Chapter 502. To amend and supplement the naturalization laws, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 502.— An Act To amend and supplement the naturalization laws, and for other purposes.June 8, 1926.[[S. 4251](/us/bill/69/s/4251).][[Public, No. 358](/us/pl/69/358).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 4 ofNaturalization.Vol. 34, p. 598. the 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 29, 1906, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new Vol. 40, p. 546, amended.subdivision, to read as follows: " “Fourteenth,
(a)The judge of any United States district court,Examiners may be designated by district Judges to conduct, preliminary hearings, etc. or the senior judge of such court if there are more judges than one, is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to designate one or more examiners or officers of the Bureau of Naturalization (including the Naturalization Service.) serving as such examiner or officer within the territorial jurisdiction of such court, to conduct preliminary hearings upon petitions for naturalization to such court, and to make findings and recommendations thereon. For such purposes any suchAuthority at examiners. designated examiner or officer is hereby authorized to take testimony concerning any matter touching or in any way affecting the admissibility of any petitioner for naturalization, to subpoena witnesses, and to administer oaths, including the oath of the petitioner to his petition and the oath of his witnesses. “(b) The findings of any such designated examiner or officer uponFindings submitted to the court at final hearing. any such preliminary hearing shall be submitted to the court at the final hearing upon the petition required by section 9, with a recommendation that the petition be granted or denied or continued, with the reasons therefor. Such findings and recommendations shall be accompanied by duplicate lists containing the names of the petitioners, classified according to the character of the recommendations, and signed by the designated examiner or officer. The judge to whomAction at judge by written order. such findings and recommendations are submitted shall by written order approve such recommendations with such exceptions as he may deem proper, by subscribing his name to each such list when corrected to conform to his conclusions upon such recommendations. 710 Disposition of lists.One of such lists shall thereafter be filed permanently of record in such court and the duplicate list shall be sent by the clerk of such court to the Commissioner of Naturalization. “(c)No examination before the court if preliminary hearing conductedVol. 34, p. 599. The provisions of section 9 requiring the examination of the petitioner and witnesses under oath before the court and in the presence of the court shall not apply in any case where a designated examiner or officer has conducted the preliminary hearing authorized by this subdivision; except that the court may, in its discretion, and shall, upon demand of the petitioner, require the examination of the petitioner and the witnesses under oath before the court and in the presence of the court.” " Approved, June 8, 1926.