provided further*, That any person belonging to the class of persons Issue of naturalization papers without declaration in certain cases. authorized and qualified under existing law to become a citizen of the United States who has resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May first, nineteen hundred and ten, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on the part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens.
” " Approved, June 25, 1910.